Giving a little photo essay from my trip to the Whittington Center in Raton NM --- a great place and I wanted to share at least a small handful of photos with the group
--- its a great place to visit and I look forward to going again soon
Entrance to the center
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Fittingly enough, a Charlton Heston statue astride a horse greets you as you drive in the compound
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Still plenty of snow around on the drive to the lodging
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The digs are nice, not up to the level of a luxury hotel or anything, but much better than roughing it -- pricing was reasonable as well, but its community housing, basically the common area pictured serves 4 different bedrooms in each big cabin, so you have to get along with people ---- I shared a cabin with a pair of elk hunters, -- if anyone was going to be ill behaved from strong drink, it was going to be me
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First mornings breakfast was a good sized beef tenderloin seared in my cast iron pan, with a couple of eggs fried in the grease left behind by the steak
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Well rested with a great meal, it was time to hit the range (gratuitous selfie)
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I broke out the .22 autoloader to break my shoulder in on the 100 yard pistol silhouette range
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Next up was Mr Dan Wesson, results at 100 yards for me and Dan were not great ---- I don't shoot pistols much, and I had never fired this one, but was a great place to break it in --- it was more than up to the task on the 25 yard sight in range and anything within 50 yards is in big big trouble though
--- basically the thing will shoot better than I can
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