What makes you smile?

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Getting a chance to handload ammo without the wife and kids bothering me. Going to the range and smelling the burnt powder from my firearm. Getting to shoot one om my ARs as fast as I can pull the trigger on a private range. Looking at a target with a perfect group from one of my handloads.

Just about everything about shooting.:)
 
I love the feeling of a heavy recoil. I love the smell of burning gunpowder. I love to look at 500 freshly loaded rounds sitting on my bench. I love to smack the gong at 235 yards with my 1938 Mosin Nagant. I love to blow up clay pigeons at 50 and 100 yards with my AR. I really love watching people shoot my guns, and smile. Most of all, I love to watch my 9 year old son as he squeezes off rounds from his Single Six and my guns. Everything else is great, buy seeing the joy in my sons eyes when he shoots is worth more than all of it together.
 
Shooting my M44 at the indoor range makes me smile.
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:D Mine too has that nice cannon-fire sound to it.

I love a smart kick from a rifle or shotgun. I love how soup cans bounce and reflect light when you hit them with a shotgun, and how cans of pop from the dollar store explode when hit with a 22 mag. I especially love the look of determined concentration my girlfriend makes when she shoots. :)

I also love the smell of Hoppes #9. Also, when I can't get to a range (I'm a city dweller, unfortunately), I love shooting old glass panes and fragments with my Ruger airsoft gun. :eek:
 
I also love the smell of Hoppes #9.
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I swear I would drink that stuff if it wouldn't kill me :what:

On that note, I love cleaning the guns, walking outside, then coming back inside and smelling Hoppes throughout my house for the next hour :rolleyes:
 
Everything about shooting in general, but I'd have to say shooting clays is the best for me. Watching the little orange and black disc turn into a cloud of dust, the smell of sulfur and burnt powder, the sight of spent shells and smoke exiting the ejection port....aaaahhhhhhhh. Another would be great, clean hunting shots. Squeezing the trigger and watching the deer or coyote standing on the hill just drop. Those are my ear-to-ear grin moments.
 
What makes me smile is my 2 1/2 year old son waking up in the morning and seeing the big ole happy smile on his face when I walk into his room.

Gun forum - yes.

But some things are just way more important than guns.
 
Of late-

1. Assisting kids learning to shoot.

2. Having a parent, not raised around/with guns, learning to shoot as well. And having these parents share how much safety is a part of what we do , how much fun, also how truly nice gun folks /shooters really are.

3. Having these folks share they bought a gun.

*smile*
 
What makes me smile?.......I have to say watching my daughter on the range shooting her rifle and hitting what shes aiming at and seeing the smile on her face....That's what does it for me.....there's nothing better than knowing what you taught her is coming to fruition.
 
My 6" blued Python.
Head shots on varmits.
Shooting with my best friend.
Firing up my old Norton Commando. (Sorry, off topic but I couldn't resist.)
Timney triggers.
1911s.
My CZ Model-452 Ultra Lux.
CCI Green Tags.
 
Just being strapped to the rifle, breathing in, out, press the trigger, NPA and front sight focus. That makes me smile.

Providing that experience to young shooters and watching as it starts to mentally come together for them and they embrace the discipline of it. That makes me smile.
 
Outside the obvious family, seeing young people at the range seriously practicing the gun and having fun.
 
The smell of CLP. It means it's working.

.45ACP. Especially lots of it. Especially when I'm tearing a huge hole in a silhouette with it.

Beating my Dad on an IPSC speed stage, because he can out shoot me with his eyes closed. :)

When I graduated OSUT my Dad flew all the way across the country to see it. :eek:
 
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