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Dan308

Dan308

New member
EE Expired
Location
Medicine Hat AB
...and that is of course Southeast Alberta
I have lots of buddies that have spoken about this site and lately I have had some equipment that I wanted to aquire and sell, and that is ultimately what brought me here. I have found over the last week or so perusing the site that there is much more that will keep me here. I'm very glad I took the time to join. I'm surprised I haven't done this before (as many others seem to be saying).
Anyway, I am one of the directors of the local gun club and I am also a Range Safety Officer as of last year through the AFSS.
Over the last five or ten years the Good Lord seems to have been smiling somewhat on my career (OK maybe just grinning—or it may have been just a smirk) which has allowed me to finally get back into my childhood passion of shooting. A large portion of my line of work is in wildlife photography which three years ago afforded me for the first time the very delightful privilege of a carry permit throughout western Canada. So now I spend most weekends away from home just driving from Regina to Vancouver with a .45 under my seat a $100 pocket digi-cam in my pocket. Just cuz I can.No wait, the cam is under the seat and the...
kidding. (about Regina).
Anyway, right now in the vault I have an old Springfield .270 that I inherited and don't shoot, a Martini-Henry carbine from the late 1700's (also an inheritance that I shoot only for a week every November:) a couple of Steyr Kropatscheks from 1886 (that I'm selling for a friend—will they punt this into EE for saying that??) a couple of over/under bird & trap guns, a Remington 870 tactical pump, a magnum research 10/22 .17HMR, a Savage 10FP LE1A (that is an absolute tack driver), a browning buckmark .22 carbine, and my pride and joy...a SL84 with a G36 lower conversion package. I sold all of my other handguns (and my spleen) for my Wilson.45 (CQB) which of coarse at least shoots like a damn.

Once again I'm glad to be here, thanks for having me. Three cheers to Al Gore for making this whole internet forum thingy possible.
Well enough about me—hows the kids?
 
Welcome aboard Dan I am sure you will stay and enjoy as this is some great site. and how about sharing some of your wildlife photo's most all members enjoy photo's and I am sure you would have some good ones
manitou210
 
Thanks. I'm sure it will prove to be most interesting. I tried for a while to figure out how to just drop a photo or two off my HD and figured out it isn't that easy. Anyway the CGN server gods will thank me for doing it this way.
Here is a link to a few shots I uploaded for you all to peruse if you like. Wildlife is only a part of photography I am involved in so there is a bit of landscapes & some military stuff too.
Oh, by the way a couple of these shots may not be suitable for younger or sensitive viewers—but you may appreciate them if you have ever spent five hours trying to photograph a .17HMR impact shot on a gopher.
All of these photographs were made right around the community in which I live and work. HERE IS THE LINK:
http://www.hideawaystudios.net/CGN
 
Ah yes, but you have Wholesale Sports! That place gets me into Lethbridge ever now and again. That, and when I'm on my way through to the mountains. We head out to Beaver Mines area every now and then...been there?
 
Wholesale Sports is moving their Calgary location to Deerfoot Meadows this month, apparently their new store will be much bigger from what they told me. Might be worth a visit...
 
Earlier in this thread I was asked to post a few shots that I have taken. I got a reply from someone who couldn't access the page for some reason.
If anyone is having problems getting through let me know if you don't mind. There are no action scripts or java applets running on that page at all.

thanks.
 
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