Modacity shooters' thread

[PenGuin1362]

Taking my lovely new AR-15 out on sunday ^_^ will upload some videos/pictures if anyone cares to see

[Warsaw]

Yeah, the weather is pretty shit even around these parts. No snow for the past two weeks, but plenty of thunderstorms and cold winds when it isn't raining. Then you get that random day where it's warm as fuck, but it doesn't last long enough to do anything fun

Fuck your thunderstorms, I got tornadoes....

Alabama got leveled, Georgia had it pretty bad, and parts of VA had tornado touch-downs too.

[rossmum]

So my post about needing F-35's was lost in the forum upgrade, suffice to say that yes, we really do need them. The CF-18's are 40 years old and we only have like 28 that actually fly, the rest are down for maintenance/mothballed for parts.

the f-35 is a piece of shit. since the americans won't play ball and sell their closest allies the f-22, we all ought to start buying planes off the russians. the su-35 is a fucking wicked bit of kit and cheap, too. plus it works no matter what, like all things russian.

the almost godlike ethos people attribute the f-35 with is one thing, to see the military doing the same makes me want to rip my fucking hair out. now we're stuck with a handful of borrowed usn f/a-18es until the f-35 arrives, since the project is running so far behind and seems about as stable as a one-legged fucking centipede. that's not even considering the sheer mind-numbing idiocy (in my humble grunt opinion) of trying to replace the fastest, longest-ranging strike aircraft in the entire asia pacific with a gimped stealth plane we'll probably have half as many of and that has a fraction of the range and payload. as much as i lord the f-111 over everything else yes, it did need to be retired... but it should've been replaced with an equally capable aircraft. again, we should've bought from the russians, they do strike pretty well.

Taking my lovely new AR-15 out on sunday ^_^ will upload some videos/pictures if anyone cares to see

i'd care more if it was a retro build (xm16e1 or early m16a1), but sure why not

going shooting this weekend if the weather holds up. dad's been singing the praises of his new wolf eyes light nonstop so no doubt he'll insist on showing me how good it is. plenty of rabbits about so why the hell not.

[TVTyrant]

You better eat those rabbits.

[Warsaw]

@Ross: Lockheed-Martin has no idea how to run a program. To give you an idea, their idea of motivating their employees is to tell them that if they don't meet their deadlines, the CEO is not going to get his stock options. And then they fire all the best engineers because they are too expensive to maintain. It's not the plane, it's the company.

Also, yeah. Hunting for sport is sick. You better eat them.

[TVTyrant]

Honestly I have killed lots of rabbits and they taste great. Especially fried as fritters or stewed. The meat is kind of tough, but if you tenderize properly and everything, it turns out really well.

[Cortexian]

Decided to take a chance since the weather lightened up around noon here and stopped snowing (was about 8C out anyway). By the time we got to the range it had completely stopped, my buddy took a scope to the eye so hard from some 30-06 recoil that he needs stitches (Ross saw the pic). We did some clay shooting as well, but not nearly as cool as sporting clays. Got some video of the sporting clays encoding uploading to YouTube.

[Warsaw]

It's funny to consider that while you are getting 8 C weather, I am getting 28C weather. Especially funny because our two countries are adjacent. Geography and meteorology is whack, man. A few thousand miles further or closer to the sun makes the difference between burning hot and freezing cold.

Also, scope bite. Ouch. Negligent accident or he just didn't know?

[Cortexian]

He's a new shooter, doesn't have a license or anything so he was just shooting under my supervision which is legal here. He has only been out once before with us, he shot my other friend's father's Weatherby 30-378 without incident but that thing has a huge recoil-reducing muzzle-break. It was on his second or third shot on that gun, I think he just got to friendly with the scope.

You can tell he's new in the video I'm uploading, standing straight up/leaning away from the shotgun when we were shooting clays a few times. He actually did REALLY well for this being his first time shooting clays. We just went and recovered a bunch of unbroken clays from down-range and tossed them by hand haha, who buys these things? We used like 50 and found them all under 5 minutes of looking, there were a ton more.

[Warsaw]

I have only shot clays once, and I was 12. I was also just learning how to shoot left-handed at the time, so I sucked big time. I'd love to do it again.