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I was reading a post that caught my interest. It was about a company that made a gun for the robot. So I was looking up the company and weapon research. Came across some vids on newly engineered type guns. Watched some pistol ones. These where regular people buying large caliber pistols. No biggy right. Hunting with big pistols, except they werent hunters. They were testing to see if they where good at vehicle penetration. Going through the fire walls and through the doors. Which is not good for hunting. The guy actually said they where looking for anti material guns that where good. That seems kinda weird. The implications of this kind stuff is leaving me uneasy. Any thoughts. This is all over you tube.
3Hotdogs
(12,207 posts)The whole purpose of hunting is to get your rocks off, wacking some poor animal that happens to be in the wrong place at the right time.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)thrill of the hunt and the kick in killing.
OkSustainAg
(203 posts)No, looking up the robot populated new pistol vids the regular folks where using pistols looking for anti material guns not hunting. Why? Sorry for confusion.
You tube populate off track vids of what you where looking for. The concern is lots of gun vids not hunting or self defense but shooting at people. Why else would a regular person need a pistol to shoot through the fire wall of a car and say this is no good we are looking for anti material. Regular people not military or police.
hunter
(38,264 posts)My name is Hunter, and I've hunted meat in my youth, but for the last twenty or thirty years I've been mostly vegetarian.
I don't have any antipathy to my family who still hunt, but I'm extremely critical of gun fetishes.
Gun fetishes are disgusting.
OkSustainAg
(203 posts)Of a mini van. Talking or complaining about penetrating seats with card board targets seemed weird
multigraincracker
(32,527 posts)a 20 gauge shotgun and a 30.06 deer rifle. All but the pistol are for hunting and the pistol for targets and home protection. The pistol did save me once from a dog attack. The dog had the horses in the corner of the pen, so I yelled and he ran away. I looked up and he had come back under the fence and was coming at me and I shot him.
I've always thought if you need more than one to three shots, perhaps you should take up fishing.
I've shot one deer in the last 10 years and picked up lots of fresh road kill. Both taste just as good, as long as the road kill is fresh.
hunter
(38,264 posts)When I'm in my Berserker mode it's not a pretty sight.
I have a wicked knife scar on my arm that I only talk to my therapists about.
My gun violence stories are uglier but I've never been shot. I have seen people shot.
I don't need a gun because I don't let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.
Sometimes the ground squirrels and gophers tempt me but my dogs usually get them before I do.
multigraincracker
(32,527 posts)I was not armed and am almost sure I'd be dead if I was. Quick thinking and fast moves got me out of harms way. If I had gone for a gun, the time it would have taken would have got me killed.
The time I shot the dog, not sure if it would have killed, pretty sure it would have been ugly.
Living on a farm them, lots of city folks seem to drop dogs off in rural areas. I had spotted this rot a few days earlier walking down the road and stopped to see if I could get him in the truck to see if I could find his owner or take him to the Humane Society. He only responded aggressively to my offer, so I left him alone and reported it to Animal Control.
It was on a foggy November night and I heard a dog barking and the three horse making a commotion late at night. Stuck the 22 in my back pocket and went outside to see what was going on. He had the 3 very large horses backed into a corner and was attacking their feet. I yelled and he took off. As I was checking their legs he came at a dead run under the panel headed at us I drew my pistol and fired hitting him in the side of his chest. Let out loud yell and took of down the long drive. Went back in and called the neighbor, whose kids wait for the school bus and let her know to keep an eye on the kids. She called back a few minutes later and said the dog was in her shed growling at her. I ran over and put a shot in its head.
I have no doubt that I would have been injured.
You can reason with a person, but pretty hard to reason with a mad dog. If I hadn't been hurt by jumping over the fence, my horses might have, I don't know. I've got away from dogs before by jumping on a car, in a car or throwing a rock. That didn't seem to be an option at the time.
After I moved to Ohio in a town I made a safe room out of a closet. Had my gun safe in there and a phone. If anyone had broke in I would have gone in my safe room and called the cops or waited until the door was being kicked in and then fire thru it while on the phone with 911. Never had to do that and I'd never want to shoot a person. But to protect my partner now, I would. But most likely fire a warning shot first if possible.
I've google "cheap home security" and have made easier for the crooks to move on to the next house than try mine. I don't look for trouble. In my old age, I've learned nothing good happens after midnight, so I stay in. Most of the time I'm in the house by the time the street lights come on. I learned a long time ago, if you go looking for trouble, it will find you.
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)Boomerproud
(7,888 posts)Yes, let's not try to solve problems let's make new ones.
OkSustainAg
(203 posts)Not get crazier.
SYFROYH
(34,127 posts)It doesn't take much to puncture cars. They recommended hiding behind the front wheels and engine if you had a choice.
OkSustainAg
(203 posts)Them seeing if shooting through the front fire wall would go through it and then pass through passenger seat to the back