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Asking my old friend has been bugging me for awile to come up and shoot in his backyard. Well I finally took him up on it. packed up my AR and a bunch of other guns and took the 5 hour ride. arrived and broke out the toys.

we proceded to bang out a lot of rounds when a local police car pulled into the driveway. we stopped shooting obviously and the officer walked and says hey guys...heard the shots and just dropping by...he then said sorry to interupt..I noticed he was eyein my AR so I asked if he wanted to hammer a mag out....he says sure that would be great...he blasts out 30 and has this big smile on his face..says Ty and a great day..

In MA I bet I would have had to provide 178 forms of id and explained why I was shooting here.

I wanna move now

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Grrr auto correct...anyways I figure u got the point
 
Vermont is great. I started going up there last year and have been back a few times already. With all my favorite toys of course :)
 
That's the reason that I'm currently looking to buy land up there and build a house soon. I've lived in MA my whole life and after 44 years of the bs we deal with I've had enough. At the least I'll have a nice chunk of land with a range and place to camp whenever I choose.
 
Asking my old friend has been bugging me for awile to come up and shoot in his backyard. Well I finally took him up on it. packed up my AR and a bunch of other guns and took the 5 hour ride. arrived and broke out the toys.

we proceded to bang out a lot of rounds when a local police car pulled into the driveway. we stopped shooting obviously and the officer walked and says hey guys...heard the shots and just dropping by...he then said sorry to interupt..I noticed he was eyein my AR so I asked if he wanted to hammer a mag out....he says sure that would be great...he blasts out 30 and has this big smile on his face..says Ty and a great day..

In MA I bet I would have had to provide 178 forms of id and explained why I was shooting here.

I wanna move now

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Grrr auto correct...anyways I figure u got the point

In Massachusetts that officer would have shown up dressed in paramilitary gear and would have been accompanied by 8 or 10 of his jack-booted friends.
 
My buddy and I got a MA cop that came to check on us to squeeze a few on the AR as well. They aren't all bad....

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I love northern VT - we've been vacationing in a particular lake cabin the last few years. More often than not, even out in the middle of freakin' nowhere (think 20 minutes to the nearest paved road) you can hear the sounds of freedom at least one evening out of the week. Also seen more than one obvious ccw'er and a couple open carriers in the local grocery stores, farm stands, etc. It's nice to be in a place outside one's normal circle of acquaintances that guns are just accepted as a normal thing. If it weren't for the pervading socialist nature of the government, I think we'd already live there; southwest VT is just about in the acceptable range of driving distance from our jobs... Instead, I'm working on talking the wife into getting out to the midwest, which will be quite a bigger jump.
 
I think that the socialist types know that if they don't rock the boat, everyone will do quite well. If they start pushing too hard the "old family" types will show up in force. So it is a live and let live situtation, that works out for everyone.
VT seems to be divided between the "leave me th !%#$ alone" types and the socialists. So far as I can tell the socialists don't push the taxation or enforcement issues in the woods and the people in the woods don't bother the city folk. It isn't good fences that make good neighbors, it is natural barriers and distance.
 
Good story. I love st. Johnburry vt, it's like a step back in time up there! Wish there more more work!
 
Last NES Shoot at Mansfield F&G a Mansfield cruiser showed up to see what all the noise was about. A few folks offered to let the officer shoot their guns and he called his Sgt and told the Sgt to get up there and both of them had a great time!

Not all cops are JBTs, in spite of what gets posted here on a daily basis.
 
I would venture to say that 90% of LE is in the same mindset as most of us. It is the 10% that make them look bad.

I respect all until they disrespect me. If they do I try to use logic and make them see they are wrong.

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Some great posts and ty.

I had a wonderful time in VT and went through about 2K rounds. Sure that is a lot and a lot of money but we all only visit this planet once...may as well do what you need/want to do.
 
I am always amazed by how good their firearms laws are, and try to figure out how that is possible with how many moonbats they have living there.

I was just in a UT ccw class w/ a couple that own a place up there. Someone mentioned something to the effect of, " I thought there was a ton of liberals up there?" They replied, " There are. they just all have guns."

Living in MA my whole life, I didnt think it was possible for the two to mix.
 
I occasionally shoot on my parents' property in VT. The neighbors around us don't mind, with one exception: the transplants from NJ who live up the road. The locals think it's funny when the NJ folks get upset about it. "What's the problem? It's your land."
 
They keep in line up there, or they get rand over by old johnny deere.


Actually it was a Case tractor.

Still funny though.

[rofl]


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