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HonestJohn
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Ahh. I have a story you’ll enjoy.
At the father in laws in the US. Bro in law brings girlfriend, she’s from Ukraine. This is some years back mind..
Go to shooting range with 45 magnum, she, by the way, stands at 4ft 6 in height.
Anyhow, off we go, no one really gets hits on the typical torso silhouette, scatter, etc.
She asks to try, she gets the explanation of how a pistol works and all - she continues to chuck 6 rounds into the drum, flick it shut, and land a full drum in the forehead of the silhouette target.
Everyone, well, no one on the range knows wtf to say
she says, I’m from Ukraine as you know, my father works in security
At the father in laws in the US. Bro in law brings girlfriend, she’s from Ukraine. This is some years back mind..
Go to shooting range with 45 magnum, she, by the way, stands at 4ft 6 in height.
Anyhow, off we go, no one really gets hits on the typical torso silhouette, scatter, etc.
She asks to try, she gets the explanation of how a pistol works and all - she continues to chuck 6 rounds into the drum, flick it shut, and land a full drum in the forehead of the silhouette target.
Everyone, well, no one on the range knows wtf to say
she says, I’m from Ukraine as you know, my father works in security HonestJohn
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I believe it was the 45 win mag revolver
Also were shooting the AR, AK and some old flintlocks, mausers and such
Things we Can never enjoy here, something called ‘fun’
Also were shooting the AR, AK and some old flintlocks, mausers and such
Things we Can never enjoy here, something called ‘fun’
Bo Diddley
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Good one, John.Ahh. I have a story you’ll enjoy.
At the father in laws in the US. Bro in law brings girlfriend, she’s from Ukraine. This is some years back mind..
Go to shooting range with 45 magnum, she, by the way, stands at 4ft 6 in height.
Anyhow, off we go, no one really gets hits on the typical torso silhouette, scatter, etc.
She asks to try, she gets the explanation of how a pistol works and all - she continues to chuck 6 rounds into the drum, flick it shut, and land a full drum in the forehead of the silhouette target.
Everyone, well, no one on the range knows wtf to say
Just before the handgun ban, we joined a local "Rifle & Pistol" club... a very strange experience, I must say... anyhow, after all the interrogation, I was allowed to shoot the club's Browning .22 semi... I guess growing up on a diet of Western movies, I ripped the shots of at the target, and my "mentor" Boris promptly tried to rip me a new hole... the one way conversation went something like "If thats how you want to effing shoot this clubs not the one for you, we are a target club and it's strictly single shot, rest gun, breath, then rinse & repeat, I can tell you now that you won't have even hit the target with most of them shots" we walked down range and to his great credit he ate a small piece of humble pie, I'd shot a decent target
Smellydog
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45 win mag was an automatic pistol round.
What is a drum?
Smellydog
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I enjoy flintlocks. You can keep the ar and ak.
We were moving onto full bore pistol with low velocity ammo at my club,, my children accompanied me to the range this particular day as the lads were shooting at various targets on a table top, the idea was to knock off as many items off said table to win? My daughter was up for a turn under my supervision (aged about 9)after the lads had finished their turn. I was told the result was the total' targets off the table, when taking her shots the watching lads were joking about her poor results when I advised her to shoot low at the table front with two rounds left she hit the table front edge upsetting every thing on the top and had the best result. 9mm incidentally.
BC.
BC.
HonestJohn
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I’ll have to ask the bro in law, it’s in his desk drawer loaded and ready to go, as they say over there
Drum - cylinder.
Smellydog
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So did the in laws girlfriend shoot the cylinder full of an automatic cartridge in single action or double action?I’ll have to ask the bro in law, it’s in his desk drawer loaded and ready to go, as they say over there
Drum - cylinder.
HonestJohn
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It was a double for sure, and a 45, but will check spec with the brother in law. The shooting was the spectacular bit!
Smellydog
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No no, did she shoot it double action or single?
Common 45 cal revolver cartridges are;
45 Colt, often wrongly called long Colt.
45, Schofield, rare.
45 auto rim.
45 ACP, but needs moon clips.
Then you have 45 Casull and 460 S&W, they are magnums. The Casull is usually in sa revolvers.
HonestJohn
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Double action I believe, didn’t need cocking each shot.
Perhaps it was a 45 colt… have a spent case here somewhere I brought back, I’ll try and find it!
Smellydog
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The 45 Colt originally was built around black powder, hence it's size.
In strong revolvers it can be pushed quite hard with smokeless. The 45 Casull is a stretched 45 Colt case.
HonestJohn
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Smellydog
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That's gonna take some explaining to the insurance and auto glass man!
Smellydog
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Yep, that's a whopper.
Always fancied a Limbaugh 475.
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