"Winterseed" event

[B-Line]

Wish we could have one in Wyoming, but our Instructor can no longer attend. Maybe next year??

[4bfox]

Wish we could have one in Wyoming, but our Instructor can no longer attend. Maybe next year??

That sucks....I was going to say the drive isn't too bad (I've been to WY several times from KS), but wouldn't be fun in the winter!

[hangfire]

Will you have the new Blue Rifleman patch available at the December 4th shoot in Eureka?

[4bfox]

We should have....you can check with our Shoot Boss (The ][rishman) to make sure.

[gpbbiker]

Man........
I am looking at the long range forecast for the "winterseed". Low's in the 30's, highs in the 50's. and DRY!!!

But HEY! Does wind chill and prairie fires count?? Sustained winds today are 25-35 mph with gusts in excess of 45mph+ and all of northern Oklahoma and central Kansas is under EXTREME fire warning/hazard!! Quick!! 30mph wind off your left shoulder, target out at 500 yds, .308; how much windage?? BOY HOWDY!!

Don't you Oklyhomers be throwing any cigarettes out the window! I remember one fire a number of years ago that got started outside Freedom, OK with a catalytic converter. Some guy pulled off in a ditch, hung it up on some grass and it burned it way's north all the way past Medicine Lodge, KS.

Google map it and you'll get an idea of what that was like! Burned Hundreds of miles of wooden fence posts out plus a farm/ranch or two as I recall. There ain't NOTHIN south of Eureka but dry prairie grass.

See ya there! Yahoo!!

[hangfire]

I'm watching the extended forcast for both Eureka KS and Humansville MO for the same weekend. Tyring to find out were I am going for the best chance at a Wintry climate. I want a chance at one of the new Winterseed patches and if the weather does not cooperate the patch is not available to anyone scoring Rifleman.  let it snow 

[4bfox]

Well...if you don't get it this weekend, we're doing Winterseeds in Jan and Feb, too!(not on the schedule yet) Unless we have a REAL WARM winter, one of those should work!

[hangfire]

Good deal, I will be looking for the dates to come up on the schedule. Maybe after the first of the year I can get several others to come with me. That would make a good warm up (Ha Ha) for April 19th weekend.

[4bfox]

Right!

[gpbbiker]

As I recall, wasn't it cool and cloudy with a little rain this last April 19th??
Gotta love livin in a country where the odds of cold and wet in April are as good as they are in December!!

[4bfox]

Well, we had 6 HARDY SOULS show up for our first Winterseed! No precip, but a HOWLING north wind...didn't check the weather stats (will later), but it's pretty durn cold!

Event is ongoing now, I had to split for a computer emergency (on call). Will rejoin the WS in progress later....

Ben

[ksuguy]

Wish I could have been there, but I was busy ushering at a wedding.   Maybe I'll be able to make one in January or February.  I'd like to try and get that cool winter patch.   

[4bfox]

Link to AAR and pics..... http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=19147.0

[gard]

Forget winterseed.  Come up here to Canada and have an arcticseed.  It's hard to shoot straight when your eyelashes are frozen together.  Current temperature: -28C with the wind chill.

[4bfox]

Forget winterseed.  Come up here to Canada and have and arcticseed.  It's hard to shoot straight when your eyelashes are frozen together.  Current temperature: -28C with the wind chill.

Ummm....you guys can KEEP that! I still remember visiting relatives in Minnesota and venturing into Canada in August when I was a lad of 12-13 yrs old. A squadron of mosquitoes and black flies threatened to abduct my cousin several times....I think she was 5-6 yrs old at the time. We were down around zero with the wind chill, but definitely NOT -28C!