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

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Full Auto BAR .... oh great googedly moogedly. :eek:

That's one fun rifle to play with. Shooting up cars, explosive reactive targets, propane tanks, etc. Thanks to the annual .50 cal and machine gun shoot in Colorado... way way fun.
 
Cut Down a Tree with a .22

It was a .22 lr semiauto pistol I was using. I do not remember how many 10 shot clips I used before it fell over.
 
hmm....besides blasting over a thousand rounds through a M2, or 160 rounds through the MK19, and being able to freegun it. I would have to say its a tie between the button buck I got this year, opening day, 150 yards, remington 11-87 12guage with rifled barrel, iron sights, dropped the deer in his tracks, the perfect shot. the other would have to be shooting an old CRT computer monitor with my .308 at about 25 yards, no marksmanship involved just plain fun shooting it, it was pretty cool when the rounds started hitting the magnet in the back and smoke would come boiling out.
 
fbi

my dad has a friend in the fbi, so he has access to a bunch of guns. man shooting 10 watermelons with a tommygun and a 12 guage was priceless, 12 guage blew em up good:eek:
 
sitting on the banks of a stock pond vaporizing dragonflies with a 12 ga.

shooting paint cans. my how they explode in pretty colors.
 
call me old fashioned, but i think the most fun i've ever had with a gun was harvesting that first buck.

another amusing time involved an old stump, a railroad spike, and my dad's custom Remington falling block 45/70. it took a few rounds, but we eventually drove that spike in.
 
I shot the NC state prone (.22) championship in Asheville over Labor day weekend. First two days were normal prone matches. On labor day though, we shot the "Long Range Conventional Smallbore Championship" where we shot 100 yds and 200 yds instead of 50 and 100. All the 100 yd stages go well, then out to 200 yds, and I find out that my scope will not adjust past a two minutes above my 100 yd zero. So I had to shoot 60 record shots holding 30" high at 200.

I dropped 10 points total that day, 8 on metric 100, 2 on 200. :D
 
There has been lots of good times
Really like shooting AR15 at full paint cans and taking my son out to shoot is always fun
 
What my buddies and I did once was more stupid than fun, but we thought it was fun at the time.

We were out with our .22's in a big open gravel pit one day and it had been raining pretty hard and was still sprinkling. We had run out of the stuff we had brought to shoot (full pop cans, old areosol cans, and assorted bottles) so we found an old 1-pound coffee can that hadn't been shot up. We took the can and filled it up with gasoline we had in a spare gas can.

Took it out about 30 yards and lit the gasoline. this was actually a tough job as when we tried to toss a match into the can, it would simply go out. So we lit a stick and used that to ignite the gasoline.

We walked back the 30 yards or so and began to shoot at the lit can :eek: The first round hit the center of the can and that resulted in a fireball about 10 feet across and maybe 15 feet high! The force of the bullet caused the gasoline to spray everywhere and because the surface was on fire the whole thing erupted. Once we realized that the black smoke from the fireball was climbing about 100 feet in the air, we decided it was time to remove ourselves from the area (quickly)! Haven't done that since, and that was 20 years ago.
 
Too many to list.

I'll pick just one.

The very first time I connected with a steel silhouette 1000 yards away with my custom rifle that had been stolen, and then recovered at a gun show 18 months later.

The best part was that the instructors at the shooting school I was at singled me out for the shot in front of the rest of the class.

I had not gotten to shoot at 1000 yards because the person I was paired with (shooter--spotter doctrine is key at this school) had had major problems all afternoon. I spent so much time as his spotter, that I didn't get to be the shooter.

So at the very end of the day, the instructors halted everything on the line, put me onto the 1000 yard target, and gave me the appropriate come-ups and wind call for the shot.

Bang (five or six second pause) clang!

I needed a cigarette afterwards.......and I don't smoke cigarettes.

hillbilly
 
I was a gunner on a M1A1 main battle tank for about 2yrs. Without a doubt firing that 120mm was the greatest! :neener:
 
5-stand at my local sporting-clays range, with a stoeger 12 ga. coachgun, breaking better than 90%, while the other 4 stands have guys with 1200 dollar stack-barrels, and are running 75% or worse...
 
Investigating whether or not a 308 Accelerator round would detonate a block of C4 (a plan hatched by the demo and weapons sergeants while training at Mott Lake). The rounds didn't, even though they were supposed to go fast enough.
 
Was out plinking on a beautiful, hot, sunny afternoon several yrs ago with the wife and at least one other couple. Had target papers stapled to the backstop board at 7yds. A fly landed on my paper, and I said to all: "I'll shoot that fly on THIS shot." The Sig P245 went bang, and we actually saw the bug fall. We all walked down range to look at the paper, and sure enough--bug guts splattered adjacent to the hole. Did it three times that afternoon, called each shot, one bullet apiece. Laughed so hard I didn't know if I'd ever steady up enough to take another shot. :D

Saved the target paper and took digital pics of the carnage, but don't know how to post pics yet.
 
Shooting in general! Shooting soda cans full of water with my HMR is a great time. General varmint shooting is always fun.
 
When I was in the Seabees...

I was a gunner on a 106 mm recoiless rifle. When we had tatical training at Fort Irwin we set up several drums filled with diesel & gas :eek: downrange.

Then we got to set 'em off. We'd fire two .50 tracer rounds from the spotting rifle atop the big gun and then set off the primary barrel and fire either an 11 pound anti-tank tracer round or a 9 pound high explosive shell. :what: Very entertaining !

Oh, I really like trap shooting too, but it's not nearly as much fun !:D

I plan on getting my 8 year old son his first .22 soon ( He's pretty deadly with a Red Ryder.) and I am really looking foreward to that !:)

I think the guy with the tank trumps me tho. !
 
Simple Revolver

Shooting beer sixpack carriers at 70-80 yards. My Buddy and I would load each other's revolvers, intermixing empty holes and live shells.

If you are flinching, try this tecnique with a pal. When you flinch badly on an empty hole and catch a ration of crap for it, you will quickly become a better shooter.

You no alcohol/gun types can use Pepsi targets.
 
Update:

I have the distinction of breaking a total of six Nova shotguns ...so far.

I actually broke a single shot shotgun the other day.

The things I do for the shooting community - I swear! :p

Not so much fun, just ...Testing and Evaluating. Okay I admit, I did snicker...maybe...just a wee bit...just a itty bitty snicker mind you...:D

Cannot forget to mention the additional blame I get when folks get a new gun ...

Then there are the people I have met, meet. Some even let their kids adopt me as an Uncle. Boy are there some dumb parents out there. *smirk*
 
When I had turned 21 and bought my first pistol I was working part time as a contractors assistant. The housewife had a 4 foot barney doll that some mice chewed holes into for some of the stuffing. She was afraid they were nesting in barney and asked us to dispose of it. Well I couldnt resist. What parent doesnt hate barney right?

My friends and I took it to the local plinking range. a variety of firearms were present...ex.... 12 gauge, sks, handguns of a variety of calibers.

We came up with our own song.

I love you, you hate me, whats that shiny thing your pointing at me?

(cue 12 gauge pumping)

Uh Ohhh!!!

then we'd unload on barney. The range master was laughing his behind off but did ask that if someones child was to show up we'd try to hide it. We were there before school let out to minimize such an incident. We cleaned up the fuzz and our brass after about 100 rounds.
 
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