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Doing the best with the worst.
- Oct 22, 2011
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Does anyone remember Arthur Cook's Academy of the Shooting Sports in Laurel? It was just off Route 1 and Main on Lafayette behind the old train station. It was in a warehouse building with offices and a small gun store in the front along with an actual warehouse and in the back part was a gun range. Art was the gold medalist for 50m rifle prone in the 1948 summer Olympics.
I just stumbled across the place while a student at UMCP and started shooting there with my wife. She made her first gun purchase there. I think that at the time they were a (the?) importer for Eley ammo and it was relatively inexpensive to shoot decent .22. We saw him come into the range and just do some really seriously accurate rifle shooting a few times. He was an interesting fellow, kept a really fancy but well worn inlaid and engraved Colt 1911 in his desk.
We moved away and I see that according to google maps, there is a vault company there now.
I just stumbled across the place while a student at UMCP and started shooting there with my wife. She made her first gun purchase there. I think that at the time they were a (the?) importer for Eley ammo and it was relatively inexpensive to shoot decent .22. We saw him come into the range and just do some really seriously accurate rifle shooting a few times. He was an interesting fellow, kept a really fancy but well worn inlaid and engraved Colt 1911 in his desk.
We moved away and I see that according to google maps, there is a vault company there now.