Everything I Know Is Wrong
- Thread starter Parapliers
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I really hate to admit this but, when I was young and foolish myself and some friends rented an old farm house out in the country. It had a drainage ditch running not far from the house. On Saturday afternoons we would buy enough beer to satisfy everyones needs and commence to drink our targets
throwing them into the ditch and shooting them as they floated downstream.
Rifles, shotguns and hanguns, we showed those beer cans no mercy. Fortunately we were all educated in safe gun handling and no one ever got hurt, looking back, their was no excuse for mixing guns & alcohol. We only had one incident where the boyfriend of of one of the guys sister shot a passing cardinal out of the sky with his 12 guage. We all stopped and stared at the guy like he was some kind of terrorist. The brother walked over to him and asked if he was going to eat the cardinal. When he replied no the brother immediatley delivered a punch to his nose, everyone cheered and we never saw the guy again. ( don't think the brother cared for this guy dating his sister anyway). Looking back I thank God no one ever got hurt.
throwing them into the ditch and shooting them as they floated downstream.
Rifles, shotguns and hanguns, we showed those beer cans no mercy. Fortunately we were all educated in safe gun handling and no one ever got hurt, looking back, their was no excuse for mixing guns & alcohol. We only had one incident where the boyfriend of of one of the guys sister shot a passing cardinal out of the sky with his 12 guage. We all stopped and stared at the guy like he was some kind of terrorist. The brother walked over to him and asked if he was going to eat the cardinal. When he replied no the brother immediatley delivered a punch to his nose, everyone cheered and we never saw the guy again. ( don't think the brother cared for this guy dating his sister anyway). Looking back I thank God no one ever got hurt.
FrankenMauser
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I grew up unscrewing bottle caps.
My dad would set milk jugs, 2-liter bottles, and other 'unscrewable' containers out. We would all line up, and take a shot at unscrewing the caps. Everything from 20 feet to 100 yards was fair game. Usually, we had nothing more than .22s.
My dad would set milk jugs, 2-liter bottles, and other 'unscrewable' containers out. We would all line up, and take a shot at unscrewing the caps. Everything from 20 feet to 100 yards was fair game. Usually, we had nothing more than .22s.
Parapliers
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Hominy
We were hunting on a friends farm and he brought a quart jar of peaches up from a root cellar of the abandoned farm house. He set it on a fence post and shot it with his shotgun. There was enough botulism in that jar to stinkify the whole place. We beat a hasty retreat.
Another guy brought his new S&W .41 magnum and was shooting at a milk bottle at about 50 yards. When he gave up from exhaustion he allowed me to have one shot. That was all I needed but the recoiling gun almost hit me in the forehead.
I use a light grip when firing single action. This caused another problem when I took my brother in law to the range recently. His new Ruger 9mm wouldn't eject or load properly with my limp-wristing. I've heard about that but that was the first time I've had it happen. I did not like having to squeeze the grip so hard and accuracy suffered.
We were hunting on a friends farm and he brought a quart jar of peaches up from a root cellar of the abandoned farm house. He set it on a fence post and shot it with his shotgun. There was enough botulism in that jar to stinkify the whole place. We beat a hasty retreat.
Another guy brought his new S&W .41 magnum and was shooting at a milk bottle at about 50 yards. When he gave up from exhaustion he allowed me to have one shot. That was all I needed but the recoiling gun almost hit me in the forehead.
I use a light grip when firing single action. This caused another problem when I took my brother in law to the range recently. His new Ruger 9mm wouldn't eject or load properly with my limp-wristing. I've heard about that but that was the first time I've had it happen. I did not like having to squeeze the grip so hard and accuracy suffered.
A friend of mine at work mentioned one day that he had been on the Army military police pistol marksmanship team and that they routinely used a silver dollar at 50 yards as the target. You had to hit it 6 out of 7 shots with a M-1911 to stay on the team. I said that was pretty good shooting, he replied it was no big deal if you knew what you were doing. I invited him out to my place to show me how it was done. He showed up with his teenage son, I supplied the 1911 and ammo since he didnt own a handgun. I told him I didnt have any silver dollars but we would use paper plates at 25 yards just to warm up. I had invited 4 of my shooting buddies over to witness this display of shooting skill. The marksman took the 1911 in his right hand, placed his left hand on his hip 3 musketeer style, twisted his torso sideways to the target, cocked his right arm straight up into the air, brought it down level, took aim and rapidly emptied the 7 round magazine. There were no holes in the plate, there were no holes in the tree it was stapled to. As the laughter and hoots quieted down the marksman was seen headed towards his car with his son in tow. The proof is in the pudding.