[Misc] Have you ever discharged a firearm?

[The Clamp]

Are we banning Germans now?

Ha! Now corrected. But yes, I think that would be a great idea

 

[Dave the OAP]

Air gun in South Africa…..hand gun and rifle at a range in Houston!

didn’t do anything for me really apart from shooting street lightbulbs with a .22. Bad childhood

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[wehatepalace]

I own varying calibres of rifles and shotguns and I’ve shot handguns on the range, started of with an air rifle about 35 years ago.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Three of the above in a shooting gallery in a run-down part of Tallinn behind a car repair workshop

Similar to me, except in Riga -

Glock 17
AK47
Mossberg 500

Worrying lack of safety instructions considering how pissed we all were!

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Paid to have a go on a AK 47 whilst in Vietnam. Scary stuff

 

[Mancgull]

Similar to me, except in Riga -

Glock 17
AK47
Mossberg 500

Worrying lack of safety instructions considering how pissed we all were!

Same here, probably at the same dodgy location, below concrete terracing at an old athletics stadium. I wasn’t keen, but no one was hurt.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Skeet Shooting on a company team building day. And my right eye is knackered so as a right handed shooter, that was fun.

 

[lawros left foot]

Airgun as a kid.
To my shame, I actually shot and killed a blackbird at the age of about 10.

I never shot at another living creature.

In training when I joined the RN, SLR, Sten gun, and 9 mm Browning.
Later on, the SA80.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Captain of the Varndean Boys rifle team in about 1969. Loved it.

 

[The Clamp]

My favourite on set weapon was a WW1 Colt Thompson sub machine gun. Commonly known as a Tommy Gun or The Trench Clearer.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Air rifle as a kid in Mile Oak and the Old Shooting range under the palace pier, shotgun on a few clay pigeon shoots. No real interest

 

[Questions]

Used a 357 Magnum in South Africa. That was cool. I like guns. I wouldn’t want anything other that my pcp and springer air rifles though.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Brought up on a farm and my Dad taught me to shoot a .410 shotgun at age 12. Went on from there to fire all sorts of stuff courtesy of the Army, though as an infantry soldier the SLR was the main one. Left before we were issued with the SA80. I also shot with a rifle and pistol club, owning a .303 Lee Enfield Mk4, an over and under shotgun, three handguns, and a .44 black powder cap-and-ball Colt New Model Army ACW replica revolver. I was a reasonable shot and adopted the motto One Shot, One Hit, but my misplaced arrogance was brought crashing to Earth when as a TA soldier I ND'd (negligently discharged) on a firing range. I thought the world was about to come crashing down around my ears and lay prone, motionless, expecting to get chewed out big time by the Range Marshal and my platoon commander. Slowly it dawned on me that nothing was happening - amid all the noise of other groups firing on the range, no one had noticed my dreadful mistake! To this day I can't believe I got away with it! But looking back, I really enjoyed the Skill At Arms side of it all and even cleaning and caring for weapons. It was good, if only for a short time, as a young man, being the World's Deadliest Weapon - a British soldier and his rifle!!

 

[stewardxxx]

When I used to Travel a lot for work I had a 2 week deployment near Houston so one weekend went to a range and had a safety lesson consisting of "Don't point it at anything you don't wanna kill".

Went in the range and shot 200 9mm rounds out of a variety of hand guns with my favourite being a Glock 17. When I fired the first bullet I had to put the gun down and take a moment as realisation hit me that something so quick and easy could end a life.

The following weekend before I flew home I was invited to a BBQ at one of the customers ranch where he let me fire some rounds with his AR-15 - that is a weapon that has no business being sold to anyone other than the army.

Also done Clay shooting and had many a BB Gun/Air Rifle when I was a kid

 

[Red Squirrel]

More comfortable with shotguns but rarely aim them at anything other than clays. Don't like handguns, the empty shell whizzing past the back of your head is unsettling and it certainly felt like I held death in my hands.

 

[Seagull58]

.22 and .303 in the school CCF. It took me 4 attempts to get the Empire Medal for .22. I can't hit a cow's arse with a banjo.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Same here, probably at the same dodgy location, below concrete terracing at an old athletics stadium. I wasn’t keen, but no one was hurt.

Can’t remember where exactly as I was pretty hammered!

I do remember the floor being littered with spent shell casings....before we even started!

H&S would of had kittens if it had been here!

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

First air rifle at 9 yrs, used fathers 4-10 303 conversation in my teens as well as a 12 bore.
303 in ACF as well as a 25 pounder ( no not joking).
As well as being an armourer in The RN I was on a Junglie squadron so have fired.
SLR
SMG
GPMG (weapon of choice as I was very accurate with it) downside is that it’s f***ing heavy …
9mm Browning
M16 with M203 grenade launcher
0.5 cal (Mounted in a Ferret armoured car)
i also fired off a couple of L1A1 66mm grenade launchers.

Any enjoyment was offset by having to clean the weapons afterwards, a shitty job and a pain in the arse.

Why people think fire arms makes them macho is beyond me. With a little bit of training anyone can be a lethal shot.

 

[southstandandy]

Did CCF back in the 70's so got to go on ranges several times. Quite fun just doing target shooting but would never want to have one.