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The Random Ramblings Of An Airgun Addict

The wife and I have been busy over the past 8 months building a new home. We closed on it last week and have moved in for the most part. We signed the deal to build our new house in August of last year and sold our previous home a month later! We had barely started getting the house ready to sell when it sold. We had three weeks to find a temporary place to stay, pack and move. We did it, but boy was it hectic. We have lived that past 6 months in a nice little rental home about 5 miles from where we built our new home. That made it pretty easy to visit the building site and check on our house. We left most of our stuff packed in boxes and stored in the rental house while we were there. It was a bit of a pain living out of boxes and not having all my stuff out where I could get to it when I wanted it. It is amazing how much stuff I had accumulated over the years. We got rid of a lot of stuff at two garage sales and I think that we will have another once we get unpack and sort through everything again.

Once nice thing with picking out a lot and building a house on it is that I was able to find a lot where I could easily shoot my airguns without the risk of disturbing the neighbors. I was also able to design in some features into the house plans that I wanted to make my airgunning a bit easier like a back door in the garage where I can shoot all day long without putting outside air into the house and without getting wet when it rains! I was also able to add on a third garage stall that I can use as a work area. I also have my own study with a big closet that will hold all of my gun safes and equipment. It will also have a reading area and a computer desk. My wife has her own room too for painting and reading. Our home is located at the end of a 1/4 mile lane sub-division so we don't have anyone behind or to the left side of our property, just an open field and woods. I have gotten to know that land owner behind my new home and he is going to let me shoot out onto his lane. I can easily get 40 yards out the garage door to the rear of my property and I can expand the range out to 100 yards if I want (and I probably will).

One thing that I thought of through all this is how much fun it is to have a hobby but it also puts the hobby into perspective in the bigger picture of my life. I really enjoy shooting, working on my guns, doing website stuff, designing and building targets and related airgun equipment but it's overall importance is pretty low when compared to my faith, family, and work. I am glad that I have a fun hobby but it ranks lower down on the list of important things in life. Because of this move, over the past 8 months I have had to miss my first Nationals and Cajun Classic FT matches since 1995. I have also had to move a couple of local matches. But that is OK. There will be other matches and lots of years of shooting (Lord willing) ahead of me. I am glad that this building and moving is pretty much behind me 'cause I am ready to start shooting again!