All About Pocket Knives

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2024 4:48 pm Had the darndest thing happen Friday. My brother from out of state was visiting for a few days, so we headed out to the local gunclub to shoot a few. We shot some 100 yard rifle and then went over to the pistol range. I was shooting my S & W 638 Airweight, 38 Special with a handload I make with 125 grain Berrys plated flat nose bullets and a small dose of 700X powder. I touched one off at some rubber hanging gongs that our club just recently installed from about 10 yards and all of a sudden I feel something hit me in the chest just to the left of the right hand pocket of the short sleeve shirt I was wearing. It was not painful, but sure did startle me. I looked down and right between my shoes lay the bullet I had just fired, which I have shown in the picture (note rifling marks). I think what happened was I fired at the rubber gong which was hanging by a screw into a horizontal wood piece of the target frame, and my aim was a little high and the bullet hit the rubber where it was attached to the frame and that absorbed most of the energy, but spit the bullet right back at me. I was standing there with a 2 hand grip, the bullet returned back and went right under my hands and the grips of the 638 and hit me. Like I said, it was not painful, kind of like someone threw a bullet at you by hand. Really weird!!!!

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Boji wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:45 pm If you ever shoot steel plates be very careful. Absolutely Closest distance for handguns 10 yards but I do 15, and slant target downward 20 degrees

royal0014 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 1:27 pm While not exactly the same as these recent encounters, I pulled a dumb one years ago ...

A friend and I were out target shooting under the power lines one day. He had recently modified a 10-22 and was testing it out. He handed it to me to try a few shots. I propped up on the driver side bed of his truck, shooting across the bed.
At the time I had no experience with a scope on a rifle, and did not see the roll bar in my sight picture.
Caught the edge of said roll bar and a fragment of the bullet cut my friend's cheek!

Some years later, I bought that rifle from him, and still have it, though with a different scope.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 4:34 pm 10/22s are awesome, and 10/22 day is coming up soon!

Put your eye out.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 1:49 am Happy 10/22!

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:08 am

1967redrider wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 1:49 am Happy 10/22!

Cool set up.

Boji wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:40 pm Here’s my 10-22. Haven’t shot it for ages.
I remember it was picky about ammo But it has the cool factor
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I prefer my Browning BL-22
Can’s find a picture of it.

RedRaiderRick wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 2:07 pm This seems like an active thread with some really nice guns posted here so I thought I would add a bit. Here is my M40a1 clone. Spent years collecting the right parts
after getting a return stock from McMillan and the rest including an old 22-250 in the correct serial number range, a Unertl from the CMP, and reproduction Weaver base and rings. Final assembly by a retired 2112. Screenshot_20220611-134840_Gallery.jpg

ken98k wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:03 pm

RedRaiderRick wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 2:07 pm This seems like an active thread with some really nice guns posted here so I thought I would add a bit. Here is my M40a1 clone. Spent years collecting the right parts
after getting a return stock from McMillan and the rest including an old 22-250 in the correct serial number range, a Unertl from the CMP, and reproduction Weaver base and rings. Final assembly by a retired 2112. Screenshot_20220611-134840_Gallery.jpg

Nice job!