Guns and Other New Mexico Pastimes

Here are a couple of links to a couple of videos that our friends from New Mexico took at one of their favourite past times.  I forget what they call these things, but basically they are shooting competitons with an Old West flair, where they dress in period and take their favourite pistols and rifles out to a range that is set up Western-style, and go through a series of timed shoots with them.  These guys have a blast (groan) doing this stuff, and they have some awesome guns and are impressive marksmen!

The first video is our amigo, Erin, from Roswell, New Mexico.  And here's Chuck, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, who just bought a pistol on an Internet auction the other night while we were sitting around Erin's adobe-fenced yard, huddled around a nice, warm chimeria burning pinon pine and cedar.  It's a collector's gun, worth $4,000, and he got it for $2,500.  Gun laws are a little different down here, you buy it on the Internet, pay for it, and it's shipped out the next day to you.

Here's the crew just coming out of the Cowboy Cafe in Roswell after a great breakfast of good stuff, such as ham and cheese omelets smothered in green chile sauce, hashbrowns, grits, home-made sausage and home-made salsa.  Oh, yeah!

Which reminds me, some of the fancier eateries in town try to keep things a little more civilized: