Not yet I need to get my 38 service revolver checked out and take a safety course first. Before I shoot it at a shooting range. Safety first. :) https://georgiagunclub.com/
@humanearth Them is all thinkin' games man! My boys and me used to put the ace through the 10s of the deck out, 50 paces, and start with the aces, shooting the shapes (spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts, on the cards with.22s, taking turns. Aces were easy, then the deuce, then the threes. Each shot the card until each shape was hit, or you missed. Missing meant you were out, and first out bought the beers, later. Second out bought the dinner. Third out, well, that's above the 'rating' for this crowd here! :) Let's just say that I never paid for anything. . .
Seriously, you give MHO to someone who says 5 words? Please don't invite me to your questions anymore. It's a waste of time to write a paragraph to see MHO go to a few syllable answer.
Yeah, you would be. I give MHO to people who put more thought into their answers than 5 words. But whatever. Don't invite me or answer in mine of your questions.
Yeah, when I was about 9 years old a friend of mine said "hey, you wanna see my dad's gun?" and so we went and fished a Beretta out of his father's sock drawer and shot it off a few times in the back yard. I hurt my hand because I could barely hold it.
We got caught. The neighbors heard the shots, told his dad and my friend spilled the beans. We got into a shitload of trouble for that.
A little later, I started going fishing with my uncle on a regular basis. Where I grew up, it's not uncommon to take a gun with you on fishing trips just in case you end up accidentally trespassing or you come across some poachers or you find something somebody didn't want you to find (like a marijuana crop or a still). The adults made sure I knew how to use a handgun if I had to.
Then I got trained on an M1 Carbine in the Boy Scouts. And my friends and I had "apeshit days" where we'd go out into the woods and rip a bunch of shit up with whatever we could get our hands on (including an AK one time). And when I was a teenager, we went camping a lot and we each took a gun for the same reasons as the fishing trips. And then there's squirrel/rabbit hunting.
Right now, I'm kinda sorta lightly getting into the whole Prepper thing. I'm stocking up my basement for a short-term issue (2 weeks) but my wife and I are also planning something for a more long-term thing. We're actually rolling around the idea of building an underground shelter. It's one of those half serious "joking unless you say yes" kind of things. Anyway, part of that includes a bugout bag for each of us that contains a Glock 17 in addition to at least one AR (I like the SIG M400 so far but haven't really seriously evaluated it yet) and a 12-gauge.
I've shot a few but none bigger than a 30.06. I did fire a 3 inch Magnum Shotgun and my shoulder ached for a day afterward. I don't fool with bigger guns after reading a story of some guys playing a joke on a girl and giving her Desert Eagle that had a big recoil. She was unprepared for said recoil and when she fired it the barrel recoiled and hit her in the head. Her finger was still on the trigger and when it hit her head it fired again, killing her. I won't go into the gory details. So if you are going to fire a gun you might take a firearms safety class first because even a.22 will kill you if it hits you in the right place.
Many times. I grew up in a family that hunts to supplement our food supply. I've harvested deer, elk and small game, ducks and pheasant. Doing so I think raises that sense of awareness that a fire arm is a destructive tool that is to be respected for the devistatation it could do to another person if it were carelessly used.
I don't know where you live, but I was pretty sure it wasn't actually going to be you in the car in front of me - but I thought you'd enjoy seeing that license plate anyway. Hahaha.
My dad & brothers are all in the military. My mom & I have been trained to handle firearms. My husband is trained as well. My husband & I alone own firearms that we occasionally "condition" in the range.
I was at a carnival with my uncle and aunt and cousin as a 7 year old and they had a competitive shooting event where the first person to eliminate all the stars on a picture by shooting at it with stationary guns would win a stuffed animal. My uncle shot at the star but I did not.
If you look at the reason why firearms were developed, then you realize that those were and still are primary aimed at killing people.
Why should I, on my free will, want to practice killing people? There are sufficient belligerent individuals in the so called civilized world that train for that sole purpose.
The only reason I have my shotgun is to shoot ducks. I am not so naive as to believe I can protect myself with it or any other firearm. Am I going to kill someone stealing items from my house? Man there's all sorts of moral issues about that. I shoot to eat meat I cannot get any other way. That's it. So don't say hunters are practicing to kill people. We are NOT.
Yes I have. Fist time I did I was very young, like 12 years old and my uncle was shooting pigeons from his balcony with a hunting rifle. Asked me if I wanted to try. Of course I said yes! I destroyed the neighbours window.
I hate guns but I've shot many and achieved proficiency in long arms. It's like a "know your enemy" thing. I have a legal carry permit and lived in Methland for a few years. Never used one in anger.
Used to do rifle shooting as a kid at a local club... also done some clay pigeon shooting with a shotgun. Also lived in a house with some one who had a shotgun license and had it in the house.. i live in the UK
No, I don't need to. Accidents with your own firearm are more likely to kill you than the firearm is likely to save you.
I would much rather have a knife, because you will not be able to draw your gun in time to stop me if I am within 20 feet of you even if you have the draw speed of a police officer.
If I have home invaders, I can hide behind a corner with a knife and stab them before they even know what is going on.
I have shot with a FAMAS when I was in the army. Very accurate and comfortable to shoot. I have shot some.22LR guns too. I would love to try a handgun some day but gun laws are tougher than in the US.
It's an administrative nightmare here, especially if you want more "exotic" things. For example, since the FAMAS is being replaced, I would love to get my hands on some of them without limitations, as a way to preserve history, but the government prefers to destroy these guns. It's not even possible to get your hands on a neutralized one.
They were, but it looks like the EU was forcing them to tighten their gun laws or else they would do something with the free-travel status the Swiss have to go through EU countries. Or at least that’s what I read a few months ago.
I have, nothing super big. 38 revolver, 45 mm, 9mm, shotgun. One thing that's hilarious about watching gun fights on TV... if you've never fired a gun, you have no idea how fucking LOUD it can be !! You fire off a 15 clip of a regular old 9mm S & W, and you're not wearing ear protection, you're head will be ringing for weeks, maybe months !!
@humanearth Target shooting and hunting without hearing protection is why a lot advocate 'suppressors' NOT 'Silencers' being legalized, because they simply reduce the decibels, and do not silence anything, like in the movies!
Honestly I grew up with guns I am I guess you would say from here utah and anahiem/buena park, calif. So you might want to connect me to both? Because I am From the 801 and the 801 and all the era's dating from 1969 through now and my profile name says it all have I ever shot a gun? I have shot almost everything that goes bang except cannons on a battle ship. I've been arrested for having a lot of guns in my possession on 4th of July 1997! They had to give them back even though i had them all loaded and enough ammunition to hole up for a week and just blow holes in every thing. LOL. But if you want my take or opinion on this subject my father had the 3rd largest privately owned gun collection in the world! Sold most of them to the owner of the Seattle sea hawks. But as a youth in buena park. In my house that they still call the famous Rock House! I would have to say a lot ! But it is probably not a good idea to hunt dove in your back yard in the summer time in the middle of Buena Park, Calif. With A Napoleon cannon chuck full of buck shot ! Buy I understand It is very loud and it makes a lot of smoke and that is what is really rattling the old lady out back. So Ill be more considerate from now on when I load it, I give you my word. Not to put so much black powder in it but thank you for your coming by and checking on me but I'm sure you will not need to bother calling my father? As you know he is a very buisy man! So we seem to be good and I won't point it towards her fence line any more sorry for the false alarm officers have a good day im going inside now. ( to shoot rats in the cellar ) true story
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