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?
>
> ;-)