Expensive BB gun

Mumptia

Mumptia

CGN frequent flyer
Rating - 100%
9   0   0
Location
LaCrete, Alberta
The $$$ toll has now reached over the $750 mark at my house for "rouge bb's" and their effect on my stuff.

Neighbour came over and showed me the back window of his tractor. Shredded.

I know my boys in the yard, they shoot at cans and twigs, side by side always. The neighbour and I figure they were pointing it towards the tractor at something else and the bb did the rest.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Going to have to drop the hammer on BB gun use at the house. I think a bb gun range in the back wil do the trick.
 
I remember when I was 12, I was at a buddies house and we were shooting marbles out of a sling shot at the stop sign from his bedroom window on the second floor.
well it was my turn to shoot and I miss, the marble hits the pavement and ricochets through a plate glass window right across the street. I was in ####!!!!

Cost my parents $500 and I had to pay every cent back!

Never thought of the consequences.

God that time in my life was fun!



Camper
 
lol..i would always shoot the neibors cars and crap..the called the cops once..the bb gun was hidden for 6 months! :(
 
Mumptia... Time for some new bb gun rules... Taking the bb gun away won't solve the problem, the kids just need some guideance and rules about their use and the consequences for their mis-use...

Cheers
Jay
P.S. I was pure murder with bb or pellet guns as a kid...
 
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha


My girls would never do anything like that.


HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
 
Mumptia said:
Going to have to drop the hammer on BB gun use at the house. I think a bb gun range in the back wil do the trick.
Click to expand...

When I was young my mother harnessed me to the clothes line like a dog. You might have a chance with that one, but I suggest steel cable. Maybe a little chain too.
 
riden said:
When I was young my mother harnessed me to the clothes line like a dog. You might have a chance with that one, but I suggest steel cable. Maybe a little chain too.
Click to expand...

You were lucky with the cable I was tied to the rotary cloth line. All I could do was run in a circle.:D
 
One thing I learned - When firing BB's in an unfinished concrete basement, be sure to wear goggles. And heavy clothing.

Or just don't do it.
 
I missed a sparrow on the farm, the pellet bounced and hit me right between the eyes, talk about a scary moment, never broke anything major on anything that someone owned, it was all in the garbage pit but lots of windows in there.
 
Safe firearm handling, including being certain of what is behind the target, needs to be started off at a very early age.


edit: AP beat me to it.
 
riden said:
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha


My girls would never do anything like that.


HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Click to expand...

Just wait till they turn 16 (if they havent already) you will wish they where shooting out windows.:eek:
 
I agree about the "firearms safety training" perhaps some supervision for a few times for "guidance", especially if you like your neighbor.


fond memories;
I grew up out in the country and for some reason the street lights within a kilometer of my house never worked. I had a wicked slingshot, deadly aim, and my parents permission (we moved to the country to get away from streetlights, and they were installed with our full opposition. They stopped replacing the bulbs eventually:D

One day I get home from school and my stepfather's sitting on the couch with a cup of tea (he never sat on the couch or drank tea). He says "where's your slingshots"? to me and my brother... "go get them" so we com back. he says.. "The RCMP were here today, apparently, there's a bunch of old cars in the back field behind ###'s house (The guy was a politition and an #######, and he hated my dirtbag family, myself included) well, apparently they're antiques (my brother and I knod our heads)... and the windows will be difficult if not impossible to replace...

Did you guys blow all the windows out of the cars? (My brother and I look at each other confused... "NO" ----pause... are you sure, I just want to know... "NO" --- Okay, well here's your slingshots back. That ####### accross the road got his windows smashed out of his vehicles and he SWEARS it was you guys, and the cops believe him (cuz he's an important politition). If you did, I just wanna know... "No, not us" and it wasn't

So he says:
Well, that C*CKSUCKER drug your name through the mud with the cops, so don't get caught doing anything wrong with those slingshots :D Now here's $5Go to the store and buy some ballbearings. Let him know he better have his story straight before he accuses you of anything :mad: ever again.
 
Here's the irony of life,

I am a firearms instructor. Have been for a while.

The wife has a ton of pictures with the boys and I in the "instructional postion" where I'm showing them parts of the gun, safety and muzzle control how to load and unload, prone and sitting etc...

Now last night, holy #### they heard me. Had a little weasal running over the wood pile and ol'hell broke loose. They boys were running for the bb guns arguing who had the first shot. I roared like a cow that stepped on her own udder and those boys stopped in their tracks.

I told them if they shoot at that weasel then they'll be taking their guns to my grinder and making two pieces. Well, well, well, life was just no fun after that. They looked like Calvin and hobbes kicking the rocks in the driveway.

Time to step back a few steps and re-introduce safe and ethicical shootiing to my boys.

I love the little bastards. ;)
 
Well, BB guns AREN'T real guns. I knew that as a kid. I had both a BB gun and a .22 when I was little, and I did stuff with a BB gun that I would NEVER EVER have even considered doing with a .22. Things that didn't even cross my mind of attempting with a .22, or even with a high powered BB gun. Mine was a break-action that did a hair under 300fps.

One thing I did learn, however, was muzzle control. I never EVER pointed the business end at anything I wasn't willing (or intending...) to destroy. Even when I knew it wan't loaded.
 
prosper said:
Well, BB guns AREN'T real guns. I knew that as a kid. I had both a BB gun and a .22 when I was little, and I did stuff with a BB gun that I would NEVER EVER have even considered doing with a .22. Things that didn't even cross my mind of attempting with a .22, or even with a high powered BB gun. Mine was a break-action that did a hair under 300fps.

One thing I did learn, however, was muzzle control. I never EVER pointed the business end at anything I wasn't willing (or intending...) to destroy. Even when I knew it wan't loaded.
Click to expand...


Maybe the boys are being bold as brass because they know its not a "real gun" but that doesn't excuse poor control or their seemingly bad case of idiot-itis.:p


Like I said, a gun safety pow-wow is in order.
 
Not that I'm disagreeing. Just pointing out that 'boys will be boys.'

Sometimes, I'm astounded that I survived childhood, some of the stupid crap I pulled as a kid ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom