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Maxi

Mookman,

If you're talking about guns, you should see the armouies that they have in the campo! 303s every type of shotgun. incredible.

mookman

oh yes, ready for the revolution..............

Lee

Don't let the rough lunatic exterior Mookman portrays scare you

Mookman is a shining example of what you can achieve with the right incentive and if you put your mind to it.

He is one of the few expats over here that holds a Spanish fire arms certificate.

To gain it he has had to jump through the normal paperwork hoops associated with Spain, plus become very well versed in the Spanish language to sit his exam to be able to legally own a hand gun in Spain.

The course work he had to study was all in Spanish. The training they give is all in Spanish.

The exam had papers in both English and Spanish, but since by the time he sat the exam he could understand the language to a very high level, he did the Spanish exam paper.

So he has proved if you have the right incentive you can learn to read and Speak Spanish

And its not all lunatics and freaks own guns. Well we hope he has shown that

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mookman

cheers lee, at least somebody understands that there is no point in moaning about things here , if you want something bad enough you will put up with all they can throw at you.
joined a new club a couple of months ago, the only guiri there, they treated me like dirt .
shot my first practical competition there on saturday, guess what ,...... i came fourth out of ten. well after the competition they all shook my hand and made me drink rioja, and eat lots of snacks,.... el gordo....
so the point is , dont moan about them , take them on at there own game and try and beat them, its the ONLY way to get there respect!!!!!!!!!!

Lee

To boost the Mookman even more. He is our version of top gears stig, but ain't so ugly he has to wear a crash helmet. The though of saying he wears a paper bag instead never occurred to me, so I never added it

Very little is known about the Mookman, not even his real name. But he has gone where few others have been.

Some hobbies and sports tend to get a large following by the expats, so you tend to go to a club and find fellow countrymen there and able to advise you on how to join, what to do etc.

Other sports and hobbies people get put off if they are the only expat trying to join and give up if they are struggling to find what to do or how to go about it.

With the target shooting hobby, the same can be said. You will find a lot of shotgun owners who shoot clay pigeon. So people can mix, get advise and its the big scary move into the unknown.

Mookman shoots target pistol. Which not many expats do. So he has gone in blind with very little help from anyone thats been there and done that and had to find out all the ins and outs of how to gain his licenses, laws involved with ownership etc.

Which just goes to show if you are determined enough achieve something over here you can and not to be put of if your the only English person trying to pursue that hobby, dream etc

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Lee

The Coast Rider has finally updated with the story I was waiting on

The story of the guy stopped for not wearing a seatbelt even though he was.

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Easy pickings for the police

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