Boomershoot


Boomershoot is a long-range precision rifle event held near Orofino, Idaho each year in late spring. Participants fire long-range rifles at explosive-filled targets from. A centerfire rifle capable of delivering accuracy of at least one minute of angle with velocity at the target of at least is required to reliably detonate the targets.
The smallest and closest targets are square boxes filled with potassium chlorate-based explosive paste. The longer range targets larger, square boxes, with more explosive. In 2019, over a ton of explosives were mixed on site and used in the three day event.
On the two days prior to the main event a precision rifle clinic is held at the same location using steel as well as exploding targets.