Gun smoke
Gun Club
This weekend I went to the Doha gun club with some friends of mine. I was unaware that there was such a thing but a friend was in a competition so we went to watch. I have never shot skeet before but this may be a good place to get my gun fix. They are opening it up to the public in June and are trying to encourage expats to come out and use the facilities. Along with skeet shooting there is a rifle and pistol range. They are only shooting .22s but it will be enough for me to get back in practice. It’s not a fancy indoor range with an automatic arm that moves that target however far you want but I’m still excited about it. It even has a mosque on site. I don’t think you would ever see that in Texas.
Say hello to my little friend
Speaking about guns I went for a walk yesterday and passed by the embassies that are down the street from my building. I do this because I like to listen to books on tape and this way I get out of the house but I’m not completely bored. Well while I was walking I noticed the vacant lots by the embassies. The embassies are on the beach with the water coming up to their back door. I had never gone to this waters edge and thought today would be a good day. After walking to it and back up to the street I was greeted by an Egyptian embassy guard with an older automatic rifle slung over his shoulder. He signaled me to be wait a second and what appeared to be his boss rolled up in the LandCruiser. Neither one of us spoke the other’s language so there was a lot of gesturing. I didn’t think they cared if I could spell my name in Arabic or not. In the end I told them I was walking for exercise and they said “Oh, sports” I shook my head yes and they let me go. No big deal, they just wanted to know why I was down by the water. Guess I won’t go there again.
Small World
Some friends that I have known through a weird series of coincidences came in last night on a recruiting trip. It is for the PR folks so I’m not sure what exactly the job is. They are Shane and Desi Porter and I first met them while I was a fish in the Corps. They were friends with my buddy Chris and we did the whole wave thing every time we saw each other. When I worked at The Association I ended up working in the same department as Desi. Now they are coming out here for a recruiting trip. Danna who used to work at The Association was the one who prompted Desi initially but it is still funny how things work out.
I’ll be heading to Florida this Thursday and then to Texas the next week. I’m really excited to see everybody. It has been a while but in the grand scheme not all that long. I hope I don’t spend the whole time talking about my self. I have been warned by others who go back that it can happen. So that’s it for now.
This weekend I went to the Doha gun club with some friends of mine. I was unaware that there was such a thing but a friend was in a competition so we went to watch. I have never shot skeet before but this may be a good place to get my gun fix. They are opening it up to the public in June and are trying to encourage expats to come out and use the facilities. Along with skeet shooting there is a rifle and pistol range. They are only shooting .22s but it will be enough for me to get back in practice. It’s not a fancy indoor range with an automatic arm that moves that target however far you want but I’m still excited about it. It even has a mosque on site. I don’t think you would ever see that in Texas.
Say hello to my little friend
Speaking about guns I went for a walk yesterday and passed by the embassies that are down the street from my building. I do this because I like to listen to books on tape and this way I get out of the house but I’m not completely bored. Well while I was walking I noticed the vacant lots by the embassies. The embassies are on the beach with the water coming up to their back door. I had never gone to this waters edge and thought today would be a good day. After walking to it and back up to the street I was greeted by an Egyptian embassy guard with an older automatic rifle slung over his shoulder. He signaled me to be wait a second and what appeared to be his boss rolled up in the LandCruiser. Neither one of us spoke the other’s language so there was a lot of gesturing. I didn’t think they cared if I could spell my name in Arabic or not. In the end I told them I was walking for exercise and they said “Oh, sports” I shook my head yes and they let me go. No big deal, they just wanted to know why I was down by the water. Guess I won’t go there again.
Small World
Some friends that I have known through a weird series of coincidences came in last night on a recruiting trip. It is for the PR folks so I’m not sure what exactly the job is. They are Shane and Desi Porter and I first met them while I was a fish in the Corps. They were friends with my buddy Chris and we did the whole wave thing every time we saw each other. When I worked at The Association I ended up working in the same department as Desi. Now they are coming out here for a recruiting trip. Danna who used to work at The Association was the one who prompted Desi initially but it is still funny how things work out.
I’ll be heading to Florida this Thursday and then to Texas the next week. I’m really excited to see everybody. It has been a while but in the grand scheme not all that long. I hope I don’t spend the whole time talking about my self. I have been warned by others who go back that it can happen. So that’s it for now.
posted by Russell at
9:16 AM
2 Comments:
i have read your article 'GUN SMOKE'felt very happy on finding that there is a shooting range in doha,please give me details of doha gun club as u have written that u have been there,i m a very big lover of skeet shooting and other shooting games,i cant find the club in doha please give me the details on my email -micronetlko@hotmail.com.
waiting for your reply eagerly,
thanking you,
javed
Please let me know more about this shooting club, my husband adores such games and i wasn't aware there is a such in doha please send me by email details about the club activities, entrance and games fees, opening hours, location with the telephone number to the email address soha_mousssa@hotmail.com
Thank you so muxh
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