odd right?

[digidreamer]

i have this odd and growing desire to visit a shooting range. odd right? and no i'm not going postal, i promise. it's just something i find very intriguing and want to experience, just once, for fun. it's on my "bucket list" afterall, just something i'd like to try/do before i reach the age where i'll be too afraid to do it. blame it on all the crime solving/cop/csi/fbi investigative-type shows i've been watching lately. hell, blame it on the guy who sits next me to me at work who recently went to the range w/his retired cop father and proudly displays his shot up target in his cube. blame it on whatever and whoever you want, something in me just wants to learn how to hold, aim and shoot a firearm at a paper target. and not like a shot-gun or a rifle or anything my brother-in-law might use while hunting bambie out in the woods. i'm thinking more like a handgun, the kind all those cop/csi/detective-types on all those shows carry. i remember firing a rifle once, believe it or not during a fraternity/sorority camping trip (go figure). it was in a sanctioned area of the camp grounds where one of the brothers had the rifle and the targets and let me fire a couple shots off. even though i missed it fed my appetite at the time and that was that.

i'm really not crazy, i promise. i have no desire to go out and do any harm to any person/animal/living creature, especially to myself. i just want to shoot a gun at a paper target in a safe and supervised environment simply to be able to say "i've done that" and "i've felt the rush". is that wrong? i went skydiving for those exact same reasons. it was part dare, part fear conquering, part adrenaline-thrill seeking and part bragging rights. i see this latest craving falling into the same category. weird i know, but i can't seem to shake it. wonder what i would have to do in order to go about checking this item off my list...anyone interested figuring it out with me? lol.