Shooting

 Michael, my oldest, and I went shooting this afternoon at Manatee Gun and Archery Range for the Great Southwest Florida Shootout, which was put together by the owners/operators of gunfreezone.net and borepatch.blogspot.com.

Around 20 relatives and readers of the blogs attended the expenditure of several hundreds of rounds, ranging from .22-caliber to 12-guage shotgun. An actual listing includes .22 LR, .30-caliber M1 Garand, 5.56mm, .45-caliber Colt Auto, 9mm Parabellum, .30-caliber carbine and possibly some others I was not aware of.

Shooters included former military as well as those who never wore a military uniform. We all share the knowledge and conviction that Americans and all other citizens of the world are born with the right of self-defense, using whatever means necessary. And, those same means may be used to keep rights and freedoms.

I fired one of Michael's M1 Garands. I did not do nearly as well as I expected, but intend to do better at the second Great Southwest Florida Shootout, tentatively set for sometime in February.