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Have you ever fired a gun?

  • 23-02-2012 02:19AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭


    Have you ever fired a gun?

    Have you fired a gun? 281 votes

    I have
    0% 0 votes
    I have not
    100% 281 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Yes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    yesh,many many times


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Does Quazar count?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Yes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    yes. i fired many a water pistol when i was a child.

    have you op?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    My guns are awesome


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    yes. i fired many a water pistol when i was a child.

    have you op?

    My father taught me how to clean, load, and fire a gun when I was a child. I also learned how to load it blindfolded, and with one hand.
    I have fired shotguns and handguns over the years.
    A Purdey shotgun, and Smith and Wesson revolver being the most memorable.
    When I was in the high Tatras mountains in Slovakia, a soldier patrolling the border between Poland and Slovakia let me fire his HK417.
    We were up there checking it out as a possible smuggling route at the time.
    I never carried a gun, but when I worked as a doorman in London I wore a ballistic vest. I had bottles and knives pulled on me over the years but never a gun though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    I always empty the bullets out of it before a date. Never leave one in the chamber, its embarrassing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    I shot a spider, a lizard and tin cans in trees don't think I killed anything though


  • Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Babybuff wrote: »
    I shot a spider, a lizard and tin cans in trees don't think I killed anything though

    Did this gun shoot cotton wool or something?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    Yes I have, but why are you asking?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Did this gun shoot cotton wool or something?

    pellets :o air rifle


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Used to go fox hunting when i was around 11/12, always had a bruise on my shoulder from the shotgun recoil. My PE teacher probably thought my parents were beating me though.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Once. A .44 magnum. Nearly blew my wrist off me the first time but then I knew what to expect from their on in. Addictive, too addictive..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭Allround Predator


    Yes, when I was in the army I fired a whole range of weapons from a Steyr AUG to the FN FAL, Iv also got to fire a Bren light machine gun, it has some kick out of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    I went to a "shooting range" (well, a field) in Cambodia and they gave me this old Chinese handgun to fire. I don't know a thing about guns but it looked so old and wrecked that I was expecting it to blow up in my face. Like a typical male idiot, I pretended it was all a great laugh and used up all the bullets so the locals wouldn't think I was some pampered, Western pussy. I was delighted when I put the fcuking thing down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Yes, An Assualt rifle and a machinegun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    pew pew I love guns


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Fuck yeah!

    I done a drive-by clay pigeon mutha****az


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    yup, feels great


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    Zzzzzap! Zzzzzap!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Yes, some shot guns and some rifles


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Yeah. Shotgun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭scooby2791


    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭zero19


    Shotguns yeah. What an odd question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    Yup, handguns, shotguns, rifles, machine guns and sub machine guns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Yep, lots of 'em when I lived in the States, usually at a gun range in the 'burbs, or water melons and water balloons on a friends farm out in the stix. Glocks, Magnums, Walters, Colts, Berettas...shot 'em all. I broke my thumb when I was a kid and it never quite healed. The recoil from the Magnums and Colts fooking killed my hand pain wise. Had to switch to the girly guns after a while. It was never quite so much fun after that, even if I was shooting James Bonds beloved Walther PPK for the most part.

    The gun range that we went to has a fabulous collection of old WW1 & WW2 pistols. You could rent them by the hour to shoot. That was a trip ! I shot one gun that dated from 1916. It was weird holding and shooting a type of gun that could very well have been used in the 1916 Easter Rising.

    The range was in your average suburban strip mall. There was a nail salon on one side and hair loss clinic clinic on the other. The staff and clients of both never batted an eye lid at all the comings and goings of people with these odd shaped bags slung over their shoulders. Only in America ! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Nope. I'd like to though, just to see what it's like.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    everything from .22 pistol to hunting rifle, even an old rusty ak....


    has to be said though, a silenced .22 would be an absolute beast for self defence ( though silencer and other cool bits and pieces would be quite pricey these days ).


    Always wanted to shoot a tec9 or Steyr AUG ( long mag, 30's wont kill enough innocent peoples.... Or politicans. )


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