Er.. what?

[41magsnub]

The shell from a hunter's rifle lies near the one of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton's four lakes,
most likley hunting duck or small game, Nov. 23.

http://www.gunpundit.com/1745.php
http://www.marines.mil/units/mciwest/basecamppendleton/Pages/photos.aspx

[French G.]

Err what? Doesn't everyone up your way hunt ducks with full auto blanks? Scares 'em right out of the sky in these parts.

[Perd Hapley]

Dang it.  Got scooped. 

Yeah, interesting.  I'll kick things off.

1.  Those are probably blanks. 

2.  You don't use blanks for hunting.

3.  But if you can hit a duck with a rifle, you're probably so AAWESOME, you could kill it with a blank round, anyway.

4.  "Ducks or small game"?  I thought ducks were small game. 

[RaspberrySurprise]

Well I suppose you could hit them with a rifle if they were on the water. I'm not going to go into the foolishness of firing a high velocity rifle round like 5.56mm at water though.

[charby]

4.  "Ducks or small game"?  I thought ducks were small game. 

Ducks are considered waterfowl. Pheasants and quail are upland but sometimes lumped with small game. Small game is usually squirrels and rabbits. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, wolves, mink, etc are considered fur bearers. Large game is the bigger stuff like deer, pigs, bear, moose, etc.

[Fly320s]

So what is a heavy bird?  I often read of heavy bird activity on airport weather reports.

[Ben]

I thought ducks were small game.

Small game:

[Harold Tuttle]

you have to sneak up on them and barrel tag them in the head as you pull the trigger
the concussion kills em and you don't pollute the environment with lead

[Nitrogen]

They probably went hunting with this woman:

" An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her
house [emphasis added] following an early coalition forces raid in the
predominantly *expletive deleted*it Baghdad suburb of Sadr City."

[Tallpine]

Remember, half the people in the world are below average intelligence :rolleyes:

[BrokenPaw]

Remember, half the people in the world are below average intelligence :rolleyes:

I've been checking, and it's actually closer to 95%.

-BP

[Gewehr98]

Yup.

Those were star-crimped blanks.

Training, or a funeral detail...

Marine Base?

Training.

[Werewolf]

Well I suppose you could hit them with a rifle if they were on the water. I'm not going to go into the foolishness of firing a high velocity rifle round like 5.56mm at water though.

One of my uncle's was a fighter pilot in WWII. Flew P-38's in the Pacific. I provide that background because he says that's how he acquired the skill to do this:

My father and him were not only brothers but great friends. They hunted together a lot. Mostly birds; mostly Dove. When I got old enough I went with them.

To my amazement my uncle went bird hunting with a 22 - a bolt action tube fed model. He had no trouble bagging his limit of dove and yes he shot them on the wing  . I remember him always ribbing my dad about how it was just too easy with a shotgun so to add a bit of challenge he used the rifle and why didn't my dad use one too. My dad always claimed that as a bombardier he'd learned the shotgun approach worked just fine and it worked just as well on birds.

[lee n. field]

So what is a heavy bird?

Emu, ostrich, and the turkey that chased me when I was a kid.

[lupinus]

They probably went hunting with this woman:

" An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her
house [emphasis added] following an early coalition forces raid in the
predominantly *expletive deleted*it Baghdad suburb of Sadr City."

WTF they do?

Take them out of the magazine and throw them?

I know there is talk of less then lethal methods but come on.

[Scout26]

WTF they do?

Take them out of the magazine and throw them?

I know there is talk of less then lethal methods but come on.

The Dissident Frogman explains all....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiwI5q1GnyA


And yes, the brass pictured in the OP sure are 5.56mm blanks........
(where's the Banghead smilie.....)

[Perd Hapley]

That music in the frogman video.  I've heard it in a movie.  Which one?  Sounds quite nice, although I don't know the lyrics. 

[Uncle Bubba]

That music in the frogman video.  I've heard it in a movie.  Which one?  Sounds quite nice, although I don't know the lyrics.

The opening tune is Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini, written for and first used in John Wayne's Hatari! in 1962. Here's the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2xQ2zqmCI

Lyrics were written for it by someone else when Mancini wrote the tune but were not used for the film. Lots of covers were recorded in the '60s, one or more of them might've used the lyrics.

For the record, I recognized the tune and remembered the name of it almost correctly, and remembered what film it was used in. The details I had to look up.

[PTK]

And the other song is "Chaiyya Chaiyya" by Sukhwinder Singh, used in many movies but most notably in Dil Se and Inside Man.