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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Octavius on August 29, 2008, 05:35:47 PM
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c9d_1219966670
Normally I hate to see anyone get hurt, but I laugh my bellybutton off if it's comical. Biting my tongue usually doesn't help. :)
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
saw that coming! :lol
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:rofl
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LMFAO :rofl
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ouch :rofl :aok
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:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
LMFAO thats to dang funny
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Someone tell lazs about this, I always knew them pesky revolvers were dangerous. :D
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As soon as I saw how she was holding it I knew there was going to be carnage. :lol
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That was not good gun control.
shamus
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:rofl wasnt what i expected but wow... I couldnt tell, did she drop the gun?
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There's a reason that back in the 60s there was a height/weight requirement for LEOs. All this silly litigation has negated common sense.
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There's a reason that back in the 60s there was a height/weight requirement for LEOs. All this silly litigation has negated common sense.
Well, the height and weight requirements had nothing to do with firearms handling. It was for physical altercations.
My wife is 4'11" tall, and back when she was still VERY light (she weighed 90# when we got married, she weighs a little over 125# now, and working out to lose some) she shot my 44 Magnum. She hit the targets at 7 yards the first time she ever shot it with ease, and handled the recoil without issue. She hates muzzle blast, recoil isn't an issue. Her dislike of muzzle blast has nothing to do with her size.
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Well, the height and weight requirements had nothing to do with firearms handling. It was for physical altercations.
My wife is 4'11" tall, and back when she was still VERY light (she weighed 90# when we got married, she weighs a little over 125# now, and working out to lose some) she shot my 44 Magnum. She hit the targets at 7 yards the first time she ever shot it with ease, and handled the recoil without issue. She hates muzzle blast, recoil isn't an issue. Her dislike of muzzle blast has nothing to do with her size.
My comment touched on the tip of the iceberg behind the reasoning and sound logic behind those parameters.
Taking away nothing from the wife, good on 'er. :aok
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Ok, I'll admit to watching it and laughing. Laughing at someone else's misfortune is wrong but I just couldn't help myself. :D
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My 5'2" daughter fires my 44 mag double action pretty well. she thinks it is fun.. I know 6' guys who get scared just watching her.
The taxpayer is getting screwed on the whole worthless short fat women cops and fireman thing tho.. If someone is paid to take down a bad guy or carry me out of a burning building then they damn well had better be strong enough to do it.
Put another way.. would you like your loved ones to die because the cop got her butt kicked or the "fireman" couldn't carry them out of the building?
Nope.. the liberals have screwed us good on this one.
lazs
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Looked to me like she was using a modified Weaver stance with a Homer Simpson grip style.
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lol, looked like she hit herself in the head lol. was pretty funny though
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It was a funny clip, but I wish they hadn't put a S&W .500 magnum in what was obviously a begginers hand. That woman may not ever want to shoot a handgun again after that.
That being said:
When I was a 17 year old smartmouth kid, I thought I had mastered the .44 magnum revolver in every way. My standard load at that time was a 240 grain Hornady hollowpoint over 22.5 grains of Hercules 2400 powder with a CCI standard Large Pistol primer. I shot that load in my S&W model 29 so much, the load details are engraved on my soul. Anyway, I was at my usual spot in a large prairie dog town with my dad when I thought it would be fun to outshoot him with his own .44 magnum. So, I grabbed his Ruger Super Blackhawk and let fly with a certain flourish, gripping his Ruger in the same fashion I gripped my S&W. At he first shot I recall a brief instant where the Ruger was coming back at my head (I always gripped my S&W high so as to minimize muzzle flip for quicker followup shots), then a burst of comets and flashes and spots of lights. I felt my knees hit the prairie and managed to blindly stick my hand in front of me to keep me from falling face first into the pincushion cactus that covered the ground. The fireworks soon stopped and I could see again. I looked at my dad and when he saw I was alright, he laughed long and hard then said "Now show me how to do that fancy shot again!". That had to have been funny, me being such an arrogant, know-it-all, smartbutt goober! My favorite all round handgun now is a Ruger Super Blackhawk with the barrel reduced to 5 inches and the Super Blackhawk grip frame replaced with regular a BlackHawk grip frame. I would and have trusted my life with this handgun.
BTW, that load I used back then is above the maximum listed for that bullet, powder, primer combination in todays loading manuals. Luckily I used (and still use) my beloved
and legendary Speer No. 8 manual. It contained "the most intrepid loads ever published" according to Handloader magazines editors. That manual has the recipe for driving a 110 grain spirepoint at over 4100 feet per second in a .300 Weatherby! ZING!! :eek:
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That what you get when you give an inexperienced woman a fire arm.
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Guys, to be fair, a .500 magnum can make a grown man cry. That's not your run-of-the-mill Dirty Harry .44 Mag. I remember the first time I fired a 454 Casull. That thing got my respect real quick, and I'm 6'3", 230. I agree with Druss. Somebody was being a complete jerk giving that cannon to a beginner.
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Howabout this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8106352348083170233&ei=rju6SIniJ4vA-wHctcCkDQ&q=U.S.+Army+Artillery+Accident&vt=lf
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druss.. glad you pointed out that the load was above max.. with some lots of 2400 it would be really really over.
Having said that.. I shot a superblackhawk for many years and did trust it with my life too.. it took horrendous punishment.. the loads I brewed up in it stretched the frame on a smith 29 so much that the cylinder would open.
now.. recoil is subjective and a matter of weight too.. I have a 12 oz .357 360pd with undercover wood grips in place of the sticky worthless rubber ones it came with... that gun explodes in the hand more than it really recoils. many grown men have said that they will never shoot it again.
The 500 I shot was not unpleasant.. it seems like it is about a 50 pound gun.. weighs more than a couple of my rifles.
lazs