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To: MarkL
I need to post a correction I stated Gunsight I actually meant to say Thunder Ranch I apologize for the boo boo. It’s an old age thing they say the first thing to go is the mind actually it’s the hair but the race is on.
190 posted on 12/17/2007 10:45:30 AM PST by CowboyConservative
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To: CowboyConservative
I've heard good things about Thunder Ranch. For a while, after Jeff Cooper sold Gunsite, he was very unhappy about what the owners were doing. I don't recall if he "made up" with them, or new owners, more to the liking of Colonel Cooper took over, but in his later years, he was "professor emeritus" at Gunsite. Ray Chapman is also well known in military and law enforcement circles. And he hosts the Bianchi Cup every year at his place.

Unfortunately, I don't think that I'll be going to any of them, realistically. I'm just in too bad a shape. I hadn't gone shooting in quite a while, and when I did, I realized just how painful it was. I've got awful arthritus, and I'll probably need to have both my knees replaced within the next few years. Heck, walking is quite painful: Trying to shoot from a Weaver stance was agony. Of course, if and when I decide to begin carrying concealed, I'll just have to deal with the pain. There's no way in the world that I would carry without making sure that I'm as comfortable and practiced with my weapon as humanly possible.

Mark

196 posted on 12/17/2007 12:30:02 PM PST by MarkL
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