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Girls with guns
A .357 magnum is a lot of gun, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a) Clint Eastwood b) lying. Thankfully my embarrassingly short arms — while admittedly detrimental to a career in the bull riding arts — posed no problem to me laying serious waste to one unfortunate silhouette shaped target last night at Red’s Indoor Range.
Red’s Indoor Range looks exactly like you’d think a gun store would look like if you’ve never been to one, except there are no animals on the walls and the place — at least on Mondays (ladies night, don’t you know)— is overrun by women. The staff is friendly and accommodating and are especially good with novices.
In fact, the only unease I felt was when Luke, a slender fresh-faced young thing who looked like he should be selling candy bars for his high-school debate team escorted my group into the range and proceeded to unload 6 rounds into the bulls eye as demonstration.
THAT made me uneasy. Sort of like when Harry Potter got in the bathtub. It was wrong. Hot, but WRONG.
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By Kaya
August 23, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this
I missed Ladies Night again! And Harry in the tub...Moaning Myrtle loved it.
By all of us down at the mill
August 23, 2006 02:54 PM | Link to this
Showed that target who’s boss, eh?
Good-oh!
(We always say that you are a blinding flash and a deafening report.)
By Jay
August 23, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this
You hit the target with the Harry Potter comment.
But how did you do on the range? Define serious waste.
**Miss Adventure responds**
I fired 25 rounds with a .357 mag into a silhouette at about 8 yards. All but 3 rounds were in the 8, 9 or bullseye. Of the 22 rounds in my target area, 5 were in the 8, 10 rounds were in the 9 and 7 were in the bullseye. Photos coming soon!