Fun with Guns!

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Kiffster

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I know that subject line is extremely politically incorrect, which is what I like about it. :)

I posted something in another area that got me thinking. I have read many posts here about members really enjoying shooting, and I wanted to hear about the time you had the most fun shooting a gun. Was it at the range, hunting, a particular gun, or something unique?

The most fun I have had shooting was when a friend and I would combine shooting and fishing down at our river. We were trying to clear out some of the carp from the river, and dad liked the extra nutrients the garden. :) We enjoyed simply catching the large carp, they fight like crazy, but one day we had our shotguns along with. ;)

One of us would reel in a 10-15# carp, and the other would shoot it with a 12 ga shotgun. Nothin but mush by the time we got it on shore. Made it disolve faster in the garden that way to. :D

I really enjoy the range and other hunting activities, but I've never done anything since that provided such an enjoyable and "fun" time shooting a gun. I probably would not do it at my current "mature" age, but at the time it just made sense somehow. My brother has shot full auto and would probably talk about that, but I haven't had that pleasure yet.

So let's hear it...

Kiffster

A little disclaimer for the anti's that may be lurking. Fun with a gun is completely separate from defensive use of a gun. Nuff said.

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Sig 229 .40 - When you care enough to shoot the very best!
 
I personally enjoy shooting reactive targets the most.
There's trap/skeet obviuosly, but recently I got a bunch
of steel plates (10" square) and shoot at those. They
make a nice "DING" when hit.. much more fun than paper.

-z
 
In the Army, on the SAW range. They had extra ammo and no one else needed to qualify so when they said they had extra ammo I of course volunteered to relieve them of that problem. All the other guys were whining about how dirty it would make their weapon. I just laughed at them. And I was laughing inside sending those rounds down-range. Sure did tear up that mound of dirt :D . Full auto IS a lot of fun!

Of course we don't "NEED" that kind of fun. :rolleyes:
 
Was safty NCO on a M-79 range in Germany.Drew the ammo and no one showed.Got to shoot up by myself about 150 rds of M-79 ammo.FUN

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beemerb
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world;
and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men
every day who don't know anything and can't read.
-Mark Twain
 
I'm with you guys - shooting "stuff" is fun! I like things that bounce, shatter, or explode when I shoot 'em!

In the days when you could buy such a thing, a can of R-12 makes a neat boom when you shoot it.

Funnest time shooting - probably one day at a WWII reenactment live-fire shoot. Got to shoot all sorts of neato stuff - Lewis gun, PPSh-41, Sten, Thompson, etc, etc.
Oh yeah - and a prototype Atchisson Assault-12. One of the guys invited the inventor...
 
Ok if this is confession time here it is.

Taking a mannequin I found on a rubbish dump down to my club EARLY one morning and practising drills shooting it on the rifle range. One of which included emptying 16 rounds of 9mm from the prone position in front of the bays whilst rolling side over side in the dirt. At 25 yards, every round missed, one hit the flag pole in front of the club house with a loud metallic DINGGGGGG when I rolled into a ditch and managed to shoot sideways, I returned home with self and gun covered in mud before any other members turned up, the body was in the trunk and looked less damaged than me. I figured out that the dummy was the one with the gun :) Shameful the things you do for a little fun isn't it, if I'd been seen I would have resigned my membership through sheer embarassment. Those of you who read this are the only other people I've ever told, for obvious reasons.

Mike H
 
Was at the range doing direct fire with 155mm howitzers (also serves as the .50 range) Service battery duce rolls up and dumps 15,000 rounds of .50 on us! and told us they would be back later for the brass and links NOTHING ELSE. We had 4 M2's working and we went to work???? shooting up FIFTEEN THOUSAND ROUNDS OF .50 CALIBER :D :D :D :D WHAT A BURDEN THAT WAS. Our armorer ran from gun to gun with a gallon of break free opened the feed tray and poured the stuff in he slapped in a new belt and said "Let her rip" man what a day that was. Those guns were HOT. I figured out why they wanted to get rid of the ammo I picked up a empty and the head stamp read "43" this was in the 1983 we were shooting 40 year old WWII ammo! And not a round was a dud.

Here is the best part on the same day we went to shoot some M-60's there were mounted on jeeps they gave us a 10 (that's right TEN)round linked belt each. We each got to shoot ten rounds out of a '60. Go figre.

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Danger Dave,

R-12? That stuff is as good as gold these days! I still have my own personal stockpile (several cases) of the stuff, aquired when it was still $1.99/can (the price stickers are still on them!)

Better than R-12 by a longshot is to shoot a can of starting fluid (ether). I had my bro-in-law toss a can in the air and I hit it with a 12ga loaded with size BB steel shot. The fireball/mushroom cloud must have been 30 feet in diameter. I didn't have eyebrows for quite a while! I only wish we would have done it at night!


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Remember, just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you!
 
The target: Empty 55 gal gasoline drum, sealed up tight, and dropped off the fantail (Tha's the back end of the ship for you land-lubbers)

The gun: old Ma Duece (M2 Browning Machine Gun) loaded every 5th round with tracers.

The result: KABOOM!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Eric

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Formerly Puddle Pirate.
Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
"But Officer I HAVE to have all these guns in the truck, I'm going to TFL End of Summer Meet"
 
Take one old crapped out Benz, place a couple containers of gasoline within said Benz, remove oneself from the area of the Benz and let 'er rip. (It does help to have a road flare lit near by.)

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Ne Conjuge Nobiscum
"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
My fun stuff pales in comparison.
Overripe bananas
A basketball (.357 - made tiny holes)
A calculator
Styrofoam cooler
Saucers stolen from college cafeteria for informal trapshooting
Little green plastic army men (BB gun)
Gallon jugs of water, liquid and frozen
A windshield (NOT installed in a car)
 
Most fun was shooting stuffed animals.
My buddy and I went up to the woods and took along our AR15 and AK47's.
The best target we ever shot was a Four foot paper-matchea(sp?) purple dinosaur named Barney. We unloaded about 300 rounds thru him before we both shot him point blank with our 45acp pistols. :) :) :) :) :) "Blew his head clean off"( a la Callahan)

sgtar15
 
I went to a shooting area (not a range, just an old sand pit) once, and someone had thoughfully left an old toilet. I happened to be shooting my 12 ga. that day, with buckshot and slugs. Porcelain "powders" real nice. :)

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Shoot straight & make big holes, regards, Richard at The Shottist's Center
 
Great ideas, guys.

My contribution: try shaking up a full Coke can to shoot. Costs more than the empties you find lying around, but SOOO much more satisfying!


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". . . for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead." -- James Thurber, Fables For Our Time
 
Frog trap. Stinky sink hole, frog on lilly pad, one person shoots near it with .223, frog goes up, other person nails in air with shotgun. Green mist. I have never done this, honest.
Sam
 
Back in college my roommate and I did something absolutely silly. You know the 4 lb. pretzel barrels you buy at Sam's? We filled one up completely with dip spit. Holds a ton. Well, one day I took it to the local shooting spot and wanted to see what .40 Hydra Shoks would do to it. Shot it from about 20 yards away, thank god, as it proceeded to explode all over the place, the wind came up and blew the stench towards us. It really stank.
The other fun time was when the range master at my department let me fire two or three drums from the 1928 Thompson we have had in the department since the late 40s. Neat gun.
 
This is a few years back now -- and I only heard about this -- honest!!!!!! ;)

On a farm in the old rubbish dump:

Targets: a virginal (almost) refrigerator; an old B/W TV set; old car; various "bits 'n' pieces" of machinery etc.

Guns:
P/A 12g "riot" gun with SG and solids
M1 carbine and about 700 rounds
Converted full-auto .22 "machine pistol" (21 rounds in 5/8ths of a second (whazzat -- about 2000 rpm??)

It was all perfectly safe; miles from anywhere. To my eternal sorrow, the guns are now gone, as is the owner; killed in an aircraft crash at just 40 years of age.

But my memories are still there ... like the day we had the .22 on the boat, 7 or 8 miles offshore, with some floating juice bottles off the stern -- but that's another story :)

B
 
2 liter bottles that have been partly filled with a flamable gas (welding gas, ect.) and sealed. shoot with tracer at SAFE distance.

i have a large vise mounted to a chunk of firewood. we clamp an old axe blade in the vise and try to hit the blade with .50 cal black powder maxi balls. if you hit it just right it will split the maxi ball. it is even possible to hit two objects behind the axe at about 30 degrees apart. great fun

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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.
Let he that hath no sword sell his garment and buy one. Luke 22-36
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. Song of Solomon 3-8
The man that can keep his head and aims carefully when the situation has gone bad and lead is flying usually wins the fight.
 
I used to have fun shooting two balloons at once. You stake the balloons down parallel to the firing line a couple feet apart, and just behind the knife blade. The look on peoples' faces when you split the bullet on the knife blade and shoot both balloons is priceless.

I recommend shotshells in the pistol, of course. ;)

Steve
 
Use to work in a radio station long before the days of CDs. We use to get seen HUNDREDS of .45s for us to play. Most of the music was just BAD. After a couple of weeks, we would wind up with boxes of these little black vinal disks.... The mind begins to whirl.... Hmmmm... you know....Those things would fly much easier than clay pigons....

Yup... we could fling those .45s for hours and blast them with the 12 ga and the .410s. Then we started with .22 Anything to have fun shooting.

Bubba
 
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