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Originally Posted by mawg
since you used the term playing and shotgun in the same sentence , I am very glad you no longer have anything to do with firearms because you obviously have no idea that they are NOT toys .
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Oh thank you for the cute little speech.
The fact is that on that Thanksgiving day those shotguns
WERE toys, if dangerous ones, something along the lines
of fireworks. There was a flat field of fire with absolutely no
cover (it was all lake ice) and probably over a mile of visibility,
so there was no chance of anyone getting hurt.
During the later hunting episode, although I was, as I have
admitted, trigger happy, I knew what I was shooting at, and
the target was high up in a tree, so there was little liklihood
of hitting anything I did not want to hit. What bothers me is
the quesion of whether I might shot carelessly if the target
had been near the base of the tree, or on the ground.
Were I to obtain a gun now, I would of course not use it
as a toy, unless I find myself back at that NH lake in the
winter. I am aware of the fact that rifle bullets may ricochet
off even liquid water, so I would stick to shotguns and save
any rifle for game, under the guidance of an experienced hunter.