When I mentioned my girl friend and wife in the same sentence, it must have bothered some people, but if I can keep my girl friend and wife in the same person it shouldn't bother anyone but her. I only have to remember half as many special days and buy half as many perfect gifts to goo over if there is only one. Women are awesome as girl friends, great as wives and special as mothers of our children, but then lose it a bit when they shift from mothering departing son to smothering present husband (I know what is stupid and dangerous and wasteful and habit forming and unhealthy - honest! I have a mother and she told me all that before and drove me out to find a girl friend so I could do all that stuff without being reminded), THANKS, MOM!
There is a post at Tam's that talks to Appleseed and two points of view, one from a participant, Breda, and one from a professional frowner PDB (I couldn't leave my comment there so left it at Tam's place, I am so incompetent).
Anyway, Breda's experience reminded me that I was going to get back to spending more time and effort in my rifle marksmanship. So I look into getting a Garand, and decide to go CMP and get one from them - lower cost and it will shoot better than a sixty year old deserves and I can pretend my father, that used one in WWII, would approve my purchase and shooting it. Although, he tried to bring an M1 Carbine home, but left it in an Amnesty Box when he returned to the United States and sanity. I still have his pistol belt and bayonet from that time and era, and the Japanese military saber he brought back. Trade it all in for the return of my father, but then that last trip is one way.
Coffee stop today, if anyone were driving north on I-5 at the Scattercreek Rest Stop, from 10am to 2pm, I will be there or be square - which I always was and will ever be. Amen.
7 comments:
OK, I just have to get that shirt,
Please can you let this old soldier, who's younger troops insist that I was in the civil war, know where to get it?
Let us all know please, Thanks for who you are and what you do.
I knew what you meant when talking about your girlfriend and wife.
The only "formal" training in firearms I've ever had was the little dab of shooting we did qualifying for our Hunter's Safety certificate. Commercial gun ranges make me uncomfortable - I'm just not used to them. So the debate about Appleseed is informative to me because formal shooting environments are so unfamiliar.
Hope you get your Garand - I've got one that doesn't get exercised nearly enough, and it's a far better shooter than I.
I loved your comment at Tam's.
I'm jealous about you getting a Garand, from the CMP even!
I enjoyed the Appleseed I went to in Yakima last year, and learned a lot.
I think someone that hasn't gone to one, should not be as critical as pdb, but then folks will do what folks will do.
Anonymous: the shirt is from the Revolutionary War Veteran's Association, the folks that put on the Appleseed shoots...
If I remember correctly, they were given out to folks attending. I know I got a couple of cool bumper stickers and a shirt I haven't worn.
I got my shirt with my original application, I loved the name of the organization and I was getting so old, and I thought I would get more shooting with them than the NRA, but seems I am a loner more than I should be... another thing for the procrastination pile.
I am a girlfriend and wife - I know exactly what you mean. Each is equally important, don't you think?
And Earl, if I ever win a large sum of money, I am buying a plane ticket for you to come out and whisper rifleshooting in my ear.
By the time we get all that easy money, you will be an expert shot and know all the words that make all the shots the same. Your study habits are probably better than mine and the steady hold factors and sighting aren't magic nor rocket science - still coaching and watching works, as you know from your own sharing your experience with the new shooters, and just checking -- even old shooters seem to be always learning a little more and the best keep sharing.
GF & wife, critical to healthy happy living for the fortunate few.
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