Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was not an athlete as a kid. In baseball was picked near last. That's tough on a kid in my day. There was one or two sports I was ok at. And one or two I actually excelled at though they were obscure. In summer camp in Guilford NY which I went to for eight entire summers we had riflery. 22 caliber rifles. There was one kid who was better than me and he was a super athlete the captain of every team he played on. Out of all the kids my age. But it was a sport I chose not to continue in as an adult. And I just called owning guns a sport. I'll have to come to terms with that. The only guns I've ever owned were a bb rifle which I was quite good at in my basement shooting at a target when I was 13. I killed a bird once and I'm very unhappy about that. Wish it would not have happened. It was truly an awful thing. When I go through the pearly gates in hell I'll explain that one. I assume they'll give me a break as I was a kid. But will I assume have less time on the shuffleboard courts at first. That would be heaven not hell. No shuffleboard in hell everybody knows that. On 12/16/12 12:56 AM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Sonny's "tin can issue" reminded me of a day in the late 50s or early 60s. > My > family had a small lake on the farm, and we oftened visited it on sunny > afternoons. A visiting uncle, one of these who is an expert on everything, > was showing off his Colt Woodsman 22 pistol. He had tossed a beer can out > into the lake and was shooting at it, when he asked if I would like to > try. I > took the gun, admired it, and fired one shot at the can, sinking the can. > > I handed the gun back to him and said, "Nice gun!" > > He kept trying to get me to take another shot, but I didn't push my luck. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/