As Deri said Mag: With Blanks.


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From: Toddy <[log in to unmask]>
Kyle;
I enjoyed reading your post.  Both my sons spent 6 years in the Marine Corp.
  My
father was an avid hunter all his life and he did a lot of trap shooting.
(Guess
who influenced his grandsons to join the service?)  My husband is not a
hunter,
nor am I.

We lived in Wyoming for a couple of years.  They had an early hunting season
there for bow hunters and disabled hunters.  Think some others states might
have
the same arrangement.

Kyle E. Cleveland wrote:

 > Well, mags, for one thing, my CP is not that "involved".  I can still do
 > most tasks, even play the piano (sorta), fly a plane, etc.  I have
problems
 > with my affected (left) hand and fine motor skills (can't button), but
I've
 > made a lot of my own adaptive devices.  My mom's a retired Marine Corps
 > engineer and my Dad's a retired Marine sniper instructor, so I have a lot
of
 > resources to draw from.
 >
 > Shooting is not as much of a problem as you might think.  There are many,
 > many adaptive devices for wheelchair-bound folks to hunt and fish
 > independently.  Because I've done a good bit of outdoors writing, I've
been
 > fortunate to meet a lot of these folks and see how things are engineered
to
 > let them pursue their sport (btw--lots of women involved in both fishing
and
 > hunting/shooting).  In my trap club (where we use shotguns to shoot at
 > flying "clay" pigeons) there is a blind--yes I said blind (as a bat)--man
 > who shoots with us.
 >
 > This is how it works:  He walks to the "stand", unguided, and loads his
own
 > weapon.  He mounts the shotgun to his shoulder and calls for the target
by
 > yelling "pull!".  When the clay pigeon flies, an individual called the
 > "spotter", who is looking over the shoulder of the blind man and down the
 > barrel of the shotgun, calls out commands like "3-high" (point the weapon
at
 > 3 o'clock and a little high) so the blind fellow knows, generally where
the
 > target is at the time.  Remarkably, he can also "hear" the flying disk
and
 > can tell direction and speed from those cues as well.  A round of trap is
25
 > shots, and he can generally get 10 hits/round.
 >
 > I guess it just depends how bad you want to do something.  Being out in
the
 > woods and fields, hunting and fishing, is such a part of my life and
history
 > that I can't imagine not being able to be there.
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Magenta Raine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
 > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 12:01 AM
 > To: [log in to unmask]
 > Subject: Re: north/south
 >
 > ok, kyle, how does a pwcp shoot a gun?
 >
 > ;-)

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