Tom Acheson
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27 August 2023
Similar thoughts have occurred to me also. Thinning the gun herd. Downsizing the house is even more daunting….the bigger the house AND the garage, the more useless crap you can stuff into it.
I imagine a place in Montana, with a LOT of acreage. A climate controlled shooting shed, right behind the house. Various target distances, out to 1,000 yards. Assemble test loads, step out the back door and into the shed and fire them. Evaluate them, go back to the loading bench and repeat.
It’s only a 15-minute drive to my gun club. But too often I get set-up to shoot and someone walks up and wants to talk. Being polite and listening, extends the time I planned to be there oftentimes by a factor of 3! I may be soured by traveling on business when I was working and being stuck in a plane seat next to a “chatty kathy” (guy). AND my club only has 200-meters…too short.
Why Montana? I’ve Mule Deer hunted in Wyoming since 1977 @ the same ranch. Those “out-west-people” are great. I spent a few summers on a wheat farm on the east shore of the Missouri in ND when I was in my teens. Those folks are quite similar to the MT and WY people, down to earth and real.
Getting away from the political media controlled open sewers of St. Paul and Minneapolis is a paramount factor. I avoid going to them but they still impart their corrosive influence on the suburbs. I have and can handled winters, so “go west young man” fits my mindset.
You never know…..
Tom