Boogger pickin' . . . mailbox shootin'

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All right. I'd already had about enough of the non-THR booger pickers shooting up the signs on my county roads. But now you've gone and shot the local public mailbox all full of holes. Hit my mailbox and several others. If I catch ya, I'm going . . . .

Seriously, this is one more reason to teach your kids right. I've NEVER shot anything but a legitimate target. Why some people insist on shooting things like signs, mailboxes, power poles etc. is just beyond my comprehension.

Have you ever shot a road sign? Have you! Well please explain yourself if you did. I'd really like to know what the point is. I'm sure it costs several hundred dollars to replace each of those shot up signs.

One more reason for the sheeple to be afraid of the gun community as a whole. As far as they are concerned we'll shoot anything. And you are proving them right. Bunch of morons I swear grumble grumble . . . . DOC080627.png
 
spencer - the way your post was written, it sounds like you are stating members of THR are the ones shooting up road signs.

Personally, I think most of the people that shoot road signs aren't the type who join online gunboards and discuss legal cases, or concealed carry.

P.S. I'm sure there are plenty of those people over at APS though :D
 
I never have myself, and I always found it really poor taste.

The only signs I ever enjoyed seeing shot were those that said 'no shooting'. There was just an enjoyable irony.
I never have done it myself though.

Everything else was a nuisance, and makes shooters look look like reckless inconsiderate people.

100,000 gun owners could drive by a sign and never shoot it. The one or two that do, probably several signs at a time, give the impression to those that do not know any better that gun owners are immature and dangerous.
Signs are also usualy higher than the person, meaning that to shoot it they had to shoot in and upwards trajectory without knowing where thier shot would land. Yet another example of carelessness.

In the end though it is just those immature individuals that will always exist. Often they break or vandalize things with something else, occasionaly they use a gun.
 
I agree, every time I see a county road sign riddled with bullet holes, it makes me think of a bunch of rednecks in the back of a pickup hootin' and hollerin' with a Budweiser in one hand and a .45 in the other just making complete asses of themselves.
 
The people that shoot stuff like road signs and mailboxes are the same who are going to wonder why don't have anywhere legal to shoot one day. That crap drives me nuts. There are couple of other things along those lines that really get to me like shooting in the desert somewhere that is perfectly legal and leaving a truck load of trash behind. Its the same type of thing and it is immature and disrespectful.
 
I'll fess up, I did shoot a number of road signs and other assorted inanimate objects during one wild night in high school. It was only with a paintball gun, but I feel bad about my behavior to this day.

I wonder if a lot of people shoot up things as some form of subconscious turf marking.
 
I confess. I was once in high school, and was thus a young idiot (as well as a Booger Eatin' Moron).

I was riding shotgun (appropriately enough) in a friends car late at night, on a two-lane highway south of Colorado Springs, and unloaded a 12-gauge on a road sign. EVERY road sign outside the city limits was already shot to hell. I guess I figured I could be just as stupid as everyone else.

Guns don't shoot road signs.
Numbnuts shoot road signs.
 
I got a chunk of wear plate from the highway department for a clanger target, but the only firearms-and-streetsigns incident I can recall is the time I inquired politely what several people were doing to the cow crossing sign between my house and the barn on graduation night a few years back.

I got a free socket set.
 
I had some placed in my yard one time by a bunch of booger eatin idiots. I called the county and they came and got them. Then it was 78 for sale signs durring the summer. Some agents didnt come back for them, after 3 months I used them for gong targets.
 
Shooting at anything that isn't meant to be shot at(ie, targets and game) is just a dumb red-neck thing to do.

You should see the range I go to...I'm usually the only one there, so I guess it is always like that, so it gives free reign for all of the idiots to turn pretty much everything into swiss cheese...Trash cans, chairs, tables and the canopy.

BTW, if there was ever a time to need a mullet smiley, this would be it.:)
 
Growing up in the country side in Georgia I have never shot at a road sign nor knew anyone who did. We were taught never to shoot on a road or over a road. Let it be known.
On the other hand I have seen signs linger for a time and that gives the impression of a negative firearm influence.
 
Never shoot at a transmission torque converter with a .303 Enfield... It shoots back! :eek: It IS pretty fun to roll an alternator around with one though. Oh yeah! You can take the disk right out the back of a hard drive if ya hit it square on the spindle with soft points! :p
 
Always bothered me as well, but I imagine we're not about to run out of retards anytime soon.
 
So, what caliber for mailbox?
Click to expand...

Better yet, what caliber for snowplow? I've had my mailbox destroyed 3x in the last 6 years by snowplows. At least the village offer $25 in compensation per incident- enough to pay for about 1/2 of a mailbox:banghead:


Not too many signs/mailboxes shot up near me.


True story:

About a decade ago, some kids were blowing up mailboxes near Green Bay with homemade explosives. One resident who was tired of having his mailbox being destroyed by kids with baseball bats decided to build a mailbox out of concrete sandwiched between steel. The kids pulled up to the guys mailbox in a pickup truck, lit fuse and deposited bomb in mailbox, the driver killed the truckwhen his foot slipped off the clutch, and the bomb killed both kids in the truck when the blast was directed right into the cab through the passenger's window.
The homeowners predictably got sued by the kids surviving parents n the basis that the homeowner built too sturdy of a mailbox. The homeowner won in court, but it cost him money.

I'm not a big believer in evolution, but Darwin might have had some interesting insight on how things work in nature.
 
Good Lord, while it seems like a fun thing to see in a movie or in another romanticized setting, there's no way I'd do it IRL. Traffic signs have a very, very important function--directing traffic, and thereby quite conceivably protecting both drivers and pedestrians. Destroying or damaging one so significantly borders on criminal mischief.
 
The kids who damaged the OP's mailbox committed a federal offense... with a firearm. I'm going to bet the jail time for that is nothing to sneeze at.
 
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