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So my Daughter (in her 30's ex Navy Corpsman) She is a Triage Nurse for a Large Pediatric Clinic in Portland. She works at home 4 days a week in the office on the 5th.
With cold and flu season
the looming immunization deadline for Oregon Schools
and the Heavy metal in the air crap in SE Portland
Her normal 80-100 calls a day from Parents has shot up to over 150
I'll bet you would never guess but a lot of these people for various reasons are not very polite on the phone.
SO the other day I catch a post from her on FACEBOOK about for the first time in years she had to walk away from her desk she couldn't handle the stupid the rude the etc. Now this is a girl who worked in Field Hospitals in Iraq when the real fighting was going on! So I knew she needed a way to blow off some steam.
I have been working on my 48 Willys Jeep project so much I haven't pulled a trigger for almost a year.
I asked her if she would like to go shoot something (I also figured I should get something out of this years dues at the Gun Club!) She jumps at the chance. So I tell her I will pick her up Sunday morning and not to worry I'll bring everything she needs (her and her husband just have a couple hunting rifles and their EDC's) so I pack up the M1 carbine (she is a very small gal so the carbine is a Fav) my fully adjustable Savage MKII FVT I built a super wild bench rest stock for, The Ruger 22-45, and my little Charter Arms Undercover in .38+P
We start with the pistols turns out she brought a Beretta Neos (funny looking .22) and was having trouble with the mags feeding. So she did some shooting with my Ruger. Then I handed her the little 38 and HUGE smiles as she banged away a box of ammo I chatted up a couple of the guys shooting next to us one with a real nice Remington target 22.
So we decide we need to run down to the other end of the short range to get in some rifle time before the afternoon Bowling ball shoot event closes the short range (way to nasty out for the long range) I set her up to blast away with the carbine for a while. She loves shooting it but its not accurate enough for her level of shooting skill so we switched to the Savage .22 (with good ammo at 50 yards it will shoot .300" 5 shot groups) She got a huge grin when she saw how accurate it was and proceeded to blow the center out of a target.
As we packed up it was obvious this was just the stress relieving she needed. On the way home we talk about how the grand daughters are turning 8 and 9 and are of a maturity that its time to start them shooting. So in a couple weekends Grandpa and his fancy Savage Target .22 is going to teach them the basics and get them started with some bench rest shooting I have both Target peeps and a Mueller scope for the Savage so it will be perfect. They are to small to shoot standing and the only rifle I have that can be made to fit them is way to heavy for them anyway.
SO we talk about if the girls are into shooting I would do what it takes to get them involved with the Junior program at the club, my daughter is all for that. Knowing their finances are tight I told her not to worry Grandpa would cover all the ammo and any other costs.
My Daughters says oh you don't need to worry about ammo! I said well .22 in hard to find and I have a bunch.
Then she says Oh don't worry about that we have a couple huge cases of .22 at home!!! I said you mean bricks? She says NO Cases!!!! And holds her hands out to the rough size of a case of 5000.
Turns out her brother inlaw had a best bud that passed away and this guy was some sort of range master somewhere and left everything to the best friend my daughters brother in law. She said the reason the brother inlaws air stream trailer is parked at her place is the space it used to fit in at the brother inlaws garage is now filled with brass and ammo and reloading supplies so he's been giving stuff away to make room!!!
Daughters! I'm sure if this had happened to my son he would have thought DAD would be interested LOL..
So looking forward to teaching two cuties to shoot in a couple weeks ON MOMs AMMO LOL
With cold and flu season
the looming immunization deadline for Oregon Schools
and the Heavy metal in the air crap in SE Portland
Her normal 80-100 calls a day from Parents has shot up to over 150
I'll bet you would never guess but a lot of these people for various reasons are not very polite on the phone.
SO the other day I catch a post from her on FACEBOOK about for the first time in years she had to walk away from her desk she couldn't handle the stupid the rude the etc. Now this is a girl who worked in Field Hospitals in Iraq when the real fighting was going on! So I knew she needed a way to blow off some steam.
I have been working on my 48 Willys Jeep project so much I haven't pulled a trigger for almost a year.
I asked her if she would like to go shoot something (I also figured I should get something out of this years dues at the Gun Club!) She jumps at the chance. So I tell her I will pick her up Sunday morning and not to worry I'll bring everything she needs (her and her husband just have a couple hunting rifles and their EDC's) so I pack up the M1 carbine (she is a very small gal so the carbine is a Fav) my fully adjustable Savage MKII FVT I built a super wild bench rest stock for, The Ruger 22-45, and my little Charter Arms Undercover in .38+P
We start with the pistols turns out she brought a Beretta Neos (funny looking .22) and was having trouble with the mags feeding. So she did some shooting with my Ruger. Then I handed her the little 38 and HUGE smiles as she banged away a box of ammo I chatted up a couple of the guys shooting next to us one with a real nice Remington target 22.
So we decide we need to run down to the other end of the short range to get in some rifle time before the afternoon Bowling ball shoot event closes the short range (way to nasty out for the long range) I set her up to blast away with the carbine for a while. She loves shooting it but its not accurate enough for her level of shooting skill so we switched to the Savage .22 (with good ammo at 50 yards it will shoot .300" 5 shot groups) She got a huge grin when she saw how accurate it was and proceeded to blow the center out of a target.
As we packed up it was obvious this was just the stress relieving she needed. On the way home we talk about how the grand daughters are turning 8 and 9 and are of a maturity that its time to start them shooting. So in a couple weekends Grandpa and his fancy Savage Target .22 is going to teach them the basics and get them started with some bench rest shooting I have both Target peeps and a Mueller scope for the Savage so it will be perfect. They are to small to shoot standing and the only rifle I have that can be made to fit them is way to heavy for them anyway.
SO we talk about if the girls are into shooting I would do what it takes to get them involved with the Junior program at the club, my daughter is all for that. Knowing their finances are tight I told her not to worry Grandpa would cover all the ammo and any other costs.
My Daughters says oh you don't need to worry about ammo! I said well .22 in hard to find and I have a bunch.
Then she says Oh don't worry about that we have a couple huge cases of .22 at home!!! I said you mean bricks? She says NO Cases!!!! And holds her hands out to the rough size of a case of 5000.
Turns out her brother inlaw had a best bud that passed away and this guy was some sort of range master somewhere and left everything to the best friend my daughters brother in law. She said the reason the brother inlaws air stream trailer is parked at her place is the space it used to fit in at the brother inlaws garage is now filled with brass and ammo and reloading supplies so he's been giving stuff away to make room!!!
Daughters! I'm sure if this had happened to my son he would have thought DAD would be interested LOL..
So looking forward to teaching two cuties to shoot in a couple weeks ON MOMs AMMO LOL
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