Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 9:19PM Yesterday we ventured to the wind farms of Hagerman, Idaho.
Hagerman is known for sportfishing on the Snake river and the production of Sturgeon Caviar.
Recently the potato fields in what is called the Bench have been abandoned and now those fields are populated by wind Turbines.
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 9:26PM The last day, Thursday, was brutal. The winds were strong and blowing sand swirled as we shot. It was a bit chilly also. Once again there were dry-fire drills, and practice drills and then the dry fire practice test.
But just before lunch - we had what was called man-on-man shootout. Steel targets with a hostage plate - and Ryan, Kurt's friend, took the title. I made it to the second round, Kurt the Third.
After lunch was the Practice test - and then the final test. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't difficult - and i was disappointed that I didn't shoot better and get Distinguished Graduate, as Kurt and Ryan did. I shot Graduate. Some rounds were thrown and I wasn't as precise as I should have been.
This is a highly recommended class -- there are some things I would like to see changed, but they have deemed their formula effective.
The Range Master Ciaccio is also highly recommended for his knowledge and teaching skill.
Range 1E, and 14
Range master: "Chachi" Ciaccio
The assistant instructors on our range were:
Wayne Walker
P. Walker
Spenser Moser
Dan Chomycia
Koop
Rover
CIACCIO, FRONTSIGHT, Review Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:48PM Through out this week of shooting at FrontSight - I'm surprised at the diversity of people here. I was expecting many of whom who would be former Military types but that could be anything from the truth as there were even some with limited firearms skills.
Today was more building of the previous days skills and new drills of drawing from concealment. I was mentally done at about 3pm today - but drove thru to the end.
Tomorrow is the final skills test and graduation.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 9:12PM Day 2 - Started at 0800 with some review and dry-fire drills of yesterdays skill sets. The temps were in the mid 30's and once the Sun appeared quickly warmed to the 60's. Great weather for January !!
Half the day is all on the range - shooting, instruction, dry-fires and repeat.
Lunch is an hour and concludes with some kind of lecture of 30-45minutes.
After lunch and the lecture it's back to the range for the rest of the day until about 5pm. At 515 there is another day ending lecture.
My fingers are sore from loading mags - and a bit overloaded from trying to keep up with the malfunction drills to overcome.
And hopefully the guy on lane 14 - our neighbor pays some more attention and doesn't shoot himself or others.
We survived another day.
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 8:44PM 
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 9:28PM Tomorrow is day one at FrontSight in Pahrump Nevada.
Nevada is a peculiar place and one of the only I've experienced where the hotel staff at the Saddle West offered "Rags", pronounced Regs, we are still getting used to some kind of accent, for firearms cleaning. Such a welcome takes you off guard.
Along with the non-existent "Clean-Air Act" in the casinos, a pack of smokes, and some guns - well… life isn't too bad.
Just kidding about the smokes.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 10:36PM Yesterday's World-Cup speed-skating event at the SLC Olympic oval pushed the limits of the photographic skills.
I brought the gear not because I was thinking to get a special photo, but to refine the skills and work through problems. And it's a bit more interesting than chasing the cat around the house in January - although I did that also - more on that later.
Big fast lenses are the norm and I see why anything less than an f4.0 and light becomes a scarce resource. These athletes are not slow movers - and when I placed myself in the 3rd turn following them thru with 3-d tracking and the D3s said -- "whoa"..
