Yesterday, my brother and I went out to the outdoor range nearby and we shot off a mitt full of rounds. My father came by to check on us and we noticed that a yellow jacket bee sitting on my target. My dad literally picked up his handgun, took quick aim and shot the thing right off the target!!....we were calling him Mr Miagi after that and I joked that if it happened again, that I was going to quit shooting for the day....sure enough another yellow jacket landed on my target, I scoped it up with my .22 and took a shoot!!..sure enough I had hit it!!, and watched it fall to the ground!!....my brother went downrange and took pictures of the 2 bees laying dead on the ground. He was safe as this was our range and no one else was shooting btw. He said that if we could be nailing bees off a 3 inch target from about 50 feet away, bring on the zombie apocolypse!!!...at least we wont go hungry if something were to happen.
Hahahaha! Very well done! If I ever have a wasp problem I know who I'm calling!
IMHO a .22lr is the most important type of gun you could own if shtf. No group of looters getting ready to try getting you in your house will care if a .22lr or 308 is being shot, because either will cause them to take cover just as fast, and move on to a softer target. If shtf, and I was in a hurry to take just one gun & ammo, I would not grab my CZ858, my M14, or another one of my high powered centerfires, I would grab my ruger SR22 if I could only grab one gun in a hurry. If I was wearing my tactical vest or hunting coat, I could easily carry several thousands rounds of ammo, and a half dozen 25 round mags, and my rifle and easily and quickly move fast without being weighed down with heavy ammo. I can hunt any small game, and using CCI stingers I could take larger game with head shots. I can also use subsonics by manually racking the bolt if I needed to shoot quietly.
Blueflash - What do you mean by "Racking the bolt" ?
sbasacco you said "He was safe as this was our range and no one else was shooting btw.".
Is this your own private range? if so you are making me envious. Did you have any trouble (legal) setting it up?
I'm interested in putting in a private range myself.
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Blueflash - What do you mean by "Racking the bolt" ?
"Racking the bolt" refers to cycling the action of a semi automatic manually when the cartridge doesn't have adequate power to do so.
JAB
I think sbasacco had a misprint there, what he meant to say was "My dad literally picked up his gun, took quick aim and shot the thing right off the target". No need to have an errant CFO investigate, nothing to see here.
I think sbasacco had a misprint there, what he meant to say was "My dad literally picked up his gun, took quick aim and shot the thing right off the target". No need to have an errant CFO investigate, nothing to see here.
Quite possibly .. something like
"These are not the droids you are looking for''...
"These are not the droids we are looking for. Move along."
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