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Any funny shots out there?

songdogsongdog Member Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
Does anyone have any great or funny shots that they have made or seen? Lets tell all.songdog
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have one thats funny now that its over but I don't want to offend any animal sesitive people out there so I'll keep it to my self.
    when all else fails........................
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  • OrphanedcowboyOrphanedcowboy Member Posts: 351 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shot a mule deer in Colorado when I was younger, learned a valuable lesson about shooting uphill with a 300 win mag, I have a nice little scar, hidden by my eyebrow, but it's there, I think I bled more than the Mulie
    Orphanedcowboy@msn.com www.texdeer.com
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Iv'e wanted a partridge mount for some time. Today I went hunting, thinking time is running out for this season. Iv'e shot a box of shells this year, but could not seem to knock one down (fast little buggers) Well a covey flushed, I swung the Remington 11-87 through the flock, and two fell with one shot.come to my suprise it was a flock of chuckers. which is better than a Hun anyway. So I got em in the freezer and on Monday they will be headin for the taxidermists.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Funny now, wasnt then, 2 different occasions, one was a 22 mag. the other a bow. Fill in the blanks, first one involved a ceiling, a floor, a wall, and a hell of a surprise. Second one, the bow, can you believe a 60 lb. bow can be stopped from going completely through a wooden door by a GLASS storm door window? Oh the joys of hindsight, and the lessons bestowed upon the young.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • songdogsongdog Member Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    robsguns- with the bow incident, were you shooting at the beast in the reflection of the window?songdog
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  • songdogsongdog Member Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Weel since a couple of you have told a few stories i guessi will tell one. It was another squirrel hunting day with the ol 257 ackley. There was a squirrel out at 150 yds. laying on a dead tree that had fallen over. He was chewing on a hedgeapple. Iput the crosshairs right on the apple and squeezed the trigger. POOF went the hedge apple. DId not even touch the squirrel, on that shot. Next shot hit him right in the head. Gosh i love that gun.songdog
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  • royc38royc38 Member Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This story happened with a BB gun. Cousin and I were about twelve at the time. We were shooting at a blackbird about 18ft high in a tree in the front yard. Shot it about four or five times and it never moved. My mother comes out and says she better not catch us shooting at any birds. Well just as we swore that we were not, the bird falls out of the tree and lands between my mother and us. Lost BB gun rights for the entire summer. Guess you can't lie to your mother.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    A rabbit ran under a pile of scrub timber one night when we was huntin' in Montgomery. I shined the 1,000,000 CP spotlight under there and we got a red glow and shot at it. Nothing happened and the red glow was still there. Shot 3 more times before we looked under there to see it was a small exposed area of a Coke can we was murderin'. Boy, did we feel stoopid!
    Eat healthy, exercise, avoid smoking........Die anyway. will270win@aol.com ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    13fister decided to fire a 9mm shotshell almost point-blank at a paper target. He was bare chested at the time and half the shot ricocheted off the target and smacked him in the chest. Sorry 13fister but it was real funny.
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  • MojorisinMojorisin Member Posts: 41 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a teenager A friend of mine & I were deer hunting behind his house. We were standing on some railroad tracks above a small meadow when a coyote goes trotting up the next ridge, my friend, who was carrying a 12 guage says "get him", I was carrying a borrowed Winchester 30-30 with open sights that I had never shot so I threw it up & fired, well the coyote does 2 complete circles & falls over, I was astonished as was my friend, we looked at each other & he says "you must be the best shot in the world, thats probably 500 yds." We hiked over to the yote, me beaming proudly & my friend still complementing me on being the "best shot in the world". When we got him & checked him out, sure enough a clean kill, I threw him over my shoulder & we headed to my friends house to skin him, as we started walking back down the hill I noticed a freshly dug narrow two foot long furrow several feet in front of where the coyote had stood, I checked it out pretty close as we walked by & it was obivious the bullet had hit the ground several feet in front of the coyote, plowed a ditch, & still had enough velocity to kill him when it left the ground. I did'nt tell my friend about this for a long time & we had a good laugh when I did, but he told several people about my great shooting before I let the cat out of the bag.
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  • ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About 25 years ago, I had just purchased my first centerfire revolver, a S&W M10 2". Buddy of mine, further along in the handgun education process, had a Chief's Special. We are out shooting and I'm finding out how tough it can be to hit things with a snubby. I look over at my friend at the moment he tosses a soda can in the air and am astounded to see him fire and the can go whizzing away. "Dang!", sez I, jaw on the ground, "That's some shootin'!". He let me go on worshipping him for a while before he told me that it was possible to purchase shot shells in handgun calibers. My education continues to this day.
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  • thebutcherthebutcher Member Posts: 374 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was squirrel hunting with an old double barrel (side by side) shotgun as a kid. My old man told me to take a shot at about 50 feet. Problem is, I put 4 shot in the gun and thought he said 15 feet. I unloaded both shells at once. There wasn't much left of that furry little creature.
    The definition of an "expert":An "X" is an unknown quantity and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oh man, you guys reminded me of the BEST shot I ever made, or ever will make. I was probably around 12 or 13, and had my Daisy BB gun down at the pond shooting at birds. I saw this bird sitting on the very most upper tip of a tree, probably 60 yds. away, I think it was farther, but no one will believe 60 either. I was pretty good with this BB gun, I spent a lot of time with it, adjusting for the trajectory you know. I could watch the BB come out and go to the target, it was well worn, even though it was new when I got it, it was just like the Red Ryder model. Anyway, I aimed at the top of this tree while holding my gun over a fence corner post.The tree was about 40 ft. tall. I took a shot, the bird didnt move, no surprise. I saw the BB's trajectory was way off so I adjusted. I aimed high above the bird, and took a second shot, the bird flinched, but still didnt move, I figured I was real close that time, since he flinched. I held just a little higher this tiime, thinking this bird has nerves of steel and hes gonna pay for it. I took the 3rd shot and the bird moved noticeably and then kind of leaned a little, then a little more, and then it was falling down to the ground. I was so shocked at having hit it at that distance I could hardly believe it, nor could I believe I'd actually been able to do any damage to it at that distance. I'll never top that bit of luck, its the kind of shot you only get once in a lifetime, and I'll always remember that, thanks for reminding me of the event.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Bought Wife her own Pistol and Let her pick it out P-239 SIG in .40 cal., Insisted that she take the basic N.R.A. safety course and told her that I would go with her. At the end of the 2 day session we went to the indoor range and the instructor let us shoot our own guns then allowed us to shoot his race gun, a Tricked out Colt 45 APC with a scope on it. Well just to show off a little bit he put a target on edge and showed us how he could cut it in half with just one shot from about 20ft., Pretty impressive! Then he hands the gun to me next I drew down on it and cut her plum in half on the first shot, turned around to about 5 or 6 guys watching through the window and just shrugged my sholders like there wasn't anything to it. Probably couldn't do it again in a long time. But the really cool part about it was The wife was able to knick it on her 3rd. shot out of 5. Damn ole "Que"was sure a good instructor....HA P.S. I ended up learning some things by going through it with her which just proves you are never to old to continue learing.....
    KIMBER: Pistol du jour
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  • Dave3Dave3 Member Posts: 106 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago when I was about fifteen my buddy and I where out checking traps and we had caught a skunk in a leg hold (you always new well before you got to the set). Well this skunk was pretty unhappy and thrashing about like mad. It was dark and the only light we had was from the three wheeler. Well we stayed about twenty yards away to stay out of the skunks range, and my buddy is trying to shoot this skunk with this old 22 rifle as it would pass in front of the light he missed about 5 times and handed me the gun. He turned to do somethig else and I shot the skunk with one shot. He was a much more experinced shooter than I and couldn't believe I had hit it. He went on and on at what a great shot that had be. He still talks about it when we get together. One of these days I should tell him how the skunk stop trashing about and sat right in the light for an easy shot even for a rookie.
    "Protect the Right to Protect yourself"
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    This is the absolute truth.I was visiting with an elderly man on the bank of his pond one day. I asked him if he ever shot at turtles in the pond. (Something I thought was a lot of fun at the time.) He said no. He told me that one day he shot at a turtle in the water and the bullet came back at him, so he quit.I had been raised to treat my elders with respect, so I did not laugh at the man or call him a liar. I knew he was wrong though. Bullets striking the surface of water ricochet off in the direction they were originally going.I often shot at turtles on my dad's place. He had about one-half mile of river frontage and the opposite bank was bluff and totally unpopulated, so I figured it was safe enough in the event of a ricochet.One day, not long after the conversation with the old man, I was shooting at some turtles with my .22 rifle. Believe it or not, a bullet turned and came back at me. It was tumbling, from the sound of it, and it seemed to pass by me to my right and several feet over my head. There I was, a witness to the very thing I thought some old man was lying to me about. I quit shooting at the surface of water, no matter what the backstop.
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  • iron sightsiron sights Member Posts: 41 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    As a young boy I came into the back yard with pellet gun. Dad opened the back door and told me to come eat. I had a pellet in the gun and looked up into the tree and saw a leaf. I shot the leaf and an owl fell onto the ground. The gun was taken away and lost three of the five pounds in my rear. I've never shot a leaf since.[This message has been edited by iron sights (edited 12-28-2001).]
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Three of us in a car driving from an isolated area where we had be target shooting for the day, all of us teens. Well on the way out we spot a dove on power line approx 70 yards out. In the front seat we have a loaded .38 snubby with a three inch barrel. We stop and I take two shots at the dove with no luck. My buddy then takes two shots with the same results. Then our other friend in the back seat says he wants a shot. My friend and I laugh because this was the first time our friend had been out shooting but never the less we hand him the snubby. You guessed it, with his left hand hanging out the window from the back seat he drops the dove with the .38 snubby from 70 + yards. Talk about luck, doubt I'll ever see that again.If your gonna be stupid you better be tough!
    [This message has been edited by interstatepawnllc (edited 12-29-2001).]
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  • b0400879b0400879 Member Posts: 256 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hope this will amuse. In the late '80s we hunted the Salton Sea area for waterfowl pretty regularly. The period was a couple of years into the realm of mandatory steel shot in So. Kal. - one of the 1st areas to fall in. One day things were pretty slow, total bluebird weather in the hi 70's. Not much movin' but i think we had 3 Teal in the bag early between 4 of us. No records there. Along about 10:30 a.m. as we begin to nod off & lose interest, one of the lads spots a single incoming. No ID on it but the damn thing makes a beeline to our spread & commences to settle in !! Amazing. As we watch the feet cup, we ID it as a Sprig hen - fair game in those times. 4 guys lite up their 12ga repeaters. 12 rounds of 1 1/2 oz steel #3's on the way. Results?ELEVEN complete misses - but somebody cripples the hen & she splats in the middle of our dekes, popping up like a cork & paddling off to the far bank of the pond. PANDEMONIUM. The Yellow Lab is hysterical - my buddy has his hands full of her as the other 3 franticly try to reload & finish off the *. Only a couple of desperate, miserably poor shots get off as the hen reaches the far side of the spread & disappears into the tules 60 yds away. The Lab's owner shouts out "All clear?". Replys come back: "Good". "Out". "Clear". Then, "DEAD BIRD........ FETCH !!" A picture-perfect leap by 3-yr old Kelsey sent pond water in all directions, drenching all & their gear. She eagerly retrieved 2 decoys that had just lost their watertight integrity.The day's total bag......... 3 Teal & 2 Flambeau Aqua-Keel dekes. The dog made some impressive long retrieves. Owner was very pleased. Plastic AND feathers.The hen got away.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of thoose "hair trigger" maniacs was showing off at the range doing belt draws and fast shooting at moving silouetes at 25yhe intended a fast draw and gun sight tangled in his underware (the NUT shot his Nuttss oFF ! God! that had to hurrrrt !that was the last time i saw him ,and belt draw was not permited at the range anymore...the guys kept cracking jokes about the poor guy,that he Changed names from ROY to Melisa, it sure was tragic but the way it happened was funy as heck ! like a hollywood comedy.
    Ignis Natura Renovatur Integram
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  • RUGERNUT3RUGERNUT3 Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is it ok to qaulify this story starting off..."I SWEAR IT IS TRUE!!)? Back 12-14 yrs. ago 3 of us went down to a fiends place down round Forney Texas one winter morn to do a little .22 plinkin. One of my friends had picked up a barreled bolt action in .22magnum from somewhere a couple weeks earlier. Well to everybodys surprise he pulls out this beautiful walnut stocked .22mag rifle! Now 2 wks earlier this action had no stock, dont recall the factory brand action. I asked him how he managed to get it stocked so soon... "I whittled it" very matter of factly stated! Being that i knew him so well i knew it was true, man this guy was from waaaaaay back in the hills of Arkansas, and could do anything with nothing. Buttplate, cheekpeice and all! Beautifull finish too! Still had great doubts about being able to hit barn at 20ft with it. So happens while i was holding this handcarved stocked .22 in total awe.....a cottontail came out from under an outbuilding about 50 yrds. away, i tried to hand the rifle back to Bill (the guy who built the rifle)...he said "no, you shoot it". Well I dropped to one knee, put the cross hairs of the little 4x scope dead on where the ears met the head on bugs...squeezed off a shot...the darn thing dropped w/out breathing again! It got real quite with the 3 of us for about 5 seconds then we all broke out laughing like a bunch of drunk coyotes. RAN over to the rabbit expecting it to be impersonating the headless horseman..but no...rabbit was totally intact...not a drop of blood!,but dead as a kipper on a cracker. I picked it up and started a REALLY close inspection...the only mark on this thing was on the INSIDE of one of it's thighs..it was not a hole as in an entry wound, and there was no exit wound(you got me...to this day).The mark was not a hole but rather a cut like you would make with a small knife about 1/2 inch long...and only thru the fur/skin!!HONEST! After I cleaned said rabbit I had not found ANY evidence that he had been hit at all, no blood clot on skin, no bullet path of destruction..nothing. Ate good anyway. To this day I have related this story to other hunters and no one has any explanation, mine? I think maybe since he handcarved the stock, no bedding, all was "eyeballed" for straightness..that the round probably hit a small rock, fragmented, sliced but did not enter the thigh,and all this happening to the little guy out of the wild blue,gave him a massive thumper! Get it "thumper"? er, well it is a true story though....HAPPY NEW YEAR! PS: for some reason, ghost rifle went back into truck and he picked up his marlin and 10/22 w/out ever checking zero on it!? And accuracy, or lack of was never talked about again.IT'S TRUE!!! My idea about the "rabbit heart attack" comes from those stories I bet all of ya'll have heard about them jug carrying hillbillies shooting squirrels that are laying flat on tree limbs w/out leaving a mark on them. THE THEORY IS...the hillbilly shoots just a smidge under the tree rats chest,tween the chest and limb giving the critter a heart attack! ANY OF YA'LL HEARD THESE STORIES LET ME KNOW...BYE...
    "ANY" EXCUSE IS A GOOD REASON TO BUY "JUST 1 MORE".& VICIE-VERSIE!
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good imagination judge, like I said before in another post I know a good therapist who will help you. And he may also give you some good medications to help you stop halucinating.
    when all else fails........................[This message has been edited by 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king (edited 12-29-2001).]
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Darn! 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king I am starting to think you envy my halucinating because its better than yours ,stop using demerol and its posible you can come out with some better ones ...wish you luck! First it was my "spelang" now is my ESP! AWWWW ! never mind .......
    Ignis Natura Renovatur Integram
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well judge I kinda thought you was just funnin us but you really seemed to believe the story you told us about the "flying cow" And to think that somebody shooting their nuts off is funny(if the story is true) makes me wonder whether you are playing with a full deck. Just try to act your age and grow up a little bit, then again maybe you are. I think alot on here will laugh at some of your posts but some of the things you post are a little out of touch and not very mature. It's ok to have fun just quit being rediculous. And please quit posting things that will get you in trouble with the boogie men. Spelling, think your bad? Just look at the rest of us on here, every single one of us misspells words, I even seen clouder make a goof or two.
    when all else fails........................
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  • UnclePatUnclePat Member Posts: 77 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Funny Shot? I get a kick out of this one... "The first nuke fired in the India-Pakistan War"
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ouch
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  • hackerhacker Member Posts: 162 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    shot a clown once. that was pretty darn funny.
    i never make misteakes.
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This probably goes more under the "stupid" category rather than the "funny" category, but since some others have posted similar ones and "the other guy" did it, here goes. I was about 13 and a friend of mine had just gotten a "real" bow. It wasn't up to the high-tech standards you have today, but it was enough to be dangerous to man and beast alike. Anyway, he was showing it off to me in the woods near his house and he said, "Watch me shoot it." He pulled back about as far as a 13 year old could, then at the last second bent backwards and fired the damn thing straight up. I ran for the nearest large tree I could find. As I stood under a large branch, I yelled for him to get under it too. He just kind of waltzed over with a big s-eating grin on his face like he'd done something clever. A few seconds later, I heard some noise in the branches above and then THWAK -- the arrow buried itself about four inches into the hard clay where we'd just been standing. It got me all upset, but didn't seem to bother my friend much. Didn't play with him too often after that and lost track of him when he joined the Navy.
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I kinda think this is a funny one [This message has been edited by Varmintmist (edited 12-30-2001).][This message has been edited by Varmintmist (edited 12-30-2001).]
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My postings are like the bible ...each person have a different interpetration ,,,I am going to get a mitomanic seisure one of this days and become a GOD .... then i will start tossing lightningvolts from heavens at the infidels.......
    Ignis Natura Renovatur Integram
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    gordian-a friend of mine did the exact same thing once.except the arrow came through the roof & stuck in his moms myrtlewood coffee table.man, was she peed.
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    When we were kids about 10 or 11 we used to go out into a field and shoot an arrow into the air then run away so it didn't hit us. When it reached its highest elevation it would wiggle back and forth a couple times before it stabilized and started back down. my buddy shot a cat right through the neck and he ran around that way for a couple of days. We lived in a Trailer Park and everone knew who had done the dastardly deed. another buddy opened up the trailer door one day and blew a ladies undies up that were hanging out on the line to dry with his dad's shotgun.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid one of the neighbor kid's older brother bought a surplus 6x6. He was bragging it up and told us it had a bullet proof windshield...................We both had 22 rifles. End of story
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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah,I've posted this before,but it's my only funny shot.Was pheasant hunting and hunters at the other end of the field kicked up a rooster ,they shot and missed.Bird flew straight at me,came into range and I took the shot.What I failed to mention was shotgun was a black powder SxS.Bird broke through the smoke hitting me in the face and knocking my hat off.The other hunters said it was the funniest darn thing they'd seen!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was deployed to Honduras someone shot one of the hideous wild ducks (looked like a cross between vulture and duck) with an arrow. The COL in charge of the U.S. forces in Honduras was TICKED off to say the least! I started feeding them leftover chicken. Am I sick or what!
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    The first (and only) time my father and I were able to convince my mother to try out a pistol, we played a little joke on her.My father handed her his .45 Colt Single Action Army and told her to aim for a target he'd set up in the middle of a berm.Now, I was hiding well behind the berm. I took my camp saw and cut down a moderately big dead oak tree right to the quick, and waited for the shot. Then, I pushed it over.My long-suffering mother was shocked by the recoil and report of the .45, and doubly shocked when she saw the tree go down. My father played his part masterfully, of course. "Wow! Susan, look at that! You took it right down! Great shot!".You should have seen the look on her face. You would've thought she was holding a bazooka or something the way she handed that thing back to my old man.Needless to say, she was very disturbed with "the pistol that knocks down trees" and after muttering something about us being crazier than outhouse mice, left and never returned.We fessed up of course. She still hasnt been back.
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