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Went out there Thursday to "see what was going on". As expected, Range 37 was hosting a premier event. We'd been following events from the office so it was really nice to get eyes on. For the curious I'm including the .ppt briefing. Those of you who follow shooting will immediately understand the inherent challenges. Scores - as a percentage of the possible were generally low - indicative of the degree of difficulty the contestants had to overcome. I did have the impression that some of the competitors were showing wear and tear; something to do with "challenging competition" vs. "endurance event". Thermal underwear ranked right up there with rifles as essential equipment. At least this year there wasn't any percipitation. Saw a bunch of friends (some of them board members) at the sponsor's tents. Like any quality event, it left everybody looking forward to next year.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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