dont piss me off...

[bubba zanetti]

I only run target loads in the pistol, so it's easy to handle. I guess with full power loads it would have a fair amount of kick.

I'm running 10 grains of BP in a .357 cartridge. The calibre isn't 100% authentic, but it makes it easier & cheaper for reloading as I have a few .357 firearms.

[pandy]

Kasumi, do the pheasant taste better with the expensive shotguns?  Just wondering if I should get another one, but they taste pretty good from a mossberg pump.   LOL

I like to shoot...my better half won't take me, though....I think he's afraid that I'm gonna miss the targets and hit him....  (But shooting is the ONLY place I actually have good aim! )

[bubba zanetti]

I'm teaching my eldest boy, who'll be 6 in a few weeks, how to shoot. I took him for a shoot last week & out of about 30 shots he got 14 on the paper. Of those there was 8 scoring shots & 5 of those shots in the black, 7, 8, 9 & 10 rings. This was with a .22 rifle about 30 yards off a rest with iron sights.   

[Susuki_Jah]

I'm teaching my eldest boy, who'll be 6 in a few weeks, how to shoot. I took him for a shoot last week & out of about 30 shots he got 14 on the paper. Of those there was 8 scoring shots & 5 of those shots in the black, 7, 8, 9 & 10 rings. This was with a .22 rifle about 30 yards off a rest with iron sights.   

do you have a lot of land to shoot around in aussi? 

I heard yall have more leniant laws on guns . my friend moved there but he isnt into guns so I cant ask him haha

[pandy]

Teachin' 'em young is awesome. Learning early to use 'em properly is a good thang. I wish I'd learned young. I think I would have really enjoyed shooting and would have competed if I'd started before I entered the teen years. 

[animal mother]

I'm teaching my eldest boy, who'll be 6 in a few weeks, how to shoot. I took him for a shoot last week & out of about 30 shots he got 14 on the paper. Of those there was 8 scoring shots & 5 of those shots in the black, 7, 8, 9 & 10 rings. This was with a .22 rifle about 30 yards off a rest with iron sights.   

That is cool that your teaching your son proper shooting and gun safety at an early age.  My father
started shooting with me when I was around 5 also.  He bought me my first rifle when I was 8, a Marlin bolt
action .22.

[bubba zanetti]

The firearm laws are fairly strict in Australia. You have to have a firearms licence to have have a firearm & to have a licence you have to have a genuine reason eg target shooting, hunting/vermin control, collecting. To get a firearm you have to apply for a permit to get one & have genuine reason for having one, the same as having a licence. All firearms are to be stored in approved safe & are inspected that they comply.

Semi auto rifles are banned, but are allowed in certain exceptions, eg vermin control on farms. Pistols are not to be of a calibre greater than .38/9mm, except for black powder.

This is a very basic description of whats involved to have firearms/firearms licence in Australia.

We have a fair number of firearms ranges/gun clubs out here plus shooting properties, so theres plenty of places to shoot.


I've never hidden the fact that I shoot & have guns from my boys & have always taught them about safety from when they were old enough to learn. Even if my boys dont want to shoot when they get older, at least they'll have firearms awareness & an unprejeduced view on firearms. 

[jimbo1]

icon_lol (But shooting is the ONLY place I actually have good aim! Tongue )

Ummmm Pandy, thats anatomy, not your fault.    LOL

I actually find that many women are better shooters than men.  Women listen to instruction, and follow it.  Men "think" they know how to do it all, then develop bad shooting habits that are VERY hard to break.

My wife has been shooting pistols for a long time, but I took her out to the rifle range a few months ago.  Within 10 minutes she was putting fist sized patterns at 50 yds.  And can now do the same at 100 yds with an sks that I have set up for her.

[pandy]

(But shooting is the ONLY place I actually have good aim!

Ummmm Pandy, thats anatomy, not your fault.    LOL

Bah...I *could* have learned to aim if I'd been taught young (but I'll always need to sit ...took me a while to figure that one out!  )....

Like sense of direction...I have none...was never taught it...I can get lost even with the new GPS toy my better half gifted me with for xmas... One of my best friends was taught a sense of direction by her father. She lives in southern Cali. I've called her while on the road so that she can get me unlost..and she has...wherever I was lost, she'd get me unlost... Darnit, I was ripped growin' up! 

[Kasumi]

Our famous psychologist, Freud, would say that you are suffering from a severe case of pee pee envy 

[pandy]

Our famous psychologist, Freud, would say that you are suffering from a severe case of Pansy envy 

Fixed!   

Actually, there are a LOT of things that would top my list, and being able to go just about anywhere (both going AND GOING) would rate right up there. I'd have loved to have learned to shoot young, to have a sense of direction, and to have learned how to be handy with tools (keep it clean ). All this "guy" stuff could really come in handy now....