Strange Shells 3
As someone who fires, from time to time, a large-bore (10 ga) shotgun in a shorter barrel (18.5″), I can attest… oh lawd. It’s not even the fireball. I gave Mel a steampunked out (but fully functional) 10 ga H&R one year as an Xmas gift. Fucking thing is a monster. She loves firing it. I hate it. The recoil is like being roundhouse kicked in the shoulder – the lighter barrel does NOTHING to dampen that fucking shoulder cannon. And the muzzle flash? Good lord. It’s like staring at the sun for a second. This firearm, among our friends, has gained the nickname of “the fuckstick”, because everyone who fires it for the first time yells “FUCK” after the recoil.
Mel loves it. Then again, she used to earn trophies in full-contact TKD competitions.
Muzzle Flash!
Also: We’ll be at Aggiecon 45 this weekend. If you’re in the area, come see us!
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Mmm hmm, ear protection, but no eye protection.
A real heart starter I’d say.
I need to get my hands on a really short 12Gauge. Only shotgun i have ever used was a single barrel 12 from the hip for one shot.
Actually scratch that. I need to get my hands on more guns period.
http://youtu.be/m18aOs4EFng 12 gauge, medieval.
Here you go…
http://youtu.be/rjzVr-jLXSY?t=1m53s
Of course, there’s the $200 “Mother May I?” tax…..
Actually, the Serbu Super Shorty (and similar designs) are made on “virgin” receivers that have never had a stock attached. ATF interprets this to mean that they were never intended to be fired from the shoulder, and as such do not meet the statutory definition of “shotgun”. While they ARE regulated under the NFA, they are classified as AOW rather than SBS, meaning that the tax stamp is only $5, rather than $200.
Aussie here. So most likely i’ll have to get a really short double barrel. Though AFAIK as long as it is longer than handgun length (75cm) you can have it however you want.
This reminds me of Joe and his new snubie.
Whole arc just reminds me of the first time I fired an 8 gauge. Buddy of mine is into Cowboy Action Shooting and he’s got an old side by side, exposed hammer, 8 gauge that he loads with blackpowder brass shells. I’m not what anyone could mistake for as a tiny guy but that thing still gave me one of the biggest black and blues on my shoulder and pushed me back. Later found out he loaded those one a bit on the hot side just for me too.
Good friends plot payback. Now get busy a-ponderin’….
Once upon a time at a police automatic weapons demonstration, we had a .308 AR15 with a 10-inch barrel. We nicknamed it the Flashbang, because it makes actual flashbangs obsolete. Shot great though. Aside from my ears ringing under plugs and a full headset, it was very accurate and stayed on target great.
Umm…that would be an AR-10. 🙂
This should not be as funny as it is. I barked laughter so loudly that it startled my cats.
Lol. Modern shooters with their smokeless powder plink sticks……..
Black powder makes you all manly and whatnot.
Or at least heavily smudged in soot…
I was once this close to picking up an old OU 10-gauge. My intent was to chop it down to 18-20″ barrels. I don’t remember what, but something came up and I wound up letting it pass on to the next customer. I actually have a box of 10-ga turkey loads, but nothing to shoot them with. Maybe I could fabricate something out of a pipe…
Craziest thing I’ve seen in a while: Drill a 1/2 inch hole in a piece of 3 inch shaft, pack with lots of smokeless powder and a ball. Pretty impressive detonation when it can suck the dirt off the ground behind you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvzeu33ZA4
They quit because it started to bulge.
The Iraqveteran8888 boys have 18.5″ H&R 10 gauges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vyGGicU7mw
A Thoom without the Ominous Hummmmm!
I quit reading that one after an anti-gun rant. I don’t mind someone being anti-gun. But if your content is guns, shooting, and generally accepted violence by your protagonists, yet you’re anti-gun, I stop supporting you through ad revenue.
Uh, when did this happen? Did I miss something?
It was a Zimmerman Trial post, I think.
I very nearly stopped reading at that point myself. I have certainly taken a step back in my fandom…
Shortly after Sandy Hook. He made his “nobody needs” stance known, and I went elsewhere.
I can’t find the post anymore. Maybe he deleted it. Maybe he changed his mind. Maybe he just realized that people were turned off by him saying such. But since I have nothing to back it up, feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt.
You’re right, that’s it. At least, that’s the one that nearly did me in.
He did delete it, and purged the comments. Apparently he was surprised people think “no one needs guns” is a really stupid opinion to have.
I thought so as well. I think it was his rant about the AR-15 that almost made me leave, and when he deleted his comment, I think I gave him the benefit of the doubt that maybe his emotions were high, and that I could understand. Then the Zimmerman thing, and I said, “Maybe he just followed Nancy Grace, and didn’t actually watch the trial.” Then when he made his comment about a friend of mine shortly after Zimmerman, and sent me the email, I decided “Nope, That’s enough benefit of the doubt.”
Oh wait. I was wrong, it wasn’t that. It was his stance on something which I was involved, and knew facts about, but he failed to listen. It was more of a personal decision, and that he deleted my comments because I had the facts. Sorry. Please feel free to support him.
I really would be interested in hearing more about this…
Actually it was a self defense trial. I knew the persons involved. It was similar to Zimmerman. He made a judgement about the person whom I personally knew, and the case was still in court. I had the court documents, and the facts of the case. After we got into the argument I said, that I believe he should have a better understanding of the case(and apparently I had more of his readers on my side), he deleted the whole argument. He sent me a nasty email to the effect of, “My site, my sandbox” which I agree with. It is his choice what gets to stay on his site. And I decided that also meant “Not Me”
Buddy had a .410 derringer. The cheap black ones… and I decided it would be fun to fire a .410 deer slug through it. I bought a box of five, and I still have four left. The slap of that thing going off left three fingers numb for an hour.
This is why derringers (of ANY caliber) are for emergency use ONLY.
Cobray knuckle-busters. Yup. 🙂 Hand-loads are recommended except for actual defensive use. With #12 shot over a fairly weak charge, they’re quite fun for murdering tin cans.
Had my Cobray out at the range today. For grins, I brought a box of deer slugs along. No problem. Good solid grip, make sure you’ve got your knuckle out from behind the trigger frame, and BOOM! Certainly a solid shove, but no worse than I’ve had from a .357 Magnum.
Not terrible for accuracy, either – all shots into the torso area at 7 yards. Can’t expect much more than that from a derringer.
Knucklehead buddy of mine had a derringer that he bought .410 3 1/2 inch 000 buck rounds for…
The thing is, is that the rounds were longer than the barrels and peeked out by almost a 1/2 inch.
To my knowledge he never fired them out if it though… so maybe not that much of a knucklehead.
I’ve got an 8mm Mauser Carbine and you can get a suntan off the fireball that comes out of that short barrel.
My Mini-14 has a 17 inch barrel and when shooting the old yellow box Norinco ammo it would throw a very impressive fireball
Herveus great Schlock Mercenary mention!
I knew a tiny little sailor, she was all of about 5’00” and MAYBE 95#. In uniform. with boots. Dripping wet. She rocked 12-bores like they were babies… Let the muscles of her entire torso absorb the recoil, instead of fighting it – She just took a firm stance and rocked back a bit with each shot. Was a beautiful thing to see. I bet her technique would work just fine with a 10-bore, or even an 8-bore.
It would be a hell of an abs workout, at least.
Oh dear.
Would it be possible to see a picture of said steampunked out shotgun, AKA the Fuckstick?
I knew someone who got one of those .45-70 double barrel derringers. He fired it once, iirc one of the grip scales came off in his hand. He fixed it and put it up for sale that day.
Salting the earth is a mistake. Someone will eventually dig up that patch of soil to find out why nothing grows there…