{"id":5263,"date":"2010-11-11T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2010-11-11T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:02:25","slug":"shoot-shoot-shooting-plus-mollie-sees-an-all-new-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/shoot-shoot-shooting-plus-mollie-sees-an-all-new-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"shoot shoot shooting…plus mollie sees an all-new animal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

last friday, kevin got through his first afternoon of shooting at the nathan bedford forrest state park in Eva, Tennessee, and on saturday he was just going to do one more individual shoot in the morning, and then had some team competitions in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

here’s kevin and mollie, desperately trying to relax on saturday morning.\u00a0 they served a buffet breakfast at the group lodge, but instead we lolled around as much as possible.<\/p>\n

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the only shoot kevin did on saturday was the ham shoot.\u00a0 “Ham shoot?” i said. they were competing to win a ham, of course! he didn’t win, and mollie would have been horribly, horribly disappointed because she’s never had ham and i know she would have polished it off in three big gulps.<\/p>\n

the first team event was the carbine shoot.\u00a0 there were about five different rounds of shooting, or maybe six.<\/p>\n

here’s kevin and part of his team after setting up the white styrofoam cups.\u00a0 can you see them dangling there?\u00a0 nope, the cups were set up in the worst possible place for getting a good view of them.\u00a0 all the other cups set up for the other teams were quite visible, and i don’t know how the 114th managed to shoot them all.<\/p>\n

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now they’re getting ready…<\/p>\n

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and see all those cups lined up for the other teams?\u00a0 easy to see.<\/p>\n

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shooting away…<\/p>\n

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…and here are the shredded remnants of the cups.<\/p>\n

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people not shooting were HIGHLY RESTRICTED, so i had to do all my picture and video-taking behind the yellow caution tape.\u00a0 just as i was trying to take a picture, some guy lifted up the tape to get back inside.\u00a0 damn him.\u00a0 i do think this picture is funny, though, because it’s just a bunch of legs, as though the top half of their bodies had been censored.<\/p>\n

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kevin gets ready for another round.<\/p>\n

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these were called pigeons, and i don’t know why because they sure look like orange discs to me.\u00a0 these were hanging pigeons, as opposed to the first part of the shoot which was clay pigeons attached to a big sheet of cardboard.\u00a0 they were a lot easier to see than the nearly-invisible white cups.<\/p>\n

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the blue juice bottles really stood out.<\/p>\n

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when they were done, there were just a few of the bottles left, empty and dangling.<\/p>\n

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kevin and bill weedman walk back from that shoot – you can’t really see bill’s cool yellow glasses here, unfortunately.\u00a0 i hope there’s a photo of them somewhere else.<\/p>\n

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and here they are, lining up for one more part of the shoot.<\/p>\n

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even though their team was at a distinct disadvantage, position-wise, they still came in third in the event.\u00a0 the next one was smoothbore, and i decided to go for a little hike with mollie.\u00a0 we walked down to kentucky river, and two guys were out there fishing.<\/p>\n

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there was a\u00a0 rocky beach, and i felt the water – it wasn’t horribly cold, so i could have gone swimming if i’d had a swimming emergency, or i needed to save somebody out there.\u00a0 luckily mollie and i were alone.<\/p>\n

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it was a gorgeous day and i wanted to sit there a while and relax, but mollie was always eager to press on.<\/p>\n

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there are seven cabins in the park, and this one is where we’ll be staying next year.\u00a0 being in the popup was fun, but on the first morning kevin and i had driven over to the cabins, and a friendly southern woman was cleaning them and gave us a tour of the inside of one of them – they were huge and fabulous on the inside, with a huge living room, two bedrooms, two baths, a big kitchen, and a big back porch which you can see here.<\/p>\n

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and this is the view from the cabins…we’re going to stay there with gerrick and janice next year.\u00a0 we booked a cabin because there were only two left.\u00a0 people really like to stay in the cabins.\u00a0 they look really nice, plus they’re very cheap.\u00a0 they also have gas fireplaces.<\/p>\n

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as mollie and i walked along the road back to the shoot, she suddenly ran after something scurrying in the brush.\u00a0 i looked down, and there was an ARMADILLO!\u00a0 really?!\u00a0 i’d only seen them in texas, and don’t remember seeing them more than once or twice.\u00a0 i stared at the big thing and frantically tried to get my camera out of my pocket while trying to constrain mollie who desperately wanted to EAT THAT ARMADILLO.<\/p>\n

by the time i got the camera turned on, he had scurried off.\u00a0 damn.\u00a0 oh well, at least mollie had a whole-new adventure.\u00a0 maybe we’ll see one next time.<\/p>\n

we walked back to the shoot, and the team was lined up.\u00a0 there were eight of them on their team for this event.<\/p>\n

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this time they were shooting big bottles full of what looked like milk, but was probably white-colored water.\u00a0 it was spectacular when they shot them because the water sprayed out all over the place.\u00a0 we didn’t tarry too long at the shoot because mollie HATED the loud noise of the guns.\u00a0 when they went off she got agitated and kept jumping up, pushing my back with her front paws.\u00a0 i took her to the shoots a few times, hoping she’d get used to them, but she hasn’t so far.<\/p>\n

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when it was over for the day, we had yet another delicious FREEZE-DRIED MEAL, this time, chicken teriyaki.\u00a0 after that there was an awards ceremony and we decided to leave mollie in the camper because she was sleeping nicely.\u00a0 i was nervous about this because she had managed to open the camper door before, and what if she decided to try to go find us in the dark?\u00a0 what if she got lost in the woods?<\/p>\n

when we got to the hall, there were quite a few of the guys there.\u00a0 most of them wore ball caps, most of them of the hunting variety.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 here is jim getting one of his many, many medals.\u00a0 you can see off to his right those guys with their ball caps perched way up on their heads.\u00a0 there was a whole group of them wearing them like that; maybe they belong to some secret society.<\/p>\n

it was a little odd, being there amongst all those guys – i whispered to kevin that i wondered what would happen if i suddenly jumped up on the table and started singing my “barack obama for president” song.\u00a0 i was pretty sure i was the only democrat in the room.<\/p>\n

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here’s kevin with his three team medals.\u00a0 he didn’t win any individual medals, and it seemed that a few guys won most of them, one guy in particular.\u00a0 kevin’s team got third in carbine, as i said, and FIRST in smoothbore!\u00a0 well done, gentlemen.<\/p>\n

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the whole thing only last a half hour and when we hurried back to the camper mollie was still sleeping.\u00a0 she likes it now, and thinks of it as her second home.\u00a0 here’s kevin with trwo of his medals.<\/p>\n

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it was a fun day, and in addition to the photos, i shot lots of video.\u00a0 i think i captured a lot of the shooting with the stuff exploding all over the place, but until i get my computer back, i won’t be able to edit and post them.\u00a0 so STAY TUNED…plus there are more photos from the last morning of shooting.<\/p>\n

meanwhile, i’m on to HARRY POTTER NUMBER FOUR, and i’m pretty sure i’m not going to get them all read by next week.<\/p>\n

ok then, i must go enjoy this beautiful, summer-like day because we’ve almost run out of them for the year. i hope you have a fun-filled veteran’s day, and hey, now i know a veteran!\u00a0 gerrick served in iraq, two times, and last night he was honored at some banquet.\u00a0 he deserved it. today he’s celebrating by going to a b&b with the fair janice.<\/p>\n

ok ok ok,<\/p>\n

mrs. thursday morning grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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