Desert Shoot (2012).
Jan. 8th, 2013 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyThe Friday before Christmas M and I loaded up the kids and Arrow and headed out into the desert to go shooting. We thought a weekday would afford us some privacy and an easy time finding a good spot. We thought wrong. We had to pass by 7 or 8 other groups in good spots before we found an empty one. By the brass we managed to collect it was either in use earlier in the day, or maybe a day or two before. We hauled out enough brass to cover a pretty good chunk of the gas it cost us to get out there.
We wanted to give the kids a chance to shoot, but we also wanted to expose Arrow to some gun noise and to the wilderness. He had a blast sniffing around, but there were no birds for him to find. The gun noise was a lot louder and more frequent than I was expecting, due to the popularity of shooting in the area that day. Arrow handled it no problem (we closed him in his kennel with the doors shut to the truck when we did our shooting to minimize the noise for him); the only thing that startled him was M's staple gun for putting up targets.
We wanted to give the kids a chance to shoot, but we also wanted to expose Arrow to some gun noise and to the wilderness. He had a blast sniffing around, but there were no birds for him to find. The gun noise was a lot louder and more frequent than I was expecting, due to the popularity of shooting in the area that day. Arrow handled it no problem (we closed him in his kennel with the doors shut to the truck when we did our shooting to minimize the noise for him); the only thing that startled him was M's staple gun for putting up targets.
