Posted on 07/02/2016 1:07:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber
What's it like to fire a Daisy BB gun? It's an experience I'll never forget. Everybody knows BB guns are scary looking and ought to be banned, but I thought I would try to shoot one without any preconceived notions. What I encountered changed me forever.
I took a deep breath and determined to enter a Wal-Mart. A "greeter" met me with, "Howdy, welcome to Wal-Mart." I'm from the north. We don't say "Howdy". I sneer back at the microaggression and strain to hold back tears of rage. Barely controlling myself, I asked where I could find a BB gun. He directed me to "sporting goods," still smiling and gloating over his slyly delivered offense.
I go to the "sporting goods" section, a perfect charnel house where implements of sulfur, death, and destruction are openly and brazenly sold. I notice a BB gun just lying on a shelf. I reach for it as if it was a poisonous snake, wondering if it will go off when I pull it off the shelf. That's right, a shelf. Where anybody could get it.
I go to the counter and the death merchant asks me if I wanted BBs to go with it. He even had the audacity to offer me "Copperhead" brand BBs! How could this inbred hick not know that I see a therapist twice a week to treat my herpephobia?
I buy the gun and the recommended BBs. I'm dizzy going out to the parking lot. A passing stranger, attired in a camouflage assault t-shirt, asks, "Sir, you okay?" "How dare you assume my gender!" I shout back. "Sorry, just checkin'," he said as if my health was any of his business. But the worst was yet to come.
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LOL! Reminds me of the first time my older brothers had me shoot their Daisey. We were at my grandmother’s house, a farm. There was a big red bull out back and my brothers told me to shoot at his rump so they would know if I hit anything. I followed the directions perfectly, firing at the part ‘hanging down’ below the rear end. That bull kicked so hard his entire backside came off the ground! When he slowed down, there didn’t seem to be anything hanging down as far as it had been ... I don’t shoot animals unless I need to eat them or get their attention. Rarely have to take down a skunk out in the mid-day (rabid don’tchaknow). I do use a BB air pistol of 300 or less ft/sec to get the raccoon’s attention when he scratches at my study window for a cookie. ... He’s learnin’
**strain to hold back tears of rage**
That’s where I stopped reading.
This author shouldn’t be allowed near a knife and fork, let alone an instrument that can make holes in paper.
Nah, you were kids. Kids have no sense of mortality, it comes with the turf. Sure you look back on it cringing somewhat, because in the interim, between then, and now, you discovered mortality...
the infowarrior
and Kunt-z-man go quite well together. LOL
xrmusn, I’m LMAO!
Big Red Badger LOL!
Ralphie should have listened. Not only was he 187% more likely to put an eye out- worse, he would probably vote Conservative AND join the NRA!
Did ANYONE ever put their elbow in their ear?
Did ANYONE ever eat every bean and pea on their plate?
Did those starving kids in China make it?
Did my eating that ‘slop’ (at least we had something) ever make that starving kid in China less hungry?
Did anyone ever dig that hole deep enough to get to China?
How about ‘hitting’ one so hard they would cry THEN start all over again because one was crying?
Did anyone EVER have middle aged rheumatism? Every joint gets stiff but the right one?
Does anyone know what that ‘silly little millimeter’ really is?
Is there really a taint?
Like a bad penny, they just keep popping up.....
Did ANYONE ever put their elbow in their ear?
Did ANYONE ever eat every bean and pea on their plate?
Did those starving kids in China make it?
Did my eating that ‘slop’ (at least we had something) ever make that starving kid in China less hungry?
Did anyone ever dig that hole deep enough to get to China?
How about ‘hitting’ one so hard they would cry THEN start all over again because one was crying?
Did anyone EVER have middle aged rheumatism? Every joint gets stiff but the right one?
Does anyone know what that ‘silly little millimeter’ really is?
Is there really a taint?
Like a bad penny, they just keep popping up.....
Yes the Crossman Powermaster 760 is still out. I think I last saw on at Wal-Mart.
Those ruger 10-22s are long lasting critters. Change a few parts here and there and they still keep going.
Sadly they are made in China now....
Who made the one used at Disneyland?
R. Lee Ermey as a kid.
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