Things I love to do

I remember reading a review on the Yamaha AES620 in Guitar Player Mag. a few years ago. Nov. '03 issue. (I still have it) I think the only thing they didn't like about it was the small knobs. Of course my first thought was "So what. just change them." Beautiful looking guitar.

I had a ESP F50 (cheapo) I bought from a friend for $50.00 figuring I could sell it on eBay and make a little (I did). The one thing I didn't like about it besides the jumbo frets (to easy to finger to hard and pitch up a note.) was the through body tail piece. I guess I have gotten use to the tail piece on the LP. I'll set my hand between it and the bridge for reference on where each string is.

That's something else I like to do. I have managed to stick about $700.00 into a $150.00 Ruger 10-22. I can shoot about 3/4" (20mm) groups at 50yds (46m) and about 1"(25mm) at 100yds (92m). A friend and myself would shoot at .223 (5.56mm) brass cases at 100 yds we had set on top of the target holders.

Ah shooting, what seperates men from boys, and big boys just use bigger toys (guns).

Having been a navy weapons technician for 16 years. I have had the joy of personally blatting away several hundred 40mm rounds out of a 40/60 Bofor, with a fair degree of acuracy. A few dozen rounds out of a Mk 75 Oto Melara 76mm gun, hard not to be accurate when the gun is radar targeted. And two rounds out of what ever size gun (115mm I think) is fitted to the Australian Army's Leopard tanks. Bloody Pongo's wouldn't let me use the laser sight, so I didn't hit the target (our close range surface bouy at a range of 2000 yards), which was probably a good thing as it used to cost a fortune to replace when someone did actually hit it.

I have had control, as Captain-of-the-Gun, of the firing of several 1000 other 76mm rounds, which is not bad fun when you consider that each round costs between $800 and $3600 AUS, depending on the type of round.

It wasn't all beer and skittles, I have had to work as a loading number in a 4.5" gun turret and there is not much fun too be had shoving shells weighing 23Kg into a shell hoist at a rate of 10 - 12 a minute.

Also got to put a few 1000 rounds through Browning .50 Cal HMG's in my days on patrol boats, which was quite good fun.

CJ

Aah, the joys of going out into the bush, communing with nature and shooting the shite out of it!!!
Actually, not really. My family has had quite an emotional connection to guns. My father was born in 1938, and grew up in the war years with never quite enough of anything for a happy childhood.
The old man really only got anywhere when he took up rabbit trapping as a kid, sending the skins by train to an Adelaide buyer. The real red letter day in his life came when he had saved enough to buy a .22 rifle, a converted Boer war .310 martini lever action single shot. More rabbits with less work. It started a lifelong love affair with guns, not as weapons of mass destruction, but because it gave a freedom he hadn't had before.
He passed that on, though my opportunities to hunt have diminished somewhat, as the gun control lobby has had its way and made it very difficult to shoot legally.
One lesson he drummed in big time - you shoot an animal to put it out of its misery, control vermin, or to eat. Never for "sport", and woe betide the child of his loins who popped one through a road sign.
If the gun controllers have their way, private gun ownership won't last much longer. I take some solace in the number of recent newspaper articles by lawyerly types who reckon the laws are harsh enough, and that South Oz's current spate of gun crime is being perpetrated by people who obviously don't give a rats khyber for the law, so there is no point in toughening up. We'll see where it goes, eh.
Squirrels are rodents aren't they? It be like eating a rat I reckon. YUK.
Mick

Kinda small aren't they? Might as well go get some McNuggets. I saw a menu from the Roadkill Cafe' once......special of the day was "Poodles and Noodles". Ever been to Asia? Those folks eat anything that moves, and it is usually fried. Unbelievable!

Besides shooting, I like taking my kids fishing.

COOL. I wish I lived closer to the coast to go salt water fishing. Just don't have those BIG fish in fresh water. The best I have caught (and have having on the wall) is a 8lb 5oz 25" Largemouth Bass. Big enough to get a award citation from the state.