11 Mile Hill Rd, Newton, CT 06470

The address of:

National Sports Shooting Foundation
Flintlock Ridge Office Center
11 Mile Hill Rd
Newton, CT 06470-2359

My first rifle:

I was in the 5th and 6th grades and had a paper route. After many months of delivering the "Atoka Times," I had enough money to by a $22, .22 cal, single-shot, bolt action Remmington rife make in Conn. Colt fire arms is still in business in Conneticuit. My brother and his ER physician wife live in Conn.

That Remmington was the worst excuse for a rifle that I ever had. Even the cheap Jap rifle my Dad picked up in Korea s*cked less. But it was mine and I saw it still in Mom and Dad's home 10 years ago. The crappy range tong was missing, heck it looked like my brothers had done a job on it and even the front sight looked like it was about 15 degrees off. But it was my first rifle.

Bob Wilson

 

I do not know and could care less. It was the irony of Conneticuit and their history of firearms manufacture.

Understand that Sunday I'll visit a range and fire my Thompson, 50 cal., muzzle loader. Thompson Arms is located in neighboring state, MA, I'll punch some holes in old campaign signs.

Just, I appreciate the irony . . . as do you.

Bob Wilson

 

A by-product of using an older iPad, the Safari often kills a posting and that little snippet took three tries. Then I could go back and edit in my personal connection with my first rifle, my family, and Conneticuit.

Understand it has taken many years but this I know to be true:

• Your best friend in high school will shoot a Meddow Lark sitting in a tree when quail hunting.
• A farm boy met in college will shoot a quail over your head so you can hear to shot and the bird falls two paces away.
• A cousin will treat a 30-06 as a suprior weapon without regard to hitting the target.
• Turkish students can be impressed with a 75% hunting load without understanding the importance of hitting the target.

Me with a .22, iron-sights, single-shot, crappy Remmington . . . and hollow-points . . . would be more lethal than the typical, city-kid, with his big-nice person, blow-job gun . . . because I'll kill him first.

That is what rifle, marksmanship, is all about:

Now I would not turn down a nice, modern 50 cal. I preferred the .223 over the M-14 but that has to do with the receiver of the .223 and gas blow-back . . . another story we don't have time to dwell upon.

Bob Wilson

 

It takes a lot of skill to design and make a quality firearm. It takes only money to buy one and that is a G*d D*mn shame!

Bob Wilson