sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Looking the opposite direction another afternoon. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I liked those "fire rainbow" shots. I shot this cell-phone photo of a sunrise rainbow fragment (just left of center frame) at our weekend hideout. That, is shootin Country!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 That, is shootin Country!!! Everything from gophers to elk. I have two pair of Fortes there that I can play as loud as I want but most of the time the silence is better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 That, is shootin Country!!! Everything from gophers to elk. I have two pair of Fortes there that I can play as loud as I want but most of the time the silence is better. Great outdoors, getting harder to find places that look like that. Not a place i would skip 7.62 Tracers off the hill tops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 My 17HMR is the go-to for gophers off the porch. Frangible bullet and limited range with livestock around. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 My 17HMR is the go-to for gophers off the porch. Frangible bullet and limited range with livestock around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 This forum is fkd up today. Cannot post chit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I want to set up that shot looking back through the rifle scope sometime. It was hard to keep the scope field-of-view and cross hairs in focus at the same setting but it would be cool to make that work out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Weapons Our shooting place Weapons/Libations Edited May 11, 2015 by minermark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Fairly rare optical phenomenon when ice crystals form in cirrus clouds high up in the atmosphere. The sun has to be in the right position & at the right angle as well (not unlike a prism effect with raindrops that form a rainbow). This was the first time I've ever witnessed one. To give a sense of scale, it filled the entire southern horizon. I just happened to have a camera with me (no tripod or filters) and, in person it was even more vibrant & colorful than my pics were able to capture. There was also a Sun Halo formed around the Sun at the same time (an enormous large halo fully surrounding the sun, so large I could not even fit it into my camera lens)... but my pics never turned out. The rainbow effect was more subtle around the sun & the pics were blown out. Rather tough to properly shoot the sun during a fleeting impromptu event, I hope to experience them again. It sounds similar to a "sun dog" phenomenon, which creates a color spectrum effect between the sun and the observer, from light refraction apparently passing through ice crystals. The halo around the sun is a classic sundog, aka parhelion. They seem to be less colorful and vibrant than rainbows. There are times early or late in the day where the parhelion is nothing more than a super bright glow a bit above the horizon and not a very great angle from the sun. In contrast, a true rainbow is a reflected color spectrum, seen in the opposite direction from the sun. So, you look toward the sun for one, and turn around from the sun for the other. I'm not sure, but it sounds like the fire rainbow is closer to a parhelion, given the ice crystals and being somewhat in the direction of the sun. See https://www.pinterest.com/pin/80572280805787475/ Edited May 11, 2015 by LarryC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Liquor and guns . I placed well in a shooting competition last year and won a case of whiskey - it was like saying "now, lets see how well you can handle a firearm when you're drunk." Looks like some wide open basin and range country there - sure has it's own beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Liquor and guns . I placed well in a shooting competition last year and won a case of whiskey - it was like saying "now, lets see how well you can handle a firearm when you're drunk." Looks like some wide open basin and range country there - sure has it's own beauty. I fly Nevada quite a bit, nothing better than landing on a dry lake and shooting for the day, the drink/shoot on happens when we do overnighters. be it fly in or drive in, we get plastered, skip tracers off the dry lake at midnight. Oh yeah, almost forgot, i shoot Tannerite, w/17HMR, now by god that is a HOOT! Edited May 11, 2015 by minermark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Oh yeah, almost forgot, i shoot Tannerite, w/17HMR, now by god that is a HOOT! I posted the G Rated Rednecks with Tannerite below. If you're a little sick, search Youtube for Tannerite Hog Explosion. Yes, it's exactly what you think it is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) 17HMR into Tannerite - lots of bang out of 17 grains. We used to light off magnesium engine blocks - stupid fun. Speaking sun dogs etc., here's a shot of a 22-degree lunar halo I shot one winter. Related but not the same as a parhelion. You can see Orion at 4 o'clock on the halo. Edited May 11, 2015 by sputnik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted May 11, 2015 Moderators Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Went to the zoo this weekend, visiting relatives in the second pic. Not sure what the other animals were on our side of the fence in the first pic ? Edited May 11, 2015 by dtel 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 I don't know either, but they are dressing for something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Kids having fun. Looks to be inspired by trendy Japanese street fashion. It's weird to be in a Japanese train station and spot a Little Bo Peep. Not my photo. Edited May 11, 2015 by sputnik 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted May 12, 2015 Moderators Share Posted May 12, 2015 Kids having fun. Looks to be inspired by trendy Japanese street fashion. I think your right, the girl on the left had some Japanese writing on her shirt, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 My backyard this morning. These guys think they own the place. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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