{"id":20884,"date":"2011-07-05T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20884"},"modified":"2011-07-03T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T16:02:43","slug":"at-long-last-mob-day-at-the-range-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20884","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last: MOB Day At The Range (Redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Since I realize we <em>just may<\/em> have missed a few of you with yesterday&#8217;s post; there&#8217;s a big even coming up.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been talking about this for seven years.\u00a0The time has come.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Organization of Bloggers &#8220;Day At The Range&#8221; will be held&#8230;in the\u00a0<em>very <\/em>near future.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ll be renting a\u00a0<em>bay <\/em>of lanes &#8211; probably 5-6 stations on a firing line &#8211; at a local gun range. \u00a0We&#8217;ll have &#8217;em rented for four hours.<\/li>\n<li>The event will be on a weeknight &#8211; because ranges are much cheaper to rent on weeknights. \u00a0 \u00a0This is important because of the next point.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;ll be a benefit &#8211; details coming soon. \u00a0Admission will likely be in the $20 range, with proceed going to the benefit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s where MOBsters come in; we need a couple of numbers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How many people can make it to a gun range in, let&#8217;s say, the south suburbs, on a weeknight &#8211; say, Wednesday or Thursday.<\/li>\n<li>How many people can bring some sort of firearm (OK, handgun)<\/li>\n<li>How many would be willing to share with people who don&#8217;t have their own, or who want to try out otoher firearms? \u00a0(You&#8217;ll be on your own for the arrangements for ammo; I&#8217;d suggest pro-rating your ammo cost per magazine, or 5-6 shots for revolvers, and taking &#8220;suggested donations&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have a firm date\u00a0<em>right <\/em>now, but we will very shortly.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; if you fit any or all of the categories above, please either leave a comment, or (if you prefer privacy) drop me a line at &#8220;feedbackinthedark&#8221;, which is a yahoo dot com address.<\/p>\n<p>This will be happening in the\u00a0<em>very <\/em>near future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I realize we just may have missed a few of you with yesterday&#8217;s post; there&#8217;s a big even coming up. We&#8217;ve been talking about this for seven years.\u00a0The time has come. The Minnesota Organization of Bloggers &#8220;Day At The Range&#8221; will be held&#8230;in the\u00a0very near future. Here&#8217;s the deal: We&#8217;ll be renting a\u00a0bay of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20886,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884\/revisions\/20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}