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Not your regular Nerf gun...
« on: January 26, 2025, 02:07:32 PM »
Full Auto | Select Fire | Brushless Caliburn - YouTube

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Re: Not your regular Nerf gun...
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2025, 02:15:57 AM »
That thing has the power to make any man 10 years old again.

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Re: Not your regular Nerf gun...
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2025, 07:08:25 AM »
That thing has the power to make any man 10 years old again.

I was thinking how cool it would have been to have one of those as a kid. 

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Re: Not your regular Nerf gun...
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2025, 01:33:05 AM »

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Re: Not your regular Nerf gun...
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2025, 02:33:32 AM »
>cool it would have been

Around 1962 I had a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun that shot large, heavy plastic suction darts.  It was easy & fast to load.  I acquired a couple of them and extra darts so my buddies & I could have wars.  Best dart gun ever!

We later moved up to BB gun wars.

...and even later (17-18 yo) we had real shotgun wars.

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Re: Not your regular Nerf gun...
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2025, 03:35:04 AM »
>...and even later (17-18 yo) we had real shotgun wars.

Not sure how you're still here RC.

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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2025, 02:49:41 PM »
I've told the story here, or so I thought  ...couldn't find it.

I didn't start it.

Most dove hunters used bird shot (regular gunpowder load) and short barrels with wider 'Modified' or 'Improved' chokes to improve the pattern spread. Less powerful 20 gauge shotguns were also pretty common.  However, my partner (Billy) and I always used a mix of barrel types. Billy used a 20 ga Improved for when the doves were close to our position. I used a duck gun  --12 ga high-powder shells, extra long barrel, full choke-- a *tight* pattern for distant targets.  This combo worked great for us.  On a good best day I shot as many as 100 shells. Important:We were more than well-acquainted with the range and patterns of our shotguns.

Dove hunting in corn fields can sometimes involve 6-8-10 hunters that spread out to cover the edges of the doves' flyway 'path' to form a sort of gauntlet. I usually hunted with just Billy but this day we were joined by a group of high school acquaintances. I knew a couple of them fairly well, so OK.

The morning turned hot and the hunting was lousy and boring.  Billy & I were in a ditch on one side of a cut field, the group was on the other side about 75 yards away.  As I stood up to leave, known-to-be-crazy Harry yelled "Hey, Jordan!! Think fast!!!"  BLAM BLAM BLAM

I could see the shot raising dust as it came across the field toward me. I was barely in range but dove to the ground as the shot fell around me.  I did what any teen would do ...rolled over, stood up, and unloaded my duck gun at Harry.

Then the war began. hhh

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Re: Not your regular Nerf gun...
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2025, 08:06:44 PM »
Don’t think you have told that.

It was a thing when I was about 10-11 for the kids to shoot pellet rifles until Bradley dove behind a snowbank and a pellet went threw the snow and embedded in his forehead about an inch from his eye. Had to go to the ER to have it removed. That ended that.

I have to say that even at 10 years old, I thought this was idiotic and avoided the peer pressure

But it wasn’t as idiotic as shooting full on shotguns at each other.