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Atop Segway i2 personal transports, guides at Cowtown Segway Tours escort explorers through the botanic gardens, the cultural district, and other Dallas landmarks. Voyagers take part in a 15- to 30-minute training session to become acquainted with their Segway's controls and favorite conversation topics before setting out on their sightseeing adventure. The Cultural District and Trinity Trails tour takes groups of about 10 sightseers on a cruise through the Fort Worth art district, where they take in the marvels of nature, science, and modern architecture that permeate the landscape. During the cultural district tour, riders also zip through a scenic portion of the 32-mile Trinity Trail while gliding past picturesque foliage and racing competitive squirrels on the path to Trinity Park.
Shoot Smart rents an assortment of about 90 firearms to aspiring marksmen firing at chosen targets in 11 lanes. NRA-certified safety officers offer assistance when asked, such as how to properly load a magazine or how to grip a rifle without ruffling its feathers. In addition to the shop and range, a lounge equipped with comfy furniture, free WiFi, drinks, and games smoothes out adrenaline highs.
Elk Castle Shooting Sports has a long history. Originally founded as the Ewell Cross Gun Shop in 1947, the gun store has grown into an all-encompassing firearm emporium with new, used, and consignment firearms and firearm accessories. The new owners also installed a public indoor pistol and rifle range, integral for customers to sample the merchandise or hone their marksmanship with one of more than 70 rental pistols, and they take pride in knowing all of their customers on a first-name basis.
That familiarity extends to the firearms as well. Elk Castle's gunsmith, lovingly nicknamed Big Dave, has most likely customized and repaired a weapon from every customer. He and his team tackle problems with warranties or malfunctions. They adjust recoil pads or stock length every Wednesday, and they proudly accept bribes of cheesecake and chili to speed up the process.
The staff members behind the counter, knowledgeable firearm owners themselves, are always prepared to offer advice on accessories or customization and can recommend scopes, grips, and holsters to help each gun better fit each individual. That very same staff also leads the range's self-defense classes and hosts regular educational videos on topics ranging from hunting to proper gun care.
A native Fort Worthian with a degree in history, Segway Fort Worth's founder Daniel Dase, Jr. has always loved sharing his city’s cultural legacy—it’s just exponentially more fun to do so on an X2 Segway, the most advanced model on the market. With help from the deep treads on the machine's tires, each segway responds instantly to shifts in posture, moving organically and fluidly as groups flood city streets during segway tours. Before his groups of riders get gliding, his company's licensed operators conduct one-on-one tutorials to set all new riders at ease with their new moving platforms. And because Daniel corrals a fleet of these durable off-road models, his tours go places other segways can’t, be it the grassy knolls of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden or the slippery slopes of the neighborhood gym’s treadmills.
The guides at Fort Worth Tours & Trails seek out storied locales and dish out historical secrets of Panther City through the outfit's assortment of tours via bus or by foot. For walking tours, groups gather at one of two locations: the east lawn of the Courthouse for the Hell's Half-Acre to Sundance Square tour or in front of the Visitors' Center on Exchange Avenue for the Stockyards and Historic North Side tour. The former stops at several spots that figured prominently in the downtown area's early development, while the latter combs the brick streets of the historic north side, home to the Cowboy Hall of Fame and the world's only longhorn herd that hasn't succumbed to Internet stardom as a dancing flash mob. On both excursions, tour-goers have the opportunity to hear a plethora of little-known facts and cocktail party-worthy anecdotes from the city's rich history.
