The Family That Shoots Together
Loots together.
My daughter, the budding assassin, competed in her first shooting event, a paper-target "turkey shoot". It was the first time she had even held a 20 gauge shotgun.
She took first place and won a Mossberg model 702 Plinkster .22 caliber rifle. It’s a special edition with a National Wild Turkey Federation medallion. (NWTF sponsored the event).
The local NWTF group wanted to present it to her at their annual banquet, so we dutifully bought tickets and went last night. These banquets are how groups like the NWTF raise funds, so there are raffles, drawings, silent auctions and a live auction as well. A lot of really nice wildlife art, sculptures and paintings both. And they have limited edition guns, too. So we dutifully bought tickets for various guns being drawn for, and bid on a couple of silent auction items.
We ended up with a really pretty duck sculpture, and a Leatherman tool my wife really wanted from the silent auction.
When the gun drawings started at the end of the evening, one of the guns was a Harrington & Richardson Handi Rifle in .243 Winchester caliber. Mrs. Arbo won it.
Then they drew for a Winchester 1300 12 gauge. (Destined to be a real collectors item since Winchester ceased production earlier this year.) I won that.
We left the banquet better armed than some small countries. My daughter is so very proud of her first gun - she won it all by herself. (I don’t think it was beginners luck, either. She literally can draw a smiley face on a target with a .22 caliber pistol.)
I can’t believe how lucky we were last night. Warning to anyone sitting next to my son when he reads this post. Stand back, spittle will be flying. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
By Daughter, Tuesday, 4 April , 2006 @ 12:04 pm
I love my papa and it’s true that I can make a smiley face on a paper target.
By Gauis Arbo, Tuesday, 4 April , 2006 @ 1:16 pm
Uh oh. I gotta watch the language around here. I forgot she can access the internet from school…..