Baby Shower or Range Day???
Daughter-in-law's baby shower was Saturday. So I called the boys out to the farm to do some shooting whilst the womenfolk were busy. I had Nick, Alex, Dad, and Nick's father-in-law Rod out. But first, we met at the South Fork restaurant in Mulberry for their Saturday lunch special of catfish, chicken wings, Rocky Mt. Oysters, and fries! That already makes it a GREAT DAY and we haven't even fired the first shot. We set a steel plate in the fence row, angled down to deflect any bullets into the ground. And we guessed at the distance. I speculated "over 400 yards." I was right, and I was also way off. Laser ranged distance was 550 yards (503 metres) from bench to steel. And then we set off to a shootin'. Folks pulled out whatever they had and wanted to fire. Ole Rod is a pistol dude and had never shot a rifle before in his life. I set him up on the .300 Win Mag, followed by the .243, .223, and the suppressed .22. He laughed the entire time.