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Lot's of good info on this forum and tons of great people to help answer any questions you may have.
Anyway, other than the serious self-defense type stuff, I mostly just like to hear the bang, and feel the kick, and see stuff blow up. Good ol' redneck fun, I guess.
Treadlightly - Welcome to the forum. It's not a requirement to introduce yourself. I don't remember if I did or not.treadlightly wrote:Whoops, didn't see this introduction area - I just lurked a little and dove in. Hope that wasn't taken the wrong way.
I'm 59, seems more like 29, I'm very slow in competitive shooting but my accuracy isn't quite so bad. Broadsides of barns should quiver at my near approach, and I believe given a bass fiddle I could hit most any bull in the butt if he would stand still and pose.
I shoot a Colt Series 70 Government Model I've had since about 1977, and we have a working arrangement. I don't claim expertise. She hits the targets if I just sort of hook the reins on the front sight and let her do her work.
During the week, I'm a Unix admin wishing I were out on a lake. Weekends, I'm a Unix admin wishing I were at the range.
It's a life, but I'd trade it for more sailing and shooting.
And all the time I'm a Unix admin with deep respect for freedom, America, and our best ideals.
I appreciate your hospitality here. Nice place.
Welcome to the forum. I am sure that you will enjoy it here. This is a very civil place. Some of have attitudes, but the moderators keep us in check.thatguyoverthere wrote:Well, looks like I did just like "treadlightly" above. Didn't see this section, so just joined the forum and started slinging some stuff out there without proper introductions. My apologies.
As for me, I'm an old man, still working my day job (hopefully gonna fix that this year maybe). Been shooting for many years, but self-taught, no formal training (so watch out!). Fortunately for me, I've always lived out in the country, so I can literally just step off the back porch and start blastin'. Went to an actual official shooting range for the first time in my life just a couple of weeks ago.
Started getting interested in self-defense shooting lately. Like I've said before, I'm too old to take a beat down, and too fat to run away, so had to start looking at other options.
Other than shooting, me and Momma like taking trips on our Harley. That's lots, of fun, too. Plus, hangin' with our 7 & 9 year old grandsons (that's the BEST!). Plus, I'm still working full time. Interferes a lot with the stuff I WANT be doing!
I don't expect to be posting a whole lot, but I do browse & read & lurk and whole lot. Lots of good information here, and a lot of my questions have already been asked by someone else, so I just poke around till I find what I'm looking for, normally.
And I can tell already that this is a great forum. I've been on a couple of motorcycle forums, and there are some REAL attitudes on some of those. It can get real ugly, real quick sometimes. Haven't seen that here the short time I've been here. And believe me, that's a good thing!
Anyway, looking forward to learning a lot of good stuff from you good folks here. And maybe every now and then I might come up with something worthy to add to the mix myself.
Welcome! I'm trying to remember 59 much less 29. I do have faint recollections of last week!treadlightly wrote:Whoops, didn't see this introduction area - I just lurked a little and dove in. Hope that wasn't taken the wrong way.
I'm 59, seems more like 29, I'm very slow in competitive shooting but my accuracy isn't quite so bad. Broadsides of barns should quiver at my near approach, and I believe given a bass fiddle I could hit most any bull in the butt if he would stand still and pose.
I shoot a Colt Series 70 Government Model I've had since about 1977, and we have a working arrangement. I don't claim expertise. She hits the targets if I just sort of hook the reins on the front sight and let her do her work.
During the week, I'm a Unix admin wishing I were out on a lake. Weekends, I'm a Unix admin wishing I were at the range.
It's a life, but I'd trade it for more sailing and shooting.
And all the time I'm a Unix admin with deep respect for freedom, America, and our best ideals.
I appreciate your hospitality here. Nice place.
Welcome! I have to agree, the grand kids are the best part!thatguyoverthere wrote:Well, looks like I did just like "treadlightly" above. Didn't see this section, so just joined the forum and started slinging some stuff out there without proper introductions. My apologies.
As for me, I'm an old man, still working my day job (hopefully gonna fix that this year maybe). Been shooting for many years, but self-taught, no formal training (so watch out!). Fortunately for me, I've always lived out in the country, so I can literally just step off the back porch and start blastin'. Went to an actual official shooting range for the first time in my life just a couple of weeks ago.
Started getting interested in self-defense shooting lately. Like I've said before, I'm too old to take a beat down, and too fat to run away, so had to start looking at other options.
Other than shooting, me and Momma like taking trips on our Harley. That's lots, of fun, too. Plus, hangin' with our 7 & 9 year old grandsons (that's the BEST!). Plus, I'm still working full time. Interferes a lot with the stuff I WANT be doing!
I don't expect to be posting a whole lot, but I do browse & read & lurk and whole lot. Lots of good information here, and a lot of my questions have already been asked by someone else, so I just poke around till I find what I'm looking for, normally.
And I can tell already that this is a great forum. I've been on a couple of motorcycle forums, and there are some REAL attitudes on some of those. It can get real ugly, real quick sometimes. Haven't seen that here the short time I've been here. And believe me, that's a good thing!
Anyway, looking forward to learning a lot of good stuff from you good folks here. And maybe every now and then I might come up with something worthy to add to the mix myself.
Welcome OSCAR E ! Glad to have you with us!OSCAR E wrote:37 years old
Male
Employee at The University of Texas at Austin and Wal-Mart
Married for 6 years
CHL for 3 weeks now, been shooting for 12 years.
Gear: XDM 3.8 9mm and XDS 3.3 9mm, Alien gear holster.
Hooked ever since.
Welcome to the forum, sorry I missed your first post.SSwt00SS wrote:Appears I have missed this thread myself: