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<blockquote data-quote="datsjeep" data-source="post: 374901" data-attributes="member: 23150"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hi everyone. I have been reading this site for quite a while. Growing up in </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Oregon</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> for my whole long life of 39 I have always hunted and fished. I have been shooting since 8 and dad bought me my first rifle at 12. Dad was always into reloading and different guns. Long range was a passion of his but for me I was more concerned with football, girls and cars.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">By the time college came and went my focus became more about earning a living then living my life. I would barely find time to spend a week east of the cascades with dad for a mule deer hunt or a few weekends on the coast for elk.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I never did get into the guns or reloading with dad and now I wish I would have. Dad passed in 02'. After he passed I bought a gun safe to store the few rifles he had left along with my one. I made room in the garage for the wooden crates full of bullets, brass, powders, presses, dies and various odds and ends.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Some time between dad passing and now I decided it was time to start living life. I had married the love of my life in 95' and it was time we started to do things that we enjoyed. Now although my wife will go fishing with me it's really not her thing and she definitely will not hunt. But she encourages me to do both as much as I can.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">One day I was just kind of browsing through the old crates. </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Reading</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> through load data dad had compiled on what looks to be 47 different rifles and looking at the targets he had saved. Some of the targets read 1000 yards and had different groupings along with load info.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I remember thinking that is cool, 1000 yards, 10 football fields..... </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">That night I found this site. I have now been reading for months. I can't seem to get enough of it. Since that night I have setup all dads reloading gear except for what I replaced, the old RCBS manual scale was just a little dated technology in my opinion. I have gone through every gun that was dads and learned everything I can about it. I have purchased a couple new projects for myself that don't have any sentimental value so I don't mind replacing stocks and barrels. I think I own every reload manual available.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The one thing I wish I could buy but can't is the time to do this with my dad. To be able to have his knowledge sitting beside me. That actually makes me appreciate this site and all of the knowledge from the members within it that much more. So thank you.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Genetics are a funny thing. Even being gone for eight years dad is still influencing my life. His passion has now become my passion.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="datsjeep, post: 374901, member: 23150"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Hi everyone. I have been reading this site for quite a while. Growing up in [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Oregon[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] for my whole long life of 39 I have always hunted and fished. I have been shooting since 8 and dad bought me my first rifle at 12. Dad was always into reloading and different guns. Long range was a passion of his but for me I was more concerned with football, girls and cars.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]By the time college came and went my focus became more about earning a living then living my life. I would barely find time to spend a week east of the cascades with dad for a mule deer hunt or a few weekends on the coast for elk.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I never did get into the guns or reloading with dad and now I wish I would have. Dad passed in 02'. After he passed I bought a gun safe to store the few rifles he had left along with my one. I made room in the garage for the wooden crates full of bullets, brass, powders, presses, dies and various odds and ends.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Some time between dad passing and now I decided it was time to start living life. I had married the love of my life in 95' and it was time we started to do things that we enjoyed. Now although my wife will go fishing with me it’s really not her thing and she definitely will not hunt. But she encourages me to do both as much as I can.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]One day I was just kind of browsing through the old crates. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Reading[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] through load data dad had compiled on what looks to be 47 different rifles and looking at the targets he had saved. Some of the targets read 1000 yards and had different groupings along with load info.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I remember thinking that is cool, 1000 yards, 10 football fields..... [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]That night I found this site. I have now been reading for months. I can't seem to get enough of it. Since that night I have setup all dads reloading gear except for what I replaced, the old RCBS manual scale was just a little dated technology in my opinion. I have gone through every gun that was dads and learned everything I can about it. I have purchased a couple new projects for myself that don’t have any sentimental value so I don’t mind replacing stocks and barrels. I think I own every reload manual available.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The one thing I wish I could buy but can’t is the time to do this with my dad. To be able to have his knowledge sitting beside me. That actually makes me appreciate this site and all of the knowledge from the members within it that much more. So thank you.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Genetics are a funny thing. Even being gone for eight years dad is still influencing my life. His passion has now become my passion.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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