Just coming back to this thread after a while.
At first I thought it was a good idea to have a gun thread.
I guess I thought it would be about different types weapons, types, calibers, and interesting information about weapons.
oh well.
Just coming back to this thread after a while.
At first I thought it was a good idea to have a gun thread.
I guess I thought it would be about different types weapons, types, calibers, and interesting information about weapons.
oh well.
Quite true! Anything gun related welcome. Post pics of your favourites!
Here's an unbelievable but true story....
When I was 9 I locked myself in my bedroom. Id been fighting with my older brother who was trying to get into the room.... anyway, he thought he would use a spitball in a pellet gun to shoot me through the keyhole.... such is the wisdom of 10 year olds.
He fired through the keyhole and shot me (get this) straight between the eyes. The problem was that he had been shooting birds the evening before from his bedroom window and heard my mother coming...so he broke the barrel and pulled the trigger while holding onto the barrel.....BUT THE SLUG WAS STILL IN THE GUN.
So he shot me between the eyes with a pellet and spitball. Had to go to the doctor to have it removed. One inch either way and I would have lost an eye.
Chub
That reminds me of something I did to my younger brother after we had got into some squabble over lord knows what. I had taken one of those tube style Bic ball point pens and took the guts out, it was simply a plastic tube at this point. I had a Crosman Powermaster 66 and I inserted a spitwad in the pen tube, then inserted the pen tube into the muzzle of the air rifle and scotch taped around it to secure it. I then pumped it up and found him sitting on the couch watching TV. I fired at him from probably 50 feet away or so and it got him right in the neck. He was bleeding pretty good from it, and flopping around on the ground squealing like a stuck pig. I had no idea a spitwad would come out of my creation with that amount of force or accuracy, and I felt bad for doing it afterwards.
Chicken / rabbit / guinea pigs feed pellets also seemed to be just the right size for the .177.... oh the cruelty of brothers fighting....strangely ,as you say, I simply cant remember what all the fighting was about?
But somehow it seemed rational at the time to shoot each other? Also strange in reflection was that we had good gun sense and respect for firearms at the time and in later years....
I guess it all comes down to kids raising kids and having no father (suicide) and mother at work all day? ...and the fact that 10 year old brains are a loooooong way from being fully developed.
Chub
10mm. For shooters who understand math.
Is that 3/8 inch , or 7/16ths?
Heres a little vintage air pistol Im working on. A Webley junior .177 Not quite a weapon but very cute.
Chub
I got this theory that some people who get nervous at the thought of other people having guns about everywhere in everyday life.- they might be afraid of what they would do if they had a gun and they project their reasoning onto others. Its just a theory.
You need the OU for doubles in Skeet. That said Skeet makes me crazy. Never saw the value in it. High house Low house lead this much that much. Very difficult game to play holding a Budweiser.