Jim Taylor
At The Shootists Holiday - Memories
Friday, June 20, 2025, 06:18

I think it was the Second Shootists Holiday .... I had one of those boxes the military used to store and transport WillyPete (white phosphorus). I had this box full of loaded .45 Colt ammo. I had loaded every cartridge I had including the cracked ones ... some with nearly full-length cracks. At the Holiday I got Bud McDonald and said, "C'mon! Let's shoot all these!" AND WE DID! Every last one of them. IN ONE SESSION.

Bud never forgot it. Neither did I.

The Holiday this year, Bud grabs me and says, "Come with me." We walk up to where he is parked on the firing line. He sets down two camp chairs with a 50 BMG Ammo Box between them that was pretty full of .38 Specials. He handed me Terry Murbach's .357 sixgun and said, "We are gonna shoot all these in memory of old friends and of the time we shot that WillyPete box full of .45's."

And we did!

Well ... almost. When they ran us off firing line 'cuz they were closing down to eat we had about 20 rounds left. But for two old farts it was close enough.

You can see the ammo box between the chairs and some of the empties on the white cloth in the above photo.