09-01-2024, 10:05 PM
I was a member at a shooting range back around the early 2000s, but I stopped going and my membership ran out. You had to be a member of NRA to get into that place, and the owner of a local gunshop that got me in the first time isn't even in business anymore, he retired. I later found out that one of the members I knew from there got into a domestic dispute with his estranged wife and mother and ended up shooting them both and eventually went to prison on two counts of manslaughter – he got like 50 years for that. He used to reload his own ammo and I used to save my spent .44 casings for him.
Then they opened up a public range not far from the other one, and I went there a few times until some black guy from New York murdered a girl there, and then soon after that it was closed. I did hear about an indoor range close by, but I haven't bothered with it.
My Ruger Super Blackhawk Hunter .44 found a new home between the two front seats – it fits perfectly there. It goes wherever I do. I do drive to a lot of remote areas that might be considered a little sketchy in some ways. For long periods of time it wouldn't see any use, but lately on occasion when I'm deep in some rural area and there aren't any houses around and I have a decent backstop, I get out and fire off a round or two.
I did think briefly about trading it for a .357. They got a brand-new Ruger Blackhawk(I think) for around $700 that would be close to an even trade, but after becoming re-acquainted with it a little more recently I'm thinking I'll probably keep it. I might try those .44 Special loads sometime, but I still got quite a few of the Magnum left. Not that it would make much difference, it might be a little easier on the gun, but that headset would still need to tag-along with us wherever we go.
Then they opened up a public range not far from the other one, and I went there a few times until some black guy from New York murdered a girl there, and then soon after that it was closed. I did hear about an indoor range close by, but I haven't bothered with it.
My Ruger Super Blackhawk Hunter .44 found a new home between the two front seats – it fits perfectly there. It goes wherever I do. I do drive to a lot of remote areas that might be considered a little sketchy in some ways. For long periods of time it wouldn't see any use, but lately on occasion when I'm deep in some rural area and there aren't any houses around and I have a decent backstop, I get out and fire off a round or two.
I did think briefly about trading it for a .357. They got a brand-new Ruger Blackhawk(I think) for around $700 that would be close to an even trade, but after becoming re-acquainted with it a little more recently I'm thinking I'll probably keep it. I might try those .44 Special loads sometime, but I still got quite a few of the Magnum left. Not that it would make much difference, it might be a little easier on the gun, but that headset would still need to tag-along with us wherever we go.
