Relaxation

I was feeling worn down and stressed from work, so I made arrangements to visit a nice little outdoor range with my father Thursday. He was needing a range trip as well, since he is in the process of rehabbing a broken wrist sustained while attempting to arrest a “young lady who did not feel like she needed to go to jail.”

We went early Thursday morning, arriving only a few minutes after the range opened. The range time was good – I got to fire my new toy, a Springfield Armory Mil-Spec, and he spent some time with both his department-issued Glock and a Ruger .357. The Glock visibly hurt him to fire, but the Ruger was fine, since he was firing light .38 loads through it.

I outshot him, as usual...comes from usually putting more rounds downrange in a month than he does in a year.

More relaxing was in order for me – in terms of stress, these past few weeks have been nasty, what with people quitting, and others not wanting to work, so I went to the Grand Reopening of a gun store. It was a Grand Reopening because they had just finished the process of moving into a new building that is substantially larger than the building they were in.

I didn't see much I fell in love with, but I did see some things. It's gotten to where I don't really get excited over EBRs and the like now – they all kinda look the same to me. I do lust after older firearms though, ones with history to them, and this store had a few that met that description. Saw a Webley .455, some Enfields, and a couple of Mosin-Nagants. I quickly learned to stay away from those, lest my bank account take a hit it didn't really need to take.

All in all, it was a good day off, which I needed. Especially since May 28th was graduation day for the local high schools, and it was a madhouse that night...not sure I would have made it with my sanity intact had I not had Thursday.