Sauer Grapes
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I was wondering if anyone else has taken time off from shooting\hunting for a long period of time.
My father bought me my first 22 rifle when I was 7. {still have it} I just turned 62 Sunday. My grandfather had a farm on the eastern shore in Maryland where I spent 2 or 3 weekends a month for 20 yrs. It was more of a weekend place than an actual working farm. Horses, built in pool and 60 acres to shoot on and hunt rabbits and squirrels. And just shoot the crap out of starlings and black birds.
To make a long story short, when my grandfather became ill, the farm was sold and that ended everything I knew for just having fun with a gun, other than Pa hunting. Soon after, the pheasants disappeared, my hunting spots dried up and I pretty much just stopped shooting and hunting altogether.
My last deer hunt was 1984. Got married the following year, and the guns never came out of the closet for 20yrs. Probably once every 5 years or so, I'd pull them out and oil them and give them a wipe down.
11 years ago I joined a club near by and took up sporting clays, skeet and took up handguns.
I learned one thing when I started shooting again, my age and wearing glasses, I would never be the shooter once was.
My father bought me my first 22 rifle when I was 7. {still have it} I just turned 62 Sunday. My grandfather had a farm on the eastern shore in Maryland where I spent 2 or 3 weekends a month for 20 yrs. It was more of a weekend place than an actual working farm. Horses, built in pool and 60 acres to shoot on and hunt rabbits and squirrels. And just shoot the crap out of starlings and black birds.
To make a long story short, when my grandfather became ill, the farm was sold and that ended everything I knew for just having fun with a gun, other than Pa hunting. Soon after, the pheasants disappeared, my hunting spots dried up and I pretty much just stopped shooting and hunting altogether.
My last deer hunt was 1984. Got married the following year, and the guns never came out of the closet for 20yrs. Probably once every 5 years or so, I'd pull them out and oil them and give them a wipe down.
11 years ago I joined a club near by and took up sporting clays, skeet and took up handguns.
I learned one thing when I started shooting again, my age and wearing glasses, I would never be the shooter once was.