Our first Thanksgiving in the USA! We had a nice quiet night at home, cooked an applewood smoked turkey roll, some potato cake and vegetables, cranberry and apple sauces and a New Zealand Pinot Noir... very nice. Then we decided to pop down to Walmart about 10pm to see if we could get some toys cheap - they have a tradition of big sales at Thanksgiving ("Black Friday"), usually starting on the 25th, this year Walmart started their toy sale at 10pm on the 24th. Packed is not the word. Not only were there thousands of people there but most of them had shopping trolleys. A quick look revealed that they didn't have what we were after so we left, glad we weren't queuing up at the checkouts.
But I still got up at 6:30am to pop down to Officemax to pick something up on sale, turns out the place was quiet! No queues, very few people, so I was in and out pretty fast. I guess their sale wasn't as sought after (Best Buy had a queue around the block before midnight so I didn't bother going in). But the best fun was yet to come...
We had been invited to go target shooting, so after breakfast we set off west, to a small gun club out near a town called Polo. Andy was there with his wife and some other family members and a surprising array of guns - a 7.62mm AK47 with modified stock, a .22 MP5 knock off, a 9mm MAC-11 uzi type thing, a couple of .22 pistols, a Ruger 9mm pistol and there was also a Civil War pattern black powder revolver and rifle and a Colt 45 cowboy revolver as well!
He had a range of targets set up including some blocks of ice. I had to have a go with the AK of course, powerful and surprisingly accurate (it was a semi-automatic, no autos allowed).
And I wasn't the only one having fun.
So, much fun was had, the black powder guns produced a lot of smoke and an almighty deep bang, the .22's were very accurate and the Colt 45 was surprisingly easy to use (I don't know how those cowboys fired them one handed while riding a horse though). I managed to hit the targets a fair amount of times but by far my best effort was when a Walther PPK pistol was produced - the James Bond gun - and I got to have a go. 7 shots and 7 targets down, very easy to use and aim. Nice!
A short vid showing some of the action:
But I still got up at 6:30am to pop down to Officemax to pick something up on sale, turns out the place was quiet! No queues, very few people, so I was in and out pretty fast. I guess their sale wasn't as sought after (Best Buy had a queue around the block before midnight so I didn't bother going in). But the best fun was yet to come...
We had been invited to go target shooting, so after breakfast we set off west, to a small gun club out near a town called Polo. Andy was there with his wife and some other family members and a surprising array of guns - a 7.62mm AK47 with modified stock, a .22 MP5 knock off, a 9mm MAC-11 uzi type thing, a couple of .22 pistols, a Ruger 9mm pistol and there was also a Civil War pattern black powder revolver and rifle and a Colt 45 cowboy revolver as well!
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| Just some of the selection... |
He had a range of targets set up including some blocks of ice. I had to have a go with the AK of course, powerful and surprisingly accurate (it was a semi-automatic, no autos allowed).
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| Striking a pose for la revolucion |
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| The black powder rifle was impressive - smoke and noise! |
And I wasn't the only one having fun.
So, much fun was had, the black powder guns produced a lot of smoke and an almighty deep bang, the .22's were very accurate and the Colt 45 was surprisingly easy to use (I don't know how those cowboys fired them one handed while riding a horse though). I managed to hit the targets a fair amount of times but by far my best effort was when a Walther PPK pistol was produced - the James Bond gun - and I got to have a go. 7 shots and 7 targets down, very easy to use and aim. Nice!
A short vid showing some of the action:
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