The growing popularity of college shooting teams

[OakRidgeStars]

Maybe there is still hope for our institutes of higher learning after all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gun ... story.html

[dorminWS]

Sometime around 1974 or so, UVa had a "pistol club", I remember. They had an indoor pistol range in the basement of Minor Hall. Pretty much as soon as I heard about it, I went and checked it out. Took my Ruger Mark I with me right onto the grounds. Had to convince them it was OK for me to use my own pistol. Right after I shot the bullseye out of their target (that may have been the first "store-boughten" paper target I ever shot at, come to think of it), the student in charge started telling me everything I'd done wrong out of one side of his mouth while trying to sign me up out of the other. Since I figured I'd generated that feller's weight in empty .22LR brass at least 10 times over in my life and because the mere implication that I didn't already know everything there was to know about shooting a pistol, I thanked him for letting me shoot, left, and never went back. (In spite of my hubris and my ignorance of "the official rules" for stance, grip, et cetera, I had just shot rings around my keeper.)

I just checked, and was pleasantly surprised to find there is a web site for a "Virginia Rifle and Pistol Club" that is apparently associated with the University and shoots competitively. Given the extent to which Mr. Jefferson's University has been polluted and subverted by the liberal sh!t-stains that dominate just about all college faculties, I frankly didn't expect it. Maybe there sure enough is some hope after all.

[smltooner]

I seem to remember a shooting range in the basement of Minor Hall that the ROTC used.

[dorminWS]

Confession: I couldn't remember the name of the building and had to look up a map of the central grounds of the U. Dementia much?

[smltooner]

I probably wouldn't have remembered either except for you mentioning the name. I do remember it was above the amphitheater.