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Some black powder fun just before it rained a little (yay!). Weird day...sunny & 85 when I left for the range, 65 & sunny when I got there, rained some, then 75 with howling winds, then back up to hot 85 and no rain when I went home. The range is 15 minutes from my house.

The wind played havoc with my target today. Hard to to keep the barrel steady, and had a couple of flyers as a result.

50 yds, off hand, Frontier long rifle
50 grains Triple 7
.490 lead ball, .015 patch



This is all I got shot before the rain came.





Short report, party like it's 1800 & shoot safe, RR
(sorry for the bandana headgear...sun was hot...ran out of ear plugs so used my electronic ones and they don't fit a cowboy hat... )

Skin a coon and be Davey Crockett. Still nice shooting even with the wind. I spent the day slingin paint.

Hey, bet some of those mountain men wore bandanas for headgear. In the movie Revenant, the villain of the movie, Fitz, wore one to cover up his partially scalped head.

Well this long rifle and that smoke sure transports me back in time, one day I won't come back....

Funny story about the Revenant:

Some of it was filmed in Alberta west of Calgary, in winter. Well we frequently get warm winds in winter that come over the mountains from the Pacific Ocean. Called a Chinook wind. We like them. While they were filming and taking advantage of the cold winter conditions, one day a Chinook blew in. When this happens it's not uncommon to go from single digit Fahrenheit temps to near 40F by noon. After the movie came out of course DiCaprio hits the interview circuit and is telling people he witnessed climate change in action while filming the movie. Actual proof of the devastating effect of climate change!
Well the radio DJ's sure had fun with that one..."and now the Calgary weather forecast, low temperatures but we are expecting a DiCaprio by the weekend..."....

Definitely a city boy. I've lived in the West most of my life and I know very well what a Chinook is. For sure, we do NOT get them in the north woods of Wisconsin, though.

Can’t expect a pampered movie type to know about chinooks, or much else for that matter.

Chinooks are very common here. They are wonderful!!!!

Chinook is a term used by some Native American’s to mean “snow eater”.


Forecast is for a “DeCaprio”.


“Adiabatic warming of downward moving air; this produces the warm föhn wind called a "Chinook".
Chinook winds /ʃɪˈnʊk/, or simply Chinooks, are föhn winds[1] in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest.[2]

The Blackfoot people term this wind "Snow Eater";[3] however, the more commonly used term "Chinook" originates from the language spoken by the eponymous people in the region where the usage was first derived (the Chinook people lived near the ocean, along the lower Columbia River).[4] The reference to a wind or weather system, simply "a Chinook", originally meant[by whom?] a warming wind from the ocean into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest of the US.”

we get Chinooks in the Black Hills, in fact I think Spearfish used to hold a record for the most amount of temperature increase in a certain amount of time but then it might just be my dementia setting in