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Anybody ever been involved with the firing of the Christmas Guns
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Firing of the Christmas Guns
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What's are the Christmas Guns??? Please don't tell me there's a gun that only gets shot once a year.. oh the horror.
When I lived in LA, that's "Lower Alabama", people use to get out Christmas and New Years Eve and shoot their guns in the air. Kinda like they do in Muslim countries.
SP
When I lived in LA, that's "Lower Alabama", people use to get out Christmas and New Years Eve and shoot their guns in the air. Kinda like they do in Muslim countries.
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as I remember its a custom from Germany...fire them off at midnight...I just can't remember the story as to why. thats the reason for the post. :cry: I was hoping that someone here knew the whole story.
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Do that in this country and you'll probably end up in jail.
I remember reading or hearing about in WWI the Germans and British had a cease fire on Christmas Eve. Some of them got together and exchanged some things in "no mans" land, and sang Christmas songs...
They went to killin' each other again after Christmas. Heard stories about that happening in the Civil War also, if I remember right?
They went to killin' each other again after Christmas. Heard stories about that happening in the Civil War also, if I remember right?
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That LA thing about firing your guns of on New Years is an old custom. If it has been loaded all year you shot it of and started the new year with a fresh load.
Old Charlie
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My neighbor had a Christmas Party Saturday night. They left their dog outside and he barked once a second from 7:00 PM to 1:00 AM (And I got up to go hunting at 4:45 AM). Next time there just might be Christmas shot fired. (And I know it don't do no good to shoot a dog 'cause there're always puppies available).
Poor old Santa Claus! Not only does he have to bust his hump every Christman Eve deliverin' presents all over the world, but now he's gotta dodge gunfire! ::If ya DO fire a gun in the air on Christmas Eve, just make sure there ain't a fat dude in a red suit bein' lugged around by a pack o' flyin' reindeer in the vicinity! :: :crackup: :crackup: :thumbsup:
Like SlowPoke, I don't remember firing any guns over Christmas, but growing up in WV, I do remember the midnight blasts on New Year's Eve from the shotguns in our little town along the Cheat River. I also remember my parents and some of the neighbors raising their glasses of moonshine or home-made peach brandy to ring in the New Year. I know there weren't many shots taken because my Dad was really frugal when it came to wasting shotgun shells! And,it was a safe practice since the gun was pointed up over Briary Mt., and it was 10 miles to the next house.
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Christmas guns? More like New Year's guns down here, the firing of said guns to ring in the new year apparently being a South Texas, primariliy Hispanic tradition. Parts of my town sound like a war zone when the New Years come, hard to tell how much is fireworks and how much is guns,
'Course to REALLY hear a display I'm told ya gotta be around some of the colonias along the river, rapid fire semi- or full-auto fire from high cap. mags.
In the last fifteen years here in San Antonio I am aware of two kids being hit by falling bullets; one fatally in the head, the other wounded in the arm.
Birdwatcher
'Course to REALLY hear a display I'm told ya gotta be around some of the colonias along the river, rapid fire semi- or full-auto fire from high cap. mags.
In the last fifteen years here in San Antonio I am aware of two kids being hit by falling bullets; one fatally in the head, the other wounded in the arm.
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STUMBLIN BUFFLER SEZ:
"...What goes up must come down on something with an insurance company and/or lawyer..."
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Black Powder and Toilet Paper makes just as much noise and doesn't run near the risk of killing anyone
:agree: We use powder and a wonderwad for "blanks" at camp... 100gr of pyrodex is quite an impressive BOOM retiring the colors at dinner and 50gr when shot across the lake during a campfire echos very nicely. We stopped using a paper overwad due to fire hazard.
vic
Christmas is the only opportunity to shoot at reindeer. They are not native here ya know.
DanL
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another interesting component for noise making is Vermiculite. You can pick it up in the garden section of your local hardware store. It's a potting soil sort of thing, and you can pour a tablespoon down the barrel and then pack it tight with a ramrod. It makes a tight seal, but it completely blows apart on leaving the barrel, no projectile, no fire hazard. Of course, if your reenactment/skirmish doesn't allow ramming, then it doesn't work very well, but for back yard entertainment or Dog and Pony shows, it works really well.
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