[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Cola Warrior Keystone 2: The Hills Have Peeps - June 15-17, 2023; course description in post 3 (Page 1 of 29)
Posted: 3/14/2023 3:14:09 PM EDT
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Dates: June 15-17, 2023 Geissele’s private range in Tremont, PA Closest airports and approximate travel time: Harrisburg (MDT) – 45 minutes Lehigh Valley (ABE) – 1 hr 15 min Philadelphia (PHL) – 2 hours Baltimore (BWI) – 2 hr 15 min JFK/EWR – 2 ½ - 3 hours First and foremost, this is a family friendly event. You know what that means, and err on the side of caution if you have any doubt. Secondly, insurance companies get nervous when guns and/or alcohol are mentioned. With that in mind, absolutely no handling of firearms after drinking. Violating this rule will result in a ban and could jeopardize future events. We’re also following Northwest’s lead of no open consumption of alcohol during event hours. As many of you know, Brodozer has been honing his skills with the East kitchen, and I’m thrilled to announce that he’ll be heading up the kitchen here! We’ll have more details as we get closer to the event, but expect great food with a focus on locally inspired favorites. Staff: you know who you are, and I love you all, except Jacob.  COURSE OUTLINE: 5 Obstacles: each must be attempted for at least 10 seconds, with a soft 10 minute time limit total. Plan to transport mags, sodas and any gear through obstacles. Peep, AK & run: Eat a pack of your sugary nemesis while field stripping and reassembling an AK platform gun. Add your (unloaded) rifle, pistol and any other equipment for a dreadful half-mile climb through the hills of central PA. Range: Bill wants this event to be more about shooting than puking . Towards that end, I’ve developed a challenging course of fire with a lot of targets and some movement. Unsafe gun handling will result in penalties and/or disqualification. 2 rifle mags, unlimited capacity. 2 pistol mags, unlimited capacity. Hard 15 minute time limit. Practice your marksmanship and the things you love to hate! Expect lots of targets at ranges exceeding other events. Chug: Standard rules/penalties with a 10 minute time limit; 10x7.5 oz cans; 3 minutes for each beverage not fully consumed per the Ayatolla of Cola. 6x12 oz cans/bottles; 5 minutes for each 3x24 oz bottles; 10 minutes each 2 liter & 5 oz chaser: 30 minutes for failure. 1 gallon of milk: 30 minutes for failure A note on night runs (max 8): This course is not going to be easy and I would advise against signing up for a night run unless you’re quite proficient with your gear and you like lots of penalties. Like most events, there will be a 5 minute penalty for white light ND’s or 10 minutes for prolonged use. Further, using IR lasers/illum to summon UFOs or when not actively seeking and engaging targets will result in a 10 minute penalty being assessed. Combat class requires a plate carrier with level 3 (or higher) rifle rated plates front and rear, along with 1 quart of water and a first aid kit that contains at least a tourniquet and a combat bandage. This is in addition to other required equipment. You MUST sign up using this Google FORM Accurate information is essential, since range coordinates, waivers and other information will be sent to the email addresses provided. Slots will be allocated as follows: 20 CW Keystone staff & sponsors 45 Cola Vets 10 noob – you must have a Cola Vet that’s willing to vouch for you. Reach out if you have any questions. 75 TOTAL 8 of the total will be night runs. This and the following post(s) will be updated frequently with relevant information. Event donations can be sent to [email protected] While the event itself is free, food, portajohn and so on are not. If PayPal prompts you to tell them who you're sending money to, use my name (Dale Mellinger) and location (PA/USA) I’m looking forward to seeing everyone! |
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Run list as of 6/12 at 22:39 eastern regular night combat woman Staff & Sponsors: 1 dlm1984 2 3 Whittyman 4 Fookyourself 5 TwinFrost 6 Hill_monkey 7 NotSoTacticalTrucker 8 loco_engineer 9 TrojanMan 10 WhiskersTheCat Kitchen: 11 Brodozer 12 Multisdew 13 B-stitch 14 Sponsors & more: 15 jimmer218 (artwork) 16 BG (Geissele. No, not that BG) 17 JK (Geissele) 18 Ryan_Esstac (Esstac) 19 EsstacCPH (Esstac. You know...just in case the screen name doesn't give it away) 20 7point62fan (Bluegrass Targets) Cola Vets: 1 2 3 YomKippur22 4 Rugby3 5 Spiritzerothree 6 Weinhimer 7 Rome07JK 8 jamie_leo 9 Damon_23 10 Kmart_Ginger 11 jasonTTKA 12 Narfledegarthok 13 14 PA-Minuteman 15 YaBoyKGTho 16 17 Mushinkaizen 18 19 Mustangduckk 20 Arkanovi 21 HDLS 22 23 Treine5m 24 25 0627Devildog 26 27 bFrapps 28 Binney_talls 29 bigstick61 30 Boobaloo 31 Bill_E 32 33 Dingo1890 34 JL 35 Jacobdw 36 matt5454 37 brasscrossedrifles 38 Rainmak3r 39 IGotAllergies 40 GUNDOGJYD138 41 OF 42 7mm08 43 FBATFE 44 Eaglerare 45 JB  1 I_Love_Dale c/o Fookyourself 2 3 Taylor swift c/o notsotacticaltrucker 4 CF c/o me 5 metalsaber c/o Hill_Monkey 6 IRyan_iDixon / IRyan_iDixon c/o JohnStoner 7 JHEAD30 c/o Damon_23 8 Wezzer74 c/o Damon_23 9 10 Ethan_E c/o Bill_E 11 DS c/o me 12 CC c/o Dspence |
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Swag order form is live: https://forms.gle/TbscKHQrwQYhoEDR6 Shirts are Bella Canvas 3001 in Rust with Attached File Patches are going to be a 3D PVC design using the artwork generously provided by @jimmer218 and are $12 for 1 or $10 each for multiples. Attached File Funds go to [email protected] by Paypal (F&F) or Venmo As promised, here's the obstacle outline: As mentioned in the original post, please plan to carry your sodas and magazines through all the obstacles Obstacle 1: “Mega Tactical Vertical Reduction” (Low) crawl under the truck from the rear axles to the front bumper while keeping the 50lb slam ball within arm’s reach. Backpacks, plate carriers and similar gear can be removed if desired, but it must travel with you. The slam ball must return to the start box for a successful completion of this obstacle. Obstacle 2: “Not a conex” Handstand walk along a 20’ plywood wall. Your foot must touch the green start and end 2x4’s to count for completing the obstacle. Obstacle 3: “The chain of pain” Drag the chain around the outside of the car port, returning it to the starting location. All portions of the chain must be inside the box for successful obstacle completion. Obstacle 4: “Peepsketball” Take either the 25 or 40lb ball, and heave it through a peep cutout suspended approximately 11’ off the ground. Repeat 6 (25lb) or 3 (40lb) times and return the ball to the storage location under the framework to avoid a penalty. The ball can only be thrown from the side facing the range, and you can not climb, step on, or tilt the frame. Please don’t try to catch the falling ball - simply retrieve from the ground. If you change balls, you still are required to complete the above number of repetitions for that weight - there is no credit for “earned work.” Obstacle 5: “Fuel for the short bus” Pick up the two 6 gallon containers of “fuel” using the handle located on the spout side and follow the trail down the hill, staying to the outside of the cones. Cross the balance beam without stepping off and then head up the hill, again staying outside the cones, and gently return them to the starting box. If you set the containers down prior to reaching the box, or you step off the balance beam, you will need to return to the start/end box to make another attempt. Now where did we leave off? Oh yeah, after completing obstacles, there’s this rumbling sensation in your stomach, so you continue on your way, simply to discover a tote practically overflowing with sugary marshmallow treats! This must be your lucky day, since there’s also an AK pattern 12 gauge shotgun sitting nearby. You stuff a rail of peeps into your mouth and begin field stripping the scattergun to assess its condition. You quickly realize that this piece of Chinese workmanship only belongs in one place, and toss it in a nearby trashcan after putting it back together. Conveniently, you discover your rifle and pistol are sitting on a table just behind you. How did they get there? Oh, that’s right. You put them there just a couple hours ago! You add them to your inventory and set out on a scenic running route. The trail is fairly smooth going and you decide to stay right at any of the branches along the way. As you exit the treeline, you step into something of an apocalyptic wasteland after the Great Canadian fires. Through the smoke and haze, you spot a surprisingly well maintained peep elevated above the landscape and decide to investigate. Just after you pass the marker, you spot a firepit that has a poorly hidden bag inside. It must be . . . coal? . . . some of the last known anthracite from the great Geissele mines. It's worth is incalculable! And there’s a running school bus right in front of you. In an even stranger twist of fate, Bill Geissele himself is driving it. He welcomes you aboard, but your mind just keeps churning, thinking about how a prolific weapon designer and mine owner is now your driver. Thankfully, the barren, rather open terrain makes it hard for the Children of the Coal to ambush you. As you clutch what may be the last sack of pure Pennsylvania anthracite, you get this strange sense of deja vu. You’ve been here before. But when? Something is different. Then it clicks. This hill . . . last year . . . a torturous, bordering on dangerous climb. You shout a warning to Bill, but it’s too late and the bus goes crashing down the hill, coming to rest against a large boulder. Sometime later, you come to. Bill Geissele is gone! As you regain your senses you notice multiple figures approaching you rapidly. It’s the Children of the Coal, a reportedly humanoid alien species that some describe as bordering on cultish. Somehow they have found out about the pure coal you have in a sack next to you, and they will stop at nothing to get it. Apparently, they want the coal to make space drugs or something?!? Finding yourself alone, you take inventory - your handgun and two magazines for it are right where you expect them to be. You even have some sodas, the coal, and a pair of rifle mags. Wait . . . your rifle . . .where is it? A sinking feeling begins in the pit of your stomach as you realize it must have been ejected during the crash. At that point, there’s only one course of action, so you draw your sidearm and attempt to create some distance. It takes only a moment to realize that there’s about half a dozen of them in the open valley to your left. Nearly half of them have this weird, almost circular form that’s surprisingly difficult to hit. Your hind brain says to get out of here, so you make your way to the front of the bus, just in time to realize that the first targets were a diversion and they’ve nearly flanked you! There’s another pair just outside the driver’s window, along with 3 more of the circular things, and to make matters worse, one has even nearly made it to the back of the bus. You take them down with practiced ease before ejecting your magazine to check how many rounds you have left, but before you can reload, you see this glowing red orb in the middle of the field. You’ve got just one chance to make this shot, so you steady yourself and squeeze the trigger. You reholster your cold pistol, and grab the bag of coal because you can’t risk it falling into the wrong hands. You glance around, and realize that maybe the fire pit wasn’t such a bad location to hide it after all! After securing the coal, you spot your rifle and realize that a nearby box van offers a great vantage point to survey the environment. Once you’ve reached the top, you realize that your situation is more dire than you thought, and that these aliens come in more sizes and shapes than many people realized were possible. Numbers spring unbidden into your head as you engage targets from the top two rails of the safety railing - 353, 391, 465, 491, 525, 549, 571, 605, 636, 665, 700 and 150. “What do they mean?” you wonder as you fire round after round. Your magazine must be nearly empty, so you quickly drop it for a tactical reload, but as soon as you do there’s another one of those red balls! As you break the shot, you begin to get a sense that these things are connected, and they’re testing you. Suddenly, you spot movement right below the truck! They’ve done it again! While you were distracted with the movement at distance, the sneaky things have done it again and set up an ambush. Your pistol springs to hand, almost unbidden, your hands smoothly inserting a mag and cycling the action to load a round. Your pistol barks 6, 7, 8. . . no . . . 9 times to clear the ambush after another one of those red things springs to life after you’ve ejected the magazine from your pistol. Just then, you see one of the humanoids peeking through an opening in the tree line to your left. You spot a steel structure to your right that should provide some cover while giving you a better angle to engage him, so you return to ground level, loading your rifle once you’re in position. Only . . . it’s not alone . . . and they seem to be getting smarter. . . almost learning your approach. So you mix it up, firing from both your dominant and nondominant shoulders in an attempt to gain the upper edge. There’s at least 3 or 4 of them, and they’re requiring a hit from both the right and left sides in order to fall. 132 . . 182 . . . 191 . . . . . the numbers aren’t coming so easily now . . . there’s something significant about circles. . . and there’s a ball at your feet. “Maybe if I pick it up, it’ll improve my shooting” your addled brain suggests. After firing at yet another target, you realize that line of thinking was asinine and drop the ball on the ground. You scan the horizon, and don’t see any more targets of opportunity, so you eject your magazine and are just about to cycle the charging handle when that red orb does its thing again, so you choose a firing position and hope that maybe, just maybe this shot will be the one that makes the difference. A calm descends over the valley after you break the shot, and you realize that you’re incredibly thirsty. You retreat well behind the area where you made your stand and crack open a cool, refreshing soda . . . |
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Saving the original post here for posterity: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 It’s Pi day - a national celebration of that wonderful, irrational number that represents the relationship between a circle’s circumference and diameter. History says that a rough approximation of this number can be traced back nearly 4000 years to both the Babylonian and Egyptian empires. You know, those people who also liked making big triangular buildings, but I want to focus on round things today. Like pies: apple, cherry, pumpkin, key lime, chocolate, peanut butter, shoe fly, and so many other tasty variations! Now I’m hungry...  …anyway…back to the history:As time went on, a number of mathematicians continued to improve the accuracy of this number. In approximately 250 BC, Archimedes of Syracuse refined the number by inscribing and circumscribing a circle with polygons and using the Pythagorean theorem to determine that it was between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71. Isaac Newton was able to refine the accuracy to 15 decimal places in the 1600’s. However, this didn’t stop Edwin Goodwin, a doctor, from publishing a bunch of pseudo-scientific sounding garbage in a journal claiming that he'd solved the equation. In 1897, he was even able to convince the Indiana House to unanimously pass a bill declaring that pi would officially have the value of 3.2.  Thankfully, wiser voices prevailed in their Senate or we might have even more problems in our schools! In the early 1900’s, an Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, was able to theorize a more efficient way of calculating Pi. His foundation allowed more recent advancements to calculate the constant to nearly inconceivable precision, such as Timothy Mullican’s 50 trillion decimal place calculation in 2020. This makes Pi to 100 or 1000 places, as posted in my childhood classrooms, seem crude by comparison. It’s hard to believe how many giants have prepared the way for life as we enjoy it today. For example, a little event in the swamps of Mississippi many years ago is the source of inspiration for this thread. Congrats on making it this far into the signup thread for CW Keystone II - The Hills Have Peeps. . . The lucky ones puke first. Come find out what horrors lurk in the hills and dangerous mines by signing up at this coal link https://forms.gle/2PVDFUV6fKNwkit88 Also, I feel the desire to point out that today is Albert Einstein’s birthday.  Perhaps you recognize him as a wild-haired professor or recall the most famous equation in the world (E=mc²). Maybe you're much smarter than I am, and understand the world of quantum mechanics. No matter which applies to you, I believe that we can agree that minds like his are something that are only encountered a couple times in a generation. With that in mind, what have you done to better yourself and the world around you recently? |
Hmmm, I guess I may have to get some pie to go with my steak  Attached File |
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Also, throwing this out there for the good of the group - Grand Traverse Pie Co. Lakeshore Berry Pie is best pie. @WhiskersTheCat might disagree, but he’s dumb and think MOA is better than MIL. |
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Quoted: Also, throwing this out there for the good of the group - Grand Traverse Pie Co. Lakeshore Berry Pie is best pie. @WhiskersTheCat might disagree, but he’s dumb and think MOA is better than MIL. NO MORE PIE YOU RUINED THE NOODS LAST TIME BY EATING THE COBBLER |
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Cola Warrior Keystone 2: The Hills Have Peeps - June 15-17, 2023; course description in post 3 (Page 1 of 29)
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