Went to the shooting range

Clearing the gun, not cleaning it. He had a round in the chamber, he pulled the slide back to eject the round, finger nowhere near the trigger, the slide broke free from his grip and the round went off. It could have been avoided, but the weapon isn't supposed to fire without depressing the trigger.

 

Oh, I see the "r" now. Thanks for the further explanation. Interesting.

 

A buddy of mine has an AK-47. That is fun to shoot!

 

I took my 8 year old out to the woods with my 30/30 couple summers ago...it was pretty funny to watch his expression after he shot...

If you take your kid make sure to have good ear protection!

 

I will find some cool pics of me back when I was in the army. Got one of me rippin' it up with an M-60!

 

I wish I could try that!

 

Smith M&P's ROCK! I have the 9mm, with a sweet trigger job from the factory. Zero jams/misfires in over 2500 rounds. Lots of fun to shoot. Even the wife loves to shoot it.

For me, while I freak love shooting AK47, SKS, AR15 and Mini14's, their time has come and gone. While fun to shoot, you go through a ton of ammo, and it isn't cheap any more.

Someone posted above to remember your hearing protection. I didn't used to do that when I was young, and now I have tinitis. Tinitis is a loud ringing in your ears....mine never stops. Trust me, you wouldn't like it.

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If you call around to shooting dens around your area, you might find a place to do that. In Eugene, OR, the Baron's Den rents a Thompson .45 submachine gun. I did that awhile back as part of my 50th BD party. What a BLAST!

At the time, it was $40 bucks to rent it, and that came with 2-20 round 'stick' magazines. After renting the gun, it was $8 per stick for all the rounds you want to shoot.

Took a friend from Austrailia to shoot it a few years back. He'd never fired a gun, except a few rounds of .22. You couldn't have SLAPPED the smile off his face for an hour after he shot it!

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Ammo is so expensive these days, I'd bet that mag would cost like $30 now.

 

The sad thing is that it's quite a bit cheaper now than it was about six months ago. I bought my XD40 last June, and I was paying about .50 per round then. I can now get JHP for that price and regular target rounds for about .30 a round.

 

Seems like here 9MM has stayed around $12-13 a box, and HP's about $16-17 for Remington ammo. Price went up a little, but it just got really hard to find any since Obama took office. Obama-scare seems to have worn off and supply seems pretty much back to normal now.

.22 rounds have gone up a stupid amount in the last year.

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It was a manufactured demand too. I heard the ammo companies were stockpiling while they were driving up the cost.