BLACK POWDER
Most of the rendezvous crew gathered at the head of the trail.
WEATHER, SHOOTERS SHINE AT CLUB'S ‘RAIN-DE-VOO’ ’22 Annual competition in soggy Washington state a trailwalking, 'hawk-throwing, camp-pitching good time. STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT
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he third weekend in February saw a lot of activity at the Capitol City Rifle and Pistol Club near Littlerock, Washington. That was the date for this year’s “Rain-de-voo,” a black powder rendezvous that is usually held in the rain. This year the weather actually smiled on us and the nearly 40 shooters
who participated basically did their shooting in dry clothing. Our “booshway” for such doin’s was Tom Brown and, as you might guess, it took quite a crew to put on a muzzleloading match with such variety. We had rifle shooting, a pistol match, and another match for trade guns. All of those events were shot on our black powder trailwalk, shooting at hanging steel silhouette targets that move or “clang” with
the hits. Additionally, there was a tomahawk and knife trail for ’hawk and knife throwing, which was part of the aggregate. However, shooters had the option of doing primitive archery in place of throwing their ’hawk and knife. A not-too-easy archery trail was provided by the Capitol City Bowmen, primarily with the efforts of Dale Soost, and that archery trail is an event that I just wouldn’t miss. There was some nonshooting americanshootingjournal.com 107
