Hey OP,
This is the gun club near London I was talking about earlier:
If you look at the images rotating around on the home page they look very different to “normal” guns, probably different to the toy guns you have?
I think target shooting would be an interesting hobby. There’s the achievement of improving your accuracy, as well as the skills learned such as concentration, breath control etc.
Whaddya think?
I got an air pistol last year and I quite like it so far. It’s cheap and quiet enough that I can plink away whenever I want and accurate enough that I can see myself getting better at it, and that’s about all I need it to do.
I’ve only been to a shooting range once, but I rather enjoyed having a chance to try it out. I got to use 3 different guns, all of which shot real bullets and everything. I can see how skeet shooting would be a lot of fun.
I went to a gun range for the first time my freshman year of college. It was an outing organized by the RA of my on-campus residence hall (Indiana, hillbillies, etc). I was the most accurate shooter on my entire floor. Take that, 1950s society!
It’s a bloke thing. They even make gardening equipment that plays to this desire.
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And who amongst us hasn’t played Stormtroopers when presented with a Karcher pressure washer?
You like to play at being a terrible marksman and getting killed by farm boys and teddy bears?
Kid 1: I get to be a redshirt.
Kid 2: No, you were a redshirt the last time. It’s MY turn to be a redshirt and get killed!
Kid 1: I WANT to be a redshirt, you be Spock.
Kid 2: No, you have to wear the pointy ears this time. It’s my turn to be a redshirt.
a scuffle ensues.
Honestly, at this point it’s not unlikely.
You can have my toy gun when you pry it from my sweaty little KoolAid stained hand.
But what there is is choice (pronounced “cherse”).
so, that made me go HEE!
Grandwino, you need to dial back the cynicism.
I dated a guy for a while who was a history buff and collected unusual/exotic/collectible firearms. Mostly of the machine gun and 50-cal variety. On several occasions we took a bunch of these out to (mostly private) ranges and blasted away at old appliances and cars on full auto. That was really, really fun.
I don’t think I’d see the point if they were toy guns, though. The fun was in blowing shit apart, or shredding paper targets, or actually trying to get a bit more skilled at hitting what I was aiming at.
I also think that JohnClay should start a blog. I’d probably subscribe to it.
This thread got me thinking. I have a basket full of wine corks here. It would be cool as hell to have something that shot them. They are roughly .75 caliber. I’m thinking adult cork gun, here. Any ideas where to begin?
here’s a cork shooting pistol
Instead of his usual glurge, an elderly corespondent today sent me this video of a toy gun that kills flies with a pinch of salt.
For those of you “Who Dares, Wins” types who’ll dare to filch office supplies as a source of ammo, there’s the rubber band Gatling gun
I remember seeing something like that on sale at the Ohio State Fair once. It was larger in size, had a 144 rubber band capacity, was tripod mounted, and was hand cranked like the original Gatling Guns.
If we’re sharing novelty guns, then I’ll offer this handgun dog leash.
Awesome! Stocking stuffers.
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