The Low Down
I’m pretty amped about this buying a house thing. If you’re a reader of this blog you’ve also got a couple of reasons to be amped.
The primary reason I was looking for houses in the area I picked was because of their relative location to the shooting range that I’ve found best suites my needs. Yes, I’m that big of a gun nut. From said range I’m only 15 minutes for all of my immediate family members, plenty of my old friends, and still within 15 minutes of work. It’s not an entirely impractical place to live.
That’s vastly better than my apartment which was 45 minutes from the family, 30 minutes from the range, and 15 minutes from work.
Bonus: The girlfriend also likes the place.
Now, there are some impractical things about the house: It’s way too big for my current needs. On the other hand I do plan on actually having a family some day, and while I don’t plan on having enough kids to actually fill the place (5 bedrooms) I can at least take comfort in knowing that I won’t ever have to move from there unless the job market in Grand Rapids, Michigan goes to utter shit.
Are you starting to see why this might get interseting for blog readers?
I will finally have room to fully enjoy my hobby — and I’m in a perfect location for playing with my toys. You want a range report on the latest toy that I picked up? I’m only 2 minutes away from the range. I timed it.
Finally I’ll have room to set up a reloading bench. That means I can start playing with some of my more odd calibers out there, like 7.7 Jap and 8×56mm. I won’t have to worry about the cost of .44 Magnum, .45 Long Colt, .357 Magnum, .45 ACP and a bunch of other stuff that I should be reloading but can’t because I’m in a tiny apartment.
Finally I’ll have room to set up the simple tools required to start building my own kit guns. I’ll most likely start with AKs because of the simplicity and low cost, but I might do an AR here or there. These projects should be very interesting for readers.
Finally I’ll be able to invite random folks out to shoot trap and it’ll be easy on them. Just show up at my house at the designated time. We’ll find a shotgun that fits you and make the grand voyage of a whole 2 minutes to the shooting range to give it a go. No fuss, no muss.
I’m hoping this works out well.