Ah yes, thanks for that link. Like I said then, it’s like the time Homer Simpson bought a gun.
Kind of appropriate that today is Charles Darwin’s birthday, isn’t it?
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That’s the place, the open Game Lands pistol range about 10 minutes north of here.
Did I tell you that it was closed for about 6 months? Wanna know why? Because a bunch of jokers came in and blew the posts holding the target boards to the ground with shotguns. Did I mention that the posts were 12-inch tree trunks? They blew the hell out of those things. There was nothing left to even prop a target against, let alone pin one. They only recently fixed it back up, but God knows how long that will last.
Yeah, there are some serious idiots here, without question.
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Holy Crap! Man-those were substantial supports-I remember them from our last visit. That’s wrong on so many levels.
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
I grew up around guns, and my fathers instructional style is much the same as **Stranger ** and **Silenus’ ** seemed to have been. You messed up (say by pointing a gun at someone, or not clearing your gun and leaving it blatently unloaded before hoofing it downrange to check targets, etc), you sat in the car while everyone else got to shoot all day after a complete ripping of a new poop chute. No second chances.
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I grew up around guns too, but with no father to teach me anything. I learned about gun safety the hard way when I was 14 years old: By putting a two-inch hole clean throught the wall of our house with a .410 shotgun I had thought was unloaded. I doubt I’ll ever forget how I felt right after that gun went off. Sort of a combination of :eek: and :smack: and :(.
[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
Very few things will knock your cockiness down several pegs like your firearm discharging when your finger is Nowhere Near the trigger…
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Heh. Reminds me of a documentary I saw on the History Channel, awhile back, on Japanese weapons of WWII. One Nambu pistol model (I forget which) tended to fire if you put pressure on the receiver.
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I’m amazed that the range employee’s didn’t find the problem sooner.
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He was otherwise occupied trying to shove a pencil up the ass of the beancounter in the upstairs office.
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Hey, here’s the The Smoking Gun page (Og, the irony, it burns! The goggles, they do nothing!) on Lee Paige (“The DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot”), who is apparently now suing the federal government for disseminating the tape and making him “the target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments”. According to his own testimony about his reputation, he was “once regarded as one of the best undercover agents, if not the best, in the DEA.”
Wow. just…wow. You can’t make up stuff this good.
Stranger
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Gee, if he was one of the best agents in the DEA, is it any wonder why we’re losing the war on drugs? (Anybody want to take bets that the folks in Homeland Security are any better? I thought not.)
One of the best ranges near here is (or used to be) Dechmont Ranges, overlooking the village.
When I was there last, my SSM told me that the ranges used to be much better and used more but a lazy, stupid squaddie fired off a few GPMG rounds well outside of the range arcs and one managed to hit a window in the neighbouring urban area. They homeowners have a lovely view of the hills, but I bet they rarely stand in awe at window for too long any more.
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Heh. Reminds me of a documentary I saw on the History Channel, awhile back, on Japanese weapons of WWII. One Nambu pistol model (I forget which) tended to fire if you put pressure on the receiver.
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You can do that with Lugers as well, if you press in the sear on the side of the slide group.