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That author described in almost perfect detail what I felt the first time I fired...

.... a .50 BMG Barrett

Meh. Barret’s only feel about like a 20 gauge behind them. Now being off to the left or right of that break…..now THAT IS SOMETHING. Drains my sinuses thinking about it. . :P lol

My son, many years ago with his first kill.

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Originally posted by cslinger:

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That author described in almost perfect detail what I felt the first time I fired...

.... a .50 BMG Barrett

Meh. Barret’s only feel about like a 20 gauge behind them. Now being off to the left or right of that break…..now THAT IS SOMETHING. Drains my sinuses thinking about it. . :P lol

Yep. First time I fired my 50, I almost knocked out the taillights in the truck. No more shooting across the tailgate.

The only gun I have that makes me pay attention now is a Ruger No.1 in 458 Lott. The snowflake’s writeup kinda describes the the first time I fired the 458. You have to have your retinas reattached after a few rounds.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
Good to see you back, Doosh! Being a hard man again.

Yoo hoo! Hi, Artie!!

I missed out on the part where he said somebody secretly replaced the AR with an H+H in 700 Nitro Express?

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Wussy 'Journalist':
My accuracy gradually improved until it became easier to hit the target with the rifle from 25 yards than with the pistol from five.

Duh? The mask goes over your nose, not your eyes.

Every time I see nonsense like this I think of Bonnie Parker, who was just around 5ft tall and a hundred pounds shooting a BAR.

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Originally posted by John Steed:
All that from a .223?

Good thing it wasn't a .30-06! Heaven forbid he should ever try a .45-70.

Or one of those .50 sharps.

If a journalist really wants to understand why we have the M16 family of rifles, and by extension the AR-15 family, let him first fire the M1 Garand.

Don't mind me, but I've got one of these odd memories - you know, the kind that recalls the words of Doris Day's fifties hit 'Que sera, sera' - that kind of thing.

I've seen that article before, years ago, and the response was the same back then. Having just read the so-called 'source document report' they've added a bit to the front and re-hashed it to fit the current scenario.

Balzé Halzé - help me out here - YOU remember it, surely?

LOL... people like this crack me up! My daughter was shooting by the age of 10, and I have photos of her shooting my AR-15 at the age of 13. She has no problem shooting ANY of my guns except maybe my P229 in .357SIG, and she still handles it fine (just doesn't care for the extra-large fireball I think)!

Journalists... what a joke!

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
It's just more propaganda to demonize the AR and 5.56 round as some incredibly powerful weapon that should not be in civilian hands.
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The AR15 however is the epitomy [sic] of compromise between good range, light weight, amount of ammo in a standard magazine, accuracy, and shootability, and deadly enough.

I think the first paragraph may just hit the proverbial nail on the head.

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Originally posted by rburg:
Oh fer Gawd's sake, Balze. You'll never get to heaven unless you join the woke crowd.

Well, there's a saying, and I think it can be applied aptly to today's "woke crowd."

"Christians go to heaven, socialists (the 'woke crowd') go to communism."

At least my heaven is real while theirs is pure fantasy. Considering that fact, I have no desire to join the wokesters.

Pussies.......pussy shit, it's what they do

He'd probably faint dead away from firing my .50AE pistol.

flashguy

For context I present the author:

Kevin McCallum is a political reporter at Seven Days, covering the Statehouse and state government. He previously was a reporter at The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Calif.

"The first time I dribbled a basketball was like Thor pounding his anvils with such ferocity that the heavens shook. The palms of my hands started to tingle as if I was grabbing a live wire. After several attempts to make a basket I started to wonder what was more scary... the fact that I made a bucket or that people get paid millions of dollars to do the same thing."


-This guy probably.

Proudly portraying oneself as a sissy seems to be like a badge of courage for these types.
I guess they want to make sure nobody mistakenly thinks they have too much testosterone.

My 11 year old (10 at the time of this photo) has more balls than him...

I’d love to hear what it was like when he got up the nerve to butter his first biscuit.

I find it a little bit scary that he 'could take one home some day'.