Very Short Stories: Shotgun Forum Edition

[TrapperReady]

There's a form of writing known as "Very Short Stories", in which you tell a story using six words. No more. No less. Sort of like abbreviated haiku.

An example would be:

Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it. (Brian Herbert)
or
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. (Orson Scott Card)

I thought it might be interesting to see what shotgun-related versions we can come up with. I'll start with:

Called "Pull!", but safety remained on.

Pull, Rotate, Pull, Rotate, Pull.... "CRUNCH!"*

Had money once. Started shooting clays.



* That's for the reloaders amongst us.

 

[skl1]

Or...

Poured lead into the hopper, mostly.

 

[Lonestar.45]

I yelled Pull and broke clays

 

[TrapperReady]

Pistol grip only. BOOM! Snap! Ow!

Smooth checkering. Bluing gone. Muscles remember.

 

[scout26]

Found 99 primers, vacuum found 1.

Called pull, bird breaks on ground.

Dead a Pair, words not heard.

Bouncing lead shot on the floor.
Mrs. angry stands in the door. (okay it's two lines, I cheated, sue me .....)

 

[TrapperReady]

scout26 -

Your entry made me think of:

Vacuumed primers create impromptu fireworks display.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Buy Ammo, Use Up, Repeat Indefinitely.....

Pistol grip only, Carpal Tunnel Ouchies....

Things go bump, shotgun shucks reassuringly.

Shotgun Satori is very loud Zen....

 

[TrapperReady]

Accessorize. Take pictures. But don't shoot.

That gun won't work... I heard.

Brister's wife is braver than me.

 

[HSMITH]

Tacticrap doesn't create ability, shooting does.

Learn to shoot before buying accessories.

Went to a couple gunshops recently, the tacticrap hanging off the guns is sickening but according to the sales people that is all that sells anymore. If they would knock a couple hundred off the price of the gun for all the crap added to it I wouldn't mind so much.

 

[gp911]

Single shot. Make sure it counts.

Pulled up gun, shot down bird.

One gun. Six Barrels. Love NEF.

Boy howdy, this shotgun is loud.

Click-click. Pow! Click. *Thunk* Click. (Title: "Firing and ejecting a shell from a break-action gun.")

I like guns and just tooted.

True story!

gp911

 

[sm]

Painting them out of the sky .

Poetry in motion with a shotgun .

One cannot hit what not seen.

One cannot buy skill and targets.

Good shooters are made - not born -Misseldine

Start them young - teach them right.

Shucking and shooting - grinning and felling.

Thats how to miss low five

 

[zinj]

Missed Clay, I shoot slugs better.

 

[PJR]

28 gauge, long crosser, inkball. Grin.

Grouse flushes, gun rises. Bang! Lunch.

 

[ACP230]

How about...

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang! Limit."

 

[foghornl]

"Don't get dunked in the drink."

Oh, never mind...Long story about nothing...punchline is "Oh, yeah...right over there somewhere, creek drops off to about 6' deep...."

 

[sm]

Bar ditch impedes Steve retrieving ducks

foghornl,
Let us just say I can empathize with your creek experience

Not a stick-up --Steve's shotgun barrel


:dunked duck hunter smilie :

 

[Bix]

"The manipulation is gonna get you."

-Quote at the top of the first page of my notes from Louis Awerbuck's Stage I shotgun.

 

[kbheiner7]

Bird, beak, boom.

Flush, rise, fall, fire.

Pull! Flying clay, a loud noise, dust.

"But I really do need another one!"

 

[scout26]

870, 500 - Many barrels, many uses.

Shotgun- Swiss Army Knife of Firearms (I can't find the exact quote, but I remember seeing it in a fellow High Roaders sig line.)

 

[clang]

Shotguns? Oh sh*t, they brought shotguns.

 

[kudu]

Pull, bang, lost, but good form!

 

[Zero_DgZ]

Pull, click... Clay lands off in the weeds someplace.

Stupid safety.

 

[sm]

That's how to miss low five

 

[TrapperReady]

Had to leave before the shootoff.

A pretty good score... 'til then.

Epitaph: Should have listened to Awerbuck.

The deceased tried to buy skill.

Patterning idea? Sure Honey, sounds fun.*

Primer didn't drop. Took MEC apart.

Really thought it was a drake. :banghead:

Ran finger inside 1100. Bleeding stopped.

That one sounded a little light.

Pop. Fizzle. "Ya'll need the stick?"

PULL! Bang, bang. Dead a pair.

Uuut ut ut ut. BANG! Splash.






* In reference (reverence??) to Mrs. Brister.

 

[sm]

Not shooting - rather assist others today

Not a miss - saving targets today

Twenty-eight gauge and she wants one
Twenty-eight gauge and he buys one


See Lab run - moonpie from thrower

Redneck Event -nope-just how done.

Try pushing the "other" right button

Empty trap machine tosses empty clays

Kids race out to police hulls
"Found dollar bill in this one!"

Dawg steals hamburger off the table

Never fired a shot - best hunt

Not about me - about others instead.

Kids first dove hunt - passing forward

Ladies first dove hunt - great memories!

Afterburners on - Great shot yelled
"How far did you lead it?"
"Length of two ex husbands - grin


First hunt, new knife, special tradtion