Dumb things done with guns

[mickeyblueyes]

You are welcome. And would you believe that Dave never shot another propane bottle?

Yea I believe that and he has been wearing a fire proof orthotic cup ever since too.

 

[nagant]

some guy's i knew decided to butcher a hog. they put the pig in a 12 foot square old building on a farm and gave a city kid a 9 shot revolver and sent him in to do the deed. As soon as he fired the guy's shut and locked him in with the hog. went something like Bang, jiggle knob, Bang, LET ME OUT!!! BANG BANG CUSS BANG CUSS BANG BANG BANG CUSS!

 

[Jst1mr]

To add to the BB gun stupidity:

BB gun fights. Original rules: single cock, lever action only - left welts but nothing you couldn't stand. Multi - cock Crossmans came along, necessitating some new rule-making: Two pump maximum. One participant gets pelted so badly his rage drives him up to at least a five pump level, and the combatants need to get together to finger squeeze a BB out of someones lip in which it buried itself. New rules: Back to wrist rockets and crab apples - no acorns allowed.

 

[Alpo]

I got a couple of "stupids". Not really gun-related.

Was having a BB-gun war. I was wearing a Western-brand hunting knife. My friend (the enemy) was standing next to a pine tree, maybe 30 feet away. I threw that knife - a beautiful throw, and stuck it chest-high in that tree, right next to him. In the second or so it was in flight, if he'd have taken a half-step to the right I'd have killed him dead. Oops.

Used to shoot bow-and-arrows in the back yard. Had some hay-bales set up as backstops. One day I was curious as to how far one would go. 30 pound bow. I held it up at about 45 degrees and let 'er fly. It went three yards away. Cool. I was thinking about that, this past Christmas, as I gave my granddaughters bows and arrows. There was no one in that yard when I let fly, and thankfully no one when it landed, but there coulda been. Someone coulda damn sure walked out in that yard in that two or three seconds it was in flight. Opps. Again.

Kids sure do stupid stuff. It's amazing more of 'em don't either kill themselves or someone else.

 

[Jaysq]

>>>>>>Now we're almost to the dumb part.<<<<<

Seems to me the dumb part started about two paragraphs before this... Just saying

 

[wundudnee]

Back in the early 50s, a bunch of us neighborhood kids all about 12-13 had .22 rifles. One of the boys had a brother that was in his middle 20s. He had bought an old army surplus 6X6. He was bragging to us younger boys that it had bullet proof glass. Now that was really foolish on his part.

 

[CatSnipah]

sometimes God watches over idiots an children.

Often one in the same.

 

[johnbeaver]

Don't try this at home.

Long ago. Company fish fry. And we always had rifles with us and would have some fun shooting.
The manager and a few employee's of our main freight company were also invited. One of the freight guy's had wired a spike deer skull cap to the front of his cap. At some point he put a Miller Lite can on to one of the spikes. Well, you guessed it. The manager and I were still shooting. I had a BL-22. I believe he was shooting a Marlin. When we saw the can we looked at each other, didn't say a word. Just shot. we both hit. His was a little high. Mine was right in the center of the oval. Man, I wished I had never traded that rifle away.
Anyway, the target, when he realized what had happened, sat down at a picnic table and stayed there the rest of the night. He was pretty shook. My thought was if he had not wanted us to shoot it, he should not have put it there. It was like a challenge.
But shortly thereafter we put the guns up and from then on I wouldn't let the beer flow until everyone was through shooting.

 

[johnbeaver]

Which brings up another subject

 

[nagant]

I remember another kid at the abandoned railroad line/shooting range that would cut thru the outer hull on a 12 ga. shell without cutting the shot cup. I always stood wayy back when he launched those homemade slugs.