jkcerda on 28/3/2018 at 19:09
[video=youtube;9MBf_LvqUsQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBf_LvqUsQ[/video]
SOME people have money to burn and like to have fun.
[video=youtube;1uUNL6rW-Ck]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uUNL6rW-Ck[/video]
Renzatic on 28/3/2018 at 19:21
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heywood on 28/3/2018 at 20:31
Quote Posted by jkcerda
[video=youtube;9MBf_LvqUsQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBf_LvqUsQ[/video]
SOME people have money to burn and like to have fun.
I don't give a shit about the machine guns, I just want to fire that old canon.
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to make decorative miniature canons in various sizes that could fire 1/2" to 1" balls with a black powder charge. Firing one off was the highlight of every 4th of July. I remember destroying watermelons or firing it off over Lake Ontario (if it was a calm day) and seeing if we could see the splash.
Tocky on 28/3/2018 at 23:57
Careful. The "For Those About to Rock" tour cannons partially ruined my hearing. Damn AC/DC. Great concert though.
There was a time when boys grew up and became men. Now they just grow up. They play with things real men have used but they are still boys. Mention limiting their toys to save kids lives and they go paranoid dur gone take muh gun and stockpile like lunatics. I miss the days when men were actually men. When they fired guns for a reason and understood how dangerous they were not just individually but to a society saturated with them. They once cared about people instead of playing with guns like children.
I think my dad would be appalled at the grown little boys we have today. Here he is with his gun he had to use because it was necessary.
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https://i.imgur.com/iMErlyX.jpgHe also lost some of his hearing.
catbarf on 29/3/2018 at 02:13
Quote Posted by Tocky
I miss the days when men were actually men. When they fired guns for a reason and understood how dangerous they were not just individually but to a society saturated with them.
Back in the days when it was considered a god-given right to own a fully-automatic machine gun, and there was massive debate before the passing of the 1934 NFA? Or maybe a couple decades after that, when men played with weapons of war smuggled back from German and Japanese stockpiles, and maintained that the government had no right to prevent mail-order of guns across state lines? Or maybe the couple of decades after that, when having the government perform background checks was an assault on our freedoms?
When's this magical time of nostalgic gun responsibility that you keep doing these drive-by shitposts about?
Tocky on 29/3/2018 at 04:00
Anytime before we thought we had to play with guns. I think that happened in the late eighties or early nineties. It wasn't like it is now. And the shit posts are not mine. That would be the gun worshipers. Only gangsters owned machine guns, men had weapons from war but didn't play with them, only idiots played with guns and the rest were responsible hunters who had bolt action or low round mags. You don't remember apparently BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN. It was. Say what you will but you apparently are too young or don't recall. Naturally we have always had the lunatic fringe but now it is the sane who are the fringe.
LarryG on 29/3/2018 at 06:31
Quote Posted by jkcerda
[video=youtube;9MBf_LvqUsQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBf_LvqUsQ[/video]
SOME people have money to burn and like to have fun.
[video=youtube;1uUNL6rW-Ck]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uUNL6rW-Ck[/video]
All that, and Bambi still escaped!
[video=youtube;JTZPMJj-X9M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZPMJj-X9M[/video]
Renzatic on 29/3/2018 at 07:14
They bagged his mom, so it wasn't a total wash.
heywood on 29/3/2018 at 13:06
Back when I lived in Western NY, I used to kill Bambi's mom almost every year. When talking to non-hunting friends, I used to call it harvesting, because there were so damned many of them they were practically a menace, constantly becoming hood ornaments and eating people's flowers and gardens, and beating up golf greens and so on. That seemed to help justify hunting to people who couldn't imagine killing an animal. For me, I mostly just loved eating them. Venison is good tasting meat, and relatively healthy too. It's rare to find in restaurants, because deer farming is uncommon here.
Deer farming seems to be somewhat more common the UK. I used to see a fair bit of venison on the menu during the periods I was living or traveling there. One of my favorite pubs, the Brace of Pheasants in Dorset, always had it on the menu. But nothing can beat New Zealand for quality farmed venison.
heywood on 29/3/2018 at 14:32
Quote Posted by Tocky
Anytime before we thought we had to play with guns. I think that happened in the late eighties or early nineties. It wasn't like it is now. And the shit posts are not mine. That would be the gun worshipers. Only gangsters owned machine guns, men had weapons from war but didn't play with them, only idiots played with guns and the rest were responsible hunters who had bolt action or low round mags. You don't remember apparently BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN. It was. Say what you will but you apparently are too young or don't recall. Naturally we have always had the lunatic fringe but now it is the sane who are the fringe.
I think it depends on your definition of playing with guns. If you're talking about plinking, shooting skeet or trap, target shooting for fun or a bit of friendly competition, trying out different guns out of curiosity or to see how they compare, honing your shooting skills, shooting stuff to watch it bust up, etc. then I think you're wrong. People have always owned and shot guns for recreational reasons and not just as tools. If you're talking about embracing and celebrating gun culture because 'murica, freedom, fuck yeah!, then I do think that's a more recent thing.
