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  • Re: Cowboy Action Shootin

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to GAMGEE on Thursday, February 06, 2025 10:10:00
    If you're prone to such things (as I am, too), do yourself a favor and
    DO NOT enter the wormhole known as Skeet Shooting (and/or Sporting
    Clays).

    A friend of mine's son got into that for a while when he was in school.
    He was competing in skeet, either through the school or maybe 4-H. I never thought to ask why he stopped (he was pretty good at it) but I suspect it
    was the cost.

    I checked the cost of some of the shotguns they were using and they were
    indeed not cheap!


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  • From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to Gamgee on Sunday, February 16, 2025 20:16:35
    Gamgee wrote to Grease <=-

    Grease wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    Dumas Walker wrote to GREASE <=-

    Now I need to sell stuff and get firearms and accoutrements, because I have the bug!

    That is the danger of trying anything new. ;) With me, it seems like
    I get the bug, buy new stuff, and then it passes and I am stuck with a bunch of rarely used stuff. :D

    That's what I am going through now. I want to jump headfirst into it,
    but that would for sure wreck my plasticard. But, I have been searching stuff online, and that's been fun.

    If you're prone to such things (as I am, too), do yourself a favor and
    DO NOT enter the wormhole known as Skeet Shooting (and/or Sporting
    Clays).

    I have a friend that does that. Yeah, he can go through $5-600 in a weekend, just in shells and entry fees.

    You probably can't even imagine what a mid-level over-under shotgun costs...

    He has told me. I'm trying to get in much cheaper. Just don't believe I can get in cheaply.

    I am well beyond the "addicted" stage now, and there is very little
    hope of recovery. ;-)

    Not there yet, but close.

    Will

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