Little OT but steel and lead bring it around

There's one rootin', tootin' pubescent scattergunner, all right. Good thinking, too, to shoot the first guy in the guts and the genitals. That always inspires fear in illegal aliens.

Are you sure this isn't something from a Tom Clancy novel?

The original post highlights the importance of fully finishing the morning coffee prior to reposting questionable emails.

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I figured. The buckshot to the genitals was a little too much. Also, an

11-year-old shooting a 12-ga (I assume) from a "crouch" would either be in pain from the first shot, or flat on her ass.

Ah, the pure pleasure of gun-nutz fantasies.

(I also have a Mossberg 500, so don't get on me about it...)

Dunno, Ed ! But you gotta admit it has a wonderful plot !

Bob Swinney

The reason why I checked out snopes was a suspicion that I saw it before, and also that it had all the marks of a fake story written by a gun nut. A plot that is just too perfect and written not in a style of a new story.

A while ago we had a 10 year old shooting an AK-47. That worked out OK. A shotgun may indeed be too much for a 11 year old who is not too fat.

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Ed sez: (I also have a Mossberg 500, so don't get on me about it...)

Touché, Ed !

Bob (not prone to pissing contests) Swinney

She could handle the shotgun if she was standing and knew how to hold the gun. But anything that braces your body -- especially a little body -- is going to really whack 'em. The Mossberg 500 is not exactly an ergonomic gun, to begin with.

AK's are nothing. My 85-year-old mother could shoot an AK...and she would, if she had the chance.

It's been a while since I shot my Remington 12 ga shotgun. I am not really into shotguns. But if I remember right, its recoil was not as bad as I expected. Contrasted with the brutal recoil of a 7mm Rem Mag rifle, for example.

I think that a kid with good nerves could handle a shotgun, especially if the stock is not braced against the shoulder.

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???

Firing a 12-ga shotgun without bracing it against your shoulder, especially if you're an 11-year-old girl, is just *begging* for broken bones or dislocated joints.

Well, by the time I was 12 I was shooting skeet nearly every weekend. (Which reminds me, does anyone from NE Pa know if the Buckhorn R&G Club is still in existence? I stopped at a truckstop at Buckhorn last weekend and I hardly recognized the place.)

As for 12 ga, there's a huge difference in recoil between a skeet or regular field load, on one hand, and a magnum, on the other. My Mossberg actually is a 3-1/2" magnum, not the basic 500, and I cannot shoot a 3-1/2" mag without a LOT of padding. The first time I tried it, wearing light summer clothes, I got a black-and-blue mark the size of a dinner plate.

I didn't read that carefully the first time. I think you mean, "especially if the stock IS braced against the shoulder."

-- Ed Huntress

I was thinking about shooting from the hip type of hold.

I admit that I can easily be mistaken.

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This forwarding of BS without even cursory fact-checking has become an epidemic. No doubt when that particular story makes its next round it will include a 6 year-old in a wheelchair, a bazooka, and a formerly anti-gun aunt who saw the light, bought an arsenal, and joined the NRA. :-)

I used to have a half-dozen people regularly forwarding me crap. No matter how many times they discovered they'd been spreading BS, they kept right on clicking that addictive FWD button. Now they want to know why some of their emails bounce.... Two things should be done: 1. Email programs should by default come *without* a FWD button. If it took even four clicks to activate that function, then 90% of the culprits would be defeated. 2. A law should be enacted - three busted forwards from anyone and thereafter they have to pay a buck for

*every* email they send. The income should be enough to pay for mandatory common-sense testing of everyone buying a computer. Fail the test and you're issued an Etch a Sketch instead. :-)

Wayne

Lifetime membership, personally signed by Chuck Heston, with a note to "To Julie, who they couldn't pry from my cold, dead hands."

'Sounds like a plan. But if they extended it to newsgroups, we'd have to take up a collection for Gunner to pay his fines.

Nobody with any sense fires a 12-ga from the hip, if he has a choice about it. There's a pretty substantial kick.

Ya think?

Take a twelve to a firing range some time. Fire a few rounds with the butt just resting lightly against your shoulder, not snugged in tight. You'll see what I mean. And you'll have a helluva bruise the next day.

Huh????? That poodle shooter????

Gunner

I dont know if it killed him or not..but you can bet your ass that as a permanant veggie..he wont be breaking into houses again

And the neighbor kids can use him for 1st base.

Gunner