So I am proposing a new holiday! Shootist day! Typical gifts would inclued ammo, range time, tac gear and of course guns!
Maybe we could celebrate on Samuel Colt's or John Brownings birthday...
Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
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Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
Okay so we have Mothers Day, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, birthdays, on and on...
So I am proposing a new holiday! Shootist day! Typical gifts would inclued ammo, range time, tac gear and of course guns!
Maybe we could celebrate on Samuel Colt's or John Brownings birthday...
So I am proposing a new holiday! Shootist day! Typical gifts would inclued ammo, range time, tac gear and of course guns!
Maybe we could celebrate on Samuel Colt's or John Brownings birthday...
Syntyr
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Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
I second this motion.
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Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
I suggest we use John Wayne's birthday... May 26. 
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Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico or Jimmy Johnson quits as the Cowboy's coach.SRO1911 wrote:March 29th would be very appropriate - bonus points to whoever can tell us why.
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twomillenium
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Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
Noooooooooo!!! I don't want to wait till one day a year to be given ammo, range time, gear or guns!Syntyr wrote:Okay so we have Mothers Day, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, birthdays, on and on...
So I am proposing a new holiday! Shootist day! Typical gifts would inclued ammo, range time, tac gear and of course guns!
Maybe we could celebrate on Samuel Colt's or John Brownings birthday...
Texas LTC Instructor, NRA pistol instructor, RSO, NRA Endowment Life , TSRA, Glock enthusiast (tho I have others)
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Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
Does it have something to do with 1911?SRO1911 wrote:March 29th would be very appropriate - bonus points to whoever can tell us why.
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twomillenium
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Football player Earl Campbell is born in Tyler.SRO1911 wrote:March 29th would be very appropriate - bonus points to whoever can tell us why.
Texas LTC Instructor, NRA pistol instructor, RSO, NRA Endowment Life , TSRA, Glock enthusiast (tho I have others)
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to add it to a fruit salad.
You will never know another me, this could be good or not so good, but it is still true.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to add it to a fruit salad.
You will never know another me, this could be good or not so good, but it is still true.
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twomillenium
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Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
If we used Glock intro dates, there may be as many as 20 different dates during the year.
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to add it to a fruit salad.
You will never know another me, this could be good or not so good, but it is still true.
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You will never know another me, this could be good or not so good, but it is still true.
Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
A special day for each Amendment. Where the people are encouraged to exercise that right, lest they be forgotten and lost.
Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
So, the 2nd of every month? I could live with that.hovercat wrote:A special day for each Amendment. Where the people are encouraged to exercise that right, lest they be forgotten and lost.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams
Re: Happy Shootist Day? Proposing new holiday
SRO1911 wrote:Indeed it does.MeMelYup wrote:Does it have something to do with 1911?SRO1911 wrote:March 29th would be very appropriate - bonus points to whoever can tell us why.
Wednesday, March 29 1911
The United States Army formally adopted the .45 caliber M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm.
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