At least it was time at the range. When you park the truck 20 ft from the target board so you can stand on the leeward side at 25 ft, and the wind is still bad enough that you have trouble keeping an 8-1/2 x 11 target under the sights, after the first couple rounds you should take the hint and pack it up.
When you're dedicated enough to drive 45 miles to endure this kind of privation, you shoot 2 targets for each postal match, running up single-digit scores before throwing in the towel.
Maybe next weekend. Maybe tomorrow. There's no show forecast until tomorrow evening.
and workshop. It's a fine workshop. Me and my assistant, Mr. Scratch.
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"to drive 45 miles to endure this kind of privation"
And this is why the gun culture will eventually decline, if not die out, in this country.
Most people who express some interest in buying and owning a gun aren't willing -- nor should they be willing -- to put up with the costs and inconveniences required to go shooting.
And this is something that those of us who are into shooting fail to realize.
The existing gun culture is a larger long-term threat to gun ownership in this country than Obama, Schumer, Feinstein, Brady, etc., because we like to pretend we want new gun owners and shooters, but we really don't do anything to encourage them (and everything possible to discourage them).
In all fairness, there's a perfectly good indoor range about 15 minutes from home where I could have done all or most of what I did. I'll be the first to point out that the firing line isn't a particularly good place to socialize. Perhaps upstairs where stuff can be compared and fondled.
So far no one has opened a coffee shop in a small gun store. You have to go to Bass Pro for that kind of experience, at least up here.
Down south it's almost legend that every mom and pops business is Moms ______ and Guns. The culture does much better down there.
"there's a perfectly good indoor range about 15 minutes from home "
For most of us in the metro area, where there are 3 or 4 public indoor ranges, that is not true.
"the firing line isn't a particularly good place to socialize."
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I'm not sure what that has to do with the lack of convenient places to go shooting, but I'll even disagree with that. "The firing line isn't a good place to socialize" is a good philosophy if you're shooting by yourself. But if you're trying to get a noob interested, or train a noob yourself, then some form of interaction is absolutely necessary between the two shooters.
But if I'm not suppose to "socialize" at the firing line (which is a hassle to get to anyway), then I will no longer bother taking new shooters with me. (Just kidding -- I actually gave up on that a long time ago).
Until going shooting becomes as convenient and inexpensive as going to a movie, the major demographic of gun ranges will be older males; either retired or at least old enough to have the kids out of the house. The fact that there are 100 trillion gun owners in the U.S. doesn't mean anything if most of them are disinterested and/or disenfranchised.
Like I said: those of us who are really into guns and shooting are willing to put up with a lot of crap to puruse our interests.
But if you -- and the rest of the gun culture -- want to discourage the person with a casual interest, go ahead and let me know how that turns out in another generation or so.
On the line you talk with the student about stance, grip, breathing and sight pictures.
You can discuss the Broncos over coffee later.
"You can discuss the Broncos over coffee later."
(1) What does that have to do with anything posted above?
(2) And whose business is it if I do wish to discuss anything else with my buddies at the shooting line. I do it all the time at the range I'm lucky enough to be a member of.
(3) It's almost funny that we believe that Americans should be free to keep whatever types of guns they want without restriction at home and on their person, but must be micro-managed when they're actually at the gun range.
(4) If the gun culture wants to make shooting as inconvenient and unpleasant of an experience as possible, don't be surprised when all those tens of millions of Americans who only own guns, but don't actually shoot them, aren't committed to or invested in the long term sustainability of private firearms ownership in this country.
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