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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave View Post
    Yeah, hard for him to say how hard he has it when his mom was in the Navy and I was in the Army at his age. He tried complaining about having to work a 10 hour shift for training.
    My half day today was 5am until 645pm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    When one of my brother's friends turned 18, his mom bought him pots and pans for his birthday. She wanted him OUT.
    I was given luggage and a tent for my high school graduation. It all turned out alright.

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    I'm not sure if this should go in the hunting thread or what, but I just shot the leg off a rabbit with a slingshot. It was eating the flowers that I planted YESTERDAY and it pissed me off. I paid a bunch of money for those flowers and spent a lot of time planting them and running drip lines to them from the sprinkler system. I don't own a pellet gun and can't just start shooting guns in my neighborhood... So I grabbed an old $10 slingshot from my survival bag and gave it a try. First shot missed and I don't know by how much. Second shot blew off its front leg. It ran away on three legs and stopped in the middle of my grass. I walked up to it with the intention of killing it, but somehow I missed twice from 4 ft away and I was out of pellets, so I went and grabbed a rock about 3/4inch in diameter and that sure did the trick... it was definitely dead after the rock from point blank. Upon inspection, the little steel pellet tore its front leg completely off about halfway up, so I'm pretty sure a hit to the head or vitals would have killed it pretty quickly.

    I'm such a Neandertal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
    I'm not sure if this should go in the hunting thread or what, but I just shot the leg off a rabbit with a slingshot. It was eating the flowers that I planted YESTERDAY and it pissed me off. I paid a bunch of money for those flowers and spent a lot of time planting them and running drip lines to them from the sprinkler system. I don't own a pellet gun and can't just start shooting guns in my neighborhood... So I grabbed an old $10 slingshot from my survival bag and gave it a try. First shot missed and I don't know by how much. Second shot blew off its front leg. It ran away on three legs and stopped in the middle of my grass. I walked up to it with the intention of killing it, but somehow I missed twice from 4 ft away and I was out of pellets, so I went and grabbed a rock about 3/4inch in diameter and that sure did the trick... it was definitely dead after the rock from point blank. Upon inspection, the little steel pellet tore its front leg completely off about halfway up, so I'm pretty sure a hit to the head or vitals would have killed it pretty quickly.

    I'm such a Neandertal.
    Pictures, or it didn't happen. :what:

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    Quote Originally Posted by crays View Post
    Pictures, or it didn't happen. :what:

    Just kidding.

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    Ha! I already shoveled it into a construction dumpster down the street. I should have thrown it into my neighbor's window well... I've seen them "rescuing" bunnies from their window wells 2 times now and then "releasing them into the wild" (my yard). My neighbors are kinda weird.. Their son is going to grow up to be a pussy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
    I can't believe how civil people are being in this thread: https://www.ar-15.co/threads/131413-Social-experiment

    I was going to post IBTL, but it doesn't look like it's headed that way (surprisingly)
    I haven't visited it yet.......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    When one of my brother's friends turned 18, his mom bought him pots and pans for his birthday. She wanted him OUT.
    Quote Originally Posted by crays View Post
    I was given luggage and a tent for my high school graduation. It all turned out alright.

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    Our daughter received luggage and a bus ticket from our old business partners. We gave her adviCe and a tank of gas.










































    plus my 12ga, 2 hand guns and ammo.
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    I shoot animals in my yard all the time. Why can't you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    I shoot animals in my yard all the time. Why can't you?
    I don't really know my neighbors and I don't want them calling the police or panicking because they heard a gunshot at 10pm. I plan on staying in this neighborhood for a while and the last thing I want is pissed off neighbors. Also, it's illegal to discharge a firearm within the city limits and/or within x feet from a road, and/or within x feet from a house, etc. I'd like to keep it on the DL.
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    Trust me, I wish this weren't a problem... I would love to shoot rabbits and Pdogs from my back porch, but that's not the situation I get to work with right now.
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