I just wrote a post this am and TLW came along to comment. Thank you TLW!
Jeanean... Good news travels quickly around here. Did you know the new NAR Pres is a gun toting, snake shooting, rock chucking Rancher? My kind of woman? :)
TLW...ROAR! "The Lovely Wife" (Broker Bryant's Wife) The One And Only TLW. (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)
It made me realize that I've always wanted my own .38. So with my birthday coming up and seeing that it is time to fullfill all the last desires of my life that are left on the list (bungy jumping is not), I'm asking my husband (loves guns) to buy me my own .38 for my birthday. No questions as to age...please!
I've already look up the permit process and will begin doing the paperwork. I'm look forward to the shopping and the practice of learning to be comfortable with handling the gun.
And no David, you can't have your own .38....ok maybe! I'll keep you posted on my progress!
I like gun toting, snake shooting and Rancher gals. My Mom would stop the car to kill rattlesnakes with a broom! Pretty tough she was!
PS I'm not planning on shooting snakes. When you live on a cattle ranch, you have to....but for me it will be about seeing the gun as a crafted masterpiece that befuddles the mind on the essentials of the art of fine gunmaking. My husband grew up in a family that collected some of these masterpieces and they are beautiful!
This weekend or sooner, we will figure out how to photograph a custom made Deer Rifle that was made for David. We will add it to this post. It is beautiful....but we shoot deer with cameras!
I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. You can reach me at 530 276-7417. I anwer my phone.
I like shooting beer cans with my dads (inherited) winchester 30/30. I hope you get what you want on your birthday!
Take a picture of it for us. We also used them to shoot beer cans when i was young, obviously the cans were my dads!!
Jeannean 38s are a good weapon although I'm partial to a 9mm myself. Our son let our 12 year old grand daughter shoot TLW's 38 on New Years Eve. She loved it. Be sure to go to the gun range and shoot a whole buch of rounds so you are completely comfortable shooting. Then stick that sucka in your purse loaded and ready.
Jeanean - I should have put on my glasses before I read that subject line! I thought it read, "David, Can I have my very own 38th Birthday? Pretty Please!" And I was jealous. . .LOL
I was once a bride, and the father of "most" of my children gifted me with a 22 rifle as a birthday present. We co-owned a 44 magnum, which he managed to get custody of, along with the family dog! If I were to buy a weapon today, it would likely be a 38; but our family has had more accidental shootings that could have gone perilously awry, and we never had the need to defend ourselves otherwise.
Jeanean--Everyone has a dream. Enjoy your birthday!
Hi Jeanean,
All I can say is your mom must have been one very strong lady!
Cynthia, the only good use of a gun is for target shooting. David and I both love to go the shooting range. We both have .22 rifles and it's fun to bet who can get the best hits. We use to set out at a friends and shoot cans also. I always won...and my friend would have us doing it for hours....he hated that I could out shoot him.
I don't remember being allowed to shoot guns within my family. I was My Dad's only child and he did not want me to have anything to do with guns. My Mom carried a .38 though. Funny, she never used it to kill the rattles snake we encountered coming to and from town....but a broom stick. She would pin the snake down close to the neck and cut the head off. Ugh....we moved to town when I was four and my Father went to work for United Concrete Pipe. We left the ranch for good. I don't think he ever looked back.
It was very hard work for both my parents. My mom cooked for 12 men and her family. I cannot imagine cooking three meals a day for 12 men and my family. I digress...sorry. Shooting beer cans is the best fun ever!
Cynthia, I will take the photo. I can't believe the weekend is here already. We will be working all weekend...but will give it a try. I so agree that shooting beer cans is the best. Thanks for coming in on my post. David liked it...I knew he would!
Hey, Bryant, good advice for sure. I would want to be completely comfortable with my gun. We have a new team. Going to blog about it this weekend. David is getting his license so that he can partner with Bo Spaulding on ranch and land. In that I love to go along for the ride, I want that .38 just to feel safe while out in the bush. Seldom would you need it, however our business will involve wilderness areas. Believe me we will also have a shotgun along for the ride.
We are so excited about this team and how much fun it is going to be. We all love the land and nature and so we are having some kind of fun!
I think that learning to shoot the .38 will be the complete best part. I love target shooting. I'll have to bring along my .22 for some fun as well!
Tell TLW, she inspired this whole thing! Love ya both tons!
Myrl, one would hope that the only use of the gun is at target practice. The other good thing is to know how to use it and be comfortable with it. Safety precautions must always be a part of having a gun and life in general.
We are pilots and have done some inter coastal cruising and so you learn that it is always critical to become knowledgeable about the "how to" of the endeavor. We always advocate....safety first. We had an airplane crash in Palo Alto the other day where a plane hit power lines on take off. It was this last cold spell and we both are guessing that it was ice on the leading edge of the wing. Even the most experienced pilot cannot overcome the weather. One would think that any experienced pilot would not take off in O dark hours on a rainy and icy day.
My first husband never had any interest in guns. He was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. You know he knew how to use a gun...but he never cared about target shooting. Maybe he got that out of the way in the Army!
Thanks for the visit Mryl and sharing gun stories. I really like it!
Teri, thanks for stopping by and giving me a good wish! Always nice to hear from you.
Lynda, she was indeed. I have never forgotten how scared I was when she would get out of the car to kill a snake. It happened quite a few times. One time she ran over a snake by accident and it some how went up into the engine compartment. She got out and looked and looked for that snake.
She had to come home and tell my Dad and my Dad found the snake in the engine compartment down low. The snake was pretty will done....but could still bite. My Mom got a lecture about running over snakes. I don't think I would have given her a lecture....at all, however I would not have wanted to look for that snake either!
I took up the bow. Not the compound but the more elementary recurve. You can still shoot things . And there is for me anyway a kid of zen quality to it all
Hey Charlie...you are giving me new information. David has a bow that was hand-made for him. He gets out in the back yard now and again. But I think are talking new stuff and we don't know much about it. I would guess that there a beauty of craftsmanship in this art as well.