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[Don McDowell]

We just bought ourselves a gypsy wagon so I can head down south and shoot some of your American matches. I don't know what my wife would say if her beautiful new trailer got tipped over by the wind :-). I guess with enough lead "ballast" maybe it would be ok :- :-)

Chris.

That was a microburst that flipped that tent trailer over at Alliance. Those things are sort of like a kite on wheels when the winds get just right.
I remember at the Quigley a few years back when it flipped one over with several folks in it and broke one of them's arm. Tents were last seen on radar somewhere east of Bismark It was quite a storm.

[Kurt]

Chris when you drop down below the 49'th to shoot in the high plains bring some gorilla tape along to hold your hat on
Winds will blow!! We had just about every kind of weather in the middle of June except a blizzard during the 15 matches I have shot there.

IMG_0794 by Kurt's Hobby, on Flickr
IMG_0793 by Kurt's Hobby, on Flickr

[Lumpy Grits]

Kurt-Is that the "Q"?
Gary

[Cody Smith]

Keep going and you will see a blizzard too. One of the worst storms I have seen was June 10 of 2000. It had the interstates closed for a couple days. I remember the date as that is my Mom's birthday and I spent part of it stuck in a drift on I-80 near Walcott Junction. I also went through the Cheyenne Frontier Days parade (Frontier Days is the last full week in July) in the mid 90's once and watched it lightly snow. Temps fell to 28 degrees.
I am sure all you old timers have seen worse.

[Gunlaker]

I've seen pictures like that of the Quigley shoot. I'd be afraid to subject my rifles to all of that dust! I guess that makes wiping between shots out of the question.

Kurt, that's a nice looking round barreled Sharps. Is it a .50, or a .44?

Chris.

[Kurt]

Gary, yes that was at the Q.

Cody, I'm not sure if it was 2011 or 2010 during the Q they had heavy Hail in town that missed us that broke mirrors on trucks and made the ground white.

Chris, No that is my #2 Creedmoor Silhouette in the 2.4.
Naw, that Bentonite dust might be a benefit to the bore. It is so fine that it just might lap the bore and make the rifle shoot better.

[Lumpy Grits]

2010 'Q' was when they had tornado touch down in Billings and tore up an arena. Then funnel clouds were spot'd near Mills City.
We had a very scary look'n horizontal cork-screw cloud, from the east to west come over Quigleyville that same day.
My wife is a multi-tornado survivor from Missouri. She was more than a little concerned when she saw that cloud.
Gary

[Kurt]

This used to be a tornado area here. The summer before I build this House one went over this hill and took two of the three trees on here.
About two years latter we where down in the garden when the Kids where still small a finger came down and I grabbed the kids under my arm and ran up the hill and made it to the house and the wife took the kids down to the basement and I opened the front and back door to equalize the pressure before I went down but it past to the south east a 1/4 mile and just tore up the corn fields and it hit town four miles off. A few years before I retired I spotted one across the fields just dancing on the ground but it lifted and three miles off I saw a second one again moving towards town and called the fire department warning them one was moving in their direction but this time it missed by a mile but that tornado took a path 1/4 mile wide through the fields. Those two are the last I have seen close I this location. Seen some fingers I the sky that did not touch down.

[Old Jim]

Being south and west of Kurt, we get some wind from time to time also. Last windy day we had, I held my wind-meter out the back door and it froze at 90 MPH. Had to take the battery out in order for it to zero again!

Been at the Q when the last little breeze blew thru a couple of years back. Interesting for those shooting the bucket.

Jim

[Kurt]

Jim.

I have a 130 foot freestanding tower in my yard with my Ham Radio beam antennas on it. We had a blow one day that showed 82 mph steady. I went outside to look at the tower and looking up on it, it looked like a banana. A week later I had a crane lay it down and I took the top 30 feet off