BLACK POWDER SHOOTOUT

My club, the Rattlesnake Gulch Rangers, hosted the 2006 Washington State Black Powder Shootout on April 8th and 9th. We had 62 shooters from all over the Northwest turn out for a great weekend of Black Powder competition. We put on 5 stages and side matches on Saturday and another 5 main match stages plus a shoot-off on Sunday. Although it rained and was a bit breezy on Saturday, Sunday proved a perfect day for shooting.

We took a few pictures on Saturday night after the two night stages. Night stages are always fun but with Black Powder it is really something to see the flame and smoke from the guns. Here is a photo which shows how spectacular firing these guns at night can be. The picture shows the civil war era Cohorn Mortor firing a pool ball. Too bad I didn't get the shooters framed up also. Oh well. I will get some really spectacular shots at our 2006 Annual Rattlesnake GUlch Roundup in September.