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Old May 22, 2010, 09:54 PM   #1
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How not to shoot a shotgun

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Old May 22, 2010, 09:58 PM   #2
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Anyone else wish he has some hot turkey loads in that thing
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Old May 22, 2010, 09:58 PM   #3
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wow, guy didn't even set his beer down
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Old May 22, 2010, 10:21 PM   #4
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wow, strong pre-mall ninja mall ninja.
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Old May 22, 2010, 11:26 PM   #5
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I want to see how he is going to work the pump.
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Old May 23, 2010, 12:03 AM   #6
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I saw a video of someone shooting like this... the gun came back and hit them quite hard in the face.... I'm betting they didn't do it twice.
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Old May 23, 2010, 02:26 AM   #7
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I have no problem doing it with my Benelli M1 90.
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Old May 23, 2010, 08:37 AM   #8
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Bet you he only tried that once.

"Natural Selection is a slow and imperfect process, but it does work".....
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Old May 23, 2010, 09:18 AM   #9
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Maybe doesnt have dental insurance and he needs a tooth extraction?
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Old May 23, 2010, 09:38 AM   #10
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Is that Nancy Pelosi's husband ??
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Old May 23, 2010, 11:17 AM   #11
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Friend's brother did that with a Persuader and folding stock once. Chipped his tooth in half.
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Old May 23, 2010, 11:56 AM   #12
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That looks like a 'before' picture, do you have the 'after' picture?
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Old May 23, 2010, 01:10 PM   #13
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Is that Nancy Pelosi's husband ??
No, but it does exemplify the typical Pelosi constituent.
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Old May 23, 2010, 06:12 PM   #14
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I must have grown up with a bunch of sissys', when we shotgunned beers we just poked a hole in the bottom of a can
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Old May 23, 2010, 09:17 PM   #15
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There's a video about a guy who hit himself in the balls by firing a shotgun and letting the recoil nail his nads.
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Old May 23, 2010, 09:45 PM   #16
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If you want to hit anything and/or be taken seriously, you do.
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Old May 23, 2010, 09:45 PM   #17
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I had the bright idea of firing a 3" mag 2 oz. turkey load in a model 94 Stevens single barrel.

No I wasn't drinking a beer, not while handling firearms, but when I lit that bad boy off, the recoil was so vicious that my thumb knuckle on my hand hit me hard enough in the cheek to make it look like i was in a bar fight.

Wasn't the brightest thing I've ever done....
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Old May 24, 2010, 01:40 AM   #18
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Thats not the proper way to shoot a shotgun. No wonder my face hurts and I keep getting weird looks at the trap range. In all seriousness that guy is a complete idiot and you would not catch me shooting with him.
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Old May 25, 2010, 04:00 PM   #19
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There's a video about a guy who hit himself in the balls by firing a shotgun and letting the recoil nail his nads.
You think that's bad, I once had a friend who had just bought a pistol grip Mossberg 500 (i think). We were young, and dumb, and he was dumber than I was. He loaded it with some slugs, walked up to a steel dumpster, and touched one off, and the slug happen to hit just right, and bounced back into his nads! He had some real problems with that injury, and his girlfriend wasn't too happy either. He was lucky that he still had the "family jewels"....

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Old May 25, 2010, 06:13 PM   #20
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Then there is the video of Heather shooting a huge 10 gauge magnum.

P.S. -- Pay attention to what happens to her ear muffs. It is hilarious.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhqexbt3i0

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Old May 26, 2010, 08:52 AM   #21
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The weight of a shotgun takes most of the recoil out of typical rounds, some loads (notably heavyweight turkey rounds) do have a significant recoil, but your average round is nothing that you couldn't fire one handed and easily manage.

Granted the guy in the photo looks like a dumbass, but in reality if you were to hold a pump action shotgun "pistol style" and fire off some birdshot, a trap load, even most waterfowl loads, it wouldn't strain your grip at all.
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Old May 26, 2010, 09:20 AM   #22
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I love these kinds of posts because one video leads to another which leads to another, which leads to this...

P.S. I was looking for the one where the skinny girl tried shooting a D.E. and smacked her self in the face, but this was a good one!! (Especially for this artillery marine)
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Old May 26, 2010, 09:32 AM   #23
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wow, guy didn't even set his beer down
He probably swallowed it, tin can and all, right after pulling the trigger ...
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