Me and You and a dog named Boo: Click, Click, Click, BOOM

Right before I took my very first shot

Jeff loading up!

So my brother Jeff took me shooting over the summer with his 22 rifle and ever since then I have been in love with shooting guns! It is so much fun and I recommend it for anybody!

Being the only girl growing up in my family guns were nothing new to me and I haven't ever really been afraid of them. I had always wanted to go shooting cause it looked like a fun thing to do. When my brother took me this summer I couldn't wait to do it again. I got pretty good with the rifle and I couldn't wait to try something else.

Double Tapping is very important with Zombies

2nd target

First target

Then the Sandy Hook shooting happened and that got me and my family even more anxious to get us all guns and concealed weapons permits. I was very excited as we started making the plans of setting up classes for the CWP, but we found out that in Utah you have to be 21 or older to get one. I was way bummed out I am not going to lie, but my mom got a gun and I can go to a gun range with someone 21 or older and shoot it anytime so that made me feel a little better.

Anyway, there is a point to this post. It is to tell you how cool my family is! My cousins came up this week from St. George and they had gotten guns for Christmas and we all wanted to go to the gun range and have a party. So that's what we did yesterday, we went to a gun range and shot till our hearts contents. Something you should know about this range though... it was... OUTSIDE!!!! Yes, I said outside. We live in Utah, it's in the middle of January and we went to an outside gun range. We are the epitome of crazy. And on top of this we went in the morning so we didn't have the sun on our side either. Like said we're crazy people.

So we wake up all excited and we layer up knowing that it's going to be cold, but I didn't expect it to be that cold. I think the high was 12 degrees outside. It was insane!! With my POTS I don't keep body heat so I was freezing. I literally thought I was going to get hypothermia or something. I ended up having to sit in the car with the heater running on full blast in between my turns because I couldn't stop shaking. When shooting a gun, that can hurt people, shaking is bad so I just sat in the car to warm up, got out took my turn, and went back into the car. To further your understanding of how cold it was I was wearing a long sleeve shirt, a hoody, a heavy coat, tights, jeans, socks four hand/feet warmers in my shoe, and a pair of gloves. Yes, I was still shaking! It was that cold!

The cold made my body hurt and the shaking wore me out but I wasn't going to let the POTS win that day. No sir, I was going to shoot those guns and nothing was going to stop me. I ended up shooting my brothers rifle again, my mom's 380, my cousins 38 revolver, my dad's friend's 22 pistol, and my personal favorite the 9mm Beretta. This was such a fun day and I am surprised that my mom liked it. She shot almost every gun and she did very well! So I am pretty sure this is the last family you want to mess with, because momma bear is packin heat and she is a pretty dang good shot.

Here are some pics from our Frozen Tundra shooting experience of 2013:

This is me with the 9mm Beretta. I really liked this gun, the kick back usually scars people or turns them off but it was my favorite part of the gun!