Praetorius
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- Jun 17, 2007
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So I fired a gun for the first time! I fired a bunch of .22 caliber rifles and pistols with my friends (one of them is an avid survivalist/gun nut and goes to this forum a lot, but I don't know his handle) at this hillarious completely unsupervised range waaaaay far away from the city with bullet craters all over the bathroom hut and shady figures staring at us from a distance. But I also fired by Mosin-Nagant M91/30 7.62x54R rifle (my first and only gun). It was humungous! It felt like somebody punched my shoulder as hard as he could. I found it quite disconcerting that my friend's M1 Garand had sparks flying out of the barrel every time it was fired. It was also annoying how the .22 caliber guns kept scorching my hand when I fired them.
So anyways, we fired at this big box of tightly-packed schoolpapers and an SAT prep book. So after we were done shooting, I brought the box and the book home and went through pulling pages off a few at a time and recovering all of the bullets that were still lodged in the paper. It seemed like almost all of the big bullets went right through and that the ones remaining in the paper were .22 caliber. There were little tiny shreds of paper everywhere because it had all been torn up so badly. It was sort of a trip down memory lane of all the ****ty times I had in high school and all the tests I failed. Fun fun fun!
It was interesting to find that many of the bullets had gone into the paper to the exact same depth as the others. Most of the bullets were hollow-point (don't ask me why my friend has mostly hollow-point bullets ) so they mushroomed out and left little tiny bullet fragments everywhere! It was just like the movie The Departed! I also found a bullet that was almost entirely wrapped around a paperclip. Part of the paper was scorched, indicating that it probably caught fire for a second.
There were also marks in the cardboard from where bullets had skimmed across the top and just cut a clean path through it. Crazy stuff. This other guy at the range had a later model of the Mosin-Nagant, but I was afraid to approach him for the fact that he might shoot me.
So anyways, fun stuff.
The box!
Note the 6/25, "Read damnit!" and Sweet Home being in Alabama.
The bullets!
So anyways, we fired at this big box of tightly-packed schoolpapers and an SAT prep book. So after we were done shooting, I brought the box and the book home and went through pulling pages off a few at a time and recovering all of the bullets that were still lodged in the paper. It seemed like almost all of the big bullets went right through and that the ones remaining in the paper were .22 caliber. There were little tiny shreds of paper everywhere because it had all been torn up so badly. It was sort of a trip down memory lane of all the ****ty times I had in high school and all the tests I failed. Fun fun fun!
It was interesting to find that many of the bullets had gone into the paper to the exact same depth as the others. Most of the bullets were hollow-point (don't ask me why my friend has mostly hollow-point bullets ) so they mushroomed out and left little tiny bullet fragments everywhere! It was just like the movie The Departed! I also found a bullet that was almost entirely wrapped around a paperclip. Part of the paper was scorched, indicating that it probably caught fire for a second.
There were also marks in the cardboard from where bullets had skimmed across the top and just cut a clean path through it. Crazy stuff. This other guy at the range had a later model of the Mosin-Nagant, but I was afraid to approach him for the fact that he might shoot me.
So anyways, fun stuff.
The box!
Note the 6/25, "Read damnit!" and Sweet Home being in Alabama.
The bullets!