Most fun thing you've done w/ a gun.

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Went out with a friend and shot his suppressed, 45ACP MAC-10. It felt good...

I almost always enjoy going out to shoot. I suffered on the East Coast for so many years with no place to shoot. Now I live in rural Nevada and I can shoot just about anywhere, as long as I'm at least a mile or more out of town. That's easy here.
 
In my three years active duty Army I had many an opportunity to shoot some fun stuff. We were deployed to Panama for training and were completing a squad movement-to-contact course. I was a carrying a M249 SAW. The 60 gunner and I cut a tree down that was on the course. We were really enjoying ourselves, but our squad leader didn't find any humor in our antics. After it was over I was sorry we disappointed him...but man it was fun!
 
hunting rats with a 12 gauge

During my teen years I would often go spend weekends at my grandma's house down in Gilroy. She lived out in a farming area.

In the evening, after the chickens had roosted, I would sprinkle a little hen-scratch (feed) into each of the various holes in the floor and walls of the chicken coupe and then return an hour or two later and examine the holes to see which ones hadn't any feed left in them. Then, I would "re-stock" the empty holes and sit on a chair in the center of the coup with my flashlight and my grandma's 20" Mossberg 500 ATP 12 gauge riot-gun resting in my lap. As soon as I discovered some activity, I would shoulder the shotgun and focus all of my attention into the depth of the hole. As soon as I saw those shiny eyes my heart would start racing as if I was aiming at a trophy buck. I'd wait for the little rodent to stretch forward his head and reach for the next crumb, then I'd pull the trigger. The hole would erupt with a cloud of dust, the chickens would start and stir, and there would be this ringing in my ears.

I'd get a stick and fish the rat's headless body from the hole. These were big, round, well-fed rats. Often I'd shoot two or three in a single evening; sometimes I'd shoot a second rat in the very same hole that I'd shot the first rat! I guess the smell of rat-guts and blood don't do much to repel other rats. During my "career" I shot well over 50 rats with that Mossberg.
 
we were out shooting in the desert one day at a regular spot, up against an 8 ft berm that ran alongside a wash. people shot there often, and there was a lot of trash laying around (we would always clean up our own mess and as much of the other rubbish as we could).

someone had left an old vcr out ther which had a few holes in it. i leaned it up, and took aim with my Ruger GP100 .357. the first two shots made satisfying noises, but the third shot cause the tape in the VCR to go shooting out about five feet in the air, trailing tape behind it. both our jaws were laying on the ground.
 
+1 on too many too list, but I'll try:

1. Taking my daughter shooting.
2. Killing my 1st buck.
3. IDPA.
4. Watching a milk jug filled with water explode and turn inside out after being shot with a mosin.
 
Like many of you, I have way to many to mention them all. But, three come to mind.

1) This one is serious. Was standing beside my son when he killed his first deer. I killed one also at the same time. We were on stand with drivers pushing deer our way. Two doe came out and stopped about 20 yards from us. We both shot at the same time. I was shooting a Marlin 444 and my son was shooting a Win. 94 30-30. He was 11 years old then.

2) My dad and I were out shooting our .22 revolvers on afternoon when we started hearing something coming through the woods. It was a large group of half grown armadillos. We started shooting those things and they were flopping and popping up all over the place. I have never seen anything like that before.

3) My buddies and I used to get in my truck and ride across the pastures at the farm that belonged to one of my buddies. We had .22's; rifles and pistols and would shoot possums that were always crossing the pastures. That was always lots of fun!

Bama61
 
Pumpkin Hunting

Taking the boys out after Halloween to dispose of our pumpkins. My boys use a NEF .410 single shot, and I use a mossberg 535 camo, with 3.5" turkey loads. The pumpkins never see it coming.

:) :)
 
Like many have said there were a lot of good times over the years.

I would have to say the best times were when I would good to the range as a
kid with my dad. Nothing fancy about it just some .22 shooting with an old
Sterling and a Single Six, but you cant beat the excitement of being a kid at
the range.
 
LAW rocket to the back of an armored personnel carrier on the training range at Ft. Dix, N.J. Although it was training, it was cooool!!! This may sound gruesome but shooting ground hogs with a 30-06 was kind of cool, messy fun.:what:
 
Tannerite baby...BOOM!

Was a saw gunner in the Army and LOVED that gun!

Also, not a gun per se but...

I took a field expedient munitions course when I was in the Army as well. The instructor had us bury a 55 gallon drum at about a 45 degree angle, with one side of the drum sticking out of the ground. The drum was also filled with a mixture of gasoline and liquid Tide. After rigging it up with det-cord and c4, he set this thing off...

It was the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life! It shot a cone shaped fireball out to what had to be every bit of 200 yards, landed on the ground and BURNED baby!

Never forget that.
 
just plinking with my friends off a friends back deck. That 7-up plus is gross, and we have the shreaded aluminum to prove it.
 
I have had so many good times shooting that it is hard to single just out one. But a recent one was with a buddy of mine and a marlin 1894 .44mag rifle. we came to the place we were going to shoot at and the scope on the rifle had gotten a pretty good wack along the way. Well we took the scope off and having a bunch of handloads to burn procided to see who could hit cosleset to this rock about 800 yards away. Oh by the way, the rifle had no rear sight! Well we burned maybe two hundered rounds and just had a hoot of a good time. It was amazing to find out how good one can shoot just using "yup up about that much" and looking down the barrel for windage!
 
I would say watching myself on the 11 o'clock news. When I was at the Westfield Machine Gun Shoot in western mass I was about to shoot a SAW. This reporter from the local NBC channel came over and ask if I'd hold off until he was done with his commentary. I said sure. I stood there with the SAW semi facing the camera with the bbl pointing down range. It had a belt of 100 rnds. When the reporter finished, I let the rounds start flying. The camera man zoomed in on me as I finished up the last few rounds. They edited out me turning around with a HUGE smile on my face though. That would of been priceless.
 
The most fun I have had was the first time I shot an Uzi. I started out with short bursts and then let it fly on the last mag. Couldn't get the grin off my face for anything. :D Also, has some young "hotshots" on the line thinking an old lady like me had no business in a gun shop. Took the S&W 500 out and BOOM!---had a lot of respect after that! :evil:
 
Awesome

I have two I couldnt decide between so i'll tell both. They both occured in the same day and have to do with an .17 air rifle.
I set up a series of action figures about 15 yds. away and me and my friends took turns taking shots at them I am a better marksman than they are so they just blew some holes in the chest and arms and legs and blew some other body parts off. I, on the other hand had figured out a way to cleanly blow the head off, you simply place the pellet right in the middle of the neck, this causes the to fly about 3/4 fett in the air :cool:
Place a Smartie (preferably pink or yellow) about 10/15 yds. away, place it on an aerosol can (or something else but make sure it hangs freely) aim square at the middle POW! It looks exactly like a little sporting clay!

P.S. I shot all of these using open sights :neener: it is decently hard to knock the head of an action figure off and extremely hard to destroy a Smartie.
 
It was definitely the night of my bachelor party (a week prior to the start of my first marriage). I didn't think there was gonna be a bachelor party period. But then one of my closest friends, and the guy who I chose to be my best man, showed up at my place with a number of other friends and took me to a private locale way north of the city in which we all reside. It was in a heavily forested area at the edge of a small lake. Once we got there, they started breaking out all manner of firearms and we all went to shooting. I've never spent so much ammo in one session in my entire life . . . over 1500 rounds of 9mm Parabellum, .45 ACP, 10mm Auto, .44 Magnum, 12-gauge 00 Buckshot, .223 Remington, .308 Win., and .300 Win. Mag.! Altogether, the 5 of us spent almost 5 cases of ammunition in the span of about 6 hours. Of course, this wouldn't have been possible but for the fact that one of the 9mm weapons and one of the .223 Remington weapons they produced had REALLY fast rates of fire ;). They had even set up targets for me to shoot at on the tops of buoys way out in the lake. Anyway, I had a migraine headache by the time we we're done in addition to a badly bruised left shoulder, painful wrists, and completely numb hands.

Afterwards, we all went to this really swanky steak house and ate filet mignon and drank copious amounts of Silver Oak and Stag's Leap Cabernet Savignons.

One of the best days of my entire life!

SRM
 
Bump firing my SAR-1. It's a blast! The only bad part about it is after doing it for a while, when I fire it normally, I find myself bracing for FA fire, and I wonder what went wront when only one shot comes off. (and no, feathering the trigger didn't do any good). It took about 5 normal shots before I realised that it's only going to pop one off at a time. :) Unfortunatly x39 seems to be a rare commodity now-a-days, so I don't do it that much anymore.:(
 
Shot a gourd with a .357 Magnum 125 grain JHP.

I swear the results would have been the same if you stuck a lit M-80 inside the gourd.

:D
 
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