I gotta try this - bump firing, with videos.

[gunmaker2872]

or get one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2QCYAlSjE

 

[btefft]

gunmaker2872,

I see where you bump-fired a 10-22. I was thinking there wasn't enough recoil for a .22 rifle, but apparently I'm wrong.

How did you do it, same technique as for an AR?

Hack

 

[cland]

Bump Firing-Childsplay

All the ingenuity and inventiveness to make a weapon fire like a FA artificially...

When our wonderful, marvelous, BATFE can take a tie wrap, a shoelace, a little snot, and make a full auto machinegun out of a piece of used toilet paper.......Miracle of miracles.......

 

[crebralfix]

You may not be happy with the results when you shoot one over the berm.

 

[Mainsail]

I know of one informal range that was shut down by the landowner because people were sending rounds over the back stop, probably from bump-firing.

 

[PurdueRifleman2008]

A few years ago I used to own a WASR that I dropped a 3lb red star trigger into that you could bump with very easily off the shoulder. It wasn't an accurate gun, but it was fun to burn off a bunch of cheap milsurp ammo with it.

When I would bump fire with it, it was into the side of a large hill on our farm so I highly doubt there were any strays. This all came to an end one day when our "neighbor" about a mile to the right (North) of where I was shooting called the county cops on me for shooting a "machinegun." They inspected my rifle, wrote down the serial number, and called it in "for my own protection" as one of the officers put it. They didn't take the gun, so instead they told me to go home and find a new !@#$%^& place to shoot. Yep, county officers kicked me off my own property.

Moral of the story: be careful where you do that, even if you're on your own property with a perfectly safe backstop. Some people have no sense of humor.

 

[Funderb]

I tried that with my mosin, I was really dissapointed, I don't think I did it right.

 

[Caeser2001]

I wonder how long bump firing has been around, because until this evening, I'd never heard of it.

I stumbled across it this summer, that must be where the "pistol grips make it easier to fire from the hip" comes from when in reality the pg has nothing to do with it.

 

[jpwilly]

When I would bump fire with it, it was into the side of a large hill on our farm so I highly doubt there were any strays. This all came to an end one day when our "neighbor" about a mile to the right (North) of where I was shooting called the county cops on me for shooting a "machinegun." They inspected my rifle, wrote down the serial number, and called it in "for my own protection" as one of the officers put it. They didn't take the gun, so instead they told me to go home and find a new !@#$%^& place to shoot. Yep, county officers kicked me off my own property.

Moral of the story: be careful where you do that, even if you're on your own property with a perfectly safe backstop. Some people have no sense of humor.

Really? you let them intimidate you on your own land even though you weren't breaking the law?

Anyway, where I come from most of the responding officers would have wanted a how to "bump" fire lesson after figuring out what was going on.

 

[ravonaf]

I wonder how long before antis are claiming we are turning semi-auto into full auto machine guns. Even though it's not practical and perfectly legal they could use this to their advantage.

 

[bigmike45]

I bump fired my SKS a couple of months ago at the range and the neighbor called the Sheriff's Department and complained that there was someone discharging a full auto gun. About 10 minutes later two Deputies came by and asked if I was shooting a full auto rifle. I handed them the SKS and told them "No sir just this semi auto SKS". One Deputy shot a couple of rounds and handed it back to me and asked if I had any other guns. I tossed him the keys to my car and he looked in the trunk and inside. They apoligized that it must have been a prank call by someone who had their noon nap disturbed by my gunfire. I told them that I could shoot the gun so fast that it sounded like full auto....which was not a lie!! The one Deputy asked me how, so I showed him the bump fire method using the thumb in the beltloop and he was amazed. What amazed him more was that I could keep it on the target when firing from the hip. They both chuckled and left.

Yes, I know it burns valuable ammo uselessly, but it is fun once in a while.

bigmike45