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Silo Killing

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Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:45 am

Silo Killing

we lost one fence post.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:04 am

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Cool
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:56 am

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I've chopped down two concrete silos in my lifetime with sledge hammers, it never crossed my mind to shoot them to death. My way was a lot cheaper, but I'm sure not as much fun. Good stuff!
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:59 am

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Silo tiles are very useful for other things, save them.
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:34 am

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John,

You have all the fun!

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Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:57 am

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patrol guy wrote:we lost one fence post.


a moment of silence for the lost.. fence post.

That was awesome!

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Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:55 pm

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you guys had to much fun..... NOT FAIR!!!!! :lol: [-X
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:48 pm

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Too cool! I'm waiting for the cops to come arrest me for viewing that... NZ not to bad yet, but in Australia you can barely even think the word 'gun' without some bleeding heart anti-gun lobbyist trying to have you locked up...

We had to surrender all our semi-auto weapons in a taxpayer funded buyback a few years ago. They paid good money for the guns. I had several chinese SKK's bought new for around A$300.00, they paid $600 each and an additional $50 for each magazine. It was quite heartbreaking watching them crush thousands of guns in a large hydraulic press... :( And I doubt it's had any significant impact on the gun related crime in Aus.

I even had to register my Daisy BB gun on my license!
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:28 pm

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Wish I had been there!

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Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:56 pm

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F*k it. Time to move to Ohio. Looks like a safer way to take down a silo than this guys technique.
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:57 pm

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=D> A word of caution, you blokes should know better than to turn your back on a wounded silo at 5.30
I hear ya onefitty, just had the cops out to look at my guns, match serial # and check the safe. :roll:
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:54 pm

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Dammit John, tell Greg to call me next time you do something fun like that!

That "Little Bird" you saw that was flying the power line ROW was a Minuteman Inc. helo out of Columbus. I talked to the guy that flies it at the Cambridge airport a couple weeks ago. Here are a few pics:

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ImageIll take one of these please.......

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He was flying for AEP the day that I talked to him.
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Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:46 pm

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Well, I've drilled holes with guns, 22 for little hole shotgun for big hole, I've shot down Christmas trees 'cause we just wanted the top 15 feet not the bottom 40 feet. And I have even shot my remote control planes out of trees but that silo killing takes the cake.

Party on dude.
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:19 am

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onefitty wrote:Too cool! I'm waiting for the cops to come arrest me for viewing that... NZ not to bad yet, but in Australia you can barely even think the word 'gun' without some bleeding heart anti-gun lobbyist trying to have you locked up...

We had to surrender all our semi-auto weapons in a taxpayer funded buyback a few years ago. They paid good money for the guns. I had several chinese SKK's bought new for around A$300.00, they paid $600 each and an additional $50 for each magazine. It was quite heartbreaking watching them crush thousands of guns in a large hydraulic press... :( And I doubt it's had any significant impact on the gun related crime in Aus.

I even had to register my Daisy BB gun on my license!


Actually violent crime in Australia went up significantly right after the bans were enacted.
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:56 am

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Looks like fun! Just another reason to have 30 round clips. :lol:
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:04 am

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Fisherman wrote:Actually violent crime in Australia went up significantly right after the bans were enacted.


http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:43 am

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rw2 wrote:
Fisherman wrote:Actually violent crime in Australia went up significantly right after the bans were enacted.


http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp


Snopes is good for chain emails!!, anything else is mostly slanted!!

http://jdlong.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/snopes-com-exposed-left-wing-website-not-quite-the-impartial-arbiter-of-truth/

Who ya gonna believe!!??

John, I got a 47-70 you could use from a safe distance!! Bitchin!!!!
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:35 am

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If my choices are a well respected website like snopes that regularly debunks lies without any partisan slant or a website that proudly has a partisan passion and then, as an alternative to snopes, suggests a fact-check website that *only* has articles about how evil the left is, I pick snopes.

So, fine, you reject snopes on the basis of a random, admittedly politically driven, website. Here's a completely different set of folks who came to the same conclusion: http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/gun-co ... australia/
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:13 pm

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Speaking of Bear Guns..........some fun this past winter



Same concept, smaller target.
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Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:42 pm

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rw2 wrote:


If my choices are a well respected website like snopes that regularly debunks lies without any partisan slant or a website that proudly has a partisan passion and then, as an alternative to snopes, suggests a fact-check website that *only* has articles about how evil the left is, I pick snopes.

So, fine, you reject snopes on the basis of a random, admittedly politically driven, website. Here's a completely different set of folks who came to the same conclusion: http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/gun-co ... australia/


Thread creep? Why don't you open another thread under HOT AIR! to bitch about someones post facts!!
Why all this crap :shock: when John and his group of friends were having fun!! =D>
Back to shooting shit up and havin fun!! :mrgreen:
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