One Day Without Anything To Do...

Wow! This has been the first weekend since August where I really haven't had anything to do, and it wiped me out! I've had no plans, no commitments, nothing to really come up, no emergencies, really not anything at all. This morning my phone rang at 9am. Herman called me and brought me up to date on his family situation. He mentioned that they were pretty booked for the weekend, and I said no problem. We agreed that if they became unbooked he'd call me and see if I was likewise free. After that phone call I went back to bed.

I didn't wake up until 2:30 in the afternoon! I must have been really tired. I made it to my sofa and started to do a little categorizing on this blog. At about 3pm Screamer (aka Zach), the kid of one of my across the street neighbors, rang my doorbell. I've been threatening (or promising depending on point of view) to take him to the range and let him shoot. Today he decided to take me up on the offer. I had him clear the outing with his mom. She was ok, so off we went to the range.

On the way I stopped at one of my favorite places, Military Gun Supply. Screamer hadn't been to a gun store, and I needed to get a rifle out of layaway. He looked around, and so did I. I was interested to see if MGS had any Saigas in 12 gauge. They didn't. I ended up with my CETME, and we were off to the range.

We took three guns to the range: a Walther P22, a .357 revolver, and a Walther P1. I started Screamer off with the P22. We talked about range safety--muzzle downrange, how to aim, how to hold the pistol, etc. We ended up shooting about a hundred rounds of .22 and fifty of .38 special. I shot all but one of the .38s. Screamer wanted to stick to the .22.

One thing I noticed at the range was the distinct lack of brass barrels. When I asked the range guys there, they told me they were asking people to simply sweep their brass forward into the range. Uh oh! That will not help my brass-scrounging reloading activities. I'll have to figure out how to get around that one. (What the range is doing is trying to discourage people from picking up brass--the most expensive part of reloading.)

That's about all I did for the day. No grocery shopping, just a little bumming around Wally World. I may rant about Walmart later, but not tonight. Tonight I'm too tired. Even though I slept ultra late and didn't do anything at all, I'm fairly wiped out!