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steve02 Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Oct 7 2005, 7:24 AM EST
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We just finished a long day on the range - it rained all day and the range was all mud (can't you tell).
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John hay Cigars Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Oct 7 2005, 9:09 AM EST
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Are you the one with the cigar?
steve02 Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Oct 7 2005, 9:47 AM EST
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LOL - that narrows it down, ehhh?

I'm the one in front squatting - I also play baseball - a catcher, donchaknow.
tuckersdad777 Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Oct 7 2005, 12:52 PM EST
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Smoking is sweaty work.
Charlie Offline
#5 Posted: Fri, Oct 7 2005, 12:55 PM EST
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Fine lookin group of "coonasses"!

Charlie
steve02 Offline
#6 Posted: Fri, Oct 7 2005, 2:47 PM EST
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the guy on their/our left (your right, as you look at the picture) is a true, honest to goodness, coonass. None of the rest of us are from LA.
steve02 Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 9:47 PM EST
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This was my first picture post here - 14+ years ago.
frankj1 Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 10:15 PM EST
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who are the other kids?
izonfire Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 11:14 PM EST
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Nuthin better than a group of guys shootin and smokin.
Nice shot Steve!
izonfire Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 11:15 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
who are the other kids?

I think they’re all Jerry’s
frankj1 Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 11:24 PM EST
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steve02 wrote:
LOL - that narrows it down, ehhh?



I'm the one in front squatting - I also play baseball - a catcher, donchaknow.

are you Moe Berg?
ZRX1200 Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 11:27 PM EST
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I always knew Steve and Victor had something in common.
USNGunner Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Jan 2 2020, 11:53 PM EST
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steve02 wrote:
the guy on their/our left (your right, as you look at the picture) is a true, honest to goodness, coonass. None of the rest of us are from LA.


The one in the boonie hat and muck boots. Yep, uniform of the day. Applause
steve02 Offline
#14 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 9:30 AM EST
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This was after day 2 of a 3 day handgun class. The other students had gone home or to their hotels, depending on whether they were local or not.

From viewer’s left: a student from MS who brought his RV to the range, one of my firearms instructors from Houston area (a SWAT medic), another student from MS (BIL of the first guy), and the Coonass - range owner, asst firearms instructor and PT deputy with the sheriff’s dept.
steve02 Offline
#15 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 9:33 AM EST
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Moe Berg - he made it to the show - I never even sniffed it 😬
USNGunner Offline
#16 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 10:03 AM EST
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steve02 wrote:
Moe Berg - he made it to the show - I never even sniffed it 😬


Cool ThumpUp Cool
deadeyedick Offline
#17 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 1:11 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I always knew Steve and Victor had something in common.

Laugh
steve02 Offline
#18 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 4:22 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I always knew Steve and Victor had something in common.


Not hardly
delta1 Offline
#19 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 8:42 PM EST
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looks like you're signalling a knuckleball...
steve02 Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Jan 3 2020, 9:00 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
looks like you're signalling a knuckleball...


Nope, just enjoying the cigar and the end of class for the day. Just trying to chill after ensuring that no one shoots anyone - especially me.
delta1 Offline
#21 Posted: Mon, Jan 27 2020, 10:11 PM EST
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lol...caption of the pic: Rode Hard and Put Away Wet
Abrignac Offline
#22 Posted: Mon, Jan 27 2020, 10:52 PM EST
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steve02 wrote:
the guy on their/our left (your right, as you look at the picture) is a true, honest to goodness, coonass. None of the rest of us are from LA.


He gets honorable mention. A true coonass wears white rubber boots. The dark ones heat up to much down here (Denham Springs).
Abrignac Offline
#23 Posted: Mon, Jan 27 2020, 10:55 PM EST
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BTW, were you guys at EBRSO’s range out on 61 north of Baton Rouge? If so, I’ve fired a few thousand rounds there over the years.
delta1 Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, Jan 28 2020, 12:18 PM EST
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Abrignac wrote:
He gets honorable mention. A true coonass wears white rubber boots. The dark ones heat up to much down here (Denham Springs).



pretty sure you aint a coon, Ant...but...
steve02 Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, Jan 28 2020, 6:59 PM EST
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Abrignac wrote:
BTW, were you guys at EBRSO’s range out on 61 north of Baton Rouge? If so, I’ve fired a few thousand rounds there over the years.


Actually, it was right up there, but at a private range on the coonass' property
Abrignac Offline
#26 Posted: Tue, Jan 28 2020, 10:52 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
pretty sure you aint a coon, Ant...but...


It’s a lifestyle more than anything.

Coonasses are generally thought of as working class Cajuns. As opposed to aristocratic Cajuns. Though of French descent I’m not a Cajun because my father’s people emigrated to south Louisiana directly from France instead of through Nova Scotia. The Brignac’s in Louisiana can be traced back to 2 Brignac brothers who came to Louisiana with Iberville.

That said the Cajuns settled in bayou country in Acadiana which is the area below Lafayette. I grew up in bayou country southeast of Baton Rouge. So very a similar lifestyle, but not the same.

On the other hand, my Mom’s people were Appalachian rednecks. BTW, I have more Indian in me than Pocahontas Warren as my great grandmother on my Mom’s side was half Sioux.
delta1 Offline
#27 Posted: Wed, Jan 29 2020, 1:56 PM EST
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very interesting family history, Ant...


also interesting how our American language evolves: similar terms become endearing and embraced, while the same term applied to someone else would be the worst pejorative...

methinks some Louisianans wouldn't mind being called asses, but would be offended if called a coon...thinking of the ones who were displaced by Katrina...


when will you get a chance to come out west to fish and herf?
USNGunner Offline
#28 Posted: Wed, Jan 29 2020, 5:59 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:

methinks some Louisianans wouldn't mind being called asses, but would be offended if called a coon...thinking of the ones who were displaced by Katrina...


One does not want to stutter in the middle of referring to someone as a coonass, that's for sure! Frying pan
Abrignac Offline
#29 Posted: Wed, Jan 29 2020, 6:10 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
very interesting family history, Ant...


also interesting how our American language evolves: similar terms become endearing and embraced, while the same term applied to someone else would be the worst pejorative...

methinks some Louisianans wouldn't mind being called asses, but would be offended if called a coon...thinking of the ones who were displaced by Katrina...


when will you get a chance to come out west to fish and herf?


Definitely want to get out there sooner than later. I’m teaming up with a client who is great friend to start a new related venture. I’ll have to play things by ear this year.
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