Posted on 10/14/2004 5:23:48 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
Friend of mine has a Ruger .30 revolver... same ammo as my carbine, I'm still trying to convince him he wants to sell it to me cheap.
How very sad for the boy's family.
I recall getting thumped in the forehead by my Dad's 45 colt new service revolver when I was about 5 or 6. (Yes there was beer involved)
I've got a buddy with one of those - great pistol. His trick is shooting bottlecaps with it - at 250 yards. (With a spotter, he succeeds a surprising percentage of the time.)
That's no urban legend. I have 2 of these guns, they kick HARD. That being said I would never shoot both at once as there is a very real possibility of that barrel and front site making a nice impression in your skull.
Whoever let that boy shoot should be on charges. I'm all for letting kids shoot, but SAFELY. Unless you are at least 18 or are built like a fullback, you have ZERO business shooting that model of gun.
The evolver had been drinking?
Sad.....and freaky. First case of its kind that I'm aware of.
I would hate to be the guy who gave the kid the OK to fire that hand cannon.
be a long time living with that.
It does have an urban-legendish feel to it, but I have to say that I've seen kids ding themselves pretty good with just manual tools (like a hammer) when they don't have proper adult supervision. Can't rule this one out quite yet.
Correction above - please don't turn this into a crevo thread!
this is a urban legend. I heard someone call Dr Laura about 3 weeks ago with the same story only it was a different gun and a different place.
If it did happen, it's a terrible, one-in-a-million tragedy. My deepest sympathies to all involved.
I don't own one, but I've shot the .454 Cassul several times. I'm a fairly good sized fella - over 200 pounds. That sucker has my respect in spades. Its a hand cannon. Anybody lettin' a 12-year-old fire one is a criminally negligent idiot.
My ex once shot my .50AE Desert Eagle. Once.
Actually, it is strange but just last night I was recalling shooting pistols when I was a kid. My friend's dad was a gun collector and we used to go out into the counrtyside. That day I shot an uzzi, a 45, a ruger, and a luger. The uzzi was fun but the pistols freaked me out because I was only used to shooting riffles and shotguns. I was really scared of the kick on these pistols. I didn't really want to shoot them but I felt some peer pressure to do so. Anyways, I was just thinking about this last night and the anxiety I felt shooting those pistols that day. Strange. Anyways, its a very sad story about that kid.
Yah, 454 is the elephant gun of handguns.
No business shooting something so large at that age/size/weight. Total lack of common sense on the adults part.
Like you, I don't own one but I have shot one. It kicks like a mule (make that 10 mules). I agree with you. It is not a pistol for a 12 year old. Only an idiot would allow someone that young to handle one of those.
Not having hunted doves for a decade I might be wrong here, but, I thought you had to wait until after noon time to hunt this migratory bird.
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