Skeet Shooting: ‘Those little orange discs move, baby’
October 19, 1999 — Earle Darby speaks loudly, very loudly.
Perhaps this is because he often talks to people with plugs in their ears. But whether those plugs [...]
Paintball: ‘That sniper was all over me, man’
August 31, 1999 — I love the smell of paintballs in the morning.
Good thing, too, because they were being shot in my direction at a furious pace.
I was crouched behind a dirt [...]
Air Pistol: ‘They all want to see me in the Olympics one day’
May 18, 1999 — At first inspection, Jodie Briggs seems like the typical 16-year-old girl at Johnson High.
She’s eagerly awaiting the end of her sophomore year in high school. She suffers from a mild addiction to shopping. [...]
Archery: ‘Being precise is important’
February 9, 1999 — Sam Banks eyes his prey quietly in the forest.
He is trying to determine how far away his unassuming target is. Thirty-three yards? Thirty-five? Being precise is important.
Sam sets the sight on his elaborate compound bow. He then studies his game through binoculars, trying to locate the perfect kill spot on its [...]
Cowboy Action Shooting: ‘Call me Sundance Dan’
December 1, 1998 — When I moved to Gainesville, Ga. from Pennsylvania this fall, I expected the Deep South — not the Wild West.
Boy, was I wrong.
“You have one of the [...]