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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 8:38:22 GMT 12
I've just read what seems obvious now; spent shell casings are a useful source of brass for making stuff.
I'm not a shooter myself, but if anyone is I'd sure appreciate some of your spent cartridges.
I should probably have posted this in "Swap Shop"; if you want to send me some I'll happily swap for something, or send you a postage paid bag to send them back to me.
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 8:43:02 GMT 12
my mummy taught me never to play with guns
the only gun we have is an old slug gun which we use in the backyard to shoot cotton buds out of. We used to use it inside until my son embedded a cotton bud in the doorframe from across the room... we figured it was maybe a little more powerful with that kind of ammmunition than we first thought and banished it to outside. Unfortunately for you cotton buds don't leave behind a brass shell
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 8:56:07 GMT 12
Wow! that sounds like a hell of a slug gun.
My kid brother used to live over here, and him and his mates were into getting cammed up and running round the woods shooting each other with bb guns. I went a couple of times and man those guns can hurt!
When he went back home, he gave (read:sold) me one of his guns, and it won't even fire the length of my garden! ;D
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 9:17:54 GMT 12
it's just a spring powered slug un I think it is because the cotton buds actually create a decent air seal without offering the same kind of resistence that a lead pellet would. We kind of have a rule that you load from the barrel end rather than the spring end and they're a bit safer.... ah this comeing from a mother who swore her boys would never play with guns. I even used to take away their gun shaped twigs and lego creations. Did the whole 'we don't shoot people and guns are not toys' thing. made them watch news, taught them that guns are real and dangerous and blah blah blah kids will be kids and boys will be boys and I kind of enjoy shooting the apples on my tree  |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 9:31:01 GMT 12
You must be a pretty cool mother!
I can just imagine the conversation in my house when I was a nipper;
"Mam, will you grind up this cork tile in your food mixer, then paint it and bake it in one of your cake tins?"
<smack!>
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Post by Fatrix on Feb 3, 2005 17:26:23 GMT 12
go to your local small bore rifle club. they'll have a billion .22 shells to give away. (unless they home load, snobs).
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 18:20:55 GMT 12
yeah, I thought I might try all the local gun shops too, put an ad in theri windows or something.
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 19:01:19 GMT 12
oddly enough we still actually have a gun shop here. Though I'm wondering how much longer before they start to serve coffee on the side?
For those of you who do not know Petone... we must have the highest coffee shops per capita in the entire world. seriously every second shop is a coffee shop! and teh rest inbetween are secondhand furniture or fancy interior decorator shops
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 19:59:00 GMT 12
...and most of the shops which aren't coffee shops actually sell cofee aswell!
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 20:02:20 GMT 12
yup, we must be the most caffienated town in the whole world. And scary thing is, I don't think I am exaggerating either.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 20:06:47 GMT 12
I think you're right - I remember reading some statistic, not necessarily the world but I think we do have the most coffee shops per head, or per shop in the country.
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