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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Airgun Gate => : fsdanlie May 02, 2009, 11:09:26 AM
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To take the shot,this one degraded my pit value.I was taken aim at a bird had my sites on him and looked at the barrel and said ,i think i'm high enough,pulled the trigger and all i heard that pellet wizzing away upward toward the sky.Lesson learned.I was using the 460 mag in 22.
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What did you hit?
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edge of the handle of my gas grill.
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You got it all wrong. Your supposed to shoot the bird and grill it, NOT shoot the grill.....
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I wish that I could say that the same thing( not a grill) has not happened to me....it has. I took a shot at a squirrel in the back yard the other day and was I surprised when he only looked around at the sound. I fired again from another angle and nailed him D.R.T. Curious why the miss, I looked around and found that I had shot the privacy fence. Reminded myself not to fo that in the future. Next time the squirrel may run off and not give me a second chance. Good lluck with the dead grill.
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LOL,now that's funny,I never thought of it that way vincent.
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i shoot off a portable bench off the sand bags out the basement door ...
rule# 1 make sure the door is open enough ... :o
outside door knob ....
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it happen's :emoticon:
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Don't feel bad,,,,,, yesterday it was raining here but I went to the duck farm I shoot at to shoot starlings,,, my plan was to just sit inside my truck and shoot through the open driver door window. All went fine and I took a bunch of shots and nailed a few birds but then it happened....... I went to take a shot at a bird on the ground, put the crosshairs on his chest, pulled the trigger and heard a sharp CRASH. I shot out my driver door rear view mirror :(
I can't tell you how stupid I felt,, and there was no way I was gonna post my stupidity on GTA but then I saw your post and I suddenly felt better :) so I figured what the heck I'll fess up to my stupid mistake and perhaps it'll bring a chuckle to someone.
Anyway, thanks for making your post.... you made me feel alot better !!! :)
Jeff
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Your welcome Jeff,You should of seen the look on my wifes face when she seen it.
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Damn Jeff, I'm hurt....you never even mentioned that to me...I wouldn't have told anyone!!!! Man, I'm such a liar..i'd have copied that message it and pasted it to this room...
Glad ya didn't hurt yourself, buddy...
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Yeah,,,, it wouldn't have happened with any of my springers as those rifles are to long but I was using my 18 inch barreled .22 Talon and the rifle was just short enough to fit between me and the rear view mirror :(
After I heard the blast and looked a the broken glass and hole in the plastic mirror housing it was only then that I realized how lucky I was that the pellet hadn't come back and struck me :o
Can't wait to find out how much the repair is gonna cost me !!
Jeff
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All hell Danny,...just slap a little JB Weld on the handle, and everything will be hunky-dory. My biggest FU to date has been to inadvertantly shoot a pellet about 3" from my hall/bathroom sky-light. Yikes,... Believe me,...Velux is mighty proud of their $#it!!!! Glad no one got hurt, tjk
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I forgot about this!!! [ I dont know how.. ] My sweet wife and I pulled into our driveway last summer, and I had my Daisy 15xt co2 pistol in the truck. There was a cat sitting under our travel trailer about 60 ft. away. My wife takes the pistol [ only wanting to scare the cat away from her chickens ] carfully, slowly aiming, and POP! The cat goes running off.She said "Oh my gosh, I just shot the poor kitty!!!" I said" Nope, you just sot the trailer. Animals dont sound like that when you shoot them!" I was amazed at the dent the bb put in the trailer at that distance. We both just laughed.
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I'll say the darn scope on the rifle's fault..got the cross hair right on target and squeeze then prakkkkkk squirrel bolted away. Tried to close window but gets caught at the bottom. I noticed a half moon dent that I have to straighten with a pliers to get the window to close all the way. Luckily I was using daisy wadcutter which did not rip the aluminum bottom lip of my window. Now if I have to snipe from the window i rest the muzzle brake on a cardboard box 2 inch high that the bottom of the window lip. Don't tell anyone!!!
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Think we`ve all been there,I was shootin at some Starlings one sunny afternoon,should`ve went outside!Was wonderin why they wer`nt fallin,looked up and had 3 neat holes thru the screen doors top!It`s ok man............ :D
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This is great :D I feel a lot better now !!!!! :D
Jeff
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LOL,Jeff
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Kinda nice to "bare your soul" every now and then :DGot a pic of the mirror Jeff?If`n I still lived in the same house I`d have to post 1 of the door now,I was thinkin it was just me...I agree this is great!
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I'll snap a pic tomorrow and post it.....
Jeff
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WTH is this?,... "group therapy"?!?!?! "I think I need a hug!!!" LMAO, Just funning fellas. Boy I thought I was the biggest idiot on the GTA,....but thanks to you guys, I think there are a few others that out-rank me in this department,...now that's something to feel good about!!!! LOL's Can't stop Laughing at this point!!!!! I've always knew I was amongst my kind on the GTA!!!!! Nothin but love bro's,...tjk
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Shot a hole in my window sill...
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Hey Jeff, Just send it to Timmy, He'll mount it !!! ...Bill
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Same like Richie....just clipped it with a very extreme angle shot.....bent it back with a pair of pliers and a dab of white paint. Nobody uses that window often so I'm safe.....
Been shooting out of another window and clipped 3 tips of a house plant (3 different times).....splattered the tips and their sap all over the curtain and window.
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You'll be fine, Jeff...post the price of the repair when ya get it, will ya? Ummmmmm, by the way, how did you explain that one to the wife???
I wouldn't say that "I" would do anything as stupid as this, but I know of someone quite a few years ago who accidentally shot his dad's van with a .22 mag while it sat it in the driveway...new van too, still had the sticker in window. Like I said though, "I" would never do anything like that....lol Boy, was my dad *_*_*_*_*_*ed...
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I was leading a grackle when I squeezed the trigger..... a 1/2 cm to the right and I'd put a hole in the glass.....actually 4 panes of glass since all the open windows were on that side. A 1/2 cm to the left and I'd been ok.
A nice round hole in the aluminum window frame....and you can see 2 semi-repaired dents on the window frame guides to the left of the pellet hole (Those were shot 2 weeks ago). Now I'll have to fill the hole with putty and dab abit of white paint on it andswap the whole window/frame with another one from another part of the house.
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Man dude you need therapy,you did'nt learn your lesson the 1st time "LOL",don't feel bad i have a dent on my window seal also using a freshly tuned b3 so the first shot was a diesel shot(leather piston seal).Luckly it was'nt one of my magnums i would of been doing some repairs.
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Thanks Dave....I feel better now.
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Dave, you're not supposed to fire shotguns from inside the house.......... :p
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Yep I have to repair a couple of small grouches on the top deck railing LOL. Didn't notice the barrel was below the railing, since the scope still had line of sight to the target. Sad thing is I did it again on another day even though I was trying to keep the barrel up so it won't happen again :O