First, a question for Mr Martin. Are you the Gil Martin that whirlies round up in the air, and is married to a fine seamstress named Kit? If so, I'm the Mad Buffalo Jack that was from the Wash. Co Buckskinners group. If not, no worry.
I get the small group statements from guys at the range, a lot, especially when I'm shooting my flinters. I'm like some of these other guys, I always offer to meet up with them sometime to shoot and exchange info, if they'd be of a mind too.
Then, I proceed to shoot offhand, at novelty targets I always carry along. Bottle caps on a toothpic, plastic dinnerware; you know what I mean. Cut a card, then a second, third etc. Tell them you practice because this is what your competition is. Then offer those guys a target to play at. This way you don't have to say anything. The word gets around.
I've been at the range, put up a novelty, and someone will say,"You must be the guy they talk about at the club." This is my way of tooting off. But you have bad and good days. We all know how that is. You have to be satisfied with your own abilities and have the confidence to know it was you and not the gun or lock or whatever.
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*I started hunting when I was young. Yeah, I saw "BAMBI", but , I got over it.
** A hunter never apologizes to his prey; He just thanks it for the contest.
***What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. --Thomas Jefferson
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