Hence my previous post #50 about how my Grandad used to train the our NZ troops, shipping out for WW2. Guys will panic when they think the thing will go bang in there hand!:o:XD:
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My Gunmaker 500 nitro express :XD: Gunmaking
He says most of the time he swallows the gum:XD:
Yeah, it was his own air rifle from memory
Just rememberd another one. One of the team made a orange gun. PVC pipe with a flash ignition plunger. We all had a few beers then up to a place to fire the thing. Man could that thing spit out a frozen orange.
My ex wife wanted to have a go so she lifted it and sort of aimed like a proper gun. She let a shot off and the recoil caused the O gun to come back and hit her in the two front teeth.
Cost me a lot of money in trips to town to get her teeth fixed.
The only time I have ever been bit was walking down a track on the farm after stuffing up a stalk on a decent stag and I saw a hare hopping up the track, so thought I'd take my frustration out on it.
.308 split my eyebrow, missed the hare.
Imagine if it had hit somebody downrange, what would the ACC report read like?
"Subject concussed by potato to forehead. Origin unknown"
@Mauser308 what the hell were you using for fuel? Diesel? I had one in 50mm and it worked reliably with hairspray and was nasty with engine start.
My first centrefire was a gift from my boss in the USA 23 years ago. Anyway he loaded up a heap of ammo for me to sight it in and sent me down the paddock to his range. Got back later and he asks how it's shooting. I show him the target with about 40 holes in it and none of them in any kind of group. He gave me a WTF kind of look and said he would have a go tomorrow. I think I may have been flinching a wee bit.