As my eyes age, it just might give me the edge I need to continue shooting iron sights.
He should look like a fellow who knows his way around a shooting iron, but he doesn't take them out every night and talk to them.
For almost 30 years I've recycled my old tee shirts and used them for cleaning my shooting irons.
He is acutely aware that cowboy guns, although replicas of 19th century shooting irons, are still lethal weapons, not toys.
This is not to say if you are looking for an excuse - I mean a reason - to get a new shooting iron, that you shouldn't seize this opportunity to get one that is ‘just right.’
Definition of shooting iron in US English:
shooting iron
nounˈSHo͞odiNG ˌī(ə)rn
US informal
A firearm.
〈非正式，主美〉火器；手枪；步枪
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He is acutely aware that cowboy guns, although replicas of 19th century shooting irons, are still lethal weapons, not toys.
This is not to say if you are looking for an excuse - I mean a reason - to get a new shooting iron, that you shouldn't seize this opportunity to get one that is ‘just right.’
He should look like a fellow who knows his way around a shooting iron, but he doesn't take them out every night and talk to them.
For almost 30 years I've recycled my old tee shirts and used them for cleaning my shooting irons.
As my eyes age, it just might give me the edge I need to continue shooting iron sights.