As Deri said Mag: With Blanks. ----Original Message Follows---- 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? > > ;-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com