Beef & Guns: An Evening of Guns and Steak in Chelsea
We live in confusing times.
Between Nair (for men) and the music of John Mayer, testosterone is often drowned out in a sea of metrosexuality. Sometimes you need to assert your masculinity the old fashioned way—with hot lead and raw meat. When I want to combine these two seemingly incompatible obsessions, I take myself for the Beef & Guns package: 90 minutes of gunplay at the West Side Pistol Range, followed by dinner at Old Homestead’s Restaurant.
Luckily, my “Beef and Guns” dinner package is God’s gift to the hormonally-challenged anyone: $98 for the chance to shoot 150 rounds of ammo and dine at one of Manhattan’s oldest monuments to beef.
Our evening starts at the West Side Rifle & Pistol Range where we’re greeted by a sign selling gas masks, survival kits and chem suits—everything we need for a great night out on the town. A picture of Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver, lockers, and 50-cent cups of coffee add to the charm. After a quick primer in gun handling we’ll be unleashed to throw lead down-range at paper silhouettes. Aside from standard targets, you can opt for several kinds of animals, or a criminal w/hostage — so your next attempt at vigilante justice won’t end in another senseless tragedy. OK, so the .22-caliber pistol you’ll be sporting won’t make you look like Dirty Harry—but then again, what else have you been packing lately?
Once we’ve shot our load, it’s off to Old Homestead Restaurant, a no-nonsense steak joint that’s been catering to neighborhood carnivores since 1868. Order ours bloody and relax. We’ll were our frank shaped targets as bibs.
It just doesn’t get any better than prime cuts and firearms. It’s not just about satisfaction, either; I believe that embracing such divergent activities has made me unbelievably sensitive and complex. For anyone who disagrees with that assessment, I feel an immense sadness, because my frequent Beef & Guns sessions have made me pretty damn good with a Glock. And what’s sexier than a leggy gal in heels holding a gun?
*First-timers must take a brief gun safety course, but if you have a handgun license, you’ll have access to Berettas, Smith & Wessons, and other hand-cannons
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