One good thing to come of old age is your deteriorating vision does not make ugly women look so bad.

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First of all, I'm curious about how someone goes to military school without being a shooter.:confused:

Secondly, I realize you did not take those pictures, so I'm being critical of someone elses photography rather than yours. They are fuzzy at best to start with and they would not enlarge enough for me to see hardly anything. From what I could tell, I could not see any safety hazards of any sort in the pictures.

On a skeet or trap range the rules and procedures are quite simple and quite safe. Basically no gun can be loaded until a person is at a station preparing to fire. Their shotgun is pointed down and downrange while loading. While NOT at the station in a firing position, the action must be open for everyone to see.

This is one of the many reasons that most sport shooters shoot a double. They can easily carry it with the action broken for all to see that it is empty and incapable of firing.

None in particular, other than the fact that around here they periodically overpopulate and start causing problems. I leave them alone as long as they're not a threat. During spring lambing and kidding season there are sometimes more than the dogs can deal with. That's when I'll spend a week or two reducing their numbers. They become so bold that they are easy marks. I take no pride in it. It doesn't require much skill or cunning, and certainly no high tech gear. It just goes with the territory.

Yes, most of the time, they are there, but not a problem. It was 20 years ago or maybe more, when they got as out of hand as they are now.

Remarkably similar to my "sons" call. Whenever the wife and I need some extra help around the crib we place a chicken in the crock pot and apply heat. Danged near 100% effective!:D

LOL!

Difference is, I can use the same bird over again.:D
(although he's not too thrilled about it.)

It's been a long time Larry, (late '60s) I handled and marched with an M1 weekly in Sunday parade, or Wednesday afternoon drill, picking one up from the armory, breaking it down to clean it and reassembling it in my room, but I have no recollection of spending any time at the indoor gun range. So, I can't answer your question, but there is an active indoors rifle gun range in existence there at this time, in fact a classmate of mine from my era donated almost $4K in the past few months to remodel the gun range at the school. I'm thinking it was totally optional to go shoot at the time I attended.

I've never been on a outdoors gun range, so I'm no help for you. But in one picture, there's at least two barrels in view - the person shooting I take it, and another barrel beyond, with the barrel at 45 degrees down. Spectators behind are rather close in each sidewalk behind each shooter, with plastic tubs in front of the shooter's positions, across the width of a 90 degree sidewalk.

That's nice information to know.

Gun Range pics from W.M.A:

I wouldn't want to fire an M1 indoors.

It's hard to tell 3d in a 2d photo. That's why TV and movies are easier to make believable in 2d than 3d. In a 2d movie John Wayne swings a fist and strikes the guy with the black hat. In 3d John Wayne's fist misses by a wide margin.

You don't know Canadian history. We had our own little revolt back in the 1830's. Local armed men and some British soldiers put it down. Most of the supporters fled to the US where they picked up some followers and then they came back and tried it again. That attempt failed as well but it did bring about more self government in Ontario and Quebec.

If America wasn't born out of revolution, war, and conquest, it wouldn't be so paranoid, war mongering, or as backwards as it is today. If anything, your country would be a lot further ahead right now if your constitution was written during peace time. It brings nothing more to the table than a bunch of worn out ideas that cause nothing but friction between those who worship every word and those who see it for what it is but know that your nation needs to move on.

Besides, for all those who think they need to arm thmselves against their own government, how do you plan on sorting out those couple thousand nuclear war heads? Or, all of those fighter jets, tanks, aircraft carriers; high tech hardware that couldn't have been imagined in 1776.

And just to correct the record, no one knows who fired first.

Yeah, it's America's fault for being so damned American.

Constitution should be re-written. Bill of Rights should be kept. And expanded to encompass an explicitly-defined right to privacy.

Dissolve the union and lets the pieces write their own constitutions. I have a feeling the right and left coasts would have a different document from the lower-middle and gulf coastal states.

Ain't that the truth....;)