So we went. We saw. We purchased things we didn’t need and ammo we did.
Click to see some of the photos
I’ll be posting the next episode by next week most likely. Sorry for the lack of updates. Winter time is the CRAZY!
Coming soon for the Rookies
- Shot Show 2010 in Vegas
- Another Trip to the Range
- Bowhunting Workshop at the Office
- Our first Pheasant Hunt
Stay tuned!
Cheers,
ERock
Al Cast here, Im one of the rookies of the season.
So for our first outing we got to handle a variety of pistols and hunting rifles. It was exciting and a little scary. Id never handled a real gun before. Id shot airsoft replicas and NERF pistols. That’s the extent of my experience with projectile weapons.
One rifle made quite an impression on me, it was the Model 1917 US Army 30-06 Rifle. I was like wow, this is a WWI era rifle!
When I shot it, I was really amazed by its power. As I kept sending bullets down range (into the dirt and not into the targets I might add) It dawned on me that unlike the other rifles we fired that day this was meant to kill People not Deer or Turkey or Squirrels. As I kept sending bullets downrange I could just imagine what it might have been like to have be in a firefight with this weapon. The Noise of a bunch of these rifles going off during a fight must have been Crazy! Then to have soldiers armed with similar powerful rifles, firing at you!? Crazy!
Firing that weapon and other firearms that day made me realize alot of things. 2 of them are: It aint easy getting lead on Target and Firearms need to be respected. I’m glad we had 2 seasoned hunters/instructors to give me my first experience with real firearms.
I was thinking about how we’re going to haul deer on our motorcycles. Then I saw this.
Have a great Halloween, everyone!
We had an excellent meal with our mentors of shooting: Hoi and Lew. We ended up going to a Belgian place in Gramercy and discussed the next adventure. Hoi had mentioned we needed to load up on some ammo before hand so we would get a good deal and mentioned we could take a road trip to Cabela’s in Pennsylvania.
It’s like Disneyland for sportsmen. The particular location in Pennsylvania is apparently quite a spectacle. So we have a date set, we’re heading out there on December 9th. Lew has offered to drive us the two and a half hours and threatened to burn my ears with country music.
He’s diabolical.
In the meantime, I hope to head out to the range again for some more practice shooting Skeet here in the future. Don’t worry, I always have my camera handy.
Cheers,
ERock
This Friday, instead of the regular routine of micro sites and ad units, I headed out to New Jersey with some coworkers for our marketing off site. Being the group that we are, we went skeet shooting.
Considering that my first time shooting a shotgun was mere weeks ago, I fared rather well. I ended up 3/5 or so every round of 5 shots and ended up in a 3 way tie for 2nd place with 16 hit. I gracefully lost the tie breaker to some amazing shots that obliterated the target into close to a million pieces. Lori and Perkins will probably harass me the rest of the day because of it. My boss Linda, however, beat the stuffing out of all of us by hitting 4/5 each time with 20 shots.
I had a blast and definitely want to head up there again. Enjoy the video!
my appointment was approaching. raj’s father was getting ready to leave for his office in patna.
“come,” he said. “we’ll sit in the car.”
we sat turned towards each other, and he said:
“give me your hand.”
i held it out, and he grasped it as in a handshake, but held it in a grip for several moments. then releasing it, he gave my thumb a quick backward flip, and murmured:
“achcha!”
“you have a very determined soul. this is also reflected in your mind.”
“you are jupiter…”
why not? i thought. i like the sound of that.
—ted simon, jupiter’s travels:
four years arond the world on a triumph
while watching long way round, charlie and ewen meet up with ted simon who traveled around the world for 4 years in the late 70’s on the back of a triumph tiger and he wrote a book about it that influenced the two to ride around the world as well.
by the good grace of the kindle app for the iphone, i read a sample and it ws at this passage that i pulled the trigger on buying the book. it just strikes me as important reading right about now. i’d like to road trip this country and perhaps get my own food in the process.
i have a friend in st louis who shoots for one of my books named peter. and when i was last out his way for the poma convention, i told him about the hunter safety course and he responded enthusiastically saying i should do my first hunt out by him. i’ve heard that a lot of long time hunters express this sentiment but rarely follow through. we’ll see what happens. st. louis isn’t that far a drive. i can do it again.
—crash
So we had a comment ( OMFG people are watching the video! ) on YouTube about the guns we used the weekend of the shooting range. I’m compiling the list as we speak.
RIFLES
.45-70 Marlin Guide Gun w/ Scout Mounted Scope
Marlin .22
Model 1917 US Army 30-06 Rifle ( Pre Springfield 03 )
HAND GUNS
Browning Hi Power ( Canadian 1944 )
Ruger Mark II w/ Bull Barrel
Congratulations to Crash on his 2nd Child, Olivia. She’ll be keeping him pretty busy the next couple weeks but we are looking into going to the prestigious Westside Pistol & Rifle Range in Manhattan. Apparently we really need to get on getting our Rifle / Shotgun shooting permits rather soon.
Gee, thanks Crash, mention a cheap BMW R1150 in Manhattan. You’re a jerk 
This isn’t the actual bike, but you’ve got the idea. I’ve had my eyes on a older style R1200 / R1150 for a while, but most of them are still grossly overpriced despite being 5 years old. Crash tipped me in that there was one within my budget at the Manhattan BMW Moto dealer and I’m too curious to not check to it.
It’s really not a wise idea for me to buy a bike right now, as I still only have a permit and don’t have anywhere to store it. But at the same time, when has logic ever really ruled my decisions? I’ll post after I go investigate tomorrow but it’s always nice to dream.
Cheers,
ERock
We’ve been to the range. We’ve touched the cold metal and experienced the recoil. We’ve all fallen for the rush that is shooting. We also have a long way to go.
Status: 9/18/2009 ( List has been revised )
Step 1: Motorcycle Licenses / Buy Bikes ( Postponed )
Step 2: Hunter Safety Course
Step 3: Rifle / Shotgun Permit ( In progress )
Step 4: Hunting
Close, but no cigar. Here’s the map of New York’s Deer Hunting Seasons.
The dates are creeping up on us! Let’s hope we can get ourselves into gear.
Cheers,
ERock
on one hand, we have ourselves well on the path towards getting on with the business of hunting.
on the other hand, we have the bike dilemma.
now i used to ride a ‘74 honda cl 360, and i would definately go to ground saying it was the perfect bike for the job. in my mind’s eye, i can see bungee-ing a rack to the back of the saddle and riding off with a backpack fulla meat.
and then i woke up. i dumped this fine piece of machinery on the bqe on the way home from a friends house this past winter. but like a good friend of mine once said, “it’s only money, you can make more of it”, i’m sure i’ll get another bike.
but this leads to the dilemma of how are we gonna get off road on two wheels to get down to some hunting. i thought about it at length.
take down rifle?
the right kind of backpack
panniers?
we’d need some semi serious ewan macgregor shit for that.
i know that the bike will come one day but, a bike like this…
…might take some planning for us. but i think it can be done. given the right amount of time and energy.
and with all parties having a license. i have one of them too. e’s will come with time as well.
—crash
PS: now i think a bmw’d do the job but what about a yamaha off roader? what do you dopes think?