Thanksgiving - Does Anyone Here Shoot W/ Their Family B/F Thanksgiving Dinner?

[Skans]

Just wondering if anyone else here, who might live in more rural areas, set up a shooting range and invite people over for a per-Thanksgiving plinking or friendly competition shoot?

[rickyrick]

I probably will this year, after 3 years of owning this place I finally got enough ground cleared to set up a small range and we have spent the last few weekends shooting. One lane of about 50 meters. I have no bench yet, but I have a structure for placing paper targets and a backstop. Might build some type of bench this weekend, but will be after thanksgiving, but I plan on shooting thanksgiving day.

[44 AMP]

When and where I grew up, people generally didn't do that on Thanksgiving, as plinking below freezing wasn't very popular with most folks. IN a normal year there was snow on the ground, that stayed, by Thanksgiving, at the latest, and some years, Thanksgiving snow could be measured in FEET!.

And, it was in the middle of deer season, anyway...

Where I live now, the weather is milder, but there's no one left to do it with, the older folks are gone, half of my generation is gone, and my kids (in their 40s) live thousands of miles away with their families, and due to the cost and logistics, we rarely meet in person.

Would do it if my situation were different, but its not, so I don't.
Enjoy the holidays with friends and family while you can, they don't last forever for some of us.

[Skans]

Originally Posted by 44 AMP

When and where I grew up, people generally didn't do that on Thanksgiving, as plinking below freezing wasn't very popular with most folks. IN a normal year there was snow on the ground, that stayed, by Thanksgiving, at the latest, and some years, Thanksgiving snow could be measured in FEET!.

And, it was in the middle of deer season, anyway...

Where I live now, the weather is milder, but there's no one left to do it with, the older folks are gone, half of my generation is gone, and my kids (in their 40s) live thousands of miles away with their families, and due to the cost and logistics, we rarely meet in person.

Would do it if my situation were different, but its not, so I don't.
Enjoy the holidays with friends and family while you can, they don't last forever for some of us.

That's good advice. This will be our 3rd year hosting thanksgiving for our family and I will need to get the shooting range set up, as its kind of an expected thing now. Should be warm enough and hopefully dry enough to do a little shooting. I'm looking forward to it!

[deadcoyote]

We always went shooting with extended family and friends in the six rivers national forest in Northern California the day after thanksgiving. We’d all go shoot and get Christmas trees from there because if I grew up just like 18 miles west of SRNF.

I have a buddy down in Lake County and his whole family shoots on thanksgiving but then they have a range on their ranch

[Jack Ryan]

Shooting, pistols, rifles, trap, throwing knives and tomahawks all day long.

[armoredman]

Over half of the family around for Thanksgiving are either mildly mentally retarded, autistic, or a combo thereof - no firearms, sharp knives, plastic silverware only with paper or throwaway plastic plates, nothing breakable. That is not a joke.

[603Country]

The oldest grandson and I ran through about 100 rounds of 9mm. He had his Sig 938 and I was using an Sig P365 X Macro. Shot up a bunch of splatter burst silhouette targets.

[bamaranger]

I have in years past, but not this year, though we had folks over for the meal. Last time we shot on turkey day, I drug out my T/C flintlock .50. Three of us had a good time. So much so, I sold that rifle to one of my guests that day about a year later.

Lucky enough to have space to do so safely at bamahouse.

[rickyrick]

Ended up doing it on Saturday, it was enjoyable, but still need a bench

[pete2]

Shot Sporting clays yesterday before our Thanksgiving supper. Great fun.