Guns & Progressives

[Hard_Rom]

No, I was a radar tech. Standard issue was an smg, but you still had to do all the SLR, LMG and GPMG crap in basic.

I shot two mags from the Browning pistol, Sterling SMG and a C2. Two mags just so you knew how to change the magazine at least once. I probably fired more rounds out of a C1 on an Air Cadet weekend to Ipperwash. That's were I learned to shoot. Didn't have to clean a gun in Air Cadets. Good bloody thing too. Trying to get the gas piston clean on a C1 is brutal. NCOs would choose several weapons from the company and have fun blazing away with left over ammo. Then hand the guns back. Bad enough after 30 rounds. After some NCO used your weapon for 200 hundred more they were filthy. We were forbidden to disassemble the trigger mechanisms.

C1 was an easy weapon to field strip blindfolded and reassemble. Just don't let an NCO see you do it. And redo it without blindfold, just in case.

Basic was hardly about weapons training beyond a familiarization. Administration Branch had no real need of weapons use. Logistics would get a brush up if going overseas.

 

[Sean]

I shot two mags from the Browning pistol, Sterling SMG and a C2. Two mags just so you knew how to change the magazine at least once. I probably fired more rounds out of a C1 on an Air Cadet weekend to Ipperwash. That's were I learned to shoot. Didn't have to clean a gun in Air Cadets. Good bloody thing too. Trying to get the gas piston clean on a C1 is brutal. NCOs would choose several weapons from the company and have fun blazing away with left over ammo. Then hand the guns back. Bad enough after 30 rounds. After some NCO used your weapon for 200 hundred more they were filthy. We were forbidden to disassemble the trigger mechanisms.

C1 was an easy weapon to field strip blindfolded and reassemble. Just don't let an NCO see you do it. And redo it without blindfold, just in case.

Basic was hardly about weapons training beyond a familiarization. Administration Branch had no real need of weapons use. Logistics would get a brush up if going overseas.

Common mantra in all the "working" corps of the British Army, "you're a soldier first, a tradesman second."

 

[Pairaclities]

Me and the kids shot off about 700 rounds shooting skeet at the cabin last weekend...lots of fun

A month or so ago we had a gopher shoot. Nothing like a half dozen 22 longs all wacking away at the little brown fuckers. The crows really like the supper that night as well.

 

[phrodeau]

A month or so ago we had a gopher shoot. Nothing like a half dozen 22 longs all wacking away at the little brown fuckers. The crows really like the supper that night as well.

And then the crows succumbed to lead poisoning. The end.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

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[Sean Renaud]

Any thread related to gun control or shootings draws the anti gun crowd like flies to cow manure. How many of you "Guns scare me so nobody should have one, except the army" have actually owned a gun, or fired one more than once?


Like most boys growing up back in the age of common sense, I was introduced to guns during a summer camp. It was a single shot, bolt action .22 and I had to demonstrate the safe handling before I was given a round to chamber.

While I always liked guns, I never saw the need to own one until later in life when I took up target shooting. That's when I rediscovered how much fun it was.

I own three rifles, a shotgun, a handgun and served in the United States Marine Corps as of all things an armorer. Do I count on your stupid list?

 

[Pairaclities]

And then the crows succumbed to lead poisoning. The end.

Actually, if you had ever watched a crow or raven eat then you would see how picky they really are.
They are intelligent birds and will spit the lead.
You know, just saying because I have lived around large populations of these birds for a long time. You?

 

[phrodeau]

Actually, if you had ever watched a crow or raven eat then you would see how picky they really are.
They are intelligent birds and will spit the lead.
You know, just saying because I have lived around large populations of these birds for a long time. You?

I guess I need to watch these picky eaters, since apparently all the indiscriminate eaters died from lead poisoning.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=corvid+lead+poisoning

 

[spacekowboy]

I have shot firearms since I was a kid. Taught the right way and to respect exactly what they are and the awesome power that they possess. I've never shot at anything in my life that has a heartbeat and I don't foresee that ever changing.


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