Chick and guns

[Bikernereid]

My God if I hadn't chatted with you on other topics you would have freaked the crap out of me now!!

I must admit there is something interesting about crossbows too, but even they are becoming dangerously useful as weapons here too. A bike shop owner got shot in the stomach by one the other day!! Swords especially Japanese crafted ones and ceremonial knives fascinate me. My dad got given a ghurkas knife for teaching him to read n write or something and it is beatiful. Really love Middle Eastern ceremonial knives too.

Me in tights hahaha ( mind you I went thru the Aviation Security checkpoint the other day with no metal etc & set off the alarm. Lovely AvSec lady said it must be my 'buns of steel') but Archery is about technique and timing, 'Skinny' is just fine. Crossbows are great too, and swords, knives, bullwhips, blowguns etc etc etc.

[maxworldbiker]

I guess coming from the UK I can't appreciate so much space. So have you ever had a bad experience whilst using a gun?

Erm, yes I did. Once. Stupidly I once let an air rifle go off unaimed and the pellet ricocheted off the concrete floor of the garage and up the side of my friend's nose. He was unhurt, thank God it wasn't his eye!!. I was only fifteen at the time, but BOY did I learn from that mistake!!!!

My Dad also shot a possum on top of one of our water tanks one night in such a way that the damn thing ended up IN the tank, instead of falling neatly off the side as planned. Big drama, sorting that one out! It was only our bloody drinking water tank!

[Bikernereid]

How did you friend not get hurt? That sounds very painful and he was lucky it didn't go any further up. Guess you were lucky it wasn't a more severe lesson.

Eek possum in drinking water does not sound good at all.

Erm, yes I did. Once. Stupidly I once let an air rifle go off unaimed and the pellet ricocheted off the concrete floor of the garage and up the side of my friend's nose. He was unhurt, thank God it wasn't his eye!!. I was only fifteen at the time, but BOY did I learn from that mistake!!!!

My Dad also shot a possum on top of one of our water tanks one night in such a way that the damn thing ended up IN the tank, instead of falling neatly off the side as planned. Big drama, sorting that one out! It was only our bloody drinking water tank!

[MVnut]

Only bad gun experience I had was when we were culling feral goats and I took one from across a ravine, it fell onto a ledge from the cliff ( instead of down to the beach) & my mate made me climb 30m down the face to cut the legs off for dog tucka,that was scary, about another 70m down to the sand if I slipped, yeehah.

[MVnut]

Bullwhips and Parents don't go well together either. Got banned from playing at my mates place for weeks after one little incident. I think we were 11 or 12years old (young n innocent)

[Bikernereid]

Ouch, so you really are not a safe person to be around!! I seem to be able to injure myself quite nicely without the aid of serious weaponry maybe this is why I am worried about being given a gun to use.

Why would you want to go down to a ledge to get legs off a goat, do you not have dog food in NZ?

Bullwhips and Parents don't go well together either. Got banned from playing at my mates place for weeks after one little incident. I think we were 11 or 12years old (young n innocent)

[MVnut]

Ouch, so you really are not a safe person to be around!! I seem to be able to injure myself quite nicely without the aid of serious weaponry maybe this is why I am worried about being given a gun to use.

Why would you want to go down to a ledge to get legs off a goat, do you not have dog food in NZ?

Even feral goats are good food for dogs and I don't agree with wasting life, so to speak. A bit of danger is good for you anyway. As for the bullwhip, they're perfectly safe if you're good enough.

[jrandom]

Guns are awesome. I can't stop thinking about guns. Guns are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Guns can kill anyone they want! Guns blow off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. Guns are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this gun that was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the gun killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a gun totally shoot some kid just because the kid opened a window.

And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sAsLEX]

Guns are awesome. I can't stop thinking about guns. Guns are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Guns can kill anyone they want! Guns blow off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. Guns are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this gun that was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the gun killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a gun totally shoot some kid just because the kid opened a window.

And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

Nice misquote J

[Swoop]

I guess that not many people in the UK hunt as we haven't got the same pest issues that you guys have. ...deer are not a pest here and we love them.

You were made quite familiar with the Tui beer adverts when here?

Deer are a large pest in UK at the moment. Since the draconian gun laws over there, there has been far less hunting and the deer numbers have grown significantly.
There are gubbinment proposals to send in cullers to reduce the numbers.

Good ole' politicians sticking their oar in the water and fucking things up again.
Luckily there is zero gun-crime in London! (Tui again?)

[MVnut]

Tui, good ol kiwi beer.........and NONE of the Tui girls are kiwis

[Bikernereid]

Is a crap hole n gun crime is the least of its worries.

Most politicians wouldn't know their arse from their elbow. But as for deer, lots of them are on private land and God forbid you should hit one with your car as you will have to pay the land owner for replacing his deer. Don't think the politicians would be stupid enough to take on the gentry landowners!!

You were made quite familiar with the Tui beer adverts when here?

Deer are a large pest in UK at the moment. Since the draconian gun laws over there, there has been far less hunting and the deer numbers have grown significantly.
There are gubbinment proposals to send in cullers to reduce the numbers.

Good ole' politicians sticking their oar in the water and fucking things up again.
Luckily there is zero gun-crime in London! (Tui again?)

[geoffm]

There are a number of Poms in the gun club who are here mainly due to the pistol confiscations in the UK a few years ago. Th econfiscations didn't do anyhting for crime - handgun crime is higher now than before they were all illegal - no surprise really - but it palyed well with Sun readers.
When you come back
NZ has a high gun ownership rate - around 250,000 licensed gun owners, around 1 million guns (legal). There are also an unknown number of illegal guns, owned by people who wouldn't get a gun license as having previous form generally means you won't get one.
There are a lot of women shooters - -it is one sport where gender differences don't count.
I have a takedown 22 I bought to fit in the BMW saddlebags for rabbit shooting in the South Island on holiday.
If you are back in NZ again, there are plenty of KB shooters who would be happy to take you out to the range.
Geoff

[Bikernereid]

I am hoping to move to NZ by the end of the year so would love to be taken shooting, that is if I don't freak myself silly this afternoon. I love trying new things and facing ones fears has always been important to me.

As for gun laws it is the same as most other laws people will always break them. Look atv the stupid drugs laws in the UK and how many people love their Class A, B & Cs.

As for The Sun don't get me started in that bloody moronic, innane, vaccuous, purile piece of shite!!

There are a number of Poms in the gun club who are here mainly due to the pistol confiscations in the UK a few years ago. Th econfiscations didn't do anyhting for crime - handgun crime is higher now than before they were all illegal - no surprise really - but it palyed well with Sun readers.
When you come back
NZ has a high gun ownership rate - around 250,000 licensed gun owners, around 1 million guns (legal). There are also an unknown number of illegal guns, owned by people who wouldn't get a gun license as having previous form generally means you won't get one.
There are a lot of women shooters - -it is one sport where gender differences don't count.
I have a takedown 22 I bought to fit in the BMW saddlebags for rabbit shooting in the South Island on holiday.
If you are back in NZ again, there are plenty of KB shooters who would be happy to take you out to the range.
Geoff

[owner]

Guns are neither big nor clever!