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geronimotwo

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man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« on: April 02, 2013, 08:06:45 AM »
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2013, 12:57:00 PM »
Had a friend whose kid got a ricochet bb off a tree right in the eye. Not a good scene.
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2013, 07:52:14 PM »
Was that Tallpine that made the Annie OAKley comment below the article?
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2013, 11:26:20 PM »
Know what's beyond your target.

More importantly, know your backstop.

4:30 AKM in the morning (as they say around here)? :facepalm:  Must have been a hell of an all-nighter party to come up with the idea of shooting a tree as the last thing before sleeping it off.

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2013, 08:07:17 AM »
Quote from: 280plus on April 02, 2013, 12:57:00 PM
Had a friend whose kid got a ricochet bb off a tree right in the eye. Not a good scene.
I vividly remember one bouncing back and hitting me in the forehead.  It was just a little Red Ryder.  A more powerful BB gun would have penetrated the bark. 
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2013, 09:26:43 AM »
As a kid I had BBs bounce off of various surfaces and strike me.  Flat wood seemed to be the biggest offender.  When I got my first shotgun, a cousin and I took it out into the woods and we fired (from way too close) at a small tree.  Sure enough, a pellet of birdshot came back and hit me right in the upper thigh.  Stung a bit, but didn't do any real damage.
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2013, 02:25:04 PM »
Quote from: cordex on April 03, 2013, 09:26:43 AM
As a kid I had BBs bounce off of various surfaces and strike me.  Flat wood seemed to be the biggest offender.  When I got my first shotgun, a cousin and I took it out into the woods and we fired (from way too close) at a small tree.  Sure enough, a pellet of birdshot came back and hit me right in the upper thigh.  Stung a bit, but didn't do any real damage.

At that age there was nothing to do damage to.  It's only when you start to grow hair on your palms that you have to worry about harming the jewels.

Leastways that's what my mother told me, I think.  (it was all so confusing keeping the birds away from the bees, let alone knowing why I was supposed to.)

stay safe.
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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.

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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2013, 08:11:55 PM »
Quote from: Lee on April 02, 2013, 07:52:14 PM
Was that Tallpine that made the Annie OAKley comment below the article?

No, but I wish that I had  =D

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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2013, 10:26:07 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on April 03, 2013, 02:25:04 PM
At that age there was nothing to do damage to.  It's only when you start to grow hair on your palms that you have to worry about harming the jewels.

Leastways that's what my mother told me, I think.  (it was all so confusing keeping the birds away from the bees, let alone knowing why I was supposed to.)
My genitals aren't on my upper thigh, thankfully.
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2013, 12:07:55 AM »
When I first started shooting firearms, I took a 12Ga with birdshot to a nearby tree, "to see what it would do to it". I was perplexed for a moment at the numerous pinging sounds coming from a nearby tin roof a few seconds after firing ... then the AHA! moment.
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Re: man shoots tree, tree shoots back?
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2013, 11:59:42 AM »
Had a .22 from a pistol bounce back off a tire.  Clipped a little branchlet off a tree next to me.  No harm done, but was close enough for me to learn the lesson. Some of us idiots survive long enough to pass on the wisdom.

Don't shoot at railroad tracks, either.  The curves by the tread and the foot are perfect reflectors of bullet fragments.  That one comes from another idiot survivor besides myself.

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