At 14:11 7/30/98 -0700, "Brian Heifner" <bheifner_at_Rational.Com> wrote: > >>NRA Members.......alcohol crazed, gun toting (full automatic with 17 round >>clip), rednecks with confederate flags in the back windows of their pickup >>trucks. > >I had no thoughts on the NRA until a few years ago when on a legal bow hunt >in Northwestern Oregon, I was shot at repeatedly by an adult and two >adolescents(sp?). We had to leave the area quickly, as the bullets were >ricocheing (I know that's not the right spelling but I don't have the >time to look it up right now) all over the place. > >I'm sure that all NRA members are not this way, but I would never join >the NRA based on this one incident. > >Dang, I can't think of a way to turn this back to kayaking. > >Brian. paddle a kevlar boat my friend ;-) i do... we had to stop paddling one stretch of river because of a gun range put in, whose backstop was 50ft from the river!! another time i went past a group of guys shooting a machine gun... their shots never endangered us though. mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page #-Fortune: The Roman Rule The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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