Archive for July, 2011

Friday, July 29th, 2011

It’s Fun When You Win–and Even When You Don’t!

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The ladies do very well in 3-gun competition.

The action starts when the buzzer goes off!

I’m back from attending the Shooting Industry Masters last weekend. The event was sponsored by FMG Publications, at the spectacular Rockcastle Shooting Center, located near Park City, KY. Rockcastle is part of the Park Mammoth property, which is a 2000-acre shooting resort and golf course owned and managed by Nick and Nate Noble. It was fascinating to see a golf course incorporated into a sporting clays course and 3-gun range.
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Friday, July 15th, 2011

Recalling the Beginning and Respecting the End!

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On July 8, 2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Cape Canaveral for the last time.

In 1961 when Shepard was mastering space, I was mastering the FBI stance with Mattel's .38 "snubbie."

It was May 5, 1961 when Alan Shepard piloted NASA’s Freedom 7 mission to become the first American to travel into space. A Redstone rocket thrust Shepard into a 15-minute suborbital flight to carry him 116 miles above the earth and bring him to a splashdown location out in the Atlantic Ocean 302 miles from Cape Canaveral. The launch was watched live on TV by millions.

Last week I journeyed back to my old hometown—Cocoa Beach, Florida—for a visit. Not by accident, it happened to coincide with the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis—the last launch in the Space Shuttle program. It was scheduled for Friday morning, July 8, 2011.

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