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    Good deed for the week-- took a liberal yankee to the range!

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    I have a buddy that lives in Philadelphia PA-- while not a full-blown hoplophobe, he had very little experience with firearms, and was generally fearful of them, primarily due to a scary childhood experience. His general take on firearms was the usual "respect your right to own guns but public safety trumps all" mentality.

     

    Well, he was in town last weekend, and my fiancee and I decided to take him to OK Corral in Woodbury. We went late Sunday afternoon and the place was practically empty, most likely due to the oppressive July heat.

     

    Started him out at the pistol range with simple stuff like a Ruger Single Six, and gradually moved him up the scale to a P226, and a Taurus Judge-- handling empty firearms first to get a feel for each of them before ever putting the first round in. My fiancee is an NRA certified instructor and CRSO, and she took him through each firearm at a relaxed pace, explaining (and making him memorize) the 4 rules of firearm safety, and explaining in detail the differences between each gun. Come to find out he's actually pretty good with a pistol.

     

    Before we left, we visited the rifle range, and again started him out easy with a Henry .22-- after running through a couple of boxes of .22, I broke out the Mosin M44, just for a demonstration-- I didn't intend to let him fire it since I didn't want to lose the progress we had made that day by scaring him out of his wits. However, after I ran five rounds through the M44, he was standing there, with his mouth open in awe at the sound and the muzzle blast. He actually insisted that he have a chance to shoot the Mosin. I reluctantly explained that this rifle was nothing like he had shot so far that day, and it probably wasn't a good idea... I lost. As I conceded, I walked him through the basics of the unloaded rifle, explaining how to hold it, how to sight it, etc. just as we had done on the pistol range.

     

    The biggest reward was the huge grin on his face when he fired his first shot with the M44. It was so worth it. As we drove home, he kept saying how much fun he had, and how glad he was that he had experienced and patient instructors. We discussed the possibility of him owning a gun in the future, and while he said he probably wouldn't, he did sheepishly admit that we had changed his mind (positively) about quite a few of his misconceptions about guns...

     

    So, while he's not a converted firearms enthusiast yet, at least we're off to a positive start! :up:

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    All Time Favorite Movie

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    Way too hard to pick one favorite, but among the ones that I ALWAYS stop and watch EVERY time I see them on TV (even though I own them on DVD/BluRay):

     

    1) Pulp Fiction

    2) Cape Fear (with Nolte and DeNiro)

    3) To Kill a Mockingbird (did you know that's Rober Duvall as Boo Radley?)

    4) Boondock Saints

     

    I dunno-- I prefer the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum... Mitchum always played a great psycho villain-- had a great role in Night of the Hunter as well.

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    Greetings from Murfreeesboro

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    Posted · Edited by tartanphantom

    Welcome to TGO from a fellow 'Boro resident.

     

    If you've never been to OK Corral in Woodbury, I'd highly recommend it. Way better than an outing to the Hobson Pike range.

    Also, if your wife might like meeting once a month with a local Ladies-only shooting group (non-competitive and  quite casual), my fiancee heads one up here in town. Let me know if she's interested.

    My sushi receipt

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    I love sushi and Asian cuisine in general. Chinese I don't care for too much but u didn't do too bad. 12 or 13 bucks for a roll isn't unusual anymore. The only thing I'm eeeeky over is radioactive fish from japan hitting our markets... Am not into fish w night sights....


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

     

    If the mercury doesn't get you, the plutonium will!~ :taunt:

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