OUT & ABOUT

OUTSHOOT

Black powder champ

Muzzleloading enthusiast Dave Gullo, 51, of Ponderay, Idaho, smoked the field to win the fourth annual World Long Range Historical Rifle Black Powder Championships in Cape Town, South Africa, last month.

Using an 1878 Sharps Borchardt rifle, Gullo outshot the 53 other competitors representing five nations. The competition range is 1,000 yards, requiring shooters to aim the primitive weapons with iron sights as much as 50 feet over the target to lob the lead projectile in a three-second flight toward the bull’s-eye.

“It’s a combination of skill, an accurate rifle, practice and luck,” Gullo told the Bonner County Daily Bee.

The next world championship is set for 2010.

OUTSEE

Monument to hunting

What: Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage & Education Center.

Where: Near Lewiston and near the Lewis and Clark Discovery Center at Hell’s Gate State Park.

When: June 3 grand opening.

Details: See more than 80 big-game mounts, writings and memorabilia from Jack O’Connor, an Idahonian who became the shooting editor for Outdoor Life magazine and one of the most recognized and admired of North American’s globetrotting hunters. The facility will be used as an environmental science classroom. Admission is free.

Info: (208) 743-5043

OUTDO

Just for women

A women’s outdoor skills workshop is set for June 16-17 at Camp Gifford on Deer Lake.

Everyone will be involved in the self-defense class, campfire, night hike and good food. Participants also will get to choose three sessions from an activity list including archery, survival, canoeing and rowing, camping, hiking, fly fishing, primitive cooking, habitat conservation, orienteering, intro to firearms, plant and animal identification and climbing.

Preregister by June 1. Cost: $75, includes lodging, meals, equipment and instruction. Sponsored by National Wild Turkey Federation Women in the Outdoors Program.

Contact: Marie Dvorscak, (509) 893-2509 or Carrie McKinley, (509) 714-8052.

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory list peak fishing times. Be fishing at least one hour before and after given times. Applies to all time zones.

(* indicates best days.)

Through June 4

Today

2:30 p.m. 2:55 a.m.

Monday

3:25 p.m. 3:50 a.m.

Tuesday

4:20 p.m. 4:45 a.m.

Wednesday

5:10 p.m. 5:35 a.m.

* Thursday

6 p.m. 6:20 a.m.

* Friday

6:40 p.m. 7 a.m.

* Saturday

7:20 p.m. 7:40 a.m.

* Next Sunday

8 p.m. 8:20 a.m.