allen-1
NES Member
Yeah, definitely back home, and it wasn't quite a "typical" Saturday in Georgia - but it does "typify" Georgia as compared to Connecticut.
I started the day by shooting a USPSA match. 5 squads, 5 stages. Started setup at 7AM, left around 2PM. Saw a bunch of people I haven't seen in a while, and had a good time. Shot some stages okay, screwed up some of the others; basically the norm for me.
What wasn't so norm - and definitely different from New England is that a helicopter was taking off from a temporary landing pad up next to our long range, flying over our ranges and pits, and then hovering over a temporary range so that the people in the helicopter could run full auto at the temporary range, (from the helicopter). I'd talked to one of the owners Thursday night at the club, so I knew it was coming, and made sure it was mentioned at the safety brief.
Next up, we went to a seafood festival in town. It's the "Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival", google if if you want, there are plenty of articles out there about it. It's seafood, carnival midway and music. It started as a small town local festival and it's grown.
This isn't New England. The signs posted said "no audio-visual recording gear", "no coolers", "no alcohol". Nothing about firearms, no metal detectors, no inspections of back packs, no checking of purses, etc. I walked in with a flashlight, knife and firearm.
Admission to the festival was $15 a person. Showed ID and got a wristband that allowed me to buy beer tickets. Bought tickets at $5 a pop, traded them in for 16 oz beers. Simple enough. And if you didn't have ID, you didn't get a bracelet. If you were seen drinking beer without a bracelet, the local police would take the beer away and escort you out.
There were an estimated 35,000 people there over the weekend, and there was a local police presence. I saw one cop with an AR slung on his chest. Everyone else was just wearing sidearms. I saw NO state police, no other sherriff's departments, etc, local cops only. The local fire department assisted with traffic control.
Set up folding chairs about 120 feet from the stage. Could have gotten closer, but that was a good distance for us. The headline performer was Travis Tritt; if you like country music - you know who he is. A surprise for me was his daughter opening for him. Excellent show.
Traffic out was surprisingly low-key, and I live about 15 minutes away from there.
Oh yeah - I'm home.
I started the day by shooting a USPSA match. 5 squads, 5 stages. Started setup at 7AM, left around 2PM. Saw a bunch of people I haven't seen in a while, and had a good time. Shot some stages okay, screwed up some of the others; basically the norm for me.
What wasn't so norm - and definitely different from New England is that a helicopter was taking off from a temporary landing pad up next to our long range, flying over our ranges and pits, and then hovering over a temporary range so that the people in the helicopter could run full auto at the temporary range, (from the helicopter). I'd talked to one of the owners Thursday night at the club, so I knew it was coming, and made sure it was mentioned at the safety brief.
Next up, we went to a seafood festival in town. It's the "Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival", google if if you want, there are plenty of articles out there about it. It's seafood, carnival midway and music. It started as a small town local festival and it's grown.
This isn't New England. The signs posted said "no audio-visual recording gear", "no coolers", "no alcohol". Nothing about firearms, no metal detectors, no inspections of back packs, no checking of purses, etc. I walked in with a flashlight, knife and firearm.
Admission to the festival was $15 a person. Showed ID and got a wristband that allowed me to buy beer tickets. Bought tickets at $5 a pop, traded them in for 16 oz beers. Simple enough. And if you didn't have ID, you didn't get a bracelet. If you were seen drinking beer without a bracelet, the local police would take the beer away and escort you out.
There were an estimated 35,000 people there over the weekend, and there was a local police presence. I saw one cop with an AR slung on his chest. Everyone else was just wearing sidearms. I saw NO state police, no other sherriff's departments, etc, local cops only. The local fire department assisted with traffic control.
Set up folding chairs about 120 feet from the stage. Could have gotten closer, but that was a good distance for us. The headline performer was Travis Tritt; if you like country music - you know who he is. A surprise for me was his daughter opening for him. Excellent show.
Traffic out was surprisingly low-key, and I live about 15 minutes away from there.
Oh yeah - I'm home.
