International Shooting Comradeship
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:25 pm
A couple weeks ago, we received an e-mail thru the webpage of our shooting club in Santa Fe, Argentina, from an English prone shooter who had been scheduled a job visit to my city, and was interested in "tasting" our range, but couldn't bring his rifle, so he asked one to borrow.
Inmediatley our riflemen put their guns at his disposal, and we arranged a day at the premises, complete with lunch at noon and a beer tasting get together at dusk, to which he wholeheartedly agreed, even to the point of talking his employee (an international toolmaking enterprise) to foot a trophy for the friendly "two-nations" challenge thus programmed.
Enter the local newspaper, and the tale of a eccentric that would willingly burden himself with almost 10 pounds of gear thru 10.000 air miles (and back) was considered interesting enough that they arranged to send a journalist and a photographer (no doubt our guest will bragg in front of his friends at the UK when I send him the clippings).
Moreover, as I myself am a pistoleer, I will lend him my big bore pistol (a customized commercial Gov't model) and my SP (a Hammerli 208) because he expressed extreme pleasure at the mere idea of shooting handguns that go "bang", himself being devoid of that possiblity in his country.
Whatever the outcome of the shootout (that really doen't matter) don't you think this is a marvelous example of international comradeship between shooters, more so that they weren't known to each other?
Just thought it was a good piece of news (although a trifle one) at an otherwise troubled time for us shooters.
Inmediatley our riflemen put their guns at his disposal, and we arranged a day at the premises, complete with lunch at noon and a beer tasting get together at dusk, to which he wholeheartedly agreed, even to the point of talking his employee (an international toolmaking enterprise) to foot a trophy for the friendly "two-nations" challenge thus programmed.
Enter the local newspaper, and the tale of a eccentric that would willingly burden himself with almost 10 pounds of gear thru 10.000 air miles (and back) was considered interesting enough that they arranged to send a journalist and a photographer (no doubt our guest will bragg in front of his friends at the UK when I send him the clippings).
Moreover, as I myself am a pistoleer, I will lend him my big bore pistol (a customized commercial Gov't model) and my SP (a Hammerli 208) because he expressed extreme pleasure at the mere idea of shooting handguns that go "bang", himself being devoid of that possiblity in his country.
Whatever the outcome of the shootout (that really doen't matter) don't you think this is a marvelous example of international comradeship between shooters, more so that they weren't known to each other?
Just thought it was a good piece of news (although a trifle one) at an otherwise troubled time for us shooters.