CHEDERER wrote:i shot a gun for my first time a few months ago and ill be 27 this year...i shot two different types of assault rifles, a 30/30, a .38 and a .45, and i said no to the double barrel shotgun....i hate guns and would never have one in my house and i would not like to shoot another one
good to try it out though, right? I owned a .22 rifle and my father let me use his shotgun (pump-action, if you can believe that...very unusual for farmer-type chaps to have) when i got old enough - never really liked the shotgun tho...too loud, and the recoil was incredible - i recall an old friend dislocating his shoulder once, when he didn't have it pulled-up tightly enough - plus, with that damn thing, you either shredded the target, or, if it was slightly too far away, just scared the hell out of it, AND everything else in a 2-mile radius....: )
We used to shoot crows/jackdaws that were harmful to crops/lambs (common for lambs to have their eyes picked out, and the jackdaws return later to pick at the new corpse....blind lambs not having great survival likelihood), and also rabbits....which tended to overrun if left unchecked.
i confess again that i enjoyed it up to a point, and for a period....still reckon having a gun/guns in the house....well....that's been talked out at length in another thread
