Shotgun

Paul with a shotgun!

So after our adventure at the Louisiana Wildlife Festival thing, I really had a hankering to go shoot some more clay pigeons.

So I borrowed a friend's 870 12 ga and Katrina escorted me out to the Alpine range. That is fun. I only wish, I lived in the country where I could justify the purchase of a manual trap and my own shotgun. But why bother? Here is Dallas, it will take you just as long to get out to someones farm as it will to get to the range. And you can shoot the heck out of a range-rented gun ($10 for gun rental, $15 for clays and range use) many times before you'd pay for your own.

Heck, for that matter, there is an indoor rifle and handgun range just up the road from me. Targetmaster offers a yearly membership. Of course, you'd have to shoot at least twice a month to break even on the gold-level membership.

Maybe shooting is a three or four times a year kinda thing.