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One of the interesting aspects about the whole Creedmoor debate is how many anti-Creedmoor people say they don't need or want one, but are constantly bombarded by pro-Creedmoor pushers. Do they PM you on the Campfire? Ring your doorbell like a local politician and launch into a Creedmoor campaign speech? Do they stand on street corners and pass out Creedmoor screeds while shouting to attract a crowd?
In my experience, anti-Creedmoorites are far more likely to spontaneously break into a lecture, when the vast majority have exactly zero experience with the round. Got a good chuckle out of this.........
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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As to the original question:
creed: a statement of essential beliefs
moor: open usually swampy wasteland
While the first seems very fitting, I am not sure how to apply the second. I believe it's swampy here.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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smokepole,
Once in a great while my wife and I go on vacation to a city, where we can sample good restaurants and do some touristing. Often, though, we combine it with work. A good example took place 2007. I had been invited to test some Heym rifles on a "cull" hunt on the estate of the last British earl in Ireland, and Eileen had just read in one of the cooking magazines she's subscribes to that Cork was one of the new centers of European cuisine, because of then-booming Irish economy. Cork is Ireland's major seaport from Europe, and so many people had moved there from other countries that fine restaurants of all sorts had sprung up. So she got permission to accompany me if we paid for her plane ticket, and we spent several days in Cork eating and touristing, which was great. Among other places, it turned out one of the highest-rated Spanish tapas restaurants anywhere was across the street from our hotel. Spent most of an afternoon there, sampling food and wine. And it turned out Heym was also eager to have her field-test one of their rifles, so she did!
These days we don't travel long-distance nearly as much, having pretty much had our fill of airports and the other hassles. But we do take off now and then to do the same sort of eating/touristing somewhere close enough to drive to.
Other than that, we do both work pretty hard, Eileen at writing game cookbooks and running our website. I usually write a couple hours in the mornings, then do other "work" stuff for the rest of the day, whether shooting, handloading, taking photos, or whatever. Our local rod and gun club, where we're life members, has a great range that includes everything from shotgun sports to a 1000-yard rifle range with dozens of gongs. Oh, and we both hunt pretty hard during the work-week at the right time of year. (We try to take weekends off, like other people.) Over the years we've taken antelope, mule and whitetailed deer, elk, black bears, moose and bighorn sheep less than an hour's drive from our house; this year Eileen got her deer within 5 minutes our our front door, while I got mine 10 minutes away. Also have eight of the 10 Montana upland birds nearby, and a big river and reservoir for waterfowling.
Now you're just rubbing it in. Ireland sounds like fun, it's on my list.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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One of the interesting aspects about the whole Creedmoor debate is how many anti-Creedmoor people say they don't need or want one, but are constantly bombarded by pro-Creedmoor pushers. Do they PM you on the Campfire? Ring your doorbell like a local politician and launch into a Creedmoor campaign speech? Do they stand on street corners and pass out Creedmoor screeds while shouting to attract a crowd? I haven't seen any of that but I did just see two clean-cut young men on bicycles wearing white shirts and ties. They had backpacks but also interestingly enough, bolt action rifles slung across their backs. It didn't make sense to me until just now, had to be Creedmoors.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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smokepole,
Well, yeah, I was kind of "rubbing it in."
But one of the things my father might have been right about, even when I was a teenager and knew everything, was strongly suggesting to do something I enjoyed for a living. He passed away at 44, and like all fathers and sons we had some conflicts. Am very grateful for his advice.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Yeah, my dad passed away early too, when I was 18. He was a WWII Veteran, what I wouldn't give to be able to go back and get some more advice from him. Or just bullsh** and drink beer. I was lucky as far as ending up doing something I like for a living, but it wasn't like I planned it or anything, just stumbled into it. If I'd planned it better I'd have gone hunting and shooting for a living too. Or at least fishing.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Yeah, I know the feeling. Was a month shy of 17.
My father got diabetes Type 1 at age 11, and wouldn't have lived at all if he'd been born a decade earlier. Worked for Boeing during WWII.
Dunno if I "planned" my life all that well, but was pretty stubborn....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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Among other things, it’s a town in NC where I usd to live.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Stubborness is called motivation, if you're headed in the right direction.
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