Why I Hate You All (OR - you're just a bunch of lucky b******s)

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Mike H

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So I hate you all, why you say, well I'll tell you why. Because you can go and get in your car, drive down past the diner, left at the Walmart and on past the gas station and there you are at your local range, where you can get out the pistol of your choice and enjoy a lazy afternoons practice, swap stories with the old guy next to you who is having trouble pulling a bullet from his muzzleloader, try a few strings, doubles and singles on pins set optimistically out on the rifle racks at 125 yards. That's why I hate you guys.

The wife promised me that I could shoot my love of pistol shooting out of my system for a whole 2 weeks, and believe me I tried. We took a pistol course with a qualified NRA instructor and I just KNOW I could have made a better job of it than he did. I shot everything on my wish list that I could lay my hands on, the Cougar in .40, the P239 in 9mm, the USPc in .357 sig, the .454 Casull, the P99, the P232, the P245 etc etc etc. Heck I even bought a S&W 22A so I could fondle a gun (any gun)in those sleepless hours in our cabin when the bears were trying the door handle to see if it really was a fast food joint. That puppy was mine for just 10 days and I very nearly cried like a baby when we sold it, that's MY gun so give it back J&L Sporting Goods of Shippenville, I wanted to put it in a safety deposit box, or even bury it in the woods where it could be recovered at some later date. All sorts of desperate and completely stupid ideas ran through my mind, but ultimately I knew I had to let it go. Before we caught the plane home, I shook spent cartridges of every caliber from .22 upto .45 out of every shirt and jacket pocket I owned so as not to set off the "now you're in for it buster" alarms at the airport, never mind the prospect of being caught with a spent .22LR casing in England which would no doubt have lost me my job and got me some hard time at Her Majesty's pleasure. So spare me a thought, or even laugh at my misfortune if you prefer, when you next load a mag, clean a bore or get to put 50 rounds through the new Sig Pxxx, because here I'll be, wishing I was there doing just that. So much for shooting it out of my system Mrs. H, don't bother taking that course in Psychology.

There are people here I call friend, but I still hate you all, I really do. Envy is indeed a pitiful emotion.

Mike H
 
In the words of our sincere leader......I feel your pain.......do what those folks a couple of hundred years ago did for their freedom...they moved....hurry up we need all the right thinking kind here we can get, were breeding dummies....fubsy.
 
Mike,
Yall come back now, ya hear.
Come on back the next chance you get and have another go at it. I feel your pain. ;)
Take care. :)


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Mike, Just to make you feel worse. I don't really want to do that, honest. Every year 3 or 4 of your fellow Englishmen come to the US to shoot
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[This message has been edited by Jim V (edited October 05, 2000).]
 
Well, Mike, why don't you stay over here? Oh, next time you're over here, buy whatever you want and I'll keep it for you between trips. Got a nice safe and can squeeze in a few more.

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Byron Quick
 
Mike, you folks could have the same "rights" we do if you'd just TAKE BACK YOUR GOVERNMENT. But I assume there are too many sheeple there to get that done.

*sigh*

So, I got my new toy (see below, BTW, it's a tad larger than a .22), and will be shooting it this weekend. (Insert huge grin here). I really do feel you you, trapped in that socialist pit.

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken

[This message has been edited by Dennis Olson (edited October 05, 2000).]
 
Mike, I'm sure you love your country, but given what has happened there, and will continue to happen, you need to vote with your feet and come across the pond.

The situation over there is bad, and will probably get worse before it gets better (IF it even is going to). You could get arrested, with JAIL time, over empty cases? What happened to your country men, to allow this to be?

PS
Sorry if this rambles. I hab a code and can't thing straighbt.

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Only in America, we're slaves to be free
Only in America we kill the unborn to make ends meet
Only in America sexuality is democracy
Only in America we stamp our god "In God We Trust"

What is right or wrong?
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America
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If it isna Scottish, it's CRAP!

You are unwise to lower your defenses!
-Darth Vader, to Luke Skywalker in the throne room of Death Star II
 
In some countries even posession of one round of .22LR will get you executed.

I believe Malaysia is one.

Australia maybe next year?

UK has just brought in more shotgun restrictions...just as they have got a Gold for double trap at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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If we shooting sportspersons don't hang together... we will all hang separately !
Never knock another's different shooting interest or discipline...REMEMBER we are all but leaves on the same tree of freedom.
 
Hey mike, plannin a trip to the CA wine country anytime soon? got a couple hundred rounds of .45 acp for ya, and the pistol and range to shoot at. Best regards bud. good to know that some Englishmen still like to shoot.

P.S. Lucky Bastards is a relative term, We are fighting like hell to keep from going the way of some other countrys.

[This message has been edited by Dave D (edited October 05, 2000).]
 
Mike,

An invitation to a private outdoor range in middle Georgia is open to you when you return. Springfield Gov't Model, 1991 Colt Cmdr, Ruger .22 Single Six. High Standard Victor .22, Ruger GP-100, Mec Tech in .45 ACP, rifles, rifles, rifles ...

Come back soon.
 
Mike - Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.

Why? For reminding me that even California is a firearms paradise compared to most other countries.

"Y'all come back now. Hear?"

:)

Cliff
 
Mike,
I really do feel for you. It must be hell to experience freedom then return to ... well, hell ;). I also feel some fear when I read your post, fear for the future of this country. One day soon, you may not have to worry about shaking out your clothes before returning home, because it may be just as illegal to experience the joys of shooting here as it is over there.

But in the mean time, I will shoot a target just for you this weekend ... and enjoy every minute of it. :D

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Remember: First you pillage ... then you burn!

[This message has been edited by Blueyedog (edited October 05, 2000).]
 
Mike H, how does this make you feel? I live about 20 miles from work. I pass my range twice a day, as it's on the way to work (just 8 miles from my house). I often go to work early so I can leave early and go shooting during the week. Wow, it sure is nice!

I'm so sorry, I'm a cruel bas***d!

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Frontsight! has changed, and when the time is right, Ol' Slewfoot will emerge.
 
Frontsight!

How does THIS make YOU feel?

I live 3/4 mile from a beautiful outdoor range/shooting club. There's an archery range, six trap areas, a rifle area (50, 100 and 200 yd targets), and a pistol range (25 yds). Also, there is a two story clubhouse, where meetings, special events, and childrens' hunter safety classes are held.

Neener neener neener! ;)
 
Glad you enjoyed your stay here in the U.S.A. and hope you can make the trip again in the future.
This may be overdone on my part, but I can only offer the suggestion that people in the British Isles have got to start, if for now with only a few persons, asserting the justice and timelessness of the English Bill of Rights, proclaimed so long ago and for so long subverted. Without this assertion, Americans would not enjoy the rights that they now possess, for we secured these rights even as they were being put down in Britain. I think that you have to start doing this, even if you must do it quietly and subversively at first. Your country is full of clever people quite capable of this endeavor.
I myself can only be horrified at a society in which the possession of a spent 22 case could lead to the loss of one's job or prision. The idea that a man would have to fear for his job for expessing opinions on democracy noted over 2,000 years ago by Aristotle himself is an abomination. Surely people can see that a society driven to such a state of repression by the powers that be is in grave danger of being driven to even worse things. A free and just society cannot be achieved by such means, as we all should now know at the end of the bloody 20th century.
I am not just a disinterested giver of opinions in this matter, for I fear that your current regime is a danger to all around, even to us here in Americas if it continues down its present path. I realize that there are differences between American and British society, but the ones we are discussing here are growing and too abhorent to ignore.
I know that you cannot change Britain by yourself, in fact can achieve very little by yourself and that the cause may be lost for the rest of our own lives, but I do hope that you can plant those little seeds of liberty here and there as caution dictates. What people think does matter if only hope in itself is to survive.
And so sneak off and enjoy yourself any time you can in America. The Cook Forest area that you visited in Pennsylvania is on of the nicest largely unspoiled area left in the N.E. U.S. There are lots of other interesting areas where the bears still stalk the garbage cans and you would enjoy them all, no doubt.
 
Mike H do you ever go to Germany on business? How about Berlin? If so I can give your E-mail address to my wifes cousin and he could probably set you up to shoot at his gun club. We wont discuss what guns he is "holding" for various people. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.
 
By the way I plan on going to visit him next year. I need to find out from him if I can bring over some of my .45s to shoot at his club. I know you can do it but I am not sure of the paperwork involved.
 
Mike, you need to come to Texas. My pistol range is a wooden target holder twenty feet off my back porch. I've got 6 acres in the East Texas Piney Woods and today I went out scouting to decide where I'm going to put up my Deer Stand next week. It'll be twenty yards from the porch. When I get a deer I'll drink a Guiness in your honor.(But it'll be cold!LOL)
BTW, if you ever see a .577-.450 Martini-Henry Mk II in good shape for a good price, let me know. I need one to go with my 8 other M-H's.

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[This message has been edited by TexasVet (edited October 06, 2000).]
 
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