Yes, I know, I'm throwing everyone off with a post so soon after the last one. Thing is, I heard Mark laughing as we checked our e-mails and I had to investigate. He had been watching a video clip of a guy "Watch this" moment which I couldn't resist posting right now while I am still chuckling. It made my morning.
This all ties in with the plinking fest which occurred when Red and Sally were here. I think I probably never got around to elaborating on why there was such a disincentive to hitting the bullseye in the homemade target that Mark had set up just before their arrival.
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Here is the infamous impromptu range target. This happened to be the top off an old 55 gallon oil drum which Mark found in the junk pile across the road. If you look closely, it has a very nice and heavy cast iron plug in the center. Being older and wiser than most, they all decided that hitting this plug square-on was a sure invitation to our ol' Irish friend, Rick O'Shea, to come visit. He was a welcome walk-in to every old Western movie but just not someone we wanted to deal with.Now go see "We're not doing THAT again". It's classic guy stuff at its best and it will explain a lot without any need for further in depth analysis on my part. Okay, so maybe the caliber they were using wasn't quite .50BMG but the principle is the same.
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16 comments:
I'd seen the vid before...and that guy is danged lucky...if a lil bit...umm..."challenged" in the thinking-ahead department.
Which, present company is clearly NOT.
Funny how guys love to shoot at 55 gallon drums...got one in the backyard I used to use...it's pretty riddled now though.
That video is hilarious, but really a close call!
Have you seen the clip of somethin' called a "punt-gun"?
There really IS(or rather, WAS)such a thing, but I'd never seen anything like it until FHB sent me a clip. And, yeah, he's already sent me this .50 cal as well. Wanna see the "punt-gun" in action? Just "GOOGLE" for it, easier than sendin' a link!
Buck, I was amazed at that part myself - the luck involved in getting hit in the head ... just a little. Wow.
Mushy, there's really gotta be something about 55 gallon drums - every one I've found around here is full of holes. Even if the drum was hidden way off in the sage, someone nailed it.
Bruno, I bet FHB still has it in his archives so maybe he'll read this and send it to me. If you got a kick out of it, I bet's it's pretty cool.
Who'd a thunk it?
Moose, I guess it's one of those physics, geometry things that comes back to bite us every once in a while but thankfully with some predictability.
Rick visited me once, it was only an air rifle, but that doesnt stop me bragging the I've been shot before
PopeT, you too? I was shot by one as well, not by Rick but by a brother. Right in the basement (in all respects).
lin shot in the basement. I can see the headline: "Woman Shot In The ...."
Hmmmmm. think I'll call that repoerter from the Abq. Journal.
Cat, it would have read more like "Five year old shot 'in the basement' while fleeing up steps from rage of much older brother." At least he didn't shoot my eye out but Mum was still not amused.
what are the odds of getting hit that squarely by a ricochet? Cool video. I love that line "we're not doing that again"-- funny, but a too-close-for-comfort situation!
Cool target. My buddy Dave has a few steel circles on spinners, but they're both too shot up now to be any fun. I need to look around and find a lid like that and set it up.
And that's one lucky bastard. Close call.
Unbelievable... lol
(And here we thought we were rebels shooting a sawed off .22 at pastel-coloured Avon bubblebath bottles afloat in the slough...)
I like to shoot off my mouth sometimes but that's about it.
The video is amazing. HA
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