RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Christmas Present Ideas?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Spurling, Shannon wrote:

> Yeah, I think he's from New England, isn't he? :-)

Born in Rochester, NY, but yeah, I lived in the New England from 6
to 22.  Meanwhile, just so you don't get the wrong idea, we lived
*right next door* to a gun club, and we moved there because other
people were skittish and my dad wasn't, since he was a member of
said gun club.  As a Junior Rifleman, I topped out at around
Sharpshooter Bar 7 (or 9?  I forget...) before I decided I really
wanted to spend more of my evenings either dating or playing Avalon
Hill games with my friends than working on my offhand, which really 
did need work.  Plus, serious target shooting turns out to be more 
expensive than you might guess, or at least it was for a 
teenager back then.

Now, my dad had been a first alternate to the US Olympic Team in
Rifle in 1952, which meant I *could* have inherited some real skills
in that domain, but between having my mom's lousy eyesight and some
expected regression to the mean, it became clear that I wasn't
gifted that way.

jking


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