The firearm thread

[Mr Merde]

Its 2 hours later and there are 5 less Australian immigrants living in NZ.

Just a quick walk round.

12 guage rules.

Merde

[Wolf]

Its 2 hours later and there are 5 less Australian immigrants living in NZ.

Just a quick walk round.

12 guage rules.

Merde

Hope one of them was that fat noisy Aussie bastard down the road from me with the RX7 and the foul-mouthed wife...

[fireball]

im off down home to the farm next month cant wait will be taking city girl LilSel out on a night shoot on the quad its been a couple of years since i had my rifle out.... at least the old man uses it and its kept oiled and clean

yay im excited!

look out ferrets, possums, rabbits, goats!

[deanohit]

Sounds like fun. Will you use the old .22 or something.

[007XX]

What I do know from the couple of times I tried my hand at shooting, is that it was very therapeutic...or cathartic, if you will!

I could so easily see the face of some people in that line of sight!

[deanohit]

Ooohh yea, very stress releiving. Always loved my .22's, cheap to shoot as much as you want and quiet enough that the neighbors won't kick up a stink.

I remember taking a few american girls to the rifle range and was pleased to see that they could shoot well, had a wee compitition and I came second. Then find out the one who won was a long rifleman in the Army and the other was a hand gun instructor for the police, bloody gun crazy americans.

[fireball]

i love the .22 altho me and my father have always argued what is better to shoot quail with
i say shot gun using maybe 5s or 9s if your felling useless
he says .22

any one know what would be better?

[deanohit]

Go for a compromise and use .22 bird shot. Always had trouble finding it in stores in Blenheim, but it works bloody good with out destroying the birds.

[Wolf]

What I do know from the couple of times I tried my hand at shooting, is that it was very therapeutic...or cathartic, if you will!

Yep, nothing like putting holes in something at a distance. Plinking tin cans? Fill 'em with water - the geyser effect as the bullet tears through the can at > mach 1 is quite fun.

And the bigger the round, the better the geyser.

A 4-litre plastic container full of water and rifled slugs in the shotgun looks like fun (from pics I've seen)

I've been told plasticine pushed into the hollow point of the humble .22lr projectile can have spectacular effects...

[007XX]

Yep, nothing like putting holes in something at a distance. Plinking tin cans? Fill 'em with water - the geyser effect as the bullet tears through the can at > mach 1 is quite fun.

And the bigger the round, the better the geyser.

A 4-litre plastic container full of water and rifled slugs in the shotgun looks like fun (from pics I've seen)

I've been told plasticine pushed into the hollow point of the humble .22lr projectile can have spectacular effects...

Oh that does sound like a lot of fun...

Now, I'm getting this little movie in my head of being a 21st century Calamity Jane Except I can't get the flippin' A licence thingy

[deanohit]

Been and done the tin can full of water. Pretty cool until you hit a can with a little bit of petrol in it with a HV .22 round.

I've been told plasticine pushed into the hollow point of the humble .22lr projectile can have spectacular effects...

Now that sounds interesting Wolf, what were you shooting at? Will have to give it a go sometime.

[Mr Merde]

...I've been told plasticine pushed into the hollow point of the humble .22lr projectile can have spectacular effects...

I have been known (in the past), to fill hoolow point ammo with grease, then superglue a piece of lead shot over that.

The lead in the bullet will compress, the grease ( a liquid) will not.

Explosion

Another way is to fill the cavity of a .44 hollow point with gunpowder then superglue a primer to the nose.

When it strikes the primer ignites the powder and

BOOOOOOM !!!!!

Tried it and it works wonderfully

[deanohit]

Woah! Gotta give those a go man, like the idea for the .22 round better, could be quite the possum round.

[Wolf]

Now that sounds interesting Wolf, what were you shooting at? Will have to give it a go sometime.

Wasn't me. A mate of mine made up a diverse batch - cut a cross in the head of one, filled another with plasticine and yet another with mercury from an old thermometer (ugh, won't catch me fucking with that shit). Capped the mercury-filled one with a small amount of plasticine.

Took them out to his mate's farm and they fired a .22 solid into a strainer post, noted the relative sizes of entry and exit holes. Went to another post and did the same with a standard .22lr hollowpoint, on to the next post with the cut hollowpoint and so on.

Apparently the plasticine one blew out a large chunk of the back of the strainer and the mercury-filled one severed its strainer post.

I wouldn't recommend handling mercury, personally but the plasticine one sounds fun. My mate theorises that the heat caused when it compresses on impact is probably enough to liquify the plasticine anyway and give a nice "mechanical explosion".

[LilSel]

im off down home to the farm next month cant wait will be taking city girl LilSel out on a night shoot on the quad its been a couple of years since i had my rifle out.... at least the old man uses it and its kept oiled and clean

yay im excited!

look out ferrets, possums, rabbits, goats!

I can shoot... ... I just shoot targets... which are smaller than possums n stuff... so dont be givin me too much shit for being a city slicker ... someones dad shoots for auckland remember ... & someones mum used to as well... & someones sister shot for auckland too...
me however?... I stuck to the bowling for NZ te he he