DerBiermeister
08-06-2016, 08:59 AM
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ASKED by an out-of-stater where the nearest shooting range is, Patrick Leavitt, an affable gunsmith at Riverman Gun Works in Coeur d’Alene, says: “This is Idaho—you can shoot pretty much anywhere away from buildings.” That is one reason why the sparsely populated state is attracting a growing number of “political refugees” keen to slip free from bureaucrats in America’s liberal states, says James Wesley, Rawles (yes, with a comma), an author of bestselling survivalist novels. In a widely read manifesto posted in 2011 on his survivalblog.com, Mr Rawles, a former army intelligence officer, urged libertarian-leaning Christians and Jews to move to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and a strip of eastern Oregon and Washington states, a haven he called the “American Redoubt”.
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21703411-movement-staunch-conservatives-and-doomsday-watchers-inland-north-west
It's funny, but just yesterday I did an online search to try to find all of the gun ranges in the Richmond vicinity. There really ain't much to choose from. I like my range, except there is this one terribly angled hill that I have to go down and then back up. Wouldn't be quite so bad, except the asphalt is very bumpy and I damn near twist my ankle every time I go there.
I can't imagine what it would be like to walk out my back door and shoot.
If it weren't for the Chesapeake Bay and my sailing, I would actually consider moving there. I know the winters are tough, but I don't mind tough winters -- you can always dress for it. What I literally hate is the hot, humid summers and up in that region, the summers are fantastic. Yeah it gets hot, but the humidity stays low and the nighttime temps get down to 60.
ASKED by an out-of-stater where the nearest shooting range is, Patrick Leavitt, an affable gunsmith at Riverman Gun Works in Coeur d’Alene, says: “This is Idaho—you can shoot pretty much anywhere away from buildings.” That is one reason why the sparsely populated state is attracting a growing number of “political refugees” keen to slip free from bureaucrats in America’s liberal states, says James Wesley, Rawles (yes, with a comma), an author of bestselling survivalist novels. In a widely read manifesto posted in 2011 on his survivalblog.com, Mr Rawles, a former army intelligence officer, urged libertarian-leaning Christians and Jews to move to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and a strip of eastern Oregon and Washington states, a haven he called the “American Redoubt”.
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21703411-movement-staunch-conservatives-and-doomsday-watchers-inland-north-west
It's funny, but just yesterday I did an online search to try to find all of the gun ranges in the Richmond vicinity. There really ain't much to choose from. I like my range, except there is this one terribly angled hill that I have to go down and then back up. Wouldn't be quite so bad, except the asphalt is very bumpy and I damn near twist my ankle every time I go there.
I can't imagine what it would be like to walk out my back door and shoot.
If it weren't for the Chesapeake Bay and my sailing, I would actually consider moving there. I know the winters are tough, but I don't mind tough winters -- you can always dress for it. What I literally hate is the hot, humid summers and up in that region, the summers are fantastic. Yeah it gets hot, but the humidity stays low and the nighttime temps get down to 60.