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........temporarily. I have not pulled a trigger in months. My reloading bench has been idle for more than a year. Normally I would have popped 6,000 rounds off by this time of year. I usually spend 7-10 weekends a year shooting pdogs and practice with my pistols monthly. Ever since the plandemic and the ammo and reloading shortages I have stopped even looking for components . I have enough ammo and components to shoot 1000 center fire a year for 40 years so I'm not hurting for ammo. I just have a hard time shooting when I cannot replace what I shoot. A typical day shooting pdogs would cost me $75 in gas and $35 an hour in ammo. Now that same trip would be $150 in gas and who knows what the ammo cost would be if I had to buy ammo. Last year I made only one trip to shoot critters and by 9:30 am I had a medical emergency and went to the ER for 8 hours.....I have not shot a rifle since.
I usually buy one or two guns a year and I haven't even looked for anything. Even the Blackhawk project I want to build is on hold. Without the guns to play with I got busy working on my house and a Jeep project. I spent the early spring redoing one bathroom and now I'm working on another bathroom. This one is getting off to a slower start as I cannot get my supplies. Everything is backordered. To fill the time gaps I am rebuilding an engine for the Jeep. Even that project has backordered parts waiting to show up.
A cool opportunity presented itself to make some extra money and with gas prices and everything else going up I took on a teaching job part time at the local college in the morning before my normal job starts for the day. Now with two jobs, remodeling, and engine building my time is even thinner. With summer here in full swing heading to the range to blast some ammo seems not very fun in 100* temps. At least the teaching job is fun, I get to drive logging trucks and play in the woods, something I have not done for 30 years. Working for the college has meant the ccw gun has to stay home so I find myself carrying less now. If I am going to be at the college I have to plan ahead and not have the gun on me.
My guess is this drought of mine will last another year at least. I have taken my wife and her friend shooting twice in the last year and what little trigger time I have had with them has been it. I have to re qualify for my ccw this December so I see a November trip to practice and the December class to shoot as my only two opportunities to shoot I will get before the end of the year. Hopefully next year I will find components so I can feel good about shooting again and maybe I can get back to a more normal pattern of shooting. Right now my guns are taking a break.
I usually buy one or two guns a year and I haven't even looked for anything. Even the Blackhawk project I want to build is on hold. Without the guns to play with I got busy working on my house and a Jeep project. I spent the early spring redoing one bathroom and now I'm working on another bathroom. This one is getting off to a slower start as I cannot get my supplies. Everything is backordered. To fill the time gaps I am rebuilding an engine for the Jeep. Even that project has backordered parts waiting to show up.
A cool opportunity presented itself to make some extra money and with gas prices and everything else going up I took on a teaching job part time at the local college in the morning before my normal job starts for the day. Now with two jobs, remodeling, and engine building my time is even thinner. With summer here in full swing heading to the range to blast some ammo seems not very fun in 100* temps. At least the teaching job is fun, I get to drive logging trucks and play in the woods, something I have not done for 30 years. Working for the college has meant the ccw gun has to stay home so I find myself carrying less now. If I am going to be at the college I have to plan ahead and not have the gun on me.
My guess is this drought of mine will last another year at least. I have taken my wife and her friend shooting twice in the last year and what little trigger time I have had with them has been it. I have to re qualify for my ccw this December so I see a November trip to practice and the December class to shoot as my only two opportunities to shoot I will get before the end of the year. Hopefully next year I will find components so I can feel good about shooting again and maybe I can get back to a more normal pattern of shooting. Right now my guns are taking a break.