The suggestion to get to a range ASAP is so you can chew the fat with guys who know poop loads about guns and such. It is LOADS of fun to be with like thinkers. Trust me on this.
PS + you may have the opportunity to pick up spent brass...
yeah, thanks. I did finally get that after several attempts at getting clarification. Sometimes on FR people will offer up good concise information/advice - other times you have to drag it out of them. Even then once you think you’ve gotten there with someone, they provide some vague non answer like “try googling best self defense gun”. Not real helpful... in whose opinion in a given gun the best self defense gun and for what person in particular? I know how to google quite well, but what I don’t always get out of search engines are good links to information that hides out there in the ether that someone else may have found and might be hit 100 thousand and five.
I might take a trek down to a local gun shop when I’m visiting in Green Bay this weekend. The guy there is a vet who tends to be pretty salty, but he might be willing to share some knowledge with me if I approach him the right way. Other than that, the nearest range to me that I know of is about an hour away and I generally can’t steel myself away for as long as it would warrant whenever I’d like.
I do know what you mean about how fun it can be to hang with like thinkers and plink away though, hat can be therapeutic (I generally experience that hunting and such).