Feeling hot, hot, hot!

We've had some very unusual San Diego weather the past few weeks with 90F days! More than one! I've also been supervising a lot out at The Ranch and my normal time outside shooting and such. Needless to say I've spend a lot of the previous week hot, dirty and sun burned.

It's during times like this my mind drifts off to where I stayed in Patagonia............So cool, crisp and clean.

Project R

So in my quest to be one of the best pistol shooters in the US I took a hard look at what that would take to accomplish. From that I decided that the essential components of success are:
-Time free to devote to practice and competition.
-A sufficient supply of ammunition and materials.
-Support from family and friends.
-The desire to not settle for anything less than the best.
-Natural talent.
-The mystery ingredient of Project R.

Project R is what I was lacking in my quest. I have ALL of the other things in sufficient supply, if not more than enough. But what I was really missing is something difficult to get here in Southern California. If you're not familiar witht the set up, let me explain it to you.

Shooting on public land is highly regulated and not open year round and you are limited to a few spots on a first come, first serve basis. You can join an outdoor gun range but you are limited in how quickly you can shoot and all from behind a firing line or static shooting position. Good for general accuracy but not for my sport. Again with limited hours. Then of course there are indoor shooting ranges. I happen to belong to a good one that lets me draw from a holster and shoot as rapidly as I wish.

But none of this lets me replicate what I do in my matches. When I look at tennis players they practice on a tennis court. Basketball players practice in a gym on a court. Football players work out on a field. So if I want to be a shooter, I need to practice on a shooting range where I can do my kind of things.

In other parts of the USA when you belong to a gun club you can check out a bay as a member and do what you want. There is a range 2 hours north of me that does this as well to the paying public. But here in San Diego? Nothing. So I decided to make my own.

Yep, I'm building my own private training facility for pistol shooting and it is going to be top notch. It should be totally done in about 4 weeks. The piece of land I bought also will be fun to ride motorcycles on, shoot rabbits, rock climb, camp and so on.

The CIA has The Farm. I have The Ranch, aka Project R.

Virginia 1760

If I lived in Virginia in 1760 I'd now be able to vote. I'm an adult male, white, Christian and last but not least I now own property. Yep!!! I now own 43 acres out in the Jacumba area. Rocks for climbing, caves to explore, rabbits to shoot, motorcycle trails to build. All sorts of outdoor "fun" and such.

A lot of money, a lot of work but hopefully it will also be a lot of fun.

But can I??

I played the violin in 5th grade to appease my parents and try to get with Emily Butterball. Neither worked. Like all kids at the time I played the recorder as well in 4th grade music class.

In college I bought a "Teach Yourself to Play the Piano" book. Got to the 4th chapter and was done, having only learned a little with my right hand only.

I've since owned and sold and electric and acoustic guitar. Never learned more than a handful of chords. I still have a djimbe drum around somewhere as well...

As you can see, learning a musical instrument is about like learning Russian for me. Lots of attempts but no real developments.

But you know what I'd really really like to know how to play? The xylophone or marimba!!! Yep, mallets striking bars. Oh, I'd love that. I even have a to Fischer-Price one with the notes written on the "keys".

Do you think anyone in SD does adult xylophone lessons??

Something....

So here are some of the mock ups I was asked to do about a potential print ad campaign. Featuring moi. In like national gun magazines! We'll see if it happens, but the initial interest was there....