Six Vs. A Half Dozen
By Mitch Berg
Not gonna prevaricate: This kid had me pretty depressed (in a “howling with laughter” kind of way) last week:
This young lady was the perfect antidote:
Let the Great Sort continue!
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April 20th, 2023 at 6:17 am
That’s, in a word, awesome! Loved the toss of the empty one.
April 20th, 2023 at 8:20 am
And just think, 10,000 high school kids in MN are participating in school sponsored clay target shooting. OMG Shooting guns! 40,000 kids nationwide!
https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/15/we-visited-the-worlds-largest-safest-shooting-sports-event
April 20th, 2023 at 9:24 am
Watch this little girl handle a 3-gun run like a BOSS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIF3pW_kTuo
Now THAT is how you control a gun. Try that, sissy boy
April 20th, 2023 at 9:43 am
Tossing a weapon like that is just plain effing wrong. At the very least always treat it like it is loaded. Gun haters just going to latch on to that…with reason.
April 20th, 2023 at 10:35 am
Genesis of a next-gen action hero!
April 20th, 2023 at 10:55 am
Guess which kid will never be scared of bullies.
April 20th, 2023 at 11:40 am
OMG that is going to make lefty brains explode!
April 20th, 2023 at 11:45 am
What Sanjuan notes. Too many people have been injured or killed as others treat guns as if they’re not loaded. Plus, even if you’ve got a gun which is truly unloaded, do you want to damage it by throwing it on the rocks? Also nervous about trying to handle two guns at once….
Love the fact that she’s starting young, but would like to see a little more emphasis on gun care and safety…
April 20th, 2023 at 11:53 am
The tossed pistol looks like a HiPoint 9mm. I had one (before the tragic canoe accident). They’re amazing: cheap to purchase, operate filthy, there’s a video of some guy throwing his in the mud and then shooting it. Works every time.
Yes, yes, safe firearms practice, etc., but seriously, that gun can take it. Besides, if the rule is “train as you fight,” then tossing the empty gun instead of taking time out of a gunfight to carefully secure it inside a protective case with trigger lock, is probably the correct move to save your life.
I concede it’s bad PR to put it on video for sensitive gun grabbers to see, just like sausage makers don’t show video inside the meat packing plant, because people will be offended and that’s the worst result modern society can imagine. I can imagine a lot worse result so I’m willing to cut the kid some slack.
April 20th, 2023 at 11:53 am
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East German judge scores 2/10 for poor gun etiquette.
clearly Child Protective Services needs to be called.
April 20th, 2023 at 12:26 pm
My father taught me to treat all guns as always loaded.
He would never even allow a gun in a case to point in the direction of harm.
That may sound extreme, but it is extremely wise.
April 20th, 2023 at 1:27 pm
Greg;
My dad was even more strict. Shotguns and semi auto rifles, locked open. Bolt action; bolts removed (they’ll need to come out to be cleaned anyway). We only had two .357 mag revolvers when I was growing up. The cylinders were removed before transport.
April 20th, 2023 at 1:50 pm
Boss,
My dad had another iron law: you eat what you kill.
I’ll never shoot another coot.
April 20th, 2023 at 2:05 pm
I had a similar childhood: safety first, safety last, safety always.
Then I heard firearms instructors say, “train the way you fight.”
I cannot reconcile their instruction with my childhood lessons. Can you?
April 20th, 2023 at 2:33 pm
Greg!
Damn! I feel for you. I’ve never tasted one, but I’ve heard from guys like you that have, that they are worse tan awful. Thankfully, my dad was a frugal ammunition buyer and didn’t want us wasting it. Hence, he told us not to bother shooting those.
April 21st, 2023 at 5:06 am
I hope Mitch doesn’t consider this a threadjack, but here is a story that marks the difference between generations.
My dad was an avid duck hunter – probably because he had ten kids. For him, watching the sunrise from the peace and quiet of a blind on the Mississippi river bottoms provided all balance he needed to offset the stress and chaos of a big family. He would sit there for hours on end with his thermos of coffee and a lunch box full of baloney sandwiches.
His sons liked hunting and being with him just as much – but sitting in a blind, not so much. So we would jump shoot with the boat or walk the long islands hunting squirrels or rabbits or just moving around.
One Sunday morning when I was in my twenties, I drove out to the river bottoms with a couple of friends to hunt…….oh, about noon. Yeah, we were kinda hung over, but not too bad, but certainly not in a mood to sit in a blind, so we sat in a car on the river bluff south of Redwing and watched the goings on down belong.
A lone coot would fly down the river at about 500 feet and all the fathers with ten kids would raise sheets of fire in response It all sounded like an F105 screaming into Hanoi harbor.
But we had a plan and a pair of binoculars, a compass and an USGS map of the area.
We would watch the ducks being chased from shore to shore across the slough – but then they would drop – and not come back up.
With a little work, we located a couple of potholes in fields and drove out there to slip through the corn stubble or grass, and jump a load of ducks.
That night, the old man came home with an empty thermos and an empty lunch box – and nothing more, to find his son and a couple of his buddies cleaning ducks.
We were proud of what we did and told him all about it.
He was incensed.
“That’s not hunting,” he growled “that’s harvesting.”
For him, hunting was about the pleasure of the hunt, the peace of the day and the companionship of friends and family.
I hunt pheasants these days, with my kids, but some days because I work harvest on the farm when my kids come down from the cities to hunt, I don’t carry my shotgun, but I love walking the line with them just as much.
Makes me feel like my old man and that is a hell of a feeling.
April 21st, 2023 at 8:47 am
First they come for your guns, next… the saucepan. Peasants are revolting!
French Police Confiscate Saucepans Amid Town’s Anti-Macron Protests
April 21st, 2023 at 11:59 am
Sanjuan missed the part where she checked her weapon before discarding it. He also missed the part where Bikebubble jumped on board with him.
When Bikebubble jumps on board, jump off.
“I cannot reconcile their instruction with my childhood lessons. Can you?”
No, Bigman, I can’t. But like you, I’m an adult.
April 21st, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Confiscating saucepans? That means the poor Frenchmen are going to need to eat English food! Horreurs!! I’m so glad we have an 8th Amendment here in the States to prevent this sort of thing.
April 21st, 2023 at 3:55 pm
Seizing saucepans? In France?
How do you say “cold, dead fingers” in French?