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Well, I’ve been slacking off a bit in writing for the ol’ blog so I better get something down for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Several years ago we started a tradition of going shooting the morning of Thanksgiving Day. A long time ago I got together with friends and played football on Thanksgiving… I thought about reviving that tradition but there are too many injuries and, frankly, its too stinkin’ much work! So, we started to go shooting. My brother, Mark, coined the phrase “Redneck Thanksgiving” — probably because it is just so… well, “redneck.”
The basic premis is first, bring some food to eat and hot cocoa to keep you warm, second, bring as many guns as you can with plenty of ammo, and third, bring cool things to shoot at (boring old targets are fine but think about how much more fun it is to shoot at “stuff”).
This year my Dad was out of town so the only immediate family in attendance was Mark, my brother, and Ron, Nathan and Spencer Smith, my brother-in-law and his two boys. We met in Cedar Hills to start our trek to the “west desert” where are traditional shooting place is located. It was raining hard but we decided that we’d make the trip and hope for the best. To our pleasant surprise the rain quit before we arrived at the destination and the weather was calm and mild for us. It made for a perfect shooting day!
We setup two shooting stations, one for rifles/handguns and one for shotguns and clay-target shooting. Here are some of our pictures… click the link to see the original images — enjoy!!!
Posted under Recreation
This post was written by Paul Pearson on December 6, 2008
