TFL .....LIE DETECTOR....test!

Lavan · June 21, 2002, 05:34 PM

Only posters who ever had a BB gun can participate.

Ready? Pencils down at end of 1 hour.

Who among former or present BB gun owners NEVER shot a roly-poly bug out of it at any time?

Blackhawk · June 21, 2002, 05:42 PM

Former and never did.

Fact is, I never saw one small enough!

Don Gwinn · June 21, 2002, 05:49 PM

Why, is that a bad thing or something?

Ever kill a snake with a blowgun? Me neither. But my friend and I shot about fifty darts at one of 'em one day.

MitchSchaft · June 21, 2002, 05:51 PM

I never did stuff like that. But, did take shotgun shells apart and put all kinds of stuff in it and fired them.

Greybeard · June 21, 2002, 05:53 PM

.177 too small. Just about right tho for Oklahoma's red ants.

Might have fit in pump-up .22 when a little older, but by then had moved on to other things ...

Phil Ca · June 21, 2002, 06:05 PM

We used to shoot the strike-anywhere matches against a concrete wall just to watch them light up. We even tried a few finishing nails, but decided that it was a bit dangerous. Never tried the bug bit though,darn!

spacemanspiff · June 21, 2002, 06:30 PM

i've only shot a spider with mine. i bet he had a real fun ride with that.

Lavan · June 21, 2002, 06:31 PM

I came THIS CLOSE ][ to using the matchsticks for the question but figgered the Carnivore program would catch it and we would all end up in Guantanamo being interrogated as terrorists.

(anyone ever make a match shooter from ....clothespins??)

Ride your bike in autumn....shoot match into leaf pile....pedal like heck..... I never did that either.

Lavan · June 21, 2002, 06:35 PM

NOBODY ever taped a BB to the primer of a shotgun shell, slit the plastic, inserted a streamer to keep it falling bottom first, and threw it up in the air with the shot removed and showed the authorities that a ban on fireworks only works where there is no imagination.

LawDog · June 21, 2002, 07:07 PM

Just as a creative articulation, I may or may not have heard of someone taking a hollow shaft aluminum arrow, filling the shaft with magnesium scrapings from a USAF-issue fire starter, epoxying a musket percussion cap to the end where the broadhead goes and launching it into a plywood board.

Ahem.

Magnesium may tend to burn a wee bit faster than one might tend to think.

Lavan, I've ... heard... that if you take the shotgun shell from your last post, remove the wadding and replace it with a circle of construction paper (or a wad of Kleenex) and fill the shell with flour, that the end result is a mighty fireball when the shotshell hits the pavement.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Is there a smoking eyebrows smiley?

LawDog

Dave R · June 21, 2002, 07:22 PM

You guys are creative. Only thing I ever did was use paper bbs to exterminate spiders in the house. Be sure to re-lube the barrel afterwards...

HypersonicGamer · June 21, 2002, 08:12 PM

Hahaha, I have shot a roly-poly bug out of my BB gun.

They liquify and evaporate in a matter of seconds...wonder how it feels on human skin....hehe j/k.

dfaugh · June 21, 2002, 09:18 PM

DO NOT empty a BB gun in to large (18") wasps nest, from a range of about 5'....it would be BAAAD!

Actually I only got stung 4 times, but I think about 40 total stings, as I had several observers standing right next to me...We weren't too bright when we were kids, huh?

gdhillard · June 21, 2002, 09:27 PM

Strike anywhere match with a strip of sandpaper taped at the muzzle, to be fired at night in duals against your shirtless friends, similarly armed. We launched the shotgun shell morters with PVC pipe taped to the hose of a CO2 fire extenguisher. Gary, with a certian amount of scar tissue on feet and legs.

C.R.Sam · June 21, 2002, 10:02 PM

I refuse to testiculate on grounds that I might incarmelize myself.

But I heard on good authority that a match against manhole cover lifted several blocks worth of manhole covers when the gas leak was ignited........Lawrence Kansas circa 1939.

Sam....coincidently left home in 1939

blades67 · June 21, 2002, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Just as a creative articulation, I may or may not have heard of someone taking a hollow shaft aluminum arrow, filling the shaft with magnesium scrapings from a USAF-issue fire starter, epoxying a musket percussion cap to the end where the broadhead goes and launching it into a plywood board.

I may or may not know that person.

bastiat · June 21, 2002, 10:13 PM

Nope, never launched any living thing from a bb gun.

How many have done the "pour 20 or so bb's down the barrell and make it a bb shotgun" trick?

I think there are still some bb's embedded in the walls of my parents' basement

Hkmp5sd · June 21, 2002, 10:35 PM

Never shot bugs through my BB gun. Did many other stupid things, like pointing it up, putting a .22 over the muzzle and making it go bang.

Also, due to extreme lack of common sense, we did have BB gun wars. My BB gun became so worn out that it would fire 3-6 BB's with each shot. Used to win a lot with that one.

dZ · June 21, 2002, 10:45 PM

i never filled estes rocket engines with epoxy and bubble gummed them to trees

my pharmacy supply store sold alot of saltpeter too
amazing what sugar can do when mixed with cow medicine

we called em Pillbugs
never found em after the daisy launched em

some other multi legged relatives got starlifted by delay detonating D engines

**JohnKSa** · June 21, 2002, 11:11 PM

Yup, did the roly-poly bit. Results unsatisfactory for both roly-poly and me.

I had a friend who used to load up his hamster into the hamster tubes they used to sell. You know, the clear ones you could attach to the cage to let the little guys run through.

Then he would use lung power to launch them at the sofa. So that they landed on the cushions, not aiming to hit the sides.

Velocities were very low (read: 'harmless')--hamsters don't form a good airtight seal with the inside of the tube.

After a few shots it became impossible to get the little buggers into the tubes. They're not as stupid as they look, I guess.

Gewehr98 · June 21, 2002, 11:26 PM

There was a young kid in Wisconsin who couldn't leave well enough alone, and his Stevens bolt-action .410 shotgun got loaded with a 3" .410 shell, minus it's shot column, cut down to just the plastic wad. An aluminum arrow with field point and plastic fletching ripped off was inserted nock first down the barrel and allowed to slide down into the .410 blank's wad. The gun was leveled at a young maple tree with about an 8" diameter trunk in the woods of my parent's estate.

Went back home last Christmas, some 20 years later. That little maple tree is huge, but the front section of the arrow still protrudes from the tree where it went all the way through.

Nightcrawler · June 21, 2002, 11:55 PM

I may have known of a young lad who shot his window out with a Red Ryder BB gun. (This was back when they were still nicley made, too, not the cheapo crap you see today.)

That same young lad stole a kitchen knife and some duct tape and made a bayonet for his Red Ryder BB gun as well.

The somewhat more grown up former lad still has a small scar on his hand from that little episode.

Justin · June 22, 2002, 12:26 AM

I'm starting to think that my childhood sucked.

Does that mean I get a second one?

ronin308 · June 22, 2002, 12:45 AM

bastiat- THE BB shotgun...fond memories!

prhm · June 22, 2002, 12:55 AM

I remember putting a rolypoly in, but I dont recall anything coming out. If I remember right they just turn to mush. As far as BB wars go, I still have a scar on my right bicep from a pellet to remind me how much fun they were.

June 21, 2002, 05:34 PM	#1
Lavan Senior Member Join Date: December 10, 1999 Location: California Posts: 2,716	TFL .....LIE DETECTOR....test! Only posters who ever had a BB gun can participate. Ready? Pencils down at end of 1 hour. Who among former or present BB gun owners NEVER shot a roly-poly bug out of it at any time?

June 21, 2002, 05:49 PM	#3
Don Gwinn Staff Emeritus Join Date: March 9, 2000 Location: Virden, IL Posts: 5,917	Why, is that a bad thing or something? Ever kill a snake with a blowgun? Me neither. But my friend and I shot about fifty darts at one of 'em one day. __________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Gwinn: Chicago Gun Rights Examiner

June 21, 2002, 05:53 PM	#5
Greybeard Senior Member Join Date: April 7, 2002 Location: Denton County Texas Posts: 686	.177 too small. Just about right tho for Oklahoma's red ants. Might have fit in pump-up .22 when a little older, but by then had moved on to other things ... __________________ www.dentoncountysports.com A Private Palace for Pistol Proficiency

June 21, 2002, 06:30 PM	#7
spacemanspiff Senior Member Join Date: January 16, 2002 Location: alaska Posts: 3,498	i've only shot a spider with mine. i bet he had a real fun ride with that. __________________ "Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

June 21, 2002, 06:31 PM	#8
Lavan Senior Member Join Date: December 10, 1999 Location: California Posts: 2,716	Oh Jeez..... I came THIS CLOSE ][ to using the matchsticks for the question but figgered the Carnivore program would catch it and we would all end up in Guantanamo being interrogated as terrorists. (anyone ever make a match shooter from ....clothespins??) Ride your bike in autumn....shoot match into leaf pile....pedal like heck..... I never did that either.

June 21, 2002, 05:42 PM	#2
Blackhawk Senior Member Join Date: November 4, 2001 Posts: 5,040	Former and never did. Fact is, I never saw one small enough!

June 21, 2002, 05:51 PM	#4
MitchSchaft Senior Member Join Date: August 19, 2001 Posts: 1,197	I never did stuff like that. But, did take shotgun shells apart and put all kinds of stuff in it and fired them.

June 21, 2002, 06:05 PM	#6
Phil Ca Senior Member Join Date: October 5, 2000 Location: Central Valley, PRK Posts: 238	We used to shoot the strike-anywhere matches against a concrete wall just to watch them light up. We even tried a few finishing nails, but decided that it was a bit dangerous. Never tried the bug bit though,darn!

June 21, 2002, 06:35 PM	#9
Lavan Senior Member Join Date: December 10, 1999 Location: California Posts: 2,716	AND of course...... NOBODY ever taped a BB to the primer of a shotgun shell, slit the plastic, inserted a streamer to keep it falling bottom first, and threw it up in the air with the shot removed and showed the authorities that a ban on fireworks only works where there is no imagination.

June 21, 2002, 07:07 PM	#10
LawDog Staff Emeritus Join Date: September 15, 1999 Location: Where am I going? Why am I in this handbasket? Posts: 4,194	Just as a creative articulation, I may or may not have heard of someone taking a hollow shaft aluminum arrow, filling the shaft with magnesium scrapings from a USAF-issue fire starter, epoxying a musket percussion cap to the end where the broadhead goes and launching it into a plywood board. Ahem. Magnesium may tend to burn a wee bit faster than one might tend to think. Lavan, I've ... heard... that if you take the shotgun shell from your last post, remove the wadding and replace it with a circle of construction paper (or a wad of Kleenex) and fill the shell with flour, that the end result is a mighty fireball when the shotshell hits the pavement. Hypothetically speaking, of course. Is there a smoking eyebrows smiley? LawDog __________________ "The Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer." --The 13th Warrior Bona na Croin The LawDog Files

June 21, 2002, 07:22 PM	#11
Dave R Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2000 Location: Idaho Posts: 6,073	You guys are creative. Only thing I ever did was use paper bbs to exterminate spiders in the house. Be sure to re-lube the barrel afterwards... __________________ I am Pro-Rights (on gun issues).

June 21, 2002, 08:12 PM	#12
HypersonicGamer Junior Member Join Date: June 17, 2002 Location: Arizona - Maricopa County Posts: 10	Hahaha, I have shot a roly-poly bug out of my BB gun. They liquify and evaporate in a matter of seconds...wonder how it feels on human skin....hehe j/k.

June 21, 2002, 09:18 PM	#13
dfaugh Senior Member Join Date: January 17, 2002 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 1,715	BB gun lesson of the day DO NOT empty a BB gun in to large (18") wasps nest, from a range of about 5'....it would be BAAAD! Actually I only got stung 4 times, but I think about 40 total stings, as I had several observers standing right next to me...We weren't too bright when we were kids, huh? __________________ "If you Listen to Fools, the Mob Rules" "No one has the answer, but one thing is true. You'e got to turn on evil, when its coming after you. You've gotta face it down,and when it tries to hide, you've got to go in after it, and never be denied. Time is running out...Let's roll. Let's roll for freedom, let's roll for love. We're going after satan, on the wings of a dove. Let's roll for freedom, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth."

June 21, 2002, 09:27 PM	#14
gdhillard Senior Member Join Date: August 15, 2000 Location: Reading, Vermont Posts: 385	Strike anywhere match with a strip of sandpaper taped at the muzzle, to be fired at night in duals against your shirtless friends, similarly armed. We launched the shotgun shell morters with PVC pipe taped to the hose of a CO2 fire extenguisher. Gary, with a certian amount of scar tissue on feet and legs.

June 21, 2002, 10:02 PM	#15
C.R.Sam Senior Member Join Date: October 29, 1999 Location: Dewey, AZ Posts: 12,858	I refuse to testiculate on grounds that I might incarmelize myself. But I heard on good authority that a match against manhole cover lifted several blocks worth of manhole covers when the gas leak was ignited........Lawrence Kansas circa 1939. Sam....coincidently left home in 1939

June 21, 2002, 10:13 PM	#17
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,771	Nope, never launched any living thing from a bb gun. How many have done the "pour 20 or so bb's down the barrell and make it a bb shotgun" trick? I think there are still some bb's embedded in the walls of my parents' basement __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 21, 2002, 10:35 PM	#18
Hkmp5sd Senior Member Join Date: December 15, 2001 Location: Winter Haven, Florida Posts: 4,303	Never shot bugs through my BB gun. Did many other stupid things, like pointing it up, putting a .22 over the muzzle and making it go bang. Also, due to extreme lack of common sense, we did have BB gun wars. My BB gun became so worn out that it would fire 3-6 BB's with each shot. Used to win a lot with that one. __________________ NRA Certified Instructor: Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, Home Safety, Personal Protection, Range Safety Officer NRA Life Member

June 21, 2002, 10:45 PM	#19
dZ Senior Member Join Date: May 31, 1999 Location: Exiled, Fetid Swamp, DC Posts: 7,548	i never filled estes rocket engines with epoxy and bubble gummed them to trees my pharmacy supply store sold alot of saltpeter too amazing what sugar can do when mixed with cow medicine we called em Pillbugs never found em after the daisy launched em some other multi legged relatives got starlifted by delay detonating D engines __________________ "O tell the Lacedomecians to damn the torpedoes." BOTR, Chapter V: Some Monsters

June 21, 2002, 11:11 PM	#20
JohnKSa Staff Join Date: February 12, 2001 Location: DFW Area Posts: 24,985	Yup, did the roly-poly bit. Results unsatisfactory for both roly-poly and me. I had a friend who used to load up his hamster into the hamster tubes they used to sell. You know, the clear ones you could attach to the cage to let the little guys run through. Then he would use lung power to launch them at the sofa. So that they landed on the cushions, not aiming to hit the sides. Velocities were very low (read: 'harmless')--hamsters don't form a good airtight seal with the inside of the tube. After a few shots it became impossible to get the little buggers into the tubes. They're not as stupid as they look, I guess.

June 21, 2002, 11:26 PM	#21
Gewehr98 Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2000 Location: Token Creek, WI Posts: 4,067	Speaking of aluminum arrows... There was a young kid in Wisconsin who couldn't leave well enough alone, and his Stevens bolt-action .410 shotgun got loaded with a 3" .410 shell, minus it's shot column, cut down to just the plastic wad. An aluminum arrow with field point and plastic fletching ripped off was inserted nock first down the barrel and allowed to slide down into the .410 blank's wad. The gun was leveled at a young maple tree with about an 8" diameter trunk in the woods of my parent's estate. Went back home last Christmas, some 20 years later. That little maple tree is huge, but the front section of the arrow still protrudes from the tree where it went all the way through. __________________ "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round... Neural Misfires

June 21, 2002, 11:55 PM	#22
Nightcrawler Senior Member Join Date: September 22, 2000 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 2,945	I may have known of a young lad who shot his window out with a Red Ryder BB gun. (This was back when they were still nicley made, too, not the cheapo crap you see today.) That same young lad stole a kitchen knife and some duct tape and made a bayonet for his Red Ryder BB gun as well. The somewhat more grown up former lad still has a small scar on his hand from that little episode. __________________ Nightcrawler- TFL Alumnus

June 22, 2002, 12:26 AM	#23
Justin Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2000 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 1,641	I'm starting to think that my childhood sucked. Does that mean I get a second one?

June 22, 2002, 12:45 AM	#24
ronin308 Senior Member Join Date: April 9, 2001 Posts: 1,977	bastiat- THE BB shotgun...fond memories! __________________ If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara desert in five years there’d be a shortage of sand. -Milton Friedman

June 22, 2002, 12:55 AM	#25
prhm Member Join Date: July 1, 2001 Location: Longview, Washington Posts: 49	I remember putting a rolypoly in, but I dont recall anything coming out. If I remember right they just turn to mush. As far as BB wars go, I still have a scar on my right bicep from a pellet to remind me how much fun they were. __________________ Greg Parham Jr.