{"id":991,"date":"2008-11-10T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2008-11-10T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:37:38","slug":"guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aruger-11-10-1.JPG' title='aruger-11-10-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aruger-11-10-1.JPG' alt='aruger-11-10-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of my friends back in San Francisco might be surprised to know that I&#8217;ve bought a couple of guns since I moved to North Carolina. But I haven&#8217;t the slightest guilt about it. Being able to competently use a firearm is a great skill. Though I was a pretty good shot when I was a boy, I had not shot guns for years. I&#8217;m pretty much teaching myself, with some advice from friends. I believe a reasonable standard for pistols is being able to hit a 10-inch target at 25 yards. I need more practice; I can achieve only about 60 percent.  This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/Firearms\/FAProdView?model=10105&#038;return=Y\">Ruger Mark III<\/a> semi-automatic, .22 caliber. The magazine holds 10 rounds. Some people don&#8217;t consider .22 caliber pistols to be serious weapons. But the ammunition is affordable, so they&#8217;re great for target practice. And when loaded with hollow-point high-velocity long rifle cartridges, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;d want to be hit by one.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aruger-11-10-2.JPG' title='aruger-11-10-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aruger-11-10-2.JPG' alt='aruger-11-10-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy part-time neighbor at the end of the road comes to his cabin to hunt. He has a very nice shooting range down in the little valley below his cabin. That&#8217;s where I go to practice shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who&#8217;ll be coming to visit from San Francisco after the house is done: You know you want to go down to the shooting range and fire away, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my friends back in San Francisco might be surprised to know that I&#8217;ve bought a couple of guns since I moved to North Carolina. But I haven&#8217;t the slightest guilt about it. Being able to competently use a firearm is a great skill. Though I was a pretty good shot when I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guns?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relocalization","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}