Welcome to North Idaho
Welcome to North Idaho.
Imagine a muddy gravel pit surrounded by beaten up trees and covered, literally covered in trash and shell casings. That’s considered a good place to shoot in North Idaho.
I went out with my cousin and three other guys on Sunday to shoot that muzzleloader. We arrived at this gravel pit back in the woods to join about 10 other people shooting trash. Seriously. Shooting trash left there by people in the past: barrels, cans, logs, boxes, boards, etc. I guess there used to be a car there that everyone shot up then burned, but it’s gone now. The ground where you stand is primarily shell cases. These guys would stand there and shoot AK-47s from the hip. Some were shooting rifles with an actual rest, but most were just making noise. All sorts of pistols, shotguns, and rifles going off constantly. It was simply ridiculous. We finally got the muzzleloader out and I learned how to deal with it. Very simple actually, which surprised me...I'm not sure why, it's old technology. But, I shot this thing three times at pretty much nothing and was done with that place. Some kids had shown up next to us and they were shooting a puddle in front of us about 10 yards with various rifles and shotguns. So I got behind the truck and just kinda hunkered there until we left.
I am definitely never going back there.
But shooting that muzzleloader was very interesting. I think I'm going to need to get one now! It doesn't kick too bad, and it makes a neat whoossshhhinnggg boom sound. My cousin wasn't impressed with the situation either and talking to him later, we decided we will go out somewhere else in a couple days...with actual targets...and just him and I. So that'll be good. Not too sure I'll make the muzzleloader season for elk at this rate, but oh well.
Imagine a muddy gravel pit surrounded by beaten up trees and covered, literally covered in trash and shell casings. That’s considered a good place to shoot in North Idaho.
I went out with my cousin and three other guys on Sunday to shoot that muzzleloader. We arrived at this gravel pit back in the woods to join about 10 other people shooting trash. Seriously. Shooting trash left there by people in the past: barrels, cans, logs, boxes, boards, etc. I guess there used to be a car there that everyone shot up then burned, but it’s gone now. The ground where you stand is primarily shell cases. These guys would stand there and shoot AK-47s from the hip. Some were shooting rifles with an actual rest, but most were just making noise. All sorts of pistols, shotguns, and rifles going off constantly. It was simply ridiculous. We finally got the muzzleloader out and I learned how to deal with it. Very simple actually, which surprised me...I'm not sure why, it's old technology. But, I shot this thing three times at pretty much nothing and was done with that place. Some kids had shown up next to us and they were shooting a puddle in front of us about 10 yards with various rifles and shotguns. So I got behind the truck and just kinda hunkered there until we left.
I am definitely never going back there.
But shooting that muzzleloader was very interesting. I think I'm going to need to get one now! It doesn't kick too bad, and it makes a neat whoossshhhinnggg boom sound. My cousin wasn't impressed with the situation either and talking to him later, we decided we will go out somewhere else in a couple days...with actual targets...and just him and I. So that'll be good. Not too sure I'll make the muzzleloader season for elk at this rate, but oh well.
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