Thinking of a different hobby

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doubleh

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Maybe I should take up flying kites and just forget about shooting. Darn wind just blows and blows and keeps on blowing. Might get a still period for about an hour just around sunrise now then and here it comes again, 20, 25, 30 miles an hour. Even if I don't start flying kites I can spend several hours a day dusting. Do it today and everything is covered again by tomorrow. It's got to stop sometime. That is what I tell myself regularly and I am regularly wrong.

I open my safe regularly and assure my guns that I will take them to the range soon. Lately I'm hearing little voices in the back of it saying, "Liar, you just keep telling us that but it never happens". :D
 
I started trap shooting last spring, when it isn't during the bitter cold months I will shoot trap 1-2x /wk. It's obviously not a departure from the shooting hobby but different from my typical shooting interest. Maybe trap shooting would be a good hobby for you.
 
I’m shooting in an indoor range, trying to put each bullet in the same hole at 10 and 15 yards with S&W .22s and .38 Specials. My arthritis, Parkinsonian tremors, and the A-hole 5 lanes away shooting a Hornady .50 AE so far have prevented me from achieving my goal. The concussion from that Desert Eagle is indescribable.

But I endeavor to persevere.

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What a wimp ! Why when I was a kid, we had to walk 5 miles in freezing rain and snow, uphill both ways, just to shoot a few 22s with the hope of bagging a rat
or two, to have sumptin' to eat. :) Like the man who ate 2lbs of prunes was told--- "All things shall pass."
 
Thanks for all the suggestions but has a draw back. No indoor ranges within a 100 miles, no water except for a pooty little lake in the city park, no trap or skeet range, can't change the range's direction so I'm sorta stuck. As to benefitting you physically have you ever flown a really large kite? I haven't but was acquainted with a guy that did. It takes some muscles and endurance and if the wind get up you need something really anchored to tie it to because YOU can't handle it. It's either tie it to something or turn it loose and let it go.
 
I'm no fan of shooting in wind any more than I am fishing in it. Don't like mowing, raking leaves or roofing when it's windy either. Of all those, I'm more apt to do the first 2 on a windy day because even though it sucks, it's better than doing any of the others on a perfect day.
 
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