Friggen Smart of Me...

[x101airborne]

Feb 8, 2024 13:34:01 GMT -5 hunter966 said:

You should’ve just grabbed her and pulled her in close and started hugging her to pieces, then said go make me a sammich dear! Womens like that kind of attention. LOL

Yall would find me in a seedy hotel bathtub of ice missing a kidney after that. LOL.

[x101airborne]

Feb 8, 2024 14:37:21 GMT -5 squawberryman said:

I stuck a Wichester 100 308 barrel six inches underwater to kill a moccasin that was pinned under my left foot, not by design. The barrel did not split but it did seem as though the whole earth did.

WHOOOO LORDY!! I BET!!

[brant]

I short one across the pond with a 300 hollow point from a 45/70 contender. He looked like an army helmet sitting over there. After recoil I remember thinking I had missed and he made it into the water, until the pieces stated planning down. Pop was watching and said he just disappeared with the boom!

Before his eyes went bad on him he was a fine shot with rifle or handgun. He took a cooters head off so fast and neat with ruger security six. I thought he had missed, the body never moved from the stump. Love shooting cooters.

[brant]

I short one across the pond with a 300 hollow point from a 45/70 contender. He looked like an army helmet sitting over there. After recoil I remember thinking I had missed and he made it into the water, until the pieces stated planning down. Pop was watching and said he just disappeared with the boom!

Before his eyes went bad on him he was a fine shot with rifle or handgun. He took a cooters head off so fast and neat with ruger security six. I thought he had missed, the body never moved from the stump. Love shooting cooters.

[x101airborne]

I didn't know they were called "cooters". I thought yall were talking about wives there for a minute.

[revolvercranker]

I guess my stupid and irresponsible thing to is when I shot an oxygen bottle laying next to a creek while I was sitting on the railroad rail on a little trestle across that creek. Was about 50 yard shot. Squeeze the trigger and BOOM! I thought my world had ended! All I saw, and felt, was orange and black. The black was the creek mud. I hunched over my rifle to keep the mud off it and I thought it was never going to end coming down. When it was all over I looked where the bottle was and there was a fog there. Then it cleared and the bottle was gone! Well went down to see what had happened and the creek was just clearing up as it had muddies the water. Lo and behold there was that bottle intact. I pulled it out of the creek with much effort as it was full of water. There was a perfect round 2.5 inch hold right were I had aimed which which was near the top below where the bottle necked up. They had stamped on it "Shatter Proof". Yup they were right about that! My name that day was Forrest Gump!

[brant]

Feb 8, 2024 16:47:12 GMT -5 revolvercranker said:

I guess my stupid and irresponsible thing to is when I shot an oxygen bottle laying next to a creek while I was sitting on the railroad rail on a little trestle across that creek. Was about 50 yard shot. Squeeze the trigger and BOOM! I thought my world had ended! All I saw, and felt, was orange and black. The black was the creek mud. I hunched over my rifle to keep the mud off it and I thought it was never going to end coming down. When it was all over I looked where the bottle was and there was a fog there. Then it cleared and the bottle was gone! Well went down to see what had happened and the creek was just clearing up as it had muddies the water. Lo and behold there was that bottle intact. I pulled it out of the creek with much effort as it was full of water. There was a perfect round 2.5 inch hold right were I had aimed which which was near the top below where the bottle necked up. They had stamped on it "Shatter Proof". Yup they were right about that! My name that day was Forrest Gump!

I normally call her “Yes Ma’am”

[x101airborne]

Feb 8, 2024 16:47:12 GMT -5 revolvercranker said:

I guess my stupid and irresponsible thing to is when I shot an oxygen bottle laying next to a creek while I was sitting on the railroad rail on a little trestle across that creek. Was about 50 yard shot. Squeeze the trigger and BOOM! I thought my world had ended! All I saw, and felt, was orange and black. The black was the creek mud. I hunched over my rifle to keep the mud off it and I thought it was never going to end coming down. When it was all over I looked where the bottle was and there was a fog there. Then it cleared and the bottle was gone! Well went down to see what had happened and the creek was just clearing up as it had muddies the water. Lo and behold there was that bottle intact. I pulled it out of the creek with much effort as it was full of water. There was a perfect round 2.5 inch hold right were I had aimed which which was near the top below where the bottle necked up. They had stamped on it "Shatter Proof". Yup they were right about that! My name that day was Forrest Gump!

Working a shutdown on an offshore oil rig one of the guys put an oxygen cylinder in a joint of casing and knocked the valve of it off with a sledge hammer. Put on quite the show! Unfortunately he got fired for that stunt. 

[bigbore5]

Prepping oil rigs for a hurricane, we would use a rigging ax to knock the valves off bottles setting along the side of the deck. They'd shoot off the platform and take off in the water before sinking. Never knew where they'd go, but it was too expensive to get them back to shore and, if left on the rig, they could cause real damage. Illegal to dump them full.

[messybear]

Feb 8, 2024 14:37:21 GMT -5 squawberryman said:

I stuck a Wichester 100 308 barrel six inches underwater to kill a moccasin that was pinned under my left foot, not by design. The barrel did not split but it did seem as though the whole earth did.

Woah I bet! Thats crazy!
Lots of “goo” times shooting stuff too close. It’s a practical joke that my “friends” and I practice.
Once I did it to myself with a prairie dog that came up close as I was laying on a dike berm. Had a 44 mag with hollow points and the wind was coming back at me. Kind of dumb

[gnappi]

Feb 8, 2024 5:48:30 GMT -5 x101airborne said:

My Dad has a hard time getting around. Hard for him to walk anymore but we still ride the ranch in the John Deere Gators. It is good to get him out of the house and give him a proper opportunity to evaluate the ranch, the cattle, tell me every-stinking-thing I am doing wrong in my life; you know, Dad Time.  

>>SNIP<<

  Ha, THAT brings back fond memories of my dad. Someday hopefully much later you'll look on these times in a very warm light, I do. 

RIP Pop.

[reflex264]

Now that is funny!

[leadhound]

Yep, ol man popped a skunk upwind of us never seen one spray so much! Me and him had more than one "bath" out of that water hose at the well pump over the years. Lot of words get muttered when gettin sprayed with that cold cold water.

[aciera]

If you don’t have stories like that…..you haven’t lived.

And the posters on this thread ……..had a perfect mental picture of every moment.

You could almost smell that turtle with your telling.

[Burnston]

What you've described is a perfect example of rural Texas family bliss. I suppose you, your father, and your wife can watch tv together instead of interacting, but I think you've got the best of it, turtle guts notwithstanding.