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shane justice

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Guys,

I post sometimes on a site called SIxgunner.com..I think it must be John Taffin's forum...at leat he is some part of it...I wrote this story just for the hell of it...and to introduce myself there...I brought it here because I know a bunch of you are gun nuts...we could all use a gigle now and again...

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There seems certainly is a lot of shooting going on...which is all well and good. While I try to shoot straight...I have ridden , but only round and round at Wal Mart...and I do tell a fib oncet in a while.

Truth be known, I must protest the shooting of "holes". Especially "one ragged hole" that everybody seems to be after. If I had so many people shooting at me I would be ragged to! It seems the the little bugger has a wide range exisintg in every state from Alaska to Florida... and the ragged hole even shows up all over the globe...only to have people shooting at him. It is a wonder he has no special protected status among the agencies and bueraus of our great land.

Next thing you know...there will be a season on holes...no more shooting holes any old time...or just for the hell of it...long gone will be the days where men will pose next to their holes while a buddy shoots the trophy for posterity. No more hundred holes a day! Pretty soon there will be a bag limit of three holes a day...5 in possesion...you willl have to buy a hole conservation stamp every year...there will be a hole awarness group for those addicted the shooting holes..and a 12 step program...maybe even a pill.

I mean really! You guys shoot at holes everywhere! ON paper...on steel...on fence posts...and even on street signs...I even heard of a guy who shot a hole in his car while he was driving...with his hunting buddy sitting next to him!

Where are the holes supposed to live? They have been shot out of every habitat on the planet...no wonder they are so elusive!

Dang! I take my hole shooting as seriouosly as the next guy...sometimes I will shoot a couple hundred a day...but I wear dark glasses and a phony mustache...so nobodoy will connect me with all the shooting.

OK...hope you liked it...have a good day!

Shane
 
I liked it Shane. Good writing. Now do you know why that hole is always ragged? Well, you would be ragged too if people were stalking and shooting at you all day, every day.

Ice :D
 
I finally had to stop shooting my SIG P229 because thats all it was good for. It would just shoot this one stupid ragged hole, then all the bullets were wasted on the landscape downrange. What a waste of money. :mad:


Ad Astra

oh- did i mention it was at 8 yds, and I only had 1 target and 1200 rounds of .40? It was a big 'ol ragged hole.... :footinmou :rolleyes: :p :footinmou

Now, my High Standard Trophy Supermatic... :D :footinmou
 
My friend Ian used to complain that a particular gun of his was so accurate it was boring; one ragged hole.

May we be so bored.


munk
 
had a model 19 smiff like that, shoot six times - one crisp hole, argue with shootin' partner over who won (loser bought beer at the amvets in decatur on the way home), had to go dig up backstop to show 'em the 6 wadcutters stuck nose to tail in the sand. next time same thing. got so no one wanted to shoot with me, cost them too much in beer, so i had to stop tellin tall tales.
 
Shane,

Thanks for the cool read. You are making me want to go shooting. Munk, true words, bro. I distinctly remember the first time I was able to put all of them into a ragged hole, kind of a zen like experience. You guys are making me want to go shoot, or at least read some of my Cooper books.

Chris
 
Along the same lines, don't get me started on shooting the breeze and shooting the bull . . .

Noah
 
We live in a world where it is both all Bull and no Bull. This makes it some bull all the time.


munk
 
By my reckoning, every gun will produce a one hole grouping at a given distance...if I use enough ammunition.
 
You guys are a trip!

Here's some more form that same thread...

I had a hard time sleeping last night cause there was this nagging thought in the back of my mind...

all these poor holes...shot dead in the prime of life...but do you EAT what you kill? but then I got to wondering...

How do you skin a hole?

...and then my laughing got to jiggling the bed...and my wife punched me in the kidney...and told me I had better shut up about the holes before SHE started shooting holes in my back side...so I had to hold real still....so them holes would not be shot at...

So I try to stop thinking about them poor holes...shot to pieces...all full of themselves....

so sad...

and still more....

someday I may write a book about holes...and the different families and genuses of holes...the A$$holes...and their scottish cousin...the arsehole...

and of course there is the well known post hole...and its distant cousin the pot hole...which we are all happy to dispatch with great prejudice for all the damage they do to our cars and trucks...nasty little holes...

but I have not embarked on this writing adventure as I have not been able to fing the appropriate opening line..which we all know is the cornerstone of fine literature...

It was the best of holes..it was the worst of holes...doesn't really ring does it?

or what about...

It had been 87 days siince the old man had shot a hole...
doesn't give me goosebump...

Maybe not a book..maybe a treatise of sorts...

We hold these holes to be self evident...

Four score and seven years ago our fore fathers brought forth upon this continent a new hole...NAHHHH!

Maybe just a bumper sticker!

I brake for holes!
Save the holes!
To each his own hole!
Keep your hole shut and drive!

NOw we are on to sumthin!


As far as the one ragged hole thing goes...

I am a purist(nose in the air)...I only shoot one hole at a time! I ain't greedy...if I do not hit the the hole exact dead center..it is not because I am a poor shot...it is because the hole moved and I was trying to lead him...holes are quick little buggers! The trick is to post five or six targets at the same time...then when he jumps from one to the next...you can follow him across the papers...that called "STRAGETY!" (thumping his melon with a finger) that's how come my targets always look like I got stringers...chasing them holes takes reflexes and stuff!

And that is how you can tell a veteran hole shooter form a rookie hole shooter...a rookie posts one target and has one hole in it...a veteran posts lots of targets and has lots of holes to show for his day at the range!

Now you know...

Shane
 
shane justice said:
You guys are a trip!

Here's some more form that same thread...

I had a hard time sleeping last night cause there was this nagging thought in the back of my mind...

all these poor holes...shot dead in the prime of life...but do you EAT what you kill? but then I got to wondering...

How do you skin a hole?

...and then my laughing got to jiggling the bed...and my wife punched me in the kidney...and told me I had better shut up about the holes before SHE started shooting holes in my back side...so I had to hold real still....so them holes would not be shot at...

So I try to stop thinking about them poor holes...shot to pieces...all full of themselves....

so sad...

and still more....

someday I may write a book about holes...and the different families and genuses of holes...the A$$holes...and their scottish cousin...the arsehole...

and of course there is the well known post hole...and its distant cousin the pot hole...which we are all happy to dispatch with great prejudice for all the damage they do to our cars and trucks...nasty little holes...

but I have not embarked on this writing adventure as I have not been able to fing the appropriate opening line..which we all know is the cornerstone of fine literature...

It was the best of holes..it was the worst of holes...doesn't really ring does it?

or what about...

It had been 87 days siince the old man had shot a hole...
doesn't give me goosebump...

Maybe not a book..maybe a treatise of sorts...

We hold these holes to be self evident...

Four score and seven years ago our fore fathers brought forth upon this continent a new hole...NAHHHH!

Maybe just a bumper sticker!

I brake for holes!
Save the holes!
To each his own hole!
Keep your hole shut and drive!

NOw we are on to sumthin!


As far as the one ragged hole thing goes...

I am a purist(nose in the air)...I only shoot one hole at a time! I ain't greedy...if I do not hit the the hole exact dead center..it is not because I am a poor shot...it is because the hole moved and I was trying to lead him...holes are quick little buggers! The trick is to post five or six targets at the same time...then when he jumps from one to the next...you can follow him across the papers...that called "STRAGETY!" (thumping his melon with a finger) that's how come my targets always look like I got stringers...chasing them holes takes reflexes and stuff!

And that is how you can tell a veteran hole shooter form a rookie hole shooter...a rookie posts one target and has one hole in it...a veteran posts lots of targets and has lots of holes to show for his day at the range!

Now you know...

Shane
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Shane -------
You hit on my second wife with several thoughts about holes in this post.
Not the least of which she was a real A$$hole as well as their Scottish cousin's the Ar$eholes.
I think her biggest problem was the size 40-G bras she filled to overflowing.:rolleyes: :grumpy:
 
Now I feel guilty for using a shotgun and shooting all those holes on my patterning board. So many holes for only one shot, they never had a chance.
 
OMG! Looks like Shane's been up to his "Shananigans" again... :D

Shane, This thread reminds me of the string of emails a year or so ago where we were discussing the finer points of mouse hunting... Food for another story post? Keep em coming, I'm laughing my Scottish Arse off!

Rick
 
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