tokn

Gotta say, there's just something about discharging a powerful firearm.

If you've never shot a gun before, it can be quite a stress reliever.

larry.gray

9mm and "powerful firearm" don't go together in my mind. I'm thinking more of a 12ga, something over .40 cal or a rifle.

But yes, it is a wonderful stress reliever.

Since this board talks about being an alpha male, I'd point out that shooting is very alpha too.

tokn

heh to each their own I've shot .40 and .45 and to me the recoil is too uncomfortable.

My friend has different types of rifles, 22s (very cheap and fun), 30-30, ultra mag 300 (very uncomfortable), and I just prefer the 9mm.

zaliblue

YES IT IS! I freaking love shooting guns! Last weekend we shot up a broken television....Any household appliance that goes out goes to the woods and we have fun. I know I am a chick....but as much as I hate to admit it, I am a country girl....I like little hand guns and all, but give me a rifle and I will be happy....My hubby loves the Yugoslavian SKS, and i have to say, he has good taste. Very fun and accurate gun to shoot

YinPrincess

A friend of mine has a 12g sawed-off Remmington that I *love* to shoot!

It terrified me at first, but now I find myself saying, "Let's go to the range!!"

The first time I fired it I almost landed square on my butt! Not a good beginner gun, but it was the one I learned on.
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Stonewall

Sweet!

I'm partial to my .45 and .40. but my fav is my 5.56.

alphaomega

Me and my five year old son went out and shot an AK 47 for a while. He thought that was the cats ass.

Of course, the bullets were foam and the make was Nerf.

This IS Canada, of course. No real guns here.
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Conrad

Didn't realize you lived in Trudeaupia.

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SadSamIAm

I grew up in Canada and yes we have guns. I lived in a rural area. Everyone drove trucks and everyone had a gun rack in the window. Just in case you see a coyote or fox. Friends I had made a fair amount of money trapping/shooting coyotes and fox for their fur. 35 years ago, you could get $250 for a good coyote pelt.

I owned a 22 rifle (for gophers) and a 12 gauge shot gun for geese and ducks and for shooting clay pigeons. My buddy had a ton of different hand guns that we used to shoot out at his farm. We did what he referred to as Silhouette shooting. He had these thick black metal shapes of animals that were placed at different distances from where we shot. Was a great time.

Sawney Beane

I shot pistols half a dozen times in my time in the Army. They weren't seen as being "serious" weapons.

I preferred my SLR over the abortion that was the L85 (SA80).

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sinnister

I assure you...some of us are as alpha as it gets and have zero interest in guns. I don't hate them...just have no interest.

Browncoat

I had a friend who has a desert eagle .50 (Magnum Research) with hot loads custom packed at a local gun show (well local where I used to live). Anyway we took that sucker into an indoor shooting range and even with everyone wearing ear protection we got everyone's head turned our way. The sucker was putting out flames a few inches out of the barrel... and the sound, well it sounded like a hand cannon!

I'm sure it wasn't good for the firearm (and perhaps dangerous), but that was some serious fun! Best time I've ever had a shooting range.

ocotillo

Bravo! It always seems to clear my sinuses

Because of the glut of ultra-cheap weapons on the market, (i.e Lorcin/Raven/Jennings and their ilk) commercial 9mm ammunition is only a shadow of what it was decades ago. It's not usually even powerful enough to cycle the action of a WWII era Luger anymore.

Even newer reloading manuals have adjusted their tables for liability reasons. Sometimes the maximum charge in a newer manual is below the minimum charge in a 60's era manual.

--Still powerful enough to get the job done though

Racer

Yes, shooting guns with the guys is a great stress reliever. I’ve got a 9mm and a AR-15. Fun to shoot. But my best memory lately is sitting around my buddies front porch (rural area) with a few beers, and my favorite gun at the moment: A competition level pellet gun tricked out with goodies and a variety of ammo (yes, there’s different weights and shapes..) And it’s dirt freaking cheap to shoot. We shot this thing for several hours for just a couple bucks of ammo and some elbow grease pumping the air tank full again...(worst shotter must pump) So, it really isn’t even about the caliper of the weapon. It was a good way to just shoot the breeze and scope this beast in. Btw; my friend was so impressed he nearly got a 9mm air rifle to hunt the coyotes & fox trying to get his goats and chickens... His AR scares them away; the air rifle is much quieter and ‘new’ for them, plus with the rails he can re-use his night scope and AR toys on the air gun. But alas... he had to move to ‘the city’ to get work.

And it isn’t a Alpha thing at all. I can’t tell you how many beta guys I know who are closet Rambo’s and have extensive gun collections. When the snow melts here, my buddy got a semi-auto mossberg over the winter and his friend has a Saiga shotgun (AK-47 modified to handle 12ga).. That’s gonna be fun. Keep in mind all these guys are middle management types, college educated, married with children, hockey dad sorts...

Po12345

I've got a Glock model 22 .40 pistol and an AR-15. I can trim the hair off a gnat's @ss with the AR but I am not the best shot with the pistol.

Oh and the wife absolutely loves firing either, but she's a former Marine so that comes with the territory.