by Psyloche » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:21 pm
The shortened barrel ive got nothing against, but id prefer keeping the stock, since any shotgun of today can be used as an hand held weapon anyway, but an solid stock could also double as close combat weapon. My fathers 20 gauge shotgun (yes, an farmer Bill gun) got slightly too long barrel to be an perfect street gun, but an 50 cm thing with an pump mechanism pointing directly outwards dont look good, when the user flails it around by the recoil, its even missing solid hand grip, since its an pump gun.
Compared, the "bob" gun of my father, is an semi automatic 7 shot mag gun, who means if i used it, id need an bigger space to aim, but had semi automatic firing, and id shoot shots fast, and had better aiming when my hand grip is solid and not moving. Reloading it should be quite fast, even if i cant imagine any living target requiring more than 7 shots (exacly atm the gun is resting outside my bedroom, he he, think im sleeping safe).
In the hands of my father, he'd be able to aim superb at moving targets with good aim, if some crackpot desided to break into an house of an family known for having most members being exellent hunters, and many training karate/tae kwon do.
What more special, is the hunter rifles the locals "bob" farmers use for moose hunt, is using same bullet as an kalashinkov or M16, exept the hunting rifle got quite good aim, and extreme longer range, specially compared to kalashinkov (and twice the amount of explosive propelling it).
Norway is quite unusual, in some ways. Its an living hunting tradition who go long back, and i only know of some native american's who got more traditions for it. Its also hunt for FOOD, not for trophies, so its maybe more guns here than is reguar in USA, but, the violence is lower. The regual "farmer bob's" also serve in the army, and got both hunting and army experience, usually, im just one of the few who havent army experience (i got an slightly lower hearing on some frequencies, so i got judged as unfit to serve army duty, and sent home).
The other difference: self defense weaponry is not legal. its no way at all anyone here is getting an gun for self defense purposes. But aquiring hunting rifles is legal. The american way of guns is so alien its almost as weird for most here to hear from africans buying M16's and chase lions and hyenas (an guy here, somalian refugee, have chased predators with plain automatic weaponry, as those in the vid. ).
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