Posted on May 11, 2015
What one trigger compression turned you on/off of firearms?
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I bring this up because we need to chill out a bit. Just for fun, lets hear about the one round you sent down range that you wish you could take back or had a video camera handy to capture for posterity.
Time to rat myself out.
I went hunting with some friends many years ago, my first and last time doing so I might add. While sitting in a tree stand the animal we were hunting comes into the field and I have been told that since this is the first hunting trip I have ever been on I get the first shot.
I compress the trigger of the weapon I am holding and the recoil knocks my ass out of the tree completely missing the animal. After getting myself pulled back together I ask if I hit it. Response: "No but you sure scared the shit out of it when you hit the ground, I bet it hasn't stopped running yet."
I still like rifles, and have gotten better at hitting my target. But NO MORE hunting for me.
My best shot would have to be the throat shot at 500 meters on the KD range at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
What about yours
Time to rat myself out.
I went hunting with some friends many years ago, my first and last time doing so I might add. While sitting in a tree stand the animal we were hunting comes into the field and I have been told that since this is the first hunting trip I have ever been on I get the first shot.
I compress the trigger of the weapon I am holding and the recoil knocks my ass out of the tree completely missing the animal. After getting myself pulled back together I ask if I hit it. Response: "No but you sure scared the shit out of it when you hit the ground, I bet it hasn't stopped running yet."
I still like rifles, and have gotten better at hitting my target. But NO MORE hunting for me.
My best shot would have to be the throat shot at 500 meters on the KD range at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
What about yours
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When I was about 12, I was in the woods with my dad one day. When the work day was done a friend of his brought out a rifle and they were taking a few shots. I don't recall the specific caliber, but it was a Weatherby rifle and the box of shells had pictures of elephants and rhinoceros on it. Like a typical kid I was jumping around begging for my turn, when they finally let me shoot, I saw stars as it put a semicircular cut above my eye, and a big bump on the back of my head as it hit the ground. I was done for the day.
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So we were at tank gunnery doing a platoon live fire and this elk wandered into the range fan...I (and 2 other gunners in my platoon) plead the fifth. That is all.
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SGT Jeremiah B.
Incidentally, I had a similar experience when I was 12, except I was strapped to the tree and I hit the deer. I was a very small 12 year old shooting an old browning 12ga (which I still own!) and the recoil bounced me off the safety strap. The deer dropped, flopping around on the ground. It was a Father/Son hunt, so my dad was one tree over - He made me shoot at him twice more despite my wanting to do nothing of the sort.
I still a little flinch when shooting that thing.
I still a little flinch when shooting that thing.
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Capt Mark Strobl
Kinda had the opposite at Camp Pendleton. We were doing a live fire w/ arty, mortars, and a flight of F-18's. Some stupid buffalo meandered into the range. Every FO was thinking the same thing: Buffalo steak for the entire Battalion. However, the red flag dropped... closing the range. And for the next 5-6 hours we watched a family of Buffalo eat grass.
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CSM Charles Hayden
Those buffalo once cornered my cooks on top of a 'water buffalo'. They had no other high ground.
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SGT Jeremiah B.
Capt Mark Strobl, it was at night. Range Control didn't notice until three rounds headed off to a very peculiar location that incidentally was nowhere near the targets...
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Another one: I was on the range one day with a friend & we were both shooting ARs. After the ARs, pistols came out. I plinked off a couple of mags of 9mm and he was shooting a 1911, which I was admiring...it was really nice. He passed me the 1911, and I loaded, aimed, and shot....all 7 rounds, at the rate of a full auto burst. He didn't think to tell me that the thing had about a 2oz trigger pull so after the first 1, the other 6 pretty much fired themselves. Good thing I have a solid grip, or things could have gotten ugly. As it was, the Range safety officer walked over and said WTF? I let him know the deal and he just nodded and said "well now you know" and walked away.
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