Happy 250 Independence!!

iblive said:
No blowing stuff up here. Neighbors do enough of that and every boom throws our dog into full on panic mode. Fun part is…… not. It’s been going on for nearly two weeks and will continue into August.
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I'm in the mountains Buena Vista, CO on vacation, not a single firecracker all day and up to now. Stage Two Fire Ban up here - can't even shoot my guns darn it. How ever in my home city it usually starts the beginning of June and through July to August. On the 4th itself at night so much gunpowder smoke is in the air its hard to breathe.

I used to do that too. It was like a competition, who had the most and the biggest cannon...(fireworks y'all). One year I had so much left over, two boxes, I just put them out there and lit the boxes on fire. With everyone's safety in mind of course:wink:

So I decided with everyone around me doing it I thought I'd save money and watch all the magic well into the morning of the 5th, just not this year cuz y'know Mountains.
 
Frodebro said:
Received a picture from a buddy this morning. His stepson’s friend/coworker blew a chunk out of the top of his head trying to relight a mortar with a bad fuse. He was airlifted from eastern Washington to Harborview in Seattle and is lucky to be alive.
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I hope he recovers well.
That reminds me of the darwin awards on youtube. It isn't meant to be funny, it is more like a PSA. People with guns, tannerite, those shoulder launched missiles. There is a guy that gets a few of these together, of course it is blurred but some real idiots. It is mostly people that either didn't properly clear the gun or thought the safety would work even while cocked and loaded. There is one at a Pakistan wedding, the culture is to shoot the guns in the air, well he only had one hand on a fully automatic AK-47 and the recoil forces his arm down and away and frags about 10 people killing three of the wedding party.

Again these are PSA type videos. What not to do with a deadly weapon. Follow the safety rules, Always treat the weapon as though it is loaded, never point it in the direction of people, always point away and down to the ground. Pull the magazine out, clear the barrel, visually inspect it do not presume it clear even if the normal action of the slide would eject any round in the chamber, you cant trust the ejector/extractor. Then you place a flag/tag through the open slide showing it is cleared.
 
XTRXTR said:
I hope he recovers well.
That reminds me of the darwin awards on youtube. It isn't meant to be funny, it is more like a PSA. People with guns, tannerite, those shoulder launched missiles. There is a guy that gets a few of these together, of course it is blurred but some real idiots. It is mostly people that either didn't properly clear the gun or thought the safety would work even while cocked and loaded. There is one at a Pakistan wedding, the culture is to shoot the guns in the air, well he only had one hand on a fully automatic AK-47 and the recoil forces his arm down and away and frags about 10 people killing three of the wedding party.

Again these are PSA type videos. What not to do with a deadly weapon. Follow the safety rules, Always treat the weapon as though it is loaded, never point it in the direction of people, always point away and down to the ground. Pull the magazine out, clear the barrel, visually inspect it do not presume it clear even if the normal action of the slide would eject any round in the chamber, you cant trust the ejector/extractor. Then you place a flag/tag through the open slide showing it is cleared.
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Sometimes, you can’t fix stupid.

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XTRXTR said:
I hope he recovers well.
That reminds me of the darwin awards on youtube. It isn't meant to be funny, it is more like a PSA. People with guns, tannerite, those shoulder launched missiles. There is a guy that gets a few of these together, of course it is blurred but some real idiots. It is mostly people that either didn't properly clear the gun or thought the safety would work even while cocked and loaded. There is one at a Pakistan wedding, the culture is to shoot the guns in the air, well he only had one hand on a fully automatic AK-47 and the recoil forces his arm down and away and frags about 10 people killing three of the wedding party.

Again these are PSA type videos. What not to do with a deadly weapon. Follow the safety rules, Always treat the weapon as though it is loaded, never point it in the direction of people, always point away and down to the ground. Pull the magazine out, clear the barrel, visually inspect it do not presume it clear even if the normal action of the slide would eject any round in the chamber, you cant trust the ejector/extractor. Then you place a flag/tag through the open slide showing it is cleared.
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I've gone down the rabbit hole with his videos. It's a combination of laughing at the idiots while also reminding yourself that the four rules are never to be broken.

I saw one clip of a dude in India who was apparently trying to show how brave he was... 1911, pointed it right at his heart, and yeah. Darwin. The guy had his thumb through the guard and his fingers on the grip safety.
 
Frodebro said:
I've gone down the rabbit hole with his videos. It's a combination of laughing at the idiots while also reminding yourself that the four rules are never to be broken.

I saw one clip of a dude in India who was apparently trying to show how brave he was... 1911, pointed it right at his heart, and yeah. Darwin. The guy had his thumb through the guard and his fingers on the grip safety.
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Yeah I saw that too, there are three safety features on this special 1911 .45 Cal ACP, one of which is a squeeze handle safety. IOW you have to point it at a target and squeeze the handle to close the safety, to engage the third and last safety, the guy turns it around points it point blank barrel on his heart. Clearly he can't squeeze the handle properly in this position, so the safety is not engaged, uses his thumb to pull the trigger in some sort of SCTV skit like Stuart aka "Michael Macdonald", "Mommy look what I can do." Literally blows his heart out his back with a .45 ACP.

Darwin selecting the unfit.

There are some real sad ones with teens too. The take away is to always treat the weapon as deadly, never play around. I think there is a police officer that does this kind of thing too. It is just sad and it makes responsible gun owners look bad when the media only covers the act of irresponsible people without explaining the safety features the person ignored while accidentally committing suicide.

Common sense most people have, the majority in fact, but these self selecting removal from the gene pool people get seen as normal which is completely wrong and damages the reputation of responsible gun owners. 99.999% of gun owners treat this with its due and proper respect. The media only covers the accidents or more honestly the idiots. Hence, Darwin awards.

Who here knows that explosives expand in a 360° pattern unless it is a specialized shaped charge? It does not matter what direction the ignition comes from, the explosive still goes 360°. So tannerite requires a high velocity, high energy round to ignite or a specialized ignition source. You need to be like 100 yards from these explosives to be safe, and behind cover.

Darwin award video shows a guy that fills a truck cab, like a Ford Ranger he wants to destroy, with many more times the tannerite needed to vaporize the truck. He is standing about 25 to 30 yards away. He should be 100+ yards away and under cover. No...this guy with no brains is so close that when the truck explodes the passenger truck door completely detaches from the truck and comes at him at a speed that would have split him it two like a ninja sword through an apple. Misses him by only four inches. Then he turns to the camera and says some sarcastic phrase. It went past him so fast he didn't even see it. The slow motion camera picked it up clearly.

Be careful out there.

Anyway there is my XTRXTR
 
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