what is "shooting"

What is the most fun/ biggest stress relieving firearm you own?

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cheyenne'sfinest

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to me shooting is freedom. It means everything to me. I prefer to dissapear up in the surrounding mountains with one or two people i like and just ignore that society exists. I go crazy without my stress relief. I love everything about firearms, repairs, cleaning, shooting, training, accessorizing, and most of all, getting new guns :D . Sometimes the best way for me to keep from going nuts in this crazy world we live in is just to go nuts with a couple hundred shot shells. I would just like to hear now what shooting means to anyone who reads this.
 
Depends on the type of stress.;)

If it's "angry stress", I need loud and lots..... shotgun or handgun, lots of rounds, blowing stuff up.... clay pigeons, water jugs, frogs...

If it's "general stress", nothing calms me like long(ish) range precision, slow fire rifles. Love shooting groups at 100, 200, 300 yards.... 400 if I can get there.
 
Hands down - hand gun...

On days I can really zone in, I'm alone in the universe & shoot using my third eye.

The "third eye" is the one behind your eye that exists somewhere behind the back of your head.
When I really "dial it up", I can feel my vision start well behind my eye. My eye only exists as a point in a line, along with the rear and front sights, to align everthing in a 4 point straight line.
When that shift first begins, I feel all my mental concentration begin to flow through a sort of funnel & bring it all to bear on one single point in space - the target.
When my concentration gets to the point I feel it could split a diamond, I squeeze the trigger.
After the first squeeze, the phrase "pour it on" goes through my mind - & that's exactly what I do. I pour on the rest of my shots into the hole I just created with the first squeeze.

I'm not at all into meditaion or Zen or anything like that, BTW.

My personal feeling is that I'm an artist and the target my canvas and the bullet my brush. The hole in the target is my creation.
 
Oh, I gave up shooting for fun years ago. It was a simple matter that one day it stopped being fun. Not sure why. Maybe I picked up the paper one day and read something about another murder. The increase expense (and reduced income) didn't help matters either. Don't have any friends that shoot, so I just packed away my reloading gear and haven't touched it since.
 
Oh, I gave up shooting for fun years ago. It was a simple matter that one day it stopped being fun. Not sure why.
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Funny how that sort of thing happens isn't it?
I used to be a fanatic over fishing.
Same way with crow hunting.
Then one day, all out of the blue, for God only knows why, my desire to do either just wasn't there anymore.
 
thats a shame, i really hope you guys can learn to enjoy range time again.. i mean really enjoy it, have you tried taking a break for a month or two?
 
Um Um Um I vote handgun ( seeing that's all I own are a couple ) . Wish I could get together with people here . But for now I shoot alone. But it really makes me feel better once I get a few rounds off. I know when I can't go at least once a month I really hate it. And it has been a few months for me as I have either not had the extra money or been hurting too bad to go. But a few blast from my .357 and man I start to feel real good.
 
Shooting is therapy. I don't know about third eyes but when I shoot I move into a zone were time and space do not exist.

The only thing that does exist is me and the target. The pistol becomes a part of me rain, cold, noise, hot brass from the next shooter or any other distractions are nonexistent. When I'm finished I am calm, relaxed and at peace with myself and the world.

When I'm in a match I allow the start and stop signal to enter my space and nothing else.
 
unfortunately i can't enter many competitions because all the ranges in my area have year waiting list and i'm only 18 so i can't own a handgun and don't know of any i can borrow, but until then my truck bed filled with jugs and clay birds and some shells will do.
 
To me it is a place to relax,take my sweet old time and have fun. Life is hectic enough. Sitting at the range at 5 or 6 in the morning watching the sun come up,shooting some targets.. It's just so relaxing. No phones,no chores,no kids screaming,just peace and quiet and a occasional bang bang:D It don't get no better,22,223,308,45 ACP it don't matter.
 
To me going out shooting is hanging out in nature without anyone else bugging me.
I like to go with my Dad, brothers or my son. My son for when I am feeling more patient and less like I need to unwind (he's at a stage in life where he can get annoying).

Sometimes I like to go by myself, those are usually the most calming trips.

Where I go shooting there are some horrible people who like to leave their trash so I also consider it my service to society and clean up some before I leave.

My favorite gun to take is my Savage MkII. Nice simple bolt action .22. I can spend hours just enjoying punching holes in paper or making plastic bottles tear open. Most relaxing thing about the .22 is that I'm not stressing about how much money I spent in ammo.

I went last weekend and am already getting withdrawals.
 
Well, since there is no category for C4, I'll go with shotgun. Stress= no patience for me. Shooting well requires patience. If I were to get sloppy results, that would stress me even more. Therefore, blasting things apart with my shotgun is my therapy. Something about head sized pumpkins....:D
 
Full-auto AC556 - it's addictive!

My current favorite handgun to shoot is my EAA Stock 10mm - power, control, accuracy, capacity and good trigger - just an all around pleasure to shoot.

On the other end of the spectrum, shooting my LC9 and Glock 17 are a grind, but these are the ones that I actually use so I shoot them the most. After 100 rounds in my LC9, my hand starts to hurt.

I'd like to do more Skeet and Sporting Clays - that is quite fun, but I have to drive too dang far!
 
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I gave up shooting for fun years ago. It was a simple matter that one day it stopped being fun. Not sure why.
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i also quit between 1978ad till 2001ad, i had a few occasions when i would take out my self made full stock Hawken style flintlock muzzle loader or Sako Finnbear 7mmRem. mag. and run a few rounds down range, i also quit hunting around 1982ad, it got to be too dangerous to be in the mountains with sound shot idiots from Denver :eek:
 
What is the funnest biggest stress relieving firearm I own?

A Baikal MP153 with extended mag tube. If I fill the tube, chamber a round and tuck a shell under the carrier latch then it'll hold twelve rounds of 12ga goodness.

I can't truthfully comment on the Saiga 12ga because I haven't shot it yet.
 
I enjoy shooting water filled gallon milk jugs with my deer rifle the most.

Next below that is shooting prairie dogs.....

Then head to head bowling pin with pistols....
then steel .....
 
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