THE AMMO DUMP--

Allow me to start at the beginning.

As lady friend Sue and I along with square dancing friends the Kargers and the Matzs prepared for our dancing trip to southern Ohio recently, Don Karger and I, being shooting enthusiasts, found there were two gun shops listed for the town of Wellston, OH--which we would pass through on our way to our weekend dancing venue in Jackson.

Finally, the big day arrived and we arrived at Wellston's first gun shop, only to discover the building appeared to have been abandoned in the not too recent past.

Our chagrin at that misfortune gave rise to much hilarity from our female travel companions.

So, we trundled on to the south side of town in search of the second gun shop.

Keep in mind, around Richland County, shooting enthusiasts visualize shops like Ashland's Fin-Feather-Fur or Shelby's Sportsman's Den when we think of gun shops--both just slightly smaller versions of the giant box stores of that genre, like Cabela's, for example.

You guessed it.  That's Don (above) hanging his head in disbelief after we discovered Wellston's second gun shop was this cabin-sized affair--which also was closed, smack-dab in the middle of a Friday afternoon.

Can you imagine the mirth of the ladies this time?

It was shameful--but, all in good fun, of course.

Our weekend went on to include two terrific evenings of square dancing.  Just imagine; we had 96 folks on the floor in Saturday night's final dance, this in a fairly small town deep in southern Ohio.  Kudos indeed to the Wagon Wheelers, the host club, and our callers Jack Pladdys and Homer Magnet.

Our memorable weekend included the events chronicled in the immediately preceding stories.  And, our overall enjoyment was just as depicted in the above photo with Roberta Karger modeling a nifty, camouflaged bonnet while Sue (left) and Roberta's husband Don (right) share in the merriment during our concluding visit to Rocky's outlet store in Nelsonville.