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Stupid things with firearms.
JesseLee
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During my youth I did some really stupid things with firearms and bullets. For example, a close friend and I would take 22Mag's bullets and use our BB guns to discharge the bullets. Well one time a piece of schrapnel came back and hit me in the glasses (which broke) and bounced off and plugged my forehead. Yes I was bleeding profusely and had a headache for three days.
So I was wondering what others have done that was really stupid.
And yes I know that somebody will make some asinine comment about some of the things that has been done. So I am prepaired for the comments
So I was wondering what others have done that was really stupid.
And yes I know that somebody will make some asinine comment about some of the things that has been done. So I am prepaired for the comments
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So I was wondering what others have done that was really stupid.
Once I answered a question like this honestly.
quote:Originally posted by JesseLee
So I was wondering what others have done that was really stupid.
Once I answered a question like this honestly.
nuthin so far....
Oh and another thing I did that was stupid, only use two periods in this entire post including the one I am ending with right now.
My uncle as a kid did the shotgun shell in a pipe and hammer bit.
As for me I never did any thing that I would not do today. I always have understood that they are not toys.
then me and my older brother took a 1" pipe about 4" long and filled it with poweder and put a cap on both ends my mom found one of the cap ends
about a month later lodge in the headboard of there bed along with a broke pain of glass you should have heard the tell to get our a'' out of that crack [V][V][V][:D]
When I was about 10 I was given a toy Kentucky rifle for Christmas. This gun did not use any gunpowder. For ignition, there was a flat spot where the hammer hit. You put a single toy cap into this flat spot. A little hole went into the chamber. You loaded the gun with a cork bullet. You would be surprised, the little cork bullet would go about 50 feet.
I decided to upgrade my rifle. I got the powder from 3 Black Cat firecrackers and poured that down the barrel. Instead of a cork bullet, I used a marble. The marble was a pretty good fit.
Somehow, I had the brains to wedge the gun in a bush and pull the trigger with a 20 foot cord. I aimed it at the neighbors house.
I pulled the string and the rifle roared. It did not blow up.
To this day, there is a little hole in the concrete blocks of that house.
and the more i think about it, he deserved it.
friends or not, he turned out to be a drug addict and AA member in life. but now he has his masters and teaches electronics and designs computers. yep, i still think he deserved it. i hate nurds that whine. i mean, this guy still had his mom cutting his food for him at 13. [:0][:p]
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
Put the shell in the chamber.
Then inserted a fletched arrow into the barrel and shot it.
Arrow went into the next county.
Now, I don't know why (and have wondered)my cousin didn't take this opportunity to leave the country of something, but he was standing exactly where he had been when he shot me, so I started shooting back!
I have always been an excellent shot and I had that Model 99 w/a 4X Redfield REALLY dialed in, so AT THE TIME I never even considered the possibility that I might hit him by accident (Had I MEANT to hit him, I would have!)I burned up the better part of a box of ammo, shooting VERY CLOSE to him! (we're talking inches)[B)][:0]
That's the only time in my life I've EVER pointed a firearm at somebody and didn't FULLY intend to kill them. When I think (and I still do, from time to time)of all the things that could've gone wrong that day all I can do is thank God.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
This is the reason people want to take away our guns. I vote we delete this whole thread.
Nothing.
This is the reason people want to take away our guns. I vote we delete this whole thread.
You have to have a star before you can vote. Don
We had some hellacious battles with the "760 Power Masters"! There were about 7 or 8 of us total and we ALL had the 760's eventually, those things will leave a WELT! If you shot someone with a pellet as opposed to a BB with one of those.............all bets were off!
Because my BB gun was a pump Daisy, that 'slam-fired' everytime I cocked it. It wasn't accurate worth squat, but I could lay down a withering 'covering fire' till my partners in arms got into a better shooting position!
Put the shell in the chamber.
Then inserted a fletched arrow into the barrel and shot it.
Arrow went into the next county."
NYForester, that is a good one. Wish I had thought of that.
Thanks !!!
d.a.stearns
Gunsmith / LEO
Niotab , Tn
p.s. nothing here I would 'brag' about !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shot out my neighbors' yard lights. That wasn't the "stupid" part because I had a nice Elm tree as a backstop and the light was within 20 yrds. I used a .22 Marlin semi. The stupid came in three parts. 1. there was 3 inches of snow on the back porch. 2. I called the cops to claim "I heard someone shooting" 3. My dad was the Police Investigator who responded. Yeah stooopid x 3.
What's the statute of limitations on shooting out a streetlight? I only did it once.
Here's a good one. A friend of mine decided to build a "shooting range" in his backyard. He dug a ten ft deep pit and excavated a cave-like space aboutsix feet high and 15 ft deep and put a trap[door with a ladder. this is in a residential neighborhood with other houses less than fifty feet away. he would mostly shoot .22s down there and you couldnt hear a thing.
He tells me about the "range" about the same time as a friend of mine was putting together one of those Sten kits and he need3ed desperately to find someplace to try it out. We went over to the range, which had poor lighting, no ventilation, and proceed to open up with the Sten. I immediately noticed sparks and heard the sound of riccochets as bullets splattered off football sized rocks embedded in the dirt.
I went outside for air and to express my concewrn about the safety of the range to my friend. They didnt want to hear anything about it and proceeded to hammer away as I listened to the sound from above.
When they finished I said I wanted to do a closer inspection of the place with a flashlight. I discovered that not only were there large rocks embedd3ed in the soil, one "rock" looked a little too unatrual and upon closer inspection was confirmed to be part of a natural gas line for the neighborhood. Then I picked up some 9mm brass the guys had been shooting and a couple were 9X19 but they worked in the Sten somehow.
The guy agrred with me that the line could be dangerous to shoot at and never shot in the place again and eventually filled up most of the hole. When he tried to sell the house ten years later somehow they figured out there had been digging around the gas line and the city condemed the property until it had been excavated, inspected and "profesionally" backfilled to the tune of about $20,000 in fines, work, legal fees etc. before he could sell the house.
This would have been around 1955 to 1957.
Turns out the US Army had dewatted it by pouring lead into the barrel. Guess how long it took us to melt that out.[}:)]
The ammo came from the kid's older brother who was a sergeant in the NG.
Shot out my neighbors' yard lights. That wasn't the "stupid" part because I had a nice Elm tree as a backstop and the light was within 20 yrds. I used a .22 Marlin semi. The stupid came in three parts. 1. there was 3 inches of snow on the back porch. 2. I called the cops to claim "I heard someone shooting" 3. My dad was the Police Investigator who responded. Yeah stooopid x 3.
Dude. I thought we agreed that we would never speak of this thing again.[:D]
Had a kid that hung around with us who was a bit slow in the feet department. We all got into a bottle rocket war one day just shy of 4 july 1979. ...
Ah yes, the ol firework fights.lol A bunch of us were having roman candle fights one time and my not to bright brother jumped out from behind a tree just about the time my roman candle decided to double fire. He caught two in the chest from about 15ft. The year before, he had a shirt pocket full of black cats, and had been toy with lighting a match one handed using his thumbnail. Yep, flipped out of his hand and into the pocket with the black cats. He went running across the field beating on his chest, and when he returned there was little left of what was once a perfectly good shirt.lol
I know this thread was about guns, but the firework mishaps bring back far funnier memories.
Another is of a friend that made a yearly ritual of lighting a 12ft. band of fire crackers, and swinging them over his head while they went off. Well, one year I guess he had a bit too much to drink and got the entire band wrapped around himself. I wasn't there at the time, but always envision it when there's any mention of fireworks.lol
In grade school we taped marbles to the bottom of shotgun shells and threw them up in the air. When they come down the marble hits and the shell goes boom. The pellets rain down among us and we do it again. Teacher caught onto it and we all got in trouble.
Had an old septic tank that was no longer used and was full of snakes. Poured 5 gallons of gas into it and dropped a match. Felt like an earthquake as it lifted the ground and woke the neighborhood. Damn thing is still full of snakes to this day.
ah! the days when a roman candle fight seamed like a sensible thing to do, why did regular fire works just not satisfy the need?, a dozen bottle rockets strapped to a toy car, fire cracker in a pile of dog crap when another kid would walk by, oh the days
i think i would come close to child abuse if i ever caught my kids doing the crap i did
quote:Originally posted by dogman
Shot out my neighbors' yard lights. That wasn't the "stupid" part because I had a nice Elm tree as a backstop and the light was within 20 yrds. I used a .22 Marlin semi. The stupid came in three parts. 1. there was 3 inches of snow on the back porch. 2. I called the cops to claim "I heard someone shooting" 3. My dad was the Police Investigator who responded. Yeah stooopid x 3.
Dude. I thought we agreed that we would never speak of this thing again.[:D]
I think the statute is expired... and I don't know these guys.
Made a few zip guns, a lot of homemade fireworks and stuff (still make a few firecrackers from time to time). Been in a few BB gun wars as a kid, too. I had a Crosman 2200 Magnum with a scope and was the bane of anyone who shot at me with a BB gun. There was a swampy gully where we used to go to fart around and I stalked many a little punk through there who was stupid enough to shoot at me with his Marksman or Daisy. King of the butt-shots, I never missed[}:)]
When I was a teenager, I had a big problem with kids throwing rocks at my dogs. I took to shooting at them with a pellet gun. A friend loaned me his Tippman full-auto paintball gun and I put the paintballs in the freezer. The merdes petits of the local junior high came by, unloaded a fusillade of chuckie stones at my dogs, and I jumped out from behind the shed and let them have it with the painball gun. Emptied the sucker at them, with the frozen paintballs. Even that didn't help, so I clobbered a few of them and they stopped.
those kids must have been some special kind of dense. Paintballs hurt like hell if they bounce and frozen paintballs should all bounce with no breaks.
Too bad you couldn't get your hands on an Armotech/Ariakon SIM-4, those damn things shoot 400 fps with the out-of-the-box velocity spring, a wire-cutter attack or a new spring from Ariakon makes the gun legal for playing paintball; otherwise it is a discipline tool/varmint repellant [:D]
(400fps would probably cause "blood welts" at medium range if it hit exposed skin or single layer clothing)