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454 Casull, and bowling balls
robsguns
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I went shooting today, and remembered that I'd taken some bowling balls to my buddy's farm, that werent any good, he has a junk pile, and I put them there for future 'use'. I was afraid of using them for targets for any rifle, ricochet you know, but today I was shooting the 454, hey, wait a minute, big slow bullet, hmmm....
Well, bowling balls have a really cool center to them, if you have never shot one until the outer part is destroyed, you need to do it some time. The center is best described as a pear shaped thing, like a huge Christmas ornament, very strange. Anyway, it took 6 shots from my 454 to totally destroy all of the bowling ball, I couldnt believe how hard this thing was! Just another useless bit of info. for people like me.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
Well, bowling balls have a really cool center to them, if you have never shot one until the outer part is destroyed, you need to do it some time. The center is best described as a pear shaped thing, like a huge Christmas ornament, very strange. Anyway, it took 6 shots from my 454 to totally destroy all of the bowling ball, I couldnt believe how hard this thing was! Just another useless bit of info. for people like me.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
That sounded like fun!
KC
"It was like that when I got here".
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Ya know, I must still be a little imature, because that thing your friend does sounds kind of interesting, I'd like to see that. I know hes not lying either, after shooting the one with the 454 and seeing it merely crack at the first shot and still be intact, well... I was impressed with the manufaturing technique of that ball. I'd like to see one dropped from a sky diving jump, right onto concrete, from about 500 feet up, and see what the damage is?? This could be a new X-games sport, bowling ball dropping from a parachute, closest one to the x-ring wins.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
What kind of weenie gun takes 6 shots to destroy a bowling ball?....better get one of those M44 Chainsaw guns that cuts down 6" trees.....(heehee)...sorry, it just slipped out.....
I remember I read a short-story once about an aristocratic gentleman in 18th century Paris who bent down on the street to pick up a piece of string (for his own inscrutiable purposes), and was subsequently accused of picking up a money-wallet that had been dropped in the same area.
He eventually was convicted of stealing it, and went insane, because no one believed that an aristocrat could possibly bother to bend over to pick up a useless piece of string.
The point? Well, I am nearly at the point of going through the forest looking for that one stupid tree so I can take a picture of it and post it on here for you nay-sayers.
I was never prouder of the 7.62x54mm than I was on that day.
Furthermore: a 6-inch diameter oak which is already full of woodpecker holes, and is rotting from the inside out is hardly comprable to an intact bowling ball with a solid marble core.
Further furthermore: it took me three shots, all of which were taken at short distance and directed at the sides. I think I was actually trying to duplicate the "coring" effect I had inadvertently achieved on a target-bearing fencepost, where an off-center round had torn a half-circular gouge out of the side of the post, approximately the diameter of an egg.
Edited by - Bullzeye on 06/25/2002 00:34:52
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
Maintenance is a *, eh.
Clouder..
YOU are a *. Specifically, MY *.
Now genuflect and beg for forgiveness or I'll bust out my can of Raid.
Jeter E. Bentley, Jr.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
Really don't mean to crap on your thread here, but .........
I'm still interested in hearing why it would be necessary to be "...going through the forest looking for that one stupid tree ...", when it should be very easy to find. Just go the friend's "range".
That is where it was when it was shot. Stands to reason it should still be there, not off in the middle of a forest somewhere, right?
I am trying to avoid giving out any more information than absolutely necessary to you people.
And I am really questioning why I would waste the film to placate an idiot who insists on beating that old drum like a trained chimpanzee.
With as many fleas, and as much brainpower...
Clouder..
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
You cutt the funnel top and prepare a large "Propane" Muzzle loader ..
A magiclick and BOOM! it can wreck a house at 300Y.
(Not for the amateur) Large Expertize and a heck of luck required...
Can use ? Pound black powder but requires large alterations and extras ..(Buy an used 105) instead...
JD
Good...? , Bad...? Who cares ? as long I am the one with the the gun.....