The firearm thread

[Mr Merde]

I use a take-down French made Gevarm .22 with silencer, 765mm overall length - very sneaky, very quiet.

Nice rifle. Takedown is nice. Never had one yet. Had an AR7 once. Whole rifle came apart and fitted into the buttstock. Thats receiver, barrel and two magazines.

I have been told they are not allowed in this country as they can be fired without the buttstock and therefore becmes a hand gun. Not 765mm . Used to tape a litre coke bottle to the barrel and fire it that way. For about 5 shots it was as quiet as hell.

[0arbreaka]

Theres quite a few ways in which suppress a firearms, I remember I watched a CSI a while ago and some joker used a potato of all things to silence a shot, im not sure about how effective it was though (he got caught in the end). Ive heard of the coke bottle technique although I havent used it. Just looking on google for way im which silence a firearm it came up with several thousand ways to do so, one of these ways was the above bottle method which seems to be popular in the states as silencers/suppressors are banned over there.

[Sniper]

There are lots of ways to "silence" a firearm. Where the shot ends up suffers unforunatly. May favourite (although Im never allowed to attempt it, no matter how many teddy bears I try steal) is the teddy bear and the pistol

[Chaosmage]

Went skeet shooting the other week for a stag do. Came tops only got 9/10 though. Managed to hit most with the forst shot and used the second to shoot at the pieces, which I pulled off twice. Shit it was fun, hadn't shot a shotgun for over 15years and never at skeets before.

[Mr Merde]

Went skeet shooting the other week for a stag do. Came tops only got 9/10 though. Managed to hit most with the forst shot and used the second to shoot at the pieces, which I pulled off twice. Shit it was fun, hadn't shot a shotgun for over 15years and never at skeets before.

As I hope I have shown, I am a newcomer to shotgun shooting, be it an enthusiastic one, I am not up on the various types of shootguning.

WHat is the difference between skeet shooting and clays? Please explain the various disciplines to me.

[Sniper]

WHat is the difference between skeet shooting and clays? Please explain the various disciplines to me.

Skeet: A form of clay-target shooting where targets are thrown from two traps about 37 metres apart and the shooter moves in an arc to different stations, firing from various angles. Target: A board marked with concentric circles which shooters aim to hit.

[Mr Merde]

Skeet: A form of clay-target shooting where targets are thrown from two traps about 37 metres apart and the shooter moves in an arc to different stations, firing from various angles. Target: A board marked with concentric circles which shooters aim to hit.

Sounds like a load of fun.

Darts with pellets

I remeber my mates overseas talking about "down the line" and "runing hare" and "field". Bewildering number of disciplines

[Mr Merde]

Quizz for you.

Anyone know who the person is in my avatar?

As a hint, there is a corrolation between him and my name Mr Merde

[Sniper]

Jean Pierre?

[Clivoris]

Went skeet shooting the other week for a stag do. Came tops only got 9/10 though. Managed to hit most with the forst shot and used the second to shoot at the pieces, which I pulled off twice. Shit it was fun, hadn't shot a shotgun for over 15years and never at skeets before.

We did some clay shooting at a team building day once. I managed eight out of ten. The best thing was our petite, christian, 17 year old female admin assistant who had never handled a firearm before, scoring ten out of ten. No shit. I asked her why she did so well she said " I don't know...all I did was pray".
That's my kind of God.

[ManDownUnder]

Quizz for you.

Anyone know who the person is in my avatar?

As a hint, there is a corrolation between him and my name Mr Merde

Freud.... anal

[Mr Merde]

Freud.... anal

Way off both of you.

Merde is French for Sh1t

Picture is of

Thomas Crapper, developer of the flushing toilet system

Hence the words

to take a crap, going to the crapper etc

[scumdog]

As I hope I have shown, I am a newcomer to shotgun shooting, be it an enthusiastic one, I am not up on the various types of shootguning.

WHat is the difference between skeet shooting and clays? Please explain the various disciplines to me.

I'm only guessing here but do you mean the difference between skeet and trap shooting?

Skeet is where the clay 'birds' are launched from a tall building called a tower and a lower building, these buildings are as Sniper says, about 37 metres apart (looked closer to me!) and the 'birds' go more or less from left to right from one or both towers at different angles for each shooter who also moves to different 'stations' each time he shoots.

Trap shooting has a 'bunker' set into the ground central to the range but at an angle to the shooter as the shooter moves from left to right to differing locations after each shot ( and at different distances) the bunker launches the 'birds' away from the shooter but at various angles to the left or right (you never know which way it is going to go) and at various angles of climb.

Sorry if it is not well explained but hope you get the gist of it.

[scumdog]

Nice rifle. Takedown is nice. Never had one yet. Had an AR7 once. Whole rifle came apart and fitted into the buttstock. Thats receiver, barrel and two magazines.

I have been told they are not allowed in this country as they can be fired without the buttstock and therefore becmes a hand gun. Not 765mm . Used to tape a litre coke bottle to the barrel and fire it that way. For about 5 shots it was as quiet as hell.

Dunno about the law and the AR7 but the Gevarm has the barrel removed from the action to take it down so no problem as then it can't be fired.

I doubt the AR7 story as it is not 'principaly designed to be fired by one hand' when taken down.

After all, if the AR7 scenario holds true a Lee-Enfield could be said to be in the same catagoty.

[Mr Merde]

Dunno about the law and the AR7 but the Gevarm has the barrel removed from the action to take it down so no problem as then it can't be fired.

I doubt the AR7 story as it is not 'principaly designed to be fired by one hand' when taken down.

After all, if the AR7 scenario holds true a Lee-Enfield could be said to be in the same catagoty.

Below are some photos of the AR7.

Note that it is very easy to mount a pistl grip on it and shorten the barrel. Thereby turning it into a pistol.

The barrel is only held on with a keyway and a knurled lock nut. The stock just slots on and a lrge bolt at the bottom holds it to the receiver.

It would take only minuites to convert to a pistol. You can even get 15 round magazines for it.

Just checked the police sites list of allowed firearms and couldnt find it there at all.