Today, I shot a gun for the first time in my life. (Not at anyone, mind.) Supervised by someone experienced, which is absolutely the way to go about it and frankly I’d be scared to death using one on my own. Guns are weird and heavy.
If you ever get a chance, shoot at a watermelon. Fun and scary, in an OMG could I really do that/does it really look like that kind of way. But then, I like shooting at stuff other than a bullseye. (But not hunting. I’m not that desperate for meat.)
I got to do it with a .357 and I’ll never try to shoot one of those again. Fun, yes, at the time, but Very Very Heavy, and my arm and back were sore for two days. Oh, and I ended up on my ass.
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threnody August 4, 2012 @ 8:43 pm
I know, right? I’d love to learn how to shoot, because I think it is a good skill to have Just In Case. In case of what? I’m not entirely sure, but if there is a moment in my life when I desperately need to shoot a gun, I want to know how to do it properly. However, I do not get guns as a hobby, or shooting as a form of enjoyment. It is completely foreign to me, and how a gun can feel anything but weird and wrong in your hand is mind boggling. I get that there are legitimate uses (there are plenty of people so poor that they have to shoot their own meat), but overall I’d rather archery. Which is something else I want to take up.
Just in case of ZOMBIES! My father-in-law shoots as a hobby. (He’s the one who owed the gun.) And they do feel really weird in your hands, in a way that I suspect a bow and arrow wouldn’t. I guess it’s just knowing you could kill something just by moving a finger is what does it.
August 4, 2012 @ 8:41 pm
If you ever get a chance, shoot at a watermelon. Fun and scary, in an OMG could I really do that/does it really look like that kind of way. But then, I like shooting at stuff other than a bullseye. (But not hunting. I’m not that desperate for meat.)
August 4, 2012 @ 8:58 pm
That sounds like fun! :D Although I’m not sure the gun I used was powerful enough to make a watermelon explode…
August 4, 2012 @ 9:35 pm
I got to do it with a .357 and I’ll never try to shoot one of those again. Fun, yes, at the time, but Very Very Heavy, and my arm and back were sore for two days. Oh, and I ended up on my ass.
August 4, 2012 @ 8:43 pm
I know, right? I’d love to learn how to shoot, because I think it is a good skill to have Just In Case. In case of what? I’m not entirely sure, but if there is a moment in my life when I desperately need to shoot a gun, I want to know how to do it properly. However, I do not get guns as a hobby, or shooting as a form of enjoyment. It is completely foreign to me, and how a gun can feel anything but weird and wrong in your hand is mind boggling. I get that there are legitimate uses (there are plenty of people so poor that they have to shoot their own meat), but overall I’d rather archery. Which is something else I want to take up.
August 4, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
Just in case of ZOMBIES! My father-in-law shoots as a hobby. (He’s the one who owed the gun.) And they do feel really weird in your hands, in a way that I suspect a bow and arrow wouldn’t. I guess it’s just knowing you could kill something just by moving a finger is what does it.