I have loved guns and shooting, all my life. Earliest were Winchester gallery guns - when I was a kid, and you could still go to an amusement park and shoot real .22s. I have shotguns, rifles, pistols ( my favorites), flintlocks and cap & ball revolvers. I love them all.
Fired my first flinter in 1975, and was hooked. I love to hunt deer with a flintlock, but sometimes I'll choose my 12 gauge riot gun, or one of my pistols, or a lever gun. Just whatever I feel like using that day.
Two years ago, I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon shooting full autos - 1928 and M1 Thompsons, Sterling, Sten and Uzi SMGs, a 1918 Browning .30 caliber machinegun, and the big .50, "Ma Deuce"...they had to drag me off the Range. A day to remember!
Among others, I have met Bill Jordan, Charles Askins, Jeff Cooper, Jim Cirillo....My only disappointment is that I never got to meet my mentor, Elmer Keith.
But life is good. I am re-familiarizing my Wife with pistol shooting, and teaching my son-in-law to shoot. And getting out myself. Hunting season will soon be here....
Richard/Grumpa