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- From: dstine@cisco.com (David Stine)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: fun things to shoot at
- Message-ID: <1eauqiINNf8t@roche.csl.sri.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:31:07 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Ain't got none o' that here....
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- In article <13NOV199222000851@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
- #Don't shoot or otherwise violently break picture tubes. Here's why.
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- Damn sound advice. And it is very true for fluorescent tubes.
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- #I've always thought it would be fun to shoot an old bald tire
- #that would still hold air. Or even a tire with no rim -- sat
- #it upright and try to get it rolling. Gotta try that one someday.
- #At least you'd render the tire carcass incapable of supporting
- #mosquito larvae if you punched a lot of holes in it.
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- I actually did that on a range as a kid; tire, no rim. The results were very
- disappointing; the bullets just zipped right through and the tire just sat
- there. I was shooting a .22 and my friend was shooting a M1 Garand.
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- Now, tire rims, (sans tire) in a pile of dust on a hillside at 100+ meters,
- hit 'em with a high-power (.308, .30/30, .30-06) are kinda fun. Sort of the
- Manly Man[tm] version of plinking a beercan with a .22; the rim will jump
- about a nice dance. Hence the pile of dust. A reasonable .30 round
- will penetrate at least one of the walls of the rim.
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- dsa
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