Definetly bookmarking and reading these links.. much appreciated!
I certainly want to do more "watching and listening" at first and until I get a better understanding of what is going on. Of course, there will be all sorts of safety guidelines and range protocols I'm not familiar with from shooting at home. I try to be as safe as possible, but being safe when it's just two of you is different than with a crowd. We are hoping to attend a couple of matches as spectators before choosing clinics and selecting classes for competition.
I would like to try and compete in as many different classes and take as many different clinics as our schedules allow and than narrow it down to what we like best. I went to the gun store that I have liked in the past and they had exactly zero M&P's new or even used. Lots of Glocks avail but I really wanted to look at both before making any decision. I thought with both of us shooting it could be cool to buy one of each but ended up just buying nothing and will look for a dealer with better stock.
And oh yes holsters! I love buying gun stuff.. what an addiction! I constantly shop and put stuff in carts for the AR, I can't imagine what this new hobby is going to set me back.
Once again, I appreciate all the input. This is the kind of thing that really helps. It's better to have some sort of idea, even if you don't exactly "know" what is going on. You hear certain words and phraseology and put it together with things you've read on the forums and it makes more sense and it seems like you brain is conditioned to it better.
Speaking of safe, went to a cook out this afternoon. My wife said to bring my guns because there are some other dads bringing their guns. I raised my eyebrows because this also involves bringin my kids too but I'm sure this is safer than I see it in my mind right? Well long story short... it's a campfire on the river bank with one super drunk guy with an ak47, ar15, M1 garand and a 454 cannon revolver throwing cans into a river at dusk and shooting them as they float by, three dads with beers saying wow and gee, meanwhile, kids are running around with hot marshmallows on glowing red sticks and screaming at the top of their lungs. Needless to say my guns didn't leave their bags, let alone the trunk. I usually don't say "Honey get the kids and get in the damn truck," but in this case I thought it was appropriate.
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