Also, I live 27 miles from town in the country. I have to depend on the county sheriff's. At night there may only be 4 or 5 officers on duty. How long do you think it will take one of them to get to my house if a criminal kicks in my door at 2 a.m. and is armed with a knife, a bat, a hammer, a pipe etc.? I will tell you. After he kills me. When seconds count, the cops are minutes away. I will defend myself. I will not become a statistic. A victim.

 

You're not going to win this argument. I have seen the bullshit that other countries "news" and governments spew about the gun "problem" in the United States. The facts are on my side. I can keep throughing more at you but since you don't live here and only been fed lies all your life, you will still feel the same.

 

Lol go look at the FBI crime statistics. Or did just go on line and find some website your government made? Or another NGO website? Like the U.N. You don't have a clue about our country. And why do you care? What business is it if yours? And you won't continue the discussion because your 100% wrong. And like a typical anti gun person. No mention of crime statistics or stats of worse killers.

 

Lol still no answer to a simple honest question. Well swerved yet again. You won't answer because the honest answer doesn't fit your bullshit dogma.

You should try opening your eyes sometime. I'd like to think you'd find it enlightening. But you won't

Goodbye.

*shakes head slowly*

 

Anyone being killed bothers me. What bothers me more is 70,000 people a year being killed by big pharmaceutical companies that are only out for profit. Why aren't you bothered by that? Or is it just 35,000 from guns? 65% of which are suicide. I'm also bothered by the homeless crisis in our country. I can continue but give been brainwashed all your life to believe guns are bad. And you willingly give up your God given right to protect and defend yourself.

 

Andvyiu gave no answer to where you get your "statistics"

 

I have an old pressure tank from my well I replaced. I hang targets on it. I work in a plastics factory and when we change colors we end up with a big 3 or4 inch thick 2 or 3 foot chunk of plastic I use as a target. Depending on the type of plastic, it will stop a .45 a .223 even a .50cal. But mostly though the big blob of plastic is destroyed in a shirt time.

Here in Iowa we can buy tanerite without a permit. That's fun to blow shit up with. Just have to be 18.

 

Cans I what me and my sons shoot now I buy cases on the cheapest soda and we have a ball watching the explode with only a pellet gun or BB guns it’s a blast , man we have laughs doing that lol. Or we through them in the air. And shoot them with #8 shot. 12 gage lol lol lol dam. I think me and the boys will do that this weekend .

 

Lol I did th hat as a kid with a buddy.

 

Lol we are still kids

 

Have an uncle that has one. Yea. And easy to use

 

True but it’s more fun when shooting targets. Especially when I use zombie ones lol.

I’ve always gone to a private or police range.

 

Very cool seeing a lady that owns a gun. Had a lady friend that was a big gun nut. She would come over with her two hunting rifles and her glock. To bad she moved out of state. She owned a small a 12 acre farm but the farmer around her sold out to a developer. With in a year there were 20 houses around her.

I just enjoy the stress relief of it all and the challenge of target shooting.

 

I have a very difficult time with bows. It's on the release I loose control. One of my older brothers had a compound bow growing up. He was pretty good at it. He and his good friend did lots of hunting. I've tried many times as an adult but I don't know if it's my wrist or elbow that moves.

 

It just takes a lot of practice. It’s hard to get the control at first but eventually it becomes second nature.

 

I haven't tried in a few years. A guy I work with is a bow hunter. In fact I just told him a few months ago if he wants to stop over some time this summer and do some target practice I'd like him to give me some lessons. Show mevwhatvim doing wrong. He goes deer and Turkey hunting.

 

Skeet shooting so much fun I do love that

 

I have a hand held pigeon launcher. It's a pain. Hard to get both height and distance. Takes practice. I am not good at shooting skeet. Don't lead the pigeon enough. And then I have to go pick up all the clay pieces from the feild. Don't want the farmer to get pissed at me.

 

Everything takes practice just like anything else. Im fortunate to have shooting range at my house. 0-300 yards.
I dont usually shoot skeet daily. More of pistols, carbines and long guns guy

 

Yea. I am glad I live in the country.

 

Lol I'm one that doesn't care about what others think. But you're correct.

 

What do u use? I have a bare recurve. I’ll see if I can find pics too!

 

A Mathews Solocam. Compound 70 lbs. pull. I had an old recurve. For ground stalking. Love those things. Reliable and quick.

 

Correct. A few years ago a buddy of mine had a girlfriend from Japan. She had two teenage boys. Lol The first thing he told them was he was going to take them to shoot guns. Lol He picked up 1,000 rounds of. 223. He was a small arms instructor in the army for 20 years.

These two boys were so excited. Of course they didn't want to spend a hour learning safety and instruction. Lol The look on their faces when I brought out my AR. Lol After about an hour of slow shooting and aiming practice, these two boys did a great job for never even holding a gun. And she must have taken 30 or more pictures. Lol They did ok with the 380. It's a much harder gun to use. Very small. Fits in my hand from finger tip to heel of palm.

 

I always find it amazing to see the reaction of people after their first time shooting a gun. Especially ones that were against them. When they get over the fear of a gun and relax, they have a totally different opinion. They have fun. I have had a few that wanted to do it again. One I knew became a gun owner. Lol

 

Take a break, Stumbler.
It's obvious T1 was exaggerating about the size of the glass pile.
Salt..grain of..

 

No not at all val. Remember I have six brothers Val and my father we shot so much glass you can’t even imagine

 

Back when I was a kid beer came in a bottle so did soda. Television sets or also made of glass we shot everyone we could find they were fun

 

I have a .50cal muzzle loader. It's a fun gun to shoot.

 

Always wanted a kit to build a functioning Kentucky Long rifle, everything involved with black powder, more hands on than sliding a shell into a chamber

 

I'm sure you can find places that have them. Shields sporting goods here in coralville Iowa has single shot pistols you can build from a kit

 

Plenty of places, Cabella's catalog was hypnotizing with their kits

 

Oh yes Makes ya drool