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What Are you Thankful For?
Sparty_76
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I am thankful for many things, including God, Country, Family and Health. However, I have one more this year, the opportunity to hunt and shoot again, something I thought I had lost!
I have always loved to shoot and hunt with our "Boys" (our two male golden retrievers). For our 25 wedding anniversary 5 years ago my wife bought me a brand new Benelli left handed M-1, the only gun I had ever gotten after we were married. It is a wonderful gun and I could not miss anything that went up in front of me! Two years later I had a pacemaker put in on my left side and was told one of the things I could not do was shoot a shotgun again if I shot it left handed. Over the last two years I have discovered it was about the thing I could not do. So I thought my hunting and shooting (I did shoot a little trap and clays) days were all past me. The M-1 sat in the rear of my closet, as I did not like to even look at it as it reminded me of what I thought I had lost.
This last summer my wife and I were at the Sportsman's Show in Oshkosh. My wife wanted to shoot a pistol. Afterwards she said, "Tom, you use to enjoy shooting so much why don't you go and shoot a Benelli?" I said, "You know I cannot do that because of that thing in my chest! I have never, ever, shot from the right side. It would be a waste, I could not hit a thing." She said, "Well you could learn!" I said, "I do not know, and my good gun is left handed." (That was an excuse because I always shot right-handed guns for years before from the left side). She said, "I tell you what, if you can shoot right handed I'll buy you another right handed Benelli!"
So I stood in line and when it was my turn walked up to one of the Benelli pros and told him, "I can no longer shoot left handed because of a pacemaker implant, and want to shoot and hunt again. If I can shoot right handed my wife over there is buying me a new M-2 as I have a left handed M-1." He said, "No problem, all the pros shoot with both eyes open, I'll teach you. I shot from the left side too and switched". He told me to just look, focus, and concentrate on the bird. I said, "What about putting something over my left eye or something?" He said, "Just do what I said!"
Well the first three shots felt really weird and I pulled them all way left. The pro was getting a little angry and he said, "Now look, just look at the target. Just look at the target. When you see the bird on the sight shoot!" I took a deep breath yelled pull, and tried to do what he said. I busted that one and the next six in a row. I was so happy I started to jump up and down. I felt like the first time I could ride a bike by myself. The pro took the gun over to my wife and says I'm a pro and he can shoot right-handed so he gets one of these! True to her word she did and Santa came early! However the gun in the pro's hand was not a M-2 but one like this, it will do!
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I'm going to eat a little lunch and then the "Boys", the SBE II, and I are going hunting!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I have always loved to shoot and hunt with our "Boys" (our two male golden retrievers). For our 25 wedding anniversary 5 years ago my wife bought me a brand new Benelli left handed M-1, the only gun I had ever gotten after we were married. It is a wonderful gun and I could not miss anything that went up in front of me! Two years later I had a pacemaker put in on my left side and was told one of the things I could not do was shoot a shotgun again if I shot it left handed. Over the last two years I have discovered it was about the thing I could not do. So I thought my hunting and shooting (I did shoot a little trap and clays) days were all past me. The M-1 sat in the rear of my closet, as I did not like to even look at it as it reminded me of what I thought I had lost.
This last summer my wife and I were at the Sportsman's Show in Oshkosh. My wife wanted to shoot a pistol. Afterwards she said, "Tom, you use to enjoy shooting so much why don't you go and shoot a Benelli?" I said, "You know I cannot do that because of that thing in my chest! I have never, ever, shot from the right side. It would be a waste, I could not hit a thing." She said, "Well you could learn!" I said, "I do not know, and my good gun is left handed." (That was an excuse because I always shot right-handed guns for years before from the left side). She said, "I tell you what, if you can shoot right handed I'll buy you another right handed Benelli!"
So I stood in line and when it was my turn walked up to one of the Benelli pros and told him, "I can no longer shoot left handed because of a pacemaker implant, and want to shoot and hunt again. If I can shoot right handed my wife over there is buying me a new M-2 as I have a left handed M-1." He said, "No problem, all the pros shoot with both eyes open, I'll teach you. I shot from the left side too and switched". He told me to just look, focus, and concentrate on the bird. I said, "What about putting something over my left eye or something?" He said, "Just do what I said!"
Well the first three shots felt really weird and I pulled them all way left. The pro was getting a little angry and he said, "Now look, just look at the target. Just look at the target. When you see the bird on the sight shoot!" I took a deep breath yelled pull, and tried to do what he said. I busted that one and the next six in a row. I was so happy I started to jump up and down. I felt like the first time I could ride a bike by myself. The pro took the gun over to my wife and says I'm a pro and he can shoot right-handed so he gets one of these! True to her word she did and Santa came early! However the gun in the pro's hand was not a M-2 but one like this, it will do!
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I'm going to eat a little lunch and then the "Boys", the SBE II, and I are going hunting!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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My Wife.
My Daughter.
Having a loving family
Having a job
The ranch is paid for
Being able to walk as a free man
Information and good will I recieve from this forum
having a job
having roof over my head
having food in the fridge
having clothes on my back.