Adventures of 2011..

    Whilest being in Oregon I've learned to shoot.  Let me just say that for 97% of my life I have been petrified of guns and seeing them in my household hasn't given me a sense of protection, its given me minor anxiety.  This has changed.  Might make a good majority of my family, either being marines or cops, quite proud.  I've had a couple friends tell me they would take me shooting because I have, in the past year, been interested in just shooting a gun (hahah, freudian slip & said "guy") for fun BUT coming up to OR, I have family that just shoots in their backyard (being a mountain) and offered to lend their expertise to SO....

    Putting a shotgun in my hands and setting up 2 targets they explained how to load the gun, line up the target and whatnot, BOOM... after my first shot I felt like a kid at Christmas and my eyes lit up.  I turned to Meg, mom & Daddy Rich and said "MORE", which they were pleased with.  Leading to my 6 for 6 with a shotgun.

This is when I realized I wanted guns.

    The following morning as Meg n Rose slept, I chatted with mom & DR, had some coffee and relaxed for about an hour before DR said "Hey, do you wanna go shoot some squirrels" and I was dressed and ready to go within 10 minutes. We drove out to his friends ranch and grabbed another gun and he explained what we were looking for, "they look like squirrels but their tail is about 2" long and they make this noise *enter noise that sounds like a bird* and we call them 'squeeks'."  Color me happy, give me some bullets and show me the way.
    We drove out on to Johns land where its heavily populated by squeeks and DR gave me a gun with a scope and offered to have me shoot w/o a scope but I wanted to learn how to use one so I said "nay".  Took me a couple shots before I was used to the gun and scope but when I got my first squeek I was beyond thrilled.  I do believe my 2hr total ended around 20-25 and I was proud :)  John was giving me shit because there was a a short period where I couldn't find any squeeks and when I finally shot "you finally fucking shot!" hahaha.  What made it better was DR said that in the summer they usually go out there with a cooler full of beer and spend the day hanging out and offin squeeks and told me to let him know the next time I planned on visiting so they could get extra bullets!  I am SO excited to come back/go back and learn to shoot better, I never thought I'd be so excited and all about it!

    Unfortunately I didn't have my camera charger & got no pictures of the squeek firecrackers, therefore this concludes Reggies - Addiction to Guns entry.


xxo