View From The Porch: April showers bring May problems.
MCF&G is a nice facility; it's the place that holds the bowling pin matches we used to shoot (and need to shoot again.) Its only real downsides are related to its fairly urban location which result in a justifiable paranoia of rounds launched over the berm and a 'pistols, pistol-caliber carbines, and shotguns only' policy. (The permitted rounds are on a list . Oddly, .455 Webley Auto is already listed, but I'll need to petition to get .22 Remington Jet, .32 S&W, .38 ACP and 7.62x38 Nagant added.) Eagle Creek, which normally wends placidly along the boundary of MCF&G, was swollen by the ongoing monsoon season into a whitewater torrent that rated somewhere between Class II and III on the International Scale. Meanwhile, the club safety officer was in constant danger of being swallowed by the marsh that was forming near the new pistol bays. Along about July the skeeters (oddly enough, the Norwegian word for shooters) go someplace else, and we cram in as much highpower and smallbore rifle, bullseye and bowling pin pistol, black powder rifle, running deer, and trap as we can before early snow and mud season turns the road back into gumbo and washouts. But from July to November it kicks. With all the old and mostly abandoned 19th century mill buildings along the Connecticut river, you'd think somebody would set up an indoor 100 yard highpower range for the November through May shooters, or the guys who work 7:00a.m. to 5:30p.m. (typical hours here in New England) and just want to pop off a few with the old Springfield for half an hour after work. The indoor pistol ranges around here are cleaning up, especially on ammo sales.
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