{"id":56,"date":"2016-08-13T20:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2016-08-22T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:40:27","slug":"home-on-the-gun-range-serious-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/home-on-the-gun-range-serious-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Home on the Gun Range (Serious topic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So perhaps one of the weird things about my life is that &#8216;shooting&#8217; has played a part in one form another. &nbsp;Most of my shooting has been behind a lens, but I am equally comfortable behind a scope as well.<\/p>\n<p>I was very hesitant to get back behind the sights given my depression but I&#8217;ve monitored myself heavily and previously only gone to the range with friends. This time was a first however flying solo and the first real test of my long rifle (Remington 700 in .308). &nbsp;Luckily for me the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x-ringsecurity.com\" target=\"_blank\">X-Ring Security<\/a> in Waipahu have an indoor range (25 yard backstop) which can accommodate .308 Win.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost 20 years since I fired a long rifle with an optic but I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t say that squeezing off 20 rounds down range felt somehow very comforting. Maybe it&#8217;s because 20 years ago my life was very different, or that I felt I was stronger and more willing to take risks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"840\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/api.smugmug.com\/services\/embed\/album\/tgcLPX?width=840&#038;height=1000\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t stay long, lanes were pretty busy and I could tell from the targets and the conversations that I was surrounded by novice shooters. There was still a bit of fear being among a crowd. &nbsp;Anxiety got the better of me a bit but focusing on my training and gun safety kept me from getting too frazzled.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t know how aggressively I&#8217;ll pursue my other shooting hobby it does feel good to know that I haven&#8217;t lost too much of my fundamentals. &nbsp;Now to get back out to the outdoor range and properly sight my scopes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So perhaps one of the weird things about my life is that &#8216;shooting&#8217; has played a part in one form another. &nbsp;Most of my shooting has been behind a lens, but I am equally comfortable behind a scope as well. I was very hesitant to get back behind the sights given my depression but I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/home-on-the-gun-range-serious-topic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home on the Gun Range (Serious topic)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}