The Great State of Texas is a wonderful place for gun enthusiasts. There are plenty of places to shoot, and no one looks at you funny when you talk about your shotgun or carry a few boxes of shells up in your elevator. That said, for all of Texas’ ruggedness, they do not like the rain. Now, in most places – and New York is no exception – foul weather can slow things down a bit. You need only see the panic-stricken faces of commuters ascending from the subway desperately trying to open their umbrellas before clearing out of the way of the hundreds of people on the stairway behind them to know that people don’t like the rain.
Maybe it’s a primitive thing, the sky is falling and all that, but unless you’re worried your going to ruin your leather shoes, please remember that rain is just water. And check the weather if your so concerned about your fancy loafers!
I drove to Dick’s Sporting Goods yesterday to buy some shells so I could do some skeet-shooting in the afternoon. Dick’s had a pretty good sale going on, so I stocked up.
I hope no one rear-ends the car...
All those little pellets in all those shells add up to a lot of weight. I guess it is lead, after all. With a trunkful of ordnance, I took off for Elm Fork, thinking that the overcast sky and intermittent rain would mean an empty skeet field for me.
I was right.
Sweet Ride.
They were closed.
As a result of the weather! Skeet is meant to simulate hunting. Where you’re outside. In the elements.
The nice young lady at the desk said that the machines would break the clays in the rain anyway. Well, that’s just shoddy workmanship, in my opinion. The machines are housed in, well, “houses”. Call me old-fashioned, but I thought houses have roofs. I’m a regular Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyway, maybe all the other Texans knew that this place would be closed and it’s my fault for not calling ahead, but I still don’t understand what the problem is. It’s just a little rain. Skin is waterproof. Not that I suggest shooting naked.
Tags: firearms, Great State of Texas, post-apocalyptic future, WTF?
