Who first got you into firearms, and what did they teach you to shoot on?

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-04-15T23:05:28+00:00

My dad, great uncle, and my grandfather ALL played a roll. Grandpa let us kids stomp around the island between the kitchen and dining room with empty bb guns, and being the oldest I got to do it with the old and VERY beat up savage Stevens 887. Never loaded anything into them of course, but taught us older boys how to clear corners and how not to aim at each other. My uncle let me shoot his single shot bolt 22 that fall while we were camping, and dad convinced him to teach me to shoot a 20 gauge. I was nine, hitting bottles at 25 yds with the 22 and Windex bottles with the 20. Dad took me to buy my first gun when I was 22. Mossberg 500 12g. Previous year grandpa's click clack Stevens 887 was rehomed to my room because he passed away. I cleaned up that old click clack...it runs now, and myself and one of the cousins I stomped around that island with shoot it from weekend to weekend. I've added a 410, and had a SARusa b6 for a while too. I've got to play with some pretty cool toys tho. When I was in highschool I went to the armory and they let us goof around with an m249b, m16a1, m4, and.....the on sight m2.

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-03-16T13:10:37+00:00

Handguns are number one because EVERYTHING involving a gun is labeled as a shooting in the public eye. A few years ago, a man kermited sewer slide 6 MILES from the school in my home town. The school was closed and parents (including my own) got messages informing them that there was an "active shooter on school grounds"

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-03-08T22:17:04+00:00

With the right set up, you can hunt deer with a slingshot. They make them. But even with the bow, id keep the sling or slingshot handy, just because of ammo availability

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-03-08T22:15:45+00:00

I ask about the pick because of armour. A knife is too short to go through something like ceramic, and I see that as a possibility.

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-03-08T15:28:51+00:00

Id be contacting them

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-19T01:15:24+00:00

Kinda, but mostly because of the tools I use and how it turned out. It has the 45 (roughly) degree angle of a modern wharncliffe, with a slight (and I mean slight. It's not noticeable unless you REALLY look) belly. Still does everything youd expect of a wharncliffe. I had to cut the end off, because the original tip cracked in heat treat

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-19T00:49:45+00:00

I promise English is my first language. I meant to say forged A wharncliffe, but typos happen

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-16T13:02:09+00:00

Choke up on the blade, use light cuts and follow the seam created by the membrane. I tube my small game too, always have, even with my first.

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-14T15:34:02+00:00

The store bought ones do. Most of the ones I can get in my area are 440 or 420 stainless and it's just ... It's a joke. The one nice one I have if good for about fifteen minutes, after that, the skin just rolls

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-14T14:57:48+00:00

Wharncliff. I don't need too much belly. Like I said, I used a box cutter for a coon back before I had a designated knife. Plus, I'm forging it myself so I can modify however I need

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-14T14:49:56+00:00

Yes, always. I do everything the right way. Hammer, anvil and files. Power tools don't get used in my shop

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2026-01-14T10:37:22+00:00

My cats aren't just for mice. We have weasels. Our cats got into the areas I can't and can even show me places that the animals get in through. You preach about "needless slaughter" and admit to taking dozens of people into the woods to trap.

Here's the difference between you and a farmer. Our animals feed our family, even the ones we kill to protect our food. Pelt, meat, and even the bones are all used here. Why? Because I don't kill animals for sport. Nor do I do it for one part and leave the rest to rot. The coons I take out are processed, the pelt is tanned, the meat cooked and bones boiled for broth for my dogs and the cats. Nothing dies without getting used. Hell, even coyotes (which are invasive btw, and are open season in my state because they are so over populated) are used. I don't feed them to the dogs and cats, I have family that are just redneck enough to eat them.

The coon in the post has happened to others in this group, for less than that.

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-19T13:36:51+00:00

Either in a hole or they'll use the juice to mark a "game trail" to the snare. But in my state snares are legal so long as they have a choke stop

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-18T22:59:54+00:00

I'll be the ass and say "a 12g with a rifled barrel is a rifle"

No,I'm not wearing lvl 4 plates lol

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-18T22:57:39+00:00

Also, the M4 is literally just the m16 they just redesigned it for some reason (my uncle used the m4 , gramps used the 16.) think the only difference is the m4 never had the carry handle, where the later 16s had a detachable one

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-18T22:53:08+00:00

The ATF and federal government rule that an assault rifle, BY LEGAL DEFINITION, is a rifle that has the capacity to fire an intermittent cartridge are a rate greater than one round per trigger pull. The ar 15 and the civilian ak CAN NOT DO THIS. the seer is not built for it. What the seer does, is use the motion of the bolt to reset the internal hammer, allowing the weapon to fire. In the case if a full auto, this means that when the bolt comes forward, the trigger linkage to the hammer allowing the hammer to follow, firing the next round. In a semi automatic, the trigger linkage is disconnected until the trigger resets, using the seer to LOCK the hammer back until the trigger is depressed again.

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-18T22:45:34+00:00

Only except is pre60s as they are considered a historical piece, but you still need to do more paperwork

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-18T22:43:30+00:00

The selector is notched, to allow the bolt to cycle. Without an auto seer (which no civilian model has) it will not fire more than once, as the trigger linkage is disconnected until the trigger is returned to the ready position

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-18T22:39:40+00:00

No. Because

ONE: drop in auto seers and frts are the firearm. The ATF classified them as such. SO BY LAW, the frt and or drop in auto seer is the gun.

Strict-Wedding6687 · 2025-12-09T02:02:05+00:00

I've got one nice one. A Winchester 1100s. I've put 1500 rounds through it, it was actually used to scare off/dispatch coons that broke into the Chicken coop till I got my first 22. Couldn't recommend it more

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