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Bullet the Blue Sky
A new explosive pasttime

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May 20 issue — If you like seeing things get blown up, maybe blow ‘em up yourself, there’s a hay field in north-central Idaho that’s for you.

     
     
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  THIS IS WHERE the “BoomerShoot” was just held, a three-day weekend where people pay about $45 to practice shooting explosives-filled juice boxes at long range. In 1998 Joe Huffman invited 10 people. This year, nearly 100 gathered, including techies from Microsoft, a government scientist and a congressional candidate from Illinois. “I call [Huffman] an explosives keeper, like a beekeeper, although it’s a little different,” says Stephanie Sailor, libertarian.
       

Sarah Downey

May 20 Issue:
•  Unheeded Warnings
•  Conventional Wisdom
•  No Mercy
•  Transition
•  Islamic CyberTerror
•  'F' in Global Competence
•  Bullet in the Blue Sky
•  Eat Your Heart Out
•  Eat Up, Rock On
•  Wilco: The Little Band that Could
•  An Audio Daily Double
•  Voices: Two Shades of Blue
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