{"id":5437,"date":"2010-09-18T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2020-12-27T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:26:30","slug":"a-day-at-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/a-day-at-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"A day at the range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at Elizabeth&#8217;s office organized a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oronofishhuntclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orono Fish &amp; Hunt Club<\/a> to allow employees and family members to try shooting various weapons. Victor (who&#8217;s home from Trent this weekend) and I went with the group for a bit of fun plinking. The line-up was pretty long and slow for the first portion (.22 rifle and .22 pistol), but after that, the wait to try other weapons was much shorter. It was a a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Victor found the .22s a bit tame, but really enjoyed firing the Lee Enfield (.303) and the M-14 (.308). I took a few pictures, but safety required only shooters and coaches on the line, so they&#8217;re all from behind the shooting zone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-Lee-Enfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Victor firing Lee Enfield\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-Lee-Enfield.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-Lee-Enfield-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-Lee-Enfield-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>This is Victor firing a Lee Enfield<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-M14.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Victor firing M14\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-M14.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-M14-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Victor-firing-M14-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>This is just a split second after he fired the M-14, as the rifle recoils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at Elizabeth&#8217;s office organized a trip to the Orono Fish &amp; Hunt Club to allow employees and family members to try shooting various weapons. Victor (who&#8217;s home from Trent this weekend) and I went with the group for a bit of fun plinking. The line-up was pretty long and slow for the first portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73],"tags":[49,1404,87],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-randomness","tag-guns","tag-leeenfieldrifle","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1pH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62306,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/62306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}