Hilaire Belloc’s List of Eight Manly Activities
The shotgun nudged my shoulder with a firm recoil. Fifty yards away, the orange clay soaring through the air splintered against a backdrop of pure blue sky and fell to the snow and brown sagebrush below. Over the course of a morning, I got to shoot nearly every sort of firearm in common use, from hunting shotguns and rifles to military grade semi-automatics and a pistol. Shooting is one of several...