Hi Folks,
Check your long unused firearms. Two different videos here:
https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-terrifying-moment-mans-50cal-shotgun-explodes-in-his-face-20210505
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71OGayW7CnI
Sal
Hi Folks,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/exclusive-smart-guns-finally-arriving-in-u-s-seeking-to-shake-up-firearms-market/vi-AASFzax?ocid=msedgntp
Sal
Hi Folks,
Florida sheriff recommends Safety Courses,... just because..... you'll be a better shot. It'll save the taxpayer money.
https://news.yahoo.com/santa-rosa-county-sheriff-announces-184019593.html
Sal
Hi Folks,
'guns and Diet Mountain Dew don?t mix!'
A North Carolina woman was issued a criminal citation this week for shooting at cans of Diet Mountain Dew in her backyard.
Gastonia Police Department officers responded to reports of shots fired in the neighborhood and found a 64-year-old woman who said she was firing a revolver at the soda cans because she didn?t approve of her father drinking them, the department said on Facebook.
"We totally understand that not everybody is a fan of the Dew but we can?t stress enough how dangerous this is!" the department said.
Sal
I was decking a roof one day and bullets kept wizzing past us as we worked on the roof. The boss said we should shoot back. He asked who had a gun and everyone raised their hand and said, I have a few... we didn't shoot back, but it turns out someone was plinking with a .22 and they shot holes in all the houses in the neighborhood. Luckily almost all of those houses were empty, but still there were holes in the walls and a few windows gone. A safety class might have helped I guess. But it says right on the box of ammo that it can go for a mile... What is your backstop is always an important question.
The link (minuse the first part) is: news-terrifying-moment-mans-50cal-shotgun-explodes-in-his-face-20210505
This was not a shotgun. In fact, though I suppose someone could make a .50 caliber shotgun, no one that I know of has ever manufactured such a thing. It was a rifle chambered for .50 BMG.
LOL, never heard of a punt gun? may be a 2" bore and shoot a pound of shot..............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
Did a report on them in the 10th grade.
google "punt gun" and then search "images"
I even have a couple of 8 ga. shotgun shells floating around somewhere. These are well over 0.5" or 50 cal.
The 8 gauge shell is still in production, I have seen pallets of them over at the cement plant, used to clear out the lime kiln.
I bet they pack a lot of kick... :grin:
A 12 gauge is well over .50 cal in diameter. Probably even a 20 guage is, but I would have to look that up. I have seen a punt gun. I remember when I was a kid during the sesquicentennial celebration for our town there was a 4 guage elephant gun (muzzleloader) in one of the store windows. But there is still no such thing as a .50 cal shotgun...
QuoteProbably even a 20 guage is, but I would have to look that up.
I think you are right. The Taurus Judge 45 cal Colt Magnum also shoots a much smaller 410 shotgun shell. My brother in law who is in law enforcement bought one for his wife..
a .50 caliber is 1/2 in. bore. Even a 28 gage shotgun is larger, at .550 inch bore.
.410 is the only "gauge" that isn't a gauge, it's a bore size i inches. The rest are actual gauges (a pound of lead divided into that many round balls i.e. a round ball of 1/12 of a pound is the diameter of a 12 gauge.) And yes, I think everything over a .410 is over .50 cal. None ARE .50 cal.
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Incoming!
Sal