I've got your AARP card right here - look there's a hole in it

I wrote about getting an AARP card in the mail a while back. Several of you wrote of getting them as early as your 40's as well. They don't give up. I just saved the last one, for a special reason.

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Then last week as a couple friends were coming by to go shooting, someone hands me something from my mailbox out at the end of the drive. Yes, a envelope from the Scooter Store. With a FREE Mobility Assessment! SCOOTER STORE? I still have 17 years until I'm old enough to retire, and last time I remember, I rappelled into work not hovercrafted. Well that will get saved too. For it's . . . . .
EARLY MORNING AT THE RANGE TIME! Mycroft Holmes called last night and suggested meeting up at at our gun club very bright and early Saturday morning. He's getting ready to take the bride on vacation so we figured we best blast while the blasting's good. Another one of the IND blog gang is going to join us. The more the merrier.

Looks like the black trucks rolls in as the early bird as usual. Other than a few cars up at the clubhouse, for a training class later, it's deserted. Not too many people get up at 6 am on Saturday like I do. Habits die hard.
Time to set up .

You can't own too many pistols.


Time to set up the targets.

Three targets were set up, with distances measured off at 20 yards and further for sighting the rifle crossways across the double wide bay. We had extra barrels if we had others join us, this bay is actually twice the size of most at the Club. I went up to my target, with a regular stick-on target affixed to it, holding a couple pieces of white paper and some tape. The boys are watching me. I tape up a an envelope, walked back to position myself about 50 feet out with the Sig .45 with good old fashioned iron sights and. . .

BLAM!

Putting the A in AARP.

I walk up to it, pull the envelope off and hand it to Holmes. He starts laughing. Then I remove the card from inside and tape it up there. A test shot for good measure to make sure the "A" wasn't just luck and windage.
"Nice Shootin Tex" I hear, as the fellows wander over to see what is going on.

And goodbye Mr. AARP Membership Card. The perforated card splintered into fragments and fell to the ground. The pieces will go in the envelope with the custom return address and be sent back to them.


Along with my "Free Mobility Assessment for the Scooter Store". (I tried to put the O in Mobility but I was off by a smidge).

My camera's battery died about this time. Holmes had a camera and we got more pictures with some timed quick draw practice action, some wheel gun fun, and the sighting in of the new Savage. That's right, the gun that everyone guessed.The Savage 93R17-BVSS rifle

The ammo? The .17 HMR cartridge, some of the highest velocity, flattest shooting, and most accurate rimfire small game and varmint cartridge I've had the pleasure to shoot as of yet.

Come on back Tuesday morning for more fun and a short range report on the Savage. But don't ride your scooter, you're too slow of a target.