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[Misc] Have you ever discharged a firearm?

Have you ever discharged a firearm?

  • Never

    Votes: 28 9.8%

  • Airgun

    Votes: 173 60.3%

  • Shotgun

    Votes: 158 55.1%

  • Handgun

    Votes: 101 35.2%

  • Rifle

    Votes: 135 47.0%

  • Semi/Automatic Weapon

    Votes: 94 32.8%
  • Total voters
    287


herecomesaregular

herecomesaregular

We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Oct 27, 2008
4,227
Still in Brighton
Yes, went to a gun range while in Warsaw. Fired a handgun, ak47, WW2 Tommy gun, mp4 (or5? The sas one anyway) plus some others. I wanted to see what the fuss was about re our American friends and their absolute obsession with them. I loved it. But it was a toxic love the kind yes I could see could get out of hand. So glad I live in the UK with our strict regs, glad the average copper here has no side arm. Plenty of worries in life but worrying about an armed bulgarly or car jack or being shot by a trigger happy Policeman or being caught up in a Heat style street gun battle isn't one of them.
 




nwgull

nwgull

Well-known member
Jul 25, 2003
13,827
Manchester
Had a go at clay pidgeon shooting once at a friend's farm. I was shit at it, but I can certainly see the enjoyment to be had from it as a sport. The sense of satisfaction on seeing the two clays obliterated that I actually managed to hit was akin to the one you get from smashing a golf ball 200+ down the centre of the fairway, even though you'd just holed out on the previous green for 8.
 


Anger

Anger

Active member
Jul 21, 2017
209
The Clamp said:
Clay pigeon I found deathly dull as well.

I don’t like shotguns. I don’t like corporate events. I don’t like people who like corporate events.

Could have gone very wrong 😑
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Same Clay experience and same feeling.

The event I attended was held on a boat on the Thames. 40 novices using firearms in a small space and with alcohol available. Utter madness.

I have also used a proper shotgun in a more remote and altogether safer location. Massive kick from the gun and a lot of noise. No desire to repeat the experience, once was enough.
 


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Tristram Fourmile

Member
Jul 26, 2004
57
Next Door
Used to wander around the neighborhood in Burgess Hill in the 80's with an air rifle. No one cared to say anything.spent many happy hours over the woods shooting tin cans and dusty old Airfix models I no longer wanted. Never shot a creature though. My mum recently took said air rifle to the police station to get rid of it. On the way there a wag yelled from a van if she was off to do a bank job.
 


lawros left foot

lawros left foot

Glory hunting since 1969
Jun 11, 2011
13,728
Worthing
I injured myself firing a 9 mm Browning.
Instead of adoptIng the recommended grip, I went for the much cooler looking wrist holding method.

Somehow managed to get my thumb in the way of the block coming back and badly bruised my thumb and wrist.

I never saw that happen in Starsky and Hutch.
 




B

BiffyBoy

Active member
Aug 20, 2012
100
I’ve used the SA80 and 9mm in the British Army. I also got to use the HK53 on a range in Northern Ireland and that was quite an experience.

I’m based the US now and find it crazy that anyone can get license to carry with little or no training.
 


Worried Man Blues

Worried Man Blues

Well-known member
Feb 28, 2009
6,635
Swansea
303 at school, they organised it! Air rifle when a kid, clay pigeon shooting at various works dos, that's me done for the rest of my life unless something unusual crops up!!
 


Baldseagull

Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
10,959
Crawley
Tristram Fourmile said:
Used to wander around the neighborhood in Burgess Hill in the 80's with an air rifle. No one cared to say anything.spent many happy hours over the woods shooting tin cans and dusty old Airfix models I no longer wanted. Never shot a creature though. My mum recently took said air rifle to the police station to get rid of it. On the way there a wag yelled from a van if she was off to do a bank job.
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2 friends of mine went out shooting rabbits with a shotgun. They were in an open back landrover, gun in the back. On the way off the land, one of them jumped out to open and close the gate, but slipped, bashed his head hard on the gate and split his skin. Other one drove him to A&E and was helping his now covered in blood mate to the door, when he remembered he had the shotgun in the open back of the landrover, where anyone could grab it. He runs back and gets the gun and goes into A&E with one arm round his blood soaked mate and a shotgun in the other. Armed Police arrived shortly after.
 








Chicken Run

Chicken Run

Member Since Jul 2003
NSC Patron
Jul 17, 2003
18,494
Valley of Hangleton
Deportivo Seagull said:
How‘s the SA80 compare to the SLR?
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Chalk and cheese in my opinion, SLR was of course more reliable and on the range imho more accurate however for close quarters urban warfare (NI) my Bootneck colleagues told me the SA80 was was better, one problem was of course the SA80 could only be fired in those days right handed!!
 






swindonseagull

swindonseagull

Well-known member
Aug 6, 2003
9,292
Swindon, but used to be Manila
Air Rifle in the garden then 30 years RAF........never liked firing weapons ( not that im a pacifist) I just hated the idea of cleaning them after.

303
SLR
LMG
SA80
LA85 ( or whatever they called it)
9mm Browning side arm for Gulf wars x2
 
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Herr Tubthumper

Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
59,659
The Fatherland
As a teenager a friend lived on a farm in Newick. I had a go at firing a shot gun whilst visiting him; it hurt my shoulder. They also had stables and I got to ride a horse for the first time there as well. Preferred the latter.
 


schmunk

schmunk

"Members"
Jan 19, 2018
9,523
Mid mid mid Sussex
School CCF, so fired Cadet GP (manually cocked version of SA80) and air rifle on a range. Have since fired a 12-bore at clays and a scoped air rifle at a metal rabbit...
 


Sid and the Sharknados

Sid and the Sharknados

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 4, 2022
4,106
Darlington
Herr Tubthumper said:
As a teenager a friend lived on a farm in Newick. I had a go at firing a shot gun whilst visiting him; it hurt my shoulder. They also had stables and I got to ride a horse for the first time there as well. Preferred the latter.
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Great, now I'm having to resist the temptation to start a thread titled "Have you ever discharged a horse?"
 








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Littlemo

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2022
1,227
Did clay pigeon shooting at a work team building day. I quite enjoyed it and was pleased that I managed to get something like 9/10 of them, and beat my colleagues as it was the best score. Most of my colleagues were guys who were all making it competitive 🤣
 


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