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I stumbled across this website in 2011 IIRC when I was prepping for an elk hunt in AZ with my dad and looking for some info on rifles and optics. I grew up in North Dakota, hunted, trapped, fished - pretty much all I did (well, we did drink a little beer underage... not much else to do). But after I joined the military I only made a couple of hunts over my career except for the "glory days" of dove hunting while stationed in Yuma for six years.
I hadn't bought any ammo except shotgun shells for years, hadn't purchased a new gun for even longer (I think it was 1987), and except for an occasional trip to the range I didn't shoot much or stay in touch with the shooting community.
Fast forward three years, I'm running out of room in my little gun safe, I'm running through more 9mm ammo each month than I probably fired in the previous 20 years, I am a volunteer coordinator for the NRA (let me know if you'd like to volunteer!), spend too much time on this website with you yahoos, and still trying to cram in RSO time at one of our local ranges.
So thanks, I think. It's great to be "back" to some of my roots, and great to meet a lot of you especially in our SD chapter. Now, if one of you enablers would like to help me convince my wife that yes, I DID need another expensive, time-consuming hobby...
I hadn't bought any ammo except shotgun shells for years, hadn't purchased a new gun for even longer (I think it was 1987), and except for an occasional trip to the range I didn't shoot much or stay in touch with the shooting community.
Fast forward three years, I'm running out of room in my little gun safe, I'm running through more 9mm ammo each month than I probably fired in the previous 20 years, I am a volunteer coordinator for the NRA (let me know if you'd like to volunteer!), spend too much time on this website with you yahoos, and still trying to cram in RSO time at one of our local ranges.
So thanks, I think. It's great to be "back" to some of my roots, and great to meet a lot of you especially in our SD chapter. Now, if one of you enablers would like to help me convince my wife that yes, I DID need another expensive, time-consuming hobby...
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