Clay shooting Alaskan style

[Richard Flanders]

Am pretty caught up and had a newly acquired 26" VH12 to try out and it was way too hot here in town yesterday at 85deg so I flew up onto the 4000ft level of Iowa Ridge in the northern foothills of the Alaska Range and set up for some clay shooting. It was nice and cool and private with a breeze that kept the mosquitoes at bay and the backdrop is of course without equal.... Shot a few boxes of shells, took a good hike up the ridge, got in an excellent nap on a grassy slope then came back to town for a BBQ with friends. Does it get any better than this??

[Greg Baehman]

Each time you post a thread such as this Richard, I just have to shake my head and mutter to myself "what a life of adventure you lead".

[Tom Brown]

Wow, way to go!

[Robert Rambler]

WOW, That life would be hard to take, NOT! Thanks for sharing Richard ! :):envy::envy:

[Dave Suponski]

You are truly living in God's country...Great pictures Rich! Thanx....:bowdown:

[Richard Flanders]

Thanks guys. Look at it this way: No wife, kids, dog, cat, or horses and the woodpile is approaching 8ft high and I am definitely not on many social "A" lists.. what else is there to do?? A guys gotta keep himself busy somehow. I seem to scrape by somehow.... Not every plane that lands on this ridge has a good ending to their day. This Cessna 180 sure didn't and serves as a constant reminder to me to not ever take the winds up there for granted. This ridge is also a great place for caribou and ptarmigan hunting and most of all mountain biking. I fly mine up there occasionally and ride the ridge for miles.

[scott kittredge]

does any body bit#h about the shooting noise :rotf: scott

[Dave Noreen]

Looks better than the trap ranges as the VFW in Kodiak!!

[Angel Cruz]

You Da Man, Richard!!:bowdown::bowdown:

[Rich Anderson]

I would have a hard time keeping my head down...lookin for Grizz:eek:

I thought the owners of crashed aircraft had to remove all the debris.

[chris dawe]

Man....(as I write shaking my head):cool:

[King Brown]

I think of flying as the only preserve of untrammeled spaces, Richard, but you've got it both ways: there and on the ground!

[charlie cleveland]

your about the closest thing to a mountain man as i know of except you use a plane instead of a horse.... great pictures...you do lead the life most of us dream about...but as you said you must sacirfice other things...please keep taking those pictures i too still dream...... charlie

[Dean Romig]

I thought the owners of crashed aircraft had to remove all the debris.

I suppose that could be enforced... if the owner had survived the landing :eek:

My brother, a retired pilot for Atlas Air Freight, often said "Any landing you can walk away from is a 'good landing'".

I think that if I shot a round or two of trap in my back yard like Rich does in his, the local constabulary might have something to say about it.