Oh lord y'all want to hear about THAT??
Happened like it was yesterday (Well, it was Saturday 4/4/09 be exact
)
I got a buddy thru kayak fishing (YES, us Texas Gulf Coast Cowboy's legs see the sun every now and then) that him and his wife wanted me and some others to come try it out. I told him I'd come watch but I was already hooked, just being a broke college kid there's only so much fun money to go around and CAS was a "Someday after college thing" I wanted to do.
So after helping a friend run hog dogs that morning I go over the range they hold it at and fit right in. Apparently hog blood, cow manure (You trip and fall in all kinds of stuff in a pasture chasing hogs) patched wranglers and plam leaf blend well at these events
. Jeff came over and said to just soak it in and I was, seeing what everyone was shooting and how the stage they were on was shot. He comes back and starts trying to find the pistols he brought for me (huh??) to shoot and doesn't know what we're (alot of "we" going on from this point on
) going to do about gun leather for me to use. I tell him don't worry about it I'm having a ball just watching when another guy comes up and says he's got a complete rig, his son and son's GF couldn't make it. I tried to tell them not to go thru all that trouble but they insisted and after taking the belt I was wearing (I carried a .22mag rough rider just like that all morning) and putting some holsters on it I was good to go.
Long Story short after doing ok on the first stage (hit all the rifle and shotgun, missed a few pistol
) I shot a few more stages and had a ball like I knew I would. SOOO I'm waiting on Uncle Sam to send me my refund so I can start looking at pistols, working on my marlin 1894 truck gun I carry at work (it's been around the block some), got to get back to the folks home and get my first dove gun (A org. 1897 12ga.
) and get ready for next month to have some more fun all over again
All in All I knew going in that this was going to be to much fun and for once I was right, and got to hang out with some new folks to boot. Not a bad way to spend Saturday afternoon.