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Early morning day two at the range. This past weekend John and I traveled to Orange County to participate in the NRA’s Personal Protection Outside of the Home course.  In OC they are passing permits out like candy, unlike SB County.  This course satisfies the training requirement for a CCW permit.  Needless to say, it doesn't do us a lot of good to take the class and not receive the “reward” or the permit.  However, more training is just that. Big city range. We were shooting in the bay on the far end.  The two day course (max 16 hours) was incredibly valuable.  I have trained with TJ Johnston previously, but John had not.  This was his first class with TJ and his first formal training opportunity (after our basics class last year).  As he said in the “was the course what you expected” portion of the class, all I told him was that it would be challenging and you would have to work for it.  All true.  Even in my case, h...

last week flew by faster than I could have imagined.  we were busy and had to plan and pack for a little trip about two and a half hours east of where we live, so John could do a training for work.  I accompanied him and spent the day cruising around town - take a look at where I went. The hotel was pretty nice and was really clean.     I also visited Buck Owens Crystal Palace -     The Natural History Museum -     And the Kern County Museum -     And on the way home, besides purchasing some silk hankies at the local yarn store we saw several cotton fields on our way to and from Bakersfield.  John pulled over on the way home and I was able to snatch this picture of cotton fields as far as the eye could see.