I had an old chain, not real thick laying around the shack. It had part of a tree grown around it. As it was laying there and I had a new Ruger in 45 Colt and some HSM cowboy loads there - I gave it a whirl.
From a distance of 7 feet or so and about 15 rounds - I never split that chain. Hit it a lot but never caused it to break.
I wondered about setting dynamite off with a bullet. So, many years ago, I placed a half stick in the fork of a mesquite tree about 6 in dia at base. I backed off and nailed it first shot with a little Browning 22.
Split the tree right down to the ground. Ol' Gene and Roy weren't lying.
Gene I knew an old acquaintance from Moran Tx who had a classmate tie a stick on a buzzards leg. With a long fuze. Had ideas of watching the poor bird blow up riding a thermal. Well buzzard finally got off ground and lit on ridge of barn roof. Apparently it's had for a buzzard to fly with a stick of dynamite tied to his leg. Results are not hard to guess.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
I had a buddy back in school that tried shooting the lock out of an old 50 something car trunk with a 22lr from ~5 ft and had it bounce back and hit him in the thigh. He bled.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age. --Groucho Marx
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when they deserve it. --Mark Twain
A few years ago, I had a 3" Master padlock that we had lost the key. I hung the lock on a fence post, backed off about 10', and a 180 grain Partition from my .30 Gibbs literally shattered that lock.
A bunch of buddies plinking at an old scrap yard one day with old milsurps. One guy shot an AP round into a steel plate a little too close. The core punched on through, the jacket and lead came back and whacked him in the forehead. He bled.
Once, in my youth, I thought it would be cool to have a coin with a bullet hole through it. I put a nickel on the trunk of an apple tree and backed off to about ten feet with my .22 (loaded with shorts.) That bullet came buzzing back and just nicked my left ear lobe....
I knew some wild young lads, back in the seventies. One lad was a bs artist, he was getting married in a week and had promised his fiancee he had $2 K in the bank. The sapsucker didn't have 2 nickels to rub together. These geniuses had heard that you could rob a pay phone and get hundreds of $ in quarters.
The buddy of the engaged boy went to a pay phone at midnight, the engaged boy waited at the wheel of the getaway car. I think alcohol was involved. He closed the door to the booth, didn't want the sound to get out. He pulled his Walther .32 acp and fired two shots at the lockbox. Dumb ass had a pillow case in his left hand, opened and ready to rake all the quarters in to.
The terrific noise of the gunshots in the little phone booth stunned the lad. He felt for the shattered lock so he could rake out the quarters. There was no damage to the lock box, as he said it, not a scratch on it.
The other dumb ass did get married on schedule, divorced 8 months later.
In other news, just like in the movies, you can make a stick of dynamite explode if you shoot it with a rifle. You can take a Marlin .22 and shoot the stick at a range of 50 feet. It will not explode. After several such shots, the stick will be shot in two. At that point, if you place the two half sticks back-to-back, and shoot them at a range of 10 feet, they will explode.*
In other news, just like in the movies, you can make a stick of dynamite explode if you shoot it with a rifle. You can take a Marlin .22 and shoot the stick at a range of 50 feet. It will not explode. After several such shots, the stick will be shot in two. At that point, if you place the two half sticks back-to-back, and shoot them at a range of 10 feet, they will explode.*
*The explosion will knock you on your ass.
They will explode at any range with a .243 Win.
How many obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb? None, they prefer to remain in the dark.
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Gene I knew an old acquaintance from Moran Tx who had a classmate tie a stick on a buzzards leg. With a long fuze. Had ideas of watching the poor bird blow up riding a thermal. Well buzzard finally got off ground and lit on ridge of barn roof. Apparently it's had for a buzzard to fly with a stick of dynamite tied to his leg. Results are not hard to guess.
Oh man, that is too funny.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
