Chick and guns

[sAsLEX]

Guns are neither big nor clever!

Burnouts on the other hand........

[Hamel]

Guns are like bikes in that if you don't know what you're doing and and you're not careful, its Bye Bye Bikern1mpho or Bridget or Lisa or whatever your name is.
Thus if you treat them with due respect, no problemo.
Basically its all in your head...
Have fun.

[Mr Merde]

I have been shooting guns most of my life.

Grew up as an army brat and learnt a respect for these items and the rules in handling them.

What's the reason I like shooting?

Very hard to explain.

To me it is the skill of being able to do something as well as I can.

In the UK, darts are a very poular pub sport.

Shooting employs all the same skills but instead of muscle power to deliver the projectile I make use of the chemical reaction of burning gunpowder.

Dont tell me that my analogy is wrong as the game of darts has been derived from weapons of war also. From way back people have ben throwing things at each other.

I get a real thrill from accuracy and speed. not necessary together though.

I love it when I sit down with a rifle and look at a target that can be at distances so far away from me that they are just dots. I use all the skills I have learnt, I control my breathing, I settle my beating heart, I try to keep calm and collected. I look at the target, I check my sights, I gently squeeze the trigger and feel the recoil of the rifle in my arms. I check the target or have it checked for me. Elation if I have made a good shot, disappointment if not. Then i sit down and try and do it all over again, better if i can.

Most of the time I may be in competition but always I am going up against myself and my body's natural reactions.

Its a very hard thing to explain. Its not a sense of power, you can get that from a lot of different activities, its more a sense of personal achievment.

I've personally done military service and a few times I have been in the situation where I have had to use a fire arm on another human being. Its not a nice thing to do or remember. In all those cases I was doing a job and a firearm was just a tool of the job.

Nowadays I choose when I wish to shoot, what i wish to shoot and what I shoot at.

Trying hard to explain things here but dont really seem to be making much sense.

I'll post and bow out.

Merde

[jrandom]

I think perhaps a photograph of my four-year-old son firing one of Mr Merde's eleventy-eek calibre single-action pistols loaded with blackpowder tomorrow morning will be in order for this thread.

[Mr Merde]

I think perhaps a photograph of my four-year-old son firing one of Mr Merde's eleventy-eek calibre single-action pistols loaded with blackpowder tomorrow morning will be in order for this thread.

Or even one of you letting loose with a lever action rifle, chambered for .44 mag, loaded with 35 gns of blackpowder under a 205 gn soft lead projectile.

Or maybe a 12 guage lever action shotgun with 70 gns by vol of BP with 1 1/8 oz of #7 shot.

Every one knows that shooting a pistol, with their limited range, is far more dangerous tha shooting a .308 rifle with an effective range of 8 times the pistol, and therefore those powers who rule us have decided we can only use the former on approved ranges and under strict controls whereas we can find any old piece of land and let loose with anything we like as long as it is a longarm.

[jrandom]

Every one knows that shooting a pistol, with their limited range, is far more dangerous tha shooting a .308 rifle with an effective range of 8 times the pistol, and therefore those powers who rule us have decided we can only use the former on approved ranges and under strict controls whereas we can find any old piece of land and let loose with anything we like as long as it is a longarm.

Ah, yes, of course. My Steinlager-addled brain momentarily afflicted me with amnesia regarding such legitimate safety considerations.

We shall naturally limit ourselves to photographing the young fellow within the bounds of the law as he fires an automatic 30-calibre battle rifle.

[Mr Merde]

Ah, yes, of course. My Steinlager-addled brain momentarily afflicted me with amnesia regarding such legitimate safety considerations.

We shall naturally limit ourselves to photographing the young fellow within the bounds of the law as he fires an automatic 30-calibre battle rifle.

Dont you mean a SEMI automatic battle rifle. Though we are allowed to collect fully automatic weapons in working order it is once again deemed improper to actually experience the use of these unless you are in the armed services.

[jrandom]

Dont you mean a SEMI automatic battle rifle.

I prefer to use the term 'automatic' to describe any weapon that loads its next round ready to fire after discharging without any user intervention beyond the trigger press. I'm aware of the convention of prepending 'fully' or 'semi', but in conversation I tend to drop them.

There is also the consideration that the Norinco M305 is an exact copy of the original M-14. My omission of 'semi' was not entirely due to syntactical laziness.

[Mr Merde]

I prefer to use the term 'automatic' to describe any weapon that loads its next round ready to fire after discharging without any user intervention beyond the trigger press. I'm aware of the convention of prepending 'fully' or 'semi', but in conversation I tend to drop them.

There is also the consideration that the Norinco M305 is an exact copy of the original M-14. My omission of 'semi' was not entirely due to syntactical laziness.

I stand suitably corrected in full understanding of your meaning.

[MaxB]

For mine its for hunting and pest control. Don't get to go out much these days and no longer have any firearms on the property. When I do go out (under instruction) its mainly for deer and we eat what we kill.

Firearms for me are a tool to do a job. Some of them beautifully made tools but tools nontheless. I think maybe we are closer to the land than most Brits (or even Aussies) these days. My kids have no doubt where their meat comes from.

[Bikernereid]

It was amazing, I have fired a Browning, LSW and A2 rifle and it rocked. I came second on the first round which was bloody amazing and came joint second on the second round, and no it wasn't out of two!!.

have got over fear of gun and think I have found a ne hobby. Thanks for advice and support, you were all right!!

Guns are neither big nor clever!

[Bikernereid]

Was all in my head but got over it now and love target shooting!!

Guns are like bikes in that if you don't know what you're doing and and you're not careful, its Bye Bye Bikern1mpho or Bridget or Lisa or whatever your name is.
Thus if you treat them with due respect, no problemo.
Basically its all in your head...
Have fun.

[Mr Merde]

Was all in my head but got over it now and love target shooting!!

I hope you know now how hard it is to describe the reasons for shooting and the feelings that make you partake in the sport.

Especially to those who have had their minds made up for them by the mass media.

We are a minority and as such are very easy to demonise.

I only eat babies every second leap year and have no inclination to ever work in a post office.

[Pixie]

I can understand this but as a fluffy animal loving Brit the thought of people shooting rabbits n deer freaks me. My granddad used to hunt/poach rabbits for food, luckily he only ever got me into fishing!! I am amazed that you shot so many rabbit, God you really do have a huge problem. I had never thought of using a gun to call attention.

I happened to watch a Brit TV show last night - "Jimmy's Farm".It's about some yuppie/hippy that moves from London to live in the country.
Anyway,He got all sad over having to shoot a fox that had killed over 200 of his chooks - dickhead

I'm looking at 3 bunnies on my front lawn at the moment

[scumdog]

I happened to watch a Brit TV show last night - "Jimmy's Farm".It's about some yuppie/hippy that moves from London to live in the country.
Anyway,He got all sad over having to shoot a fox that had killed over 200 of his chooks - dickhead

I'm looking at 3 bunnies on my front lawn at the moment

Saw one of those types of show a week or so ago - you should have seen the looks on the faces of the city-slicker types when they realised what had to happend at the start of the process to convert a cute lamb into a piece of meat!!

Anyway, back on topic, glad you enjoyed the experience Bikern1mpho!!