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Offline Conan The Librarian

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They are shooting guns around me
« on: December 31, 2010, 07:12:26 PM »
Ther sure is a lot of gunfire tonight just because it's new years. Who started that idiotic practice? Very foolish.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2010, 07:43:35 PM »
Quote from: Conan The Librarian on December 31, 2010, 07:12:26 PM
Ther sure is a lot of gunfire tonight just because it's new years. Who started that idiotic practice? Very foolish.




Well! You said the magic word lol! They have started here on the left coast , and it's only 1041 ::)
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2011, 03:16:13 AM »
Maybe I slept through a lot of it, but it seemed like a pretty tame New Years compared to years past.  There was a house rattling bomb around 10:00 pm, but after that there were just some distant pops and bangs.

It's freaking cold--due to global warming--so folks are probably not spending too much time outdoors.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2011, 03:42:56 AM »
I live in a Rural area of Pa.Closest little Town is about a mile away. Years gone by, the neighbors was all out blazing away. Now, all the Gunfire comes from the little Town!! I was the only one that shot. I took my little Kel-Tec auto out and emptied the clip in the ground.
   On a sad note, I did get the Fiddle out and played The tune East Tennessee Blues.This was to say goodbye to another longtime Fiddle player I grew up with....
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2011, 04:17:02 AM »
Ron/pa:

Nothing wrong with shooting into the ground, but I'll bet most shoot into the air, and that is dangerous to others. and that's what I object to. Maybe next year I'll fire a few arrows into the ground, or a few pellets from the pellet gun. Wouldn't be the same as gunfire somehow. Illegal to fire guns in my neighborhood like that.

Very nice of you to remember your friend musically like that. Very touching.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2011, 04:29:45 AM »
I shot off about 500 rounds yesterday myself. Into the berm at my local range. Was a great way to celebrate New Years, safe and entertaining. Only thing that got hurt was some paper targets,  a coupla bowling pins and a few dozen clay pigeons that had survived their original onslaught at the trap range. ;D
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2011, 04:30:55 AM »
I lite M80's, yep the real ones.. Had some left from a long time ago..

I don't object to gun fire, just as long as people don't shoot into the air...  A lot of the people I know shoot there shotgun's.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2011, 04:59:24 AM »
WE've done it for years.  We shoot into an old mountain of coal refuse.Hundreds of feet high.  Nothing around for miles. It all depends on your background. I wouldn't do it in Times Square.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2011, 05:13:00 AM »
yea ,i must admit i thought abou emtying my 12 ga semi into the air as i don t have fireworks of any other kind..
 then decided it was a very poor idea..just a waste of ammo..plus some danger as anything can happen..
 im alone an slept through the midnight hr..so happy new year everybody.. :)
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2011, 10:36:15 AM »
We had a Bon Fire out on a small lake last night.  At 11:55 I brought out the AR.  I have a blank addaptor left over from my military days.  I loaded five magazines with blanks and let the kids have fun shooting it into the air.  Then we had to reload because some adults wanted to give it a try.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2011, 11:31:34 AM »
We didn't shoot last night as it was raining heavily. I couldn't help but think how certain people would delight in setting off big bombs in those party crowds in our big cities. POWDERMAN.  :o :o
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2011, 12:02:14 PM »
We were celebrating at a friends house last night so there was no gun play.  But I generally stay home on New Years Eve and I usually do take out my 12ga pump and fire a three shot volley of bird shot into the air.   However I live out in the boondocks with large open fields to my left and to the rear of my 2 acre property and a good sized wooded area beyond that.  Heck I hunt squirrel, rabbit and dove in season out in my back yard.  :D
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2011, 02:12:04 PM »
Haven't done that in years.  Last time we carted all my guns and my little brothers to my BIL.  Shot off his deck into the ground below.  Picnic table full f guns, shot one, set down pick up another.  Bolts, levers, pumps, revolvers, double.  44 Mag SBH in each hand is fun.

Also, a large coffe can, holes in the side bout an inch up from bottom, little gas, close to 500 bottle rockets and a match is a good way to ring in the new year.  Don't try this one on a dry night.
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2011, 09:27:41 AM »
Quote from: Redhawk1 on January 01, 2011, 04:30:55 AM
I don't object to gun fire, just as long as people don't shoot into the air...  A lot of the people I know shoot there shotgun's.

If it's bird shot (or particularly steel shoot) into the air it's not really that bad.  Anyone who's hunted ducks on a crowded river has probably been pelted a few times by falling shot.  With it's low mass it just doesn't maintain energy well.  By the time it comes back down it doesn't even hurt - just sort of bounces off. That said, shooting into the ground is still likely the preferable thing to do.

Our New Years party was pretty dead.  We were watching the Chick-fil-a Bowl which was pretty depressing if  you were rooting for USC, and then we cooked too much food which put everybody into a sleepy mood.  We were all set - cooler full of beer, few bottles of liquor, margarita mixes - the works.  We didn't touch almost any of it. 
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Re: They are shooting guns around me
« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2011, 03:29:05 PM »
I couldn't even guess how many times I've had shot hit me.  Mostly duck hunting but pheasant, quail, and dove hunting as well.  As long as it's up and down it's no big deal, just don't get hit in the eye.
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