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02-25-2009, 03:17 PM
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Eh, to each their own. I just threw down on your avatar btw. jk.
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#13
03-01-2009, 10:47 PM
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What kind of TV did you almost kill?
Explain that one to the wife. No, don't. Drop it off at Goodwill, buy a new one and pretend nothing happened. Don't forget to mud the hole in the wall behind. It's a dead give away.
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#14
03-01-2009, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by WB5MHA
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03-01-2009, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by tomharkness
 Easy killer. That would have been one hell of a surprise if you yanked the trigger. "F&(@! My ears!" "Where'd my TV go?" "FU@($&!" I would love to hear the explanation to the cops. "I was sleeping, then I woke up and heard sirens. Then I looked up and saw some guy running with my stereo so I shot him! Then I realized I was watching Cops. Any of you boys selling a TV?"
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#16
03-01-2009, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by TXSUT
Everyone does stupid stuff in their life at some point. You just have to learn from it, if you manage to live through it.
Just don't be around people that are habitual dumbasses though. 
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#17
03-02-2009, 11:16 AM
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confession
In 1969 I returned from Viet Nam. About four days home I was in the hardware store and asked to see one of the scoped hunting rifles on the rack behind the counter. The clerk handed it to me, I looked through the scope at a bus stop about 150 yards away through the plate glass front window. I put the crosshairs of the scope on some citizen waiting for a bus and left my finger on what could have been a hair trigger.
You can guess the rest. Not wanting to dry fire a new rifle I pulled up on the bolt, pulled it back and ejected a live 243 round. The clerk didn't seem to care much and said something like "oops". I was so shaken I couldn't think straight. At the time an innocent person gunned down from inside a store by an obviously "psychotic returned Viet Nam vet" would have made page one. He would have been very dead (I scoped his head) and I would probably have been put in the VA for the rest of my young years. If you see old videos you will notice that safety and muzzle control were not a priority in the military in those days. I remember training films that showed weapons being pointed in unsafe directions. Still the experience left me with a case of the terminal heeby-jeebys that lasts to this day and takes presidence over anything that happened during the war. I still don't go to gun shows with the numb-nuts pointing weapons all over. I avoid comercial shooting ranges when they are crowded for the same reason. Practice is ok once your check list of safety measures is completed carefully the way a pilot does his/her pre-flight check list. Just thought I would get that off my chest after all these years. If safety is the only thing you learn during weapon instruction consider yourself successful in a big, BIG way. Last edited by WB5MHA; 03-02-2009 at 11:18 AM.
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#18
03-02-2009, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by WB5MHA
Pretty wild man. We've had a few people come in with guns, mags in, closed actions and when you ask them to open them up out comes a shiny new one. They always are dumbfounded like some ammo gnome put them in the gun last night.
Thanks for your service in Vietnam.
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