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    Posted: February 03 2026 at 6:12am
Since joining Enfield-Rifles.com and Milsurps.com I've found three other shooters within a short drive from my house.  SW28fan who convinced me to join his very excellent range in Haltom City, and whom I've met a few times, tango-papa from Milsurps.com lives a scant 15 minutes from me and is a fan of .22 training rifles as I so we're planning a meet-up and lastly '03collector who lives closest of all, only a 10 minute drive although I haven't had reason to communicate with him yet.  
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You are only 1,000 miles from me, give or take a few miles, day trip?
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Originally posted by paddyofurniture paddyofurniture wrote:

You are only 1,000 miles from me, give or take a few miles, day trip?

Meeting you would make the trip worthwhile paddy!
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But Texas will not let me in.
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If you make it to Paddy's I'm just over the bridge on Md's Eastern Shore. A tad over 200 miles away as the crow flies.
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By car it six hours.
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But worth every inch of it if you call ahead so I can crank up the smoker.
Hot sauce & Marmalade BBQ'd porker!
Heck I' supply free beer if you drag Paddy & his folks up for a get together.
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im only 1000 miles away  :>} a bit over 18 hrs i think based on my trips to nashville with my friend to shoot sporting clays 
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With my heart issues my days of travel are behind me.
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I hear you, Paddy.
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A trip to the East Coast is not out of the question, one of my brothers lives in Kissimmee, Fl and has been pestering me to come out and visit him.  We also have a previously undiscovered 1/2 sister who lives near Niagara Falls that I've never met so a trip up the Eastern seaboard is a possibility.
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sounds like more than enough incentive to make a trip of it 
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1,200 (& change) miles, Paddy & I are about in the middle & off to the East side a tad!Star
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I could make FL in 10-12 hours from North Carolina.

Now I am lucky to make Food Lion.
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sorry to hear that paddy , my wife likes to travel and very likely we will make some kind of trip this summer - thankfully my pacemaker in running like a top - still have pover 10 years battry too 
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