East Tn TGO Members JANUARY 2008 Meet

[Guest Scottech]

Dang Mike...I can'T even get in a decent gig on you!

[Mike.357]

James, what happened with the S&W?

[Guest SUNTZU]

Do we need to bring our own targets, clays, etc.?

[Mike.357]

Sun, good idea to bring targets. There are stands to staple them onto there already.

I am sure Mike would not mind someone bringing clays too.

I had chinese for lunch today and my fortune said "You will enjoy doing something different this coming weekend" So I am looking more forward to this than I was already, unless it means I will be shooting in pooring down rain, lol. Have not done that yet, but I am guessing it would be fun anyway.

[Guest SUNTZU]

I think your fortune had something to do with how you are going to have to vote in Knoxville!

[Guest Jamesmb]

James, what happened with the S&W?

Same old problem of trigger locking up after shooting magnums. Nobody can figure it out seems. Lube trick didnt work last time. Might have to sell or send into Smith & Wesson next.

[towerclimber37]

Arg.

Guys, I love reading the posts here. I sure wish I could make it.

Instead, I'm here in Las Vegas, working on tower sites.

I will be home on the 27th-1st. I'll have about 4 days at home and then back out to work for another 7 weeks.

I DO intend to get some trigger time when I'm home though. I'm also hoping to get a receiver for my stg58 kit that is sitting in a box at the house. It would be great to get that thing built!

SO! I have allocated one day to visit knoxville and go see Brandon and Amy's newest addition to the cosmos and one day to take a gift up to my father in law.

if you want to see it, check out my blog

www.climbingtherubicon.blogspot.com

I also throw up pictures of what it looks like where ever I'm at. I guess it's my way to keep in touch with everyone.

I sure miss the shoots, and Mike .357, you're welcome up at my house any time you care to come.

I'm a bit weird about that..I don't let anyone in my house that I don't trust to leave there unattended if needs must.

[wareagle]

Aside from Mike, I wonder how many wusses won't show up on sat?

Anyone taking roll call yet?

[Guest SUNTZU]

I'll be there.

[Guest Boomhower]

www.climbingtherubicon.blogspot.com

For some reason, that link doesn't work. This is my bookmarked link. http://climbingtherubicon.blogspot.com/

[Guest Boomhower]

Aside from Mike, I wonder how many wusses won't show up on sat?

I may wuss out. But for better reason than the rain.

[Guest Phantom6]

Aside from Mike, I wonder how many wusses won't show up on sat?

Well, I really hate to say this and all but I'm gonna have to wuss out. Actually I ain't wussin' out but I have had urgent business come up that I can not postpone and it absolutely must be taken care of as it is time sensitive. I was going to have Shadow12 open the range but he's tied up as well on the same matter I'll be dealing with. I hate to do this at such a late hour but we are going to have to cancel the range activities for this weekend. BTW, I was out there today and with all the rain we've had over the last 24 hours, it's really sloppy out there. The three gun contest would have to be called off anyway due to safety concerns. I also need to keep vehicular traffic off the access road to the range as I need to get a little bit more gravel on it so it doesn't get damaged. Besides, the weather report is calling for snow and rain mix with a high in the low to mid thirties. That ain't shootin' weather unless you are you are sumped up in a sports bar like Champ's in Oak Ridge and what you are shootin' is pool or darts while watchin' a football or basketball game.

Sorry folks.

[Guest dotsun]

Doh I can't say I'm not disappointed, but I understand sometimes you have to take care of business. See you guys next month.

[Guest Boomhower]

This doesn't really bother me all that much. I'm a big iffy just because of the new baby, so no prob. on my end Mike. Now you just have to worry about everybody else.

[Marswolf]

Oh damn! And I was planning to come down to this one. Yeah...that's the ticket.

[Guest Scottech]

Oh well. I'm not really as disappointed as Corey is going to be when I tell him this afternoon. Plans change. Things come up.

We'll just have twice as much fun when we get together next month.

[Mike.357]

Sorry to read that the shoot is not happening, I was looking forward to some foul weather shooting. I hope your business works out for the best Mike.

I had even manufactered a base to use as a third hand to assist in loading the 1858 Remmington. Oh well, there is a shooting range about a minutes walk out my front door.

it won't be as much fun without you guys though.

And I would offer to substitute but my pistol range can only really handle 3 shooters at the most anyway.

[Marswolf]

Guys, I know Phantom has reason to have to cancel this session. I hope everything works out OK for him.

But I do have a couple of thoughts.

First, is that we are depending on hosts to provide a place to shoot. This isn't always convenient and is unfair to the hosts. I can tell you from experience that what is fun for a couple of times becomes inconvenient after a while if it is "expected." Not suggesting that this is the situation with Phantom or Mark & family/Tower, but the reality is that you get tied up being expected to be there. Been there - done that.

We really need a number of options for places to meet.

Second thought: Maybe some of us would rather meet for fellowship rather than shooting practice.

I put myself in this category. I shoot and am proficient at it. I'm better than some and not as good as some. I've been doing it a long time and I'd rather have a pizza over a few beers rather than go out to yet another range. My interest has always been the fellowship. You skip the lunch and you skip my reason to be there.

Everyone has different interests. Last May in Kingsport, I came mostly for the fellowship. It was my anniversary weekend and there was no way I was going to shoot.

I shoot for real frequently. I'm mostly interested in meeting people. I don't care about a three-gun whatever. I'd be more likely to show up at Shoney's rather than a shoot.

[towerclimber37]

For some reason, that link doesn't work. This is my bookmarked link. http://climbingtherubicon.blogspot.com/

Foof.. yours is right Boom. I bookmarked the site when I made it..and usually just cut and paste. why I didn't do it this time is a tribute to how tired I am when I come off the towers in the evenings.

we've been working on UMTS upgrades out here..basically adding more lines and antennas so that sprint/nextel customers can get the internet and all the nifty stuff like that on a digital system. they call it wimax.

I hate Las Vegas..there's nothing here that interests me. their "mountains" ain't mountains. there's nothing green that doesn't have a hose on it to make it that way and the folks out here support clintoon and Hussein Obama.

My kind of folks? not so much.

as for the cancelled shoot, Mars, I agree..I like the idea of eating out before a shoot as well...but I also like the range.

for some of us (C.A.S and his mom) thats the only time that they DO get to shoot. For some others of us, its a time to learn new techniques and hone our skills while someone who has more experience coaches.

I understand that the range is old hat to quite a few of us, but what good is it if we don't a. pass on skills to the next generation, b. practice our skills with folks that know more about this martial art than we do?

I know this will sound cliche' and stupid..but I believe that every American have a duty to learn the manual of arms. If it weren't for my abilities (which started around the age of 9 with a bb gun and 12 with a rifle) with firearms, I wouldn't be here today.

I learn new things all the time from folks, even those with less experience than I have. I know that professionals have a method that they practice...and this might be dull to you. Sorry about that..so I move that we get together for a nosh before we shoot

that should please everyone..the folks that want to socialize will have that opportunity..and those who come for the fun, will have their opportunity...if they don't want to socialize or can't afford to eat out, they can either skip the food or just hang out and wait for the range session! a glass of coke doesn't cost that much.

[Guest Boomhower]

We really need a number of options for places to meet.

Second thought: Maybe some of us would rather meet for fellowship rather than shooting practice.

We talked about this earlier in this thread, but no one has offered up a privite place, and any public place that I mentioned was squashed because it was too close to Knoxville.

.....so I move that we get together for a nosh before we shoot

that should please everyone..the folks that want to socialize will have that opportunity..and those who come for the fun, will have their opportunity...if they don't want to socialize or can't afford to eat out, they can either skip the food or just hang out and wait for the range session! a glass of coke doesn't cost that much.

You are correct Elliott. Some of these monthly shoots have been the only time during that month that I have been able to make it out to a range simply because the 3rd Sat. of every month is marked in my calendar and I try my best to schedule everything else around it. That accompanied with each and every other weekend of my month is booked up with something else, and I don't have to ability to walk out back and shot at all.

I am all for meeting out to eat before we shoot as well. Unfortunatily, I will not be able to make it out to eat tomorrow, but for the same reason that I was not going to make it out to the range either. I actually don't know why we quit eating before hand. I think it was in part to the ease of a grille at the OR range, and everybody that came hungry, also brought there own food to eat as well......and I agree whole heartly with what Tower said that I have highlighted in bold above.

[Guest c.a.s.]

I do agree. Even if we ate after, it was fun when Elliot, Mike, Julie, and I ate out. It was also pretty nice when we bought sandwiches last month. I sure wouldn't mind eating beforehand, it provides a chance to meet and greet everyone without the interruptions of gunshots.

[Marswolf]

I'm not trying to kill the shoot. I just thought the idea was to eat and then shoot, or whichever we wanted. We could individually do both or either. I'm again more interested in the fellowship of shooting than having a contest. I'm not big on structure and rules. But we are all different.

Some place that is inexpensive to eat is fine. Doesn't have to be pizza. Shoney's or Ryans or someplace like that gives a lot of options. Even a burger joint would be OK.

And as far as places to shoot, about anywhere would be OK. You can't get much farther for me than the other side of OR. I'm not complaining about that, just saying that an alternate location is about always going to be closer. I'll see what I can find up our way around Greeneville for the times Mark's place isn't available. I hesitate to suggest the Forest Serve ranges, although that was an early choice. They are beyond Johnson City or Bristol and tend to be crowded. The one at Unicoi is nice though and not far off the Interstate.

[Guest tarheel78]

Just a thought. Have you guys ever stopped at Big Ed's Pizza in OR before going to the OR range just west of Big Eds? Good food and close to the range...

[Guest dotsun]

Yep, we did Big Ed's at our first shoot back in April. (Or was it March?)

[towerclimber37]

I really enjoyed that! the food was good and the company was better!

Now days, I would look forward to the get together just as much or more than the shoot.