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Title: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on January 26, 2012, 08:58:16 PM: For several years, I have been wanting to meet in person members of his forum. I would be willing to drive hundreds of miles to do that! Is there anyone else who would like to have a regional or whatever zoning we could come up with to have an annual R9 gathering. It could change locations every year with someone volunteering to host the event in their area?
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on January 26, 2012, 09:40:45 PM: Could be fun...right now I'm a little limited for travel due to wife's recent illness/surgery, but could get 130 miles out for a day depending on the day. Live on the Va/TN border so could get to Roanoke, Knoxville, Ashville N.C., etc. John
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: kjtrains on January 26, 2012, 09:50:38 PM: Sounds good to me. John (yankee2500) and I meet for lunch on a pretty regular basis. Catch up on the news and pass along other things of interest. Good idea.
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on January 26, 2012, 09:57:25 PM: We get to Ashville every year......I would come to your location in a heart beat! I can see it now.....R9 Blue Ridge Gathering Summer 2012............What do you think?.....Dinner out...shooting at the local gun club...doesn't get much better.....cook out at your house....I'll help fund it ;)
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on January 26, 2012, 10:02:20 PM: Sounds great. I'll be unavailable in last week April through first 10 days of June, but would be there with bells on otherwise. Could provide a nice bottle of malt scotch!
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on January 26, 2012, 10:09:29 PM: Quote from: backupr9 on January 26, 2012, 10:02:20 PM
Sounds great. I'll be unavailable in last week April through first 10 days of June, but would be there with bells on otherwise. Could provide a nice bottle of malt scotch!

I'll have to check my schedule...............wait I forgot..being retired I don't have a schedule....I'm serious about this get together...will contribute $$ to make it happen...........you are my kind of people :)
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on January 26, 2012, 10:30:16 PM: Quote from: backupr9 on January 26, 2012, 09:40:45 PM
Could be fun...right now I'm a little limited for travel due to wife's recent illness/surgery, but could get 130 miles out for a day depending on the day. Live on the Va/TN border so could get to Roanoke, Knoxville, Ashville N.C., etc. John

We could try your location sometime over the Summer....500 mile ride for me.....I'll be there..would you help organize the first annual event?
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on January 27, 2012, 10:15:02 AM: I could certainly help, but am about 100 miles from Ashville and the mountains. Wife has had 2 recent major operations and is on a walker, so getting away is a bit difficult, although we hope for more independence by summer. Seems that we might need:
1. A place to meet and show weapons....Don't know the North Carolina rules on that issue. Cost would depend on number attending. Could arrange that here in Bristol, TN/VA area but we are between the mountain ranges. Again, if only a few (20 perhaps) are attending, I could possibly arrange something nice at the lake nearby.
2. If a large number, dinner would likely be best arranged as an outdoor barbeque or cookout at an arranged appropriate venue. If just a few people are coming then arrangements would be easy.
3. Accommodations would likely be motels locally.

Suggest we take a poll to find likely attendance. Then would need to consider options, but make no arrangements until all who are coming have chipped in a bit.
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on January 27, 2012, 12:43:26 PM: Quote from: backupr9 on January 27, 2012, 10:15:02 AM
I could certainly help, but am about 100 miles from Ashville and the mountains. Wife has had 2 recent major operations and is on a walker, so getting away is a bit difficult, although we hope for more independence by summer. Seems that we might need:
1. A place to meet and show weapons....Don't know the North Carolina rules on that issue. Cost would depend on number attending. Could arrange that here in Bristol, TN/VA area but we are between the mountain ranges. Again, if only a few (20 perhaps) are attending, I could possibly arrange something nice at the lake nearby.
2. If a large number, dinner would likely be best arranged as an outdoor barbeque or cookout at an arranged appropriate venue. If just a few people are coming then arrangements would be easy.
3. Accommodations would likely be motels locally.

Suggest we take a poll to find likely attendance. Then would need to consider options, but make no arrangements until all who are coming have chipped in a bit.

Over the Summer would be good for most people traveling. Gun clubs I belong to allow members to reserve the club for special events. The club would serve as a meeting and eating place. The range could be used for shooting various toys and nearby motels for overnight. I could hold it in South East Ohio but there is really nothing else to do or see in my area. The Blue Ridge area would make the wife happy. ;)
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: yankee2500 on January 27, 2012, 01:03:51 PM: I don't belong to a gun club :( and there are no motels in my town (1500 pop) :(
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on January 27, 2012, 03:39:30 PM: Quote from: yankee2500 on January 27, 2012, 01:03:51 PM
I don't belong to a gun club :( and there are no motels in my town (1500 pop) :(

Do you have running water and electric? ;D
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: yankee2500 on January 27, 2012, 05:57:41 PM: Only if the light bills been paid, we has a well soin if there aint no lectrik there aint no water. ;D
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Aglifter on January 28, 2012, 07:53:46 PM: Depending on the time of year (I get a bit busy in the summer), I can bring the ice cream...
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: thor447 on February 06, 2012, 12:52:23 AM: Anything within reasonable distance to Oklahoma and I'm in!
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: yankee2500 on February 06, 2012, 12:09:27 PM: Quote from: thor447 on February 06, 2012, 12:52:23 AM
Anything within reasonable distance to Oklahoma and I'm in!

MEXICO !!!
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on February 06, 2012, 02:12:26 PM: MEXICO !!!
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Better bring you AR15 with your R9
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Jack_F on February 06, 2012, 02:22:38 PM: Quote from: backupr9 on February 06, 2012, 02:12:26 PM
MEXICO !!!

Better bring you AR15 with your R9
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Roger that................. ;)
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: thor447 on February 07, 2012, 10:21:00 PM: Sounds good to me!
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: yankee2500 on February 07, 2012, 10:31:09 PM: Can't bring the AR I replaced it with an MSAR Bullpup. ;D

(http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp216/yankee2500/IMG_0564.jpg)
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: thor447 on February 08, 2012, 03:14:49 AM: ^^^I'll be standing right behind you, offering a speedy reloading service^^^^
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on February 08, 2012, 09:51:02 AM: I'll work backup from 600 yards with a sniper rig, but only until I get my drone working.
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Chief-USN on February 09, 2012, 07:00:56 AM: I am going to be in Asheville in May

Chief
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on February 09, 2012, 08:20:50 AM: I'll be away from end of April until mid June.
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Richard S on February 11, 2012, 04:06:29 PM: You are all welcome to meet at my beach house in the tropics. GPS coordinates and visa application instructions on request. BYOB.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/trsbeachhouse-1.jpg)

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Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: yankee2500 on February 11, 2012, 04:52:49 PM: Quote from: Richard S on February 11, 2012, 04:06:29 PM
You are all welcome to meet at my beach house in the tropics. GPS coordinates and visa application instructions on request. BYOB.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/trsbeachhouse-1.jpg)

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Richard are you supplying the sun screen. ;D ;D

I thought it was for R9 owners, BYOB ( Bring Your Old Broad ? ) :D
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Richard S on February 11, 2012, 05:35:37 PM: Quote from: yankee2500 on February 11, 2012, 04:52:49 PM
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Richard are you supplying the sun screen. ;D ;D

I thought it was for R9 owners, BYOB ( Bring Your Old Broad ? ) :D
What is sun screen?

Bring mosquito repellant -- and Booze, lots of it -- Rum and Scotch preferred.

And if I were to use the term "Broad," I might lose my carry permit. ("Herself" rules on two or three permit revocations a month in her court.)
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on February 11, 2012, 05:38:16 PM: Bring mosquito repellant -- and Booze, lots of it -- Rum and Scotch preferred.

And if I were to use the term "Broad," I might lose my carry permit. ("Herself" rules on two or three permit revocations a month in her court.)
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Just in case we need to know, would she be more influenced with a gift of rum, or scotch? ;D
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Richard S on February 11, 2012, 06:53:31 PM: Quote
Just in case we need to know, would she be more influenced with a gift of rum, or scotch? ;D

;D Neither and none. If such were offered, I would predict that she would either impose summary contempt and/or inform the prosecution that the court would entertain a motion to amend the charges to include attempted bribery.

She is beautiful, but the hapless attorney or defendant who mistakes that for weakness immediately learns the meaning of the term, "Iron fist in a velvet glove."
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: backupr9 on February 11, 2012, 09:10:21 PM: Richard, sounds like my lovely wife of 44 years...She tends to be a little high maintenance, but on our first date I discovered that the back of her neck smells like sugar cookies (still does!). I was smitten instantly and remain so to this day.
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: Richard S on February 12, 2012, 10:02:31 AM: Quote from: backupr9 on February 11, 2012, 09:10:21 PM
Richard, sounds like my lovely wife of 44 years...She tends to be a little high maintenance, but on our first date I discovered that the back of her neck smells like sugar cookies (still does!). I was smitten instantly and remain so to this day.

Our stories are similar.

I first saw the lady who is now my wife in a restaurant. She had been having lunch with her parents and they were getting up from their table to leave. One look at her and I said to myself, "She's mine if I never get her."

My order had just been placed in front of me. However, reminding myself that a man can eat lunch anytime and that fortune favors the bold, I dropped twice the amount of the bill beside the untouched plate, followed her and her parents out the door, and introduced myself to her on the sidewalk -- looking closely to see if she wore a wedding ring as I gave her my business card. To my relief, she did not.

She accepted my card with an air of gracious bemusement, introduced me to her parents (who were obviously perplexed by what they considered to be the conduct of a brazen stranger), and told me that she had to get back to the courthouse for a case.

But then she smiled at me in a way that said, "You might want to try again."

I did.
Title: Re: R9 Owner Gathering
Post by: yankee2500 on February 12, 2012, 10:55:23 AM: Richard, thats a great story and probably the best meal you ever overpaid for and didn't eat. ;D

I met my wife at a friends house party, she was 16 I was 18, we went together for three years and then got married in 70. ;D