We spent the weekend at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton NM. My wife and I, my brother from Albuquerque (who organized the whole thing) with his wife and two boys, my son Jim and his wife, my daughter Diana and her husband, my daughter Sarah and her husband, and our friends Bud (Smoke Rizen on this board) and his wife.
We spent all day Saturday and half a day Sunday shooting. I didn't think to take pictures but Sandy managed to get a few...
The view from our quarters:
another:
Our first stop, the sight in range:
Spent most of Saturday at the Hunter Pistol Silhouette range. Everybody had a blast shooting everything from .22lr to .480 Ruger at 300 silhouette targets:
Spent Sunday morning shooting at the long range rifle silhouette range. Bud (Smoke Rizen) and my brother and his boys set up all 300 targets and we spent about three hours knocking them down with Garands, .270's a Mosin and an 03A3. This shot is me spotting for my son who is shooting my Garand.
I used 18 clips of ammo that morning. My son and SIL ran out of .270 ammo. Bud shot until he was out of ammo, and once, hit 9 out of 10 turkeys.
Lastly, my grandsons were really good all weekend, waiting until they are big enough to join in:
We spent all day Saturday and half a day Sunday shooting. I didn't think to take pictures but Sandy managed to get a few...
The view from our quarters:
another:
Our first stop, the sight in range:
Spent most of Saturday at the Hunter Pistol Silhouette range. Everybody had a blast shooting everything from .22lr to .480 Ruger at 300 silhouette targets:
Spent Sunday morning shooting at the long range rifle silhouette range. Bud (Smoke Rizen) and my brother and his boys set up all 300 targets and we spent about three hours knocking them down with Garands, .270's a Mosin and an 03A3. This shot is me spotting for my son who is shooting my Garand.
I used 18 clips of ammo that morning. My son and SIL ran out of .270 ammo. Bud shot until he was out of ammo, and once, hit 9 out of 10 turkeys.
Lastly, my grandsons were really good all weekend, waiting until they are big enough to join in:
