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Guns are to be made of two thing: steel and wood.
Steel, yes...Wood, no.
I love a pretty walnut stock as much as anyone, but I also love the 'synthetic polymer' stocks on my 22LR and my ... |
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Well, yesterday I officially said goodbye to winter as we'd had about a week of brilliant sunshine, 75+ degree weather...spring was in the air.
This morning I get up, get my boots on for my daily 5 ... |
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| well, a silencer is almost useless on any gun with supersonic rounds. With smallbore weapons with relatively small powder charges, the sonic boom of the bullet breaking the sound barrier can be lou ... |
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Well, I live on my wife's parent's property. They have about 20 acres and let us build a house on it.
Squirrels are always doing damage (they did nearly a grand's worth to our roof last year) and m ... |
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Question: Is breaking in a springer usually something that happens very gradually or is it something that happens fairly suddenly?
I ask because over the 1000 rounds I put through it, my Storm was ... |
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| Just out of interest, are silencers for airguns covered by the same laws for firearms? |
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I wasn't impressed either, especially with the wadcutters that looked like the quality control guy had fallen asleep on the job.
However, my rifle just seems to love the hunters...they're just sli ... |
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My wife had a really ancient desktop when I first moved here. (It's an awesome PENTIUM 75!!! the SPEED!!!)
Last year I wiped it, put in a couple of huge hard-drives and a wireless ethernet card, a ... |
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The funny thing is the biathlon video isn't far from the truth of how the sport started.
It's based on Norwegian military training that started in the 1800's. Basically, they worked out there wasn' ... |
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i shot 3 groundhog/woodchucks with my Crosman powermaster 66 at 680+ FPS with crosmen pointed hunting pellets at 20 pumps. it took two shots, one in the stomach and then one in the head.
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Yup, that's the one thing I'm having a lot of difficulty getting used to with airgunning...the fragility and inconsistency of the ammo.
Most places I've been in search of pellets obviously don't t ... |
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| It's not a good idea to shoot ANYTHING in its stomach, no matter what gun you're using. |
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So I went to Walmart today to grab some shotgun shells and .177 pellets.
I should point out that I'm a British immigrant to the USA and still have a pretty thick English accent.
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| Ok, I have about ten years experience shooting powder rifles, so I know that finding the ammo your gun really likes is really important. I must have put at least 15 different brands and types of ammo ... |
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Politics: The art of the uninformed pandering to the ignorant.
It doesn't matter if it's guns killing people, video games turning kids into psychos or hip-hop music being the end of 'morality'. The ... |
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