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Tim
04-14-2009, 15:01
Hi guys.

I have been reading the great stuff on here for a week or two. Thought I would say hi and tell you my funny from last night.

My son is almost 13 and it is time to teach him about weapon safety and shooting a .22 rifle etc. We dropped my daughter off for Karate class and went to Wally world for misc. stuff. Found some .22 lr hollow pt ammo and decided to grab a few boxes. NP yet.

Go back to karate to pick up said daughter. Apparently her stripe testing is going to take longer cause she is now sparring. No big deal.

12 yr old boys don't like to wait for sisters. Especially not in the car at 8:00 at night while starving. So we started talking about the ammo. I told him they were hollow pt. Being a Halo (Xbox) Warrior, he was surprised that .22 had hollow pt. Wanted to look. WEll, I thought, no harm in that.

HA.

As he was looking at the tips, I told him to look at me cause I wanted him to promise me that he would NOT shoot with his friends out in the field or whatever without adult supervision.

As he fidgeted and started to look at me, I heard the awesome rattle of the whole box of 50 scatter down the side of the Heated Electric Leather Seat in between the seat and the console.

DOugh![Stooge]

So, we spent the next HOUR (while waiting for said Karate testing) dissasembling the plastic bolt covers, air-bag connectors, and electric seat controls to collect all 50 rounds.

It was really fun. Not. My imagination kicked in pretty well when I realized that there were rounds in the rails and tucked into the hinge area where they could easily get smashed if someone adjusted the seat. Just what I needed in a 1 yr old Tahoe. Great. [Bang]

Well, after an hour we dug out the last one, I told my son I couldn't think of any possible worse places for him to spill those. My daughter came out with her new blue stripe and we didn't talk about that any more.[Bang]

PS, the stupid computer alert says "Please service airbag"


So....... Fire off those stories boys. I'm sure not the only one with those or the the time when a round cooked off while your buddy was pee'ing on the campfire to put it out.[ROFL3]

Marlin
04-14-2009, 15:04
Welcome...

pickenup
04-14-2009, 16:46
Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the story. [ROFL1]

I thought everyone has loose ammo rolling around in their vehicles.
Am I the only one?

Irving
04-14-2009, 16:50
When I first got my gun, I was excited to go shoot it. My cousin and I went to Wally world to buy a few boxes of ammo, then went to Chipotle to get something to eat. Even though Chipotle was in the same parking lot, I was so excited to go, that I started loading a magazine while I was driving over there. We parked in front of Chipotle, and each finished loading a magazine before we went in. I didn't think about how that would look to a passerby until I got out of the car to go inside. heh.

Jeff350
04-14-2009, 16:56
When I first got my gun, I was excited to go shoot it. My cousin and I went to Wally world to buy a few boxes of ammo, then went to Chipotle to get something to eat. Even though Chipotle was in the same parking lot, I was so excited to go, that I started loading a magazine while I was driving over there. We parked in front of Chipotle, and each finished loading a magazine before we went in. I didn't think about how that would look to a passerby until I got out of the car to go inside. heh.

LOL, you should have bought a ski-mask while you were at WallyWorld too!

BTW, welcome to the new guy[Beer]

68Charger
04-14-2009, 17:08
was kinda a "rural" legend- In the small town of Whittier, AK.. it's a fishing town- about 75% of the population lived in one apartment building, population nearly doubles during fishing season... just the kind of odd place that you'd find in Alaska... there's a huge government building (the biggest in Alaska) on the outskirts that was abandoned since the '64 earthquake... called the Buckner building

anyway, they started having a problem where someone was breaking into cars in the harbor parking lot- they knew they'd be gone on charters, etc... so it was getting to be a real embarrassment to the local police... (which was 2 men)... keep in mind, this story was old when I heard it around 1986...

their solution- they gave a 12-gauge to one of the officer's 12 or 13 year old son... loaded with rock salt, bird shot, or the like.. and posted signs notifying the public of the new "deputy"

the break-ins stopped immediately- apparently nobody wanted to mess with a trigger- happy 12-year old boy with a license to shoot thieves on sight...

just an example of old-time frontier justice (or law enforcement?)

anyway, welcome to the board, Tim...

Irish
04-14-2009, 22:27
Welcome.

theGinsue
04-14-2009, 23:28
Welcome to the forums.

Wanna have some fun some day at a gun store that you'll never be able to shop at again?

Ask to look at a handgun, then as you're handing it back tell the salesman that you'll take it if they take credit - and you'll also need one bullet (okay, I know it's not the proper term - but it works if you do this). Stress that you don't mean 1 box of ammo, just 1 bullet!

I would be very surprised if thy even allowed you to do the paperwork for the handgun.

gravedigger
04-15-2009, 00:41
Welcome to the forum!
[Beer]

GhostRider
04-15-2009, 08:40
Hi and yes I have a few rolling around in all of my vehicles. Great story though[ROFL1][ROFL1][ROFL1][ROFL1]

HunterCO
04-15-2009, 09:40
Welcome. [Beer]

Medic583
04-15-2009, 20:18
Welcome!!

I remember when I first started learning to shoot w/ my dad on our ranch in TX, he had us using the hood of his suburban as a makeshift rifle support. . . Standing on one side, shooting off the other side. . . yeah, needless to say, I wound up putting a nice grazing shot in the hood of the suburban, along with the matching powder burns. Mom looked at him and said, it's your own fault for using your truck like that. . . she turned and walked away.

Tim
04-15-2009, 23:33
Yeah, well I would've gotten shot myself if we hadn't finally found that 50th round.

The first 48 were pretty fast, the 49th a short time later.

We probably spent 20 minutes dissasembling the plastic covers and disconnecting the airbag, power seat controls, and the electric seat heater. [Eek1]


Still couldn't find that sucker. My hands were all chewed up from the rails.

Finally found it in a crazy place under the rear seat to floor mounting point and carpet. Oh, that sucked.

ryanek9freak
04-16-2009, 05:52
I was a mechanic for 12 years. YOu're lucky you didn't set off the seatbelt pretensioners (that's what's airbag related under the seat). You should have disconnected the battery for at lest 10 minutes before pulling those connectors apart.

Beleive me dude, you DO NOT want to set those things off. Not only are they uber expensive, they sound like a sawed off 12 gauge when they fire off, and attract unwanted attention. FWIW though, if you want, i can show you how to turn those things into makeshift one shot guns, that would kill a rhino dead. We used to get surplus parts in at the dealership i worked at, and since they're considered HAZMAT, they wouldn't spend the moeny to ship them back to detroit, so they just gave the extra parts to all the techs. I got in deep shit one day cause I figured out how to set them off with a 9V battery, and the projectile smashed a hole right through a concrete wall. ANd boy were my ear ringing.

Anyway, Welcome!

jackmode9316
04-16-2009, 08:57
Welcome, I am almost positive that I have at least 1 or 2 22lr's rolling around in my trunk. [Tooth]