Gun Safety

[Zonie]

More thoughts on BLOWING down the barrel.
First: This is a common practice with Long Range Black Powder Cartridge shooters Except they do it from the breech and they use a plastic tube as I described above. They do this to keep the fouling soft. Buy a plastic tube about 3-4 feet long and blow away. They pay lots of money for theirs but for a couple of bucks you can do as well.

Why shouldn't you stick the barrel in your mouth?
BECAUSE KIDS ARE WATCHING YOU!!!! They DON'T know WHY your doing this but when they see a adult stick a gun barrel in his mouth it is telling them THIS MUST BE OK OR THAT MAN WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT.

I for one don't want to be responsible for some confused kid blowing the back of his head off with his dads .357.

 

[tg]

"I for one don't want to be responsible for some confused kid blowing the back of his head off with his dads .357."
I think the real question here would be how in the hell the kid got ahold of his dads .357 in the first place, adults smoke. drink, cuss, lie and cheat in front kids on a regular basis but we must try to explain or show that this type behavior should not be copied as they make their journey to adulthood where they will be in a postion to make their own decisions and face the results of their actions.

 

[LRB]

I would have to believe you stand a better chance of being struck by a Russian satellite falling from the sky than being killed or injured from blowing down a fresh fired barrel. I have not shot in organized competition or on an organized range since 1974, so I do not have spectators very seldom anyway, watching me shoot. At the time I did compete, won a few 1st places by the way, blowing down the barrel was an accepted practice. I know not what course other men may take, but as for me I will blow down the barrel and keep my right hand intact.

 

[roundball]

This is an interesing thread...and I mean it when I say this: I don't want to start a conflict, I just want to make an observation.

I have a problem with the story about a guy who has a hole in his hand, and because he's lost the feeling in it, he now picks up burning embers to impress people??

Lost feeling or not, I'm afraid that practice would literally burn the skin and tissue off his fingers wouldn't it?

 

[LRB]

I have watched him do it. This is not something he does daily, he saves this stunt for special ocassions and as you can imagine his finger tips are solid caluse type skin. As for damage to the flesh it doesn't seem to do more than burn the caluse. Stinks a little if your downwind. Haven't seen the other fellow in 25 yrs. Maybe one of them Russian satilites took him out.

 

[musketman]

Was the Russian satellite period correct?

I know, I'm being a smart-***

That would have to hurt, and imagine the splinters he got from the ram rod alone!