Miter, surely this will remind you of a story to tell? We're all sitting around waiting...
My little bro and I shot out an old tv last night with my SKS (7.62 x 39mm) for shits and giggles. I wouldn't have wanted to stand behind it! Although tvs really aren't the most exciting thing to shoot.
The coolest thing I ever shot: an old bowling ball, shot with a 30-06. Awesome explosion, pieces in every direction, including back at us! I couldn't comment on the bowling balls material. What the hell did a stupid young kid know about bowling ball construction? Somebody give it a try, and tell me if you have the same spectacular results. Maybe the local bowling alley would give away old balls?
Oh hell, I missed this one.... You've got to be freakin kidding me!
Sorry Helldiver, no shooting at the wife stories for you, unless you count...ah never mind.
I will give you something on the 'shooting bowling equipment' as I do it all the time. Pins mostly, they make great targets! I've moved on to more "reactive" targets these days.
I learned a while back in my early 20's not to shoot rifles at hard objects in close proximity, got bit by a 30-30 in the leg shooting at an overturned truck a mere 20 yards away, that damn bullet turned a 180 and came right back at me, still got it in my thigh! Just saw it on an x-ray this spring, they had to see if an MRI would cause it to rip out LOL!
Psytoxix...just why aren't you "allowed" to go shooting?
I've shot up a few old cars in my day. Once we were shooting a shotgun at the gas cap area (with the door already blown off). This provided a nice parabolic shape to the sheet metal around the gas cap, and one of the bbs did a 180 and hit my buddy in the leg. No penetration luckily. I was also in my early stupid 20s, and learned something about safety and distance.
Anyway, I thought that bowling ball made a fine reactive target, in that it was so friggin hard / dense whatever, and that 30-06 delivered so much power, that the ball just exploded. Do you have a more exciting target to suggest? I'm taking notes. ;-)
I got another trick for you. I work with MRIs a lot. Next time you get an MRI, bring a quarter. It not ferromagnetic, it won't rip out of your hand, won't even tug a little bit. Place the quarter in the MRI so the diameter of the quarter aligns with the diameter of the bore, and let it tip over. It does so much slower than normal gravity would allow.
The reason is, as the quarter tips over, its cutting through lines of magnetic flux in the MRI static magnetic field. This induces eddy currents in the quarter, which creates an opposite magnetic field in the quarter, slowing its descent. Very cool trick, I haven't met an MRI tech that knew about it yet. I should make a video for Glumbert!
Next time I have an MRI!!! Considering what that means to have my ass in that cryo-tube, I hope that won't happen!! I'll run it by my friend, he runs the show (tech wise) at the U of M hospital in Ann Arbor.
gym,
Never, EVER mess with a woman's knees if ya know what's good for ya. It would be in your best intrest to actually take care of her knees, if ya get my drift.
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