The firearm thread

**Mr Merde** · 2nd July 2010, 08:26

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Looks like someone should order these for our next outing:

http://www.coolthings.com/zombie-pos...-in-real-life/

In this wonderful PC land of ours it is illegal to shoot any targets that in anyway resemble the human form. Unless you are a cop or a memeber of the armed forces. With the former you get to practice on civilians and innocent bystanders

In cowboy action shooting everywhere else they shoot a target like a cartoon cowboy. Here we are not allowed to as it could be construed by those watching that we are practicing to shoot peopole.

Could be worse I suppose. In Germany, video games arent allowed to show red blood. Its always coloured green over there.

**Swoop** · 2nd July 2010, 11:02

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

Pity GAC didnt take a few on his last ride.

GC wasn't killed by Indians. The bean-counting dickheads got him.
Having to get his troops to hand in their repeating rifles prior to LBH wasn't the best of ideas.

**scumdog** · 2nd July 2010, 11:28

Originally Posted by Swoop

GC wasn't killed by Indians. The bean-counting dickheads got him.
Having to get his troops to hand in their repeating rifles prior to LBH wasn't the best of ideas.

And not having battle-tested the rifles they DID have was worse.

Nothing like seeing a bad-tempered Indian on front of you and realising you couldn't extract the empty shell from the rifle you have to make you fill your dungarees I'd guess....

**scumdog** · 2nd July 2010, 11:31

Originally Posted by renegade master

I want to get a shotgun press, i reckon if you load up a normal number 4 then fill the gaps in the shot with epoxy, you'd be onto a winner.

Nah dude, - open the crimp, tip the No.4 onto a saucer, heat it up a bit on the hot-plate, tip it back into the shell and pour molten wax over the shot until full.

Viola' - poor mans solid slug!

**The Pastor** · 2nd July 2010, 11:58

Originally Posted by scumdog

Nah dude, - open the crimp, tip the No.4 onto a saucer, heat it up a bit on the hot-plate, tip it back into the shell and pour molten wax over the shot until full.

Viola' - poor mans solid slug!

wouldnt the wax melt when fired?

**scumdog** · 2nd July 2010, 12:00

Originally Posted by renegade master

wouldnt the wax melt when fired?

Doubt it, the wad will protect it.

They do work, trust me.

(Well did years ago - when I didn't know who stocked solid slugs.)

**Mr Merde** · 2nd July 2010, 12:39

Originally Posted by scumdog

Doubt it, the wad will protect it.

They do work, trust me.

(Well did years ago - when I didn't know who stocked solid slugs.)

So many signs of a misspent youth, gladdens my heart that us older persons have made it thus far. ;-)

**Wolf** · 2nd July 2010, 12:48

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

In this wonderful PC land of ours it is illegal to shoot any targets that in anyway resemble the human form.

One of the local online paintball stores sells targets with realistic images of terrorists in various poses - one could argue that for paintball, of course you're "practising to shoot people", that's the whole bloody idea.

**sAsLEX** · 2nd July 2010, 13:00

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

In this wonderful PC land of ours it is illegal to shoot any targets that in anyway resemble the human form. Unless you are a cop or a memeber of the armed forces. With the former you get to practice on civilians and innocent bystanders

Here is the bugger we normally use.

**Mr Merde** · 2nd July 2010, 13:23

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

Here is the bugger we normally use.

I know but you arent a civilian

**jono035** · 2nd July 2010, 13:26

Most of the heating of a bullet is due to the friction with the barrel, not the propellant charge. I went through and figured it out and a bullet that is exposed to a few thousand degrees for a couple of milliseconds only rises in temperature by 30-40 degrees from memory. With a shotgun you wouldn't get that at all.

**The Pastor** · 2nd July 2010, 13:34

Originally Posted by jono035

Most of the heating of a bullet is due to the friction with the barrel, not the propellant charge. I went through and figured it out and a bullet that is exposed to a few thousand degrees for a couple of milliseconds only rises in temperature by 30-40 degrees from memory. With a shotgun you wouldn't get that at all.

so the wax would melt?

**jono035** · 2nd July 2010, 13:37

Originally Posted by renegade master

so the wax would melt?

Not in a shotgun, no. At worst I'd guess it would fragment a little or mash down and smear along the barrel depending on what the diameter of the barrel is. From my understanding the barrel diameter varies quite a lot.

Scumdog: Did you ever notice any wax left along the inside of the barrel or anything?

Either way, something to try out, for sure.