fidelis
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01 Jun 2010, 8:34 pm
I used to love making explosives. After so long though, people started getting the impression that I might be a terrorist, so I had to stop. I still do little things here in there, but there is nothing like seeing 12 hydrogen balloons just barely hold up a cake with twelve candles. Did I leave a bad impression again? 
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01 Jun 2010, 11:48 pm
fidelis wrote:
I used to love making explosives. After so long though, people started getting the impression that I might be a terrorist, so I had to stop. I still do little things here in there, but there is nothing like seeing 12 hydrogen balloons just barely hold up a cake with twelve candles. Did I leave a bad impression again?
I did that too until some idiot started driving around town throwing bombs of a similar design out of a car window so I had to stop. I had a pretty cool little design too. It was really loud for it's size and it directed the bulk of the blast straight up and down so it didn't break windows.
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02 Jun 2010, 6:39 am
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02 Jun 2010, 12:59 pm
02 Jun 2010, 1:10 pm
fidelis wrote:
I used to love making explosives. After so long though, people started getting the impression that I might be a terrorist, so I had to stop. I still do little things here in there, but there is nothing like seeing 12 hydrogen balloons just barely hold up a cake with twelve candles. Did I leave a bad impression again?
I have a similar interest in weapon technology, particularly in nuclear, chemical, biological and autonomous weapons. Does that make me look evil
02 Jun 2010, 1:17 pm
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
I'd prefer to use a rifle at long range, but for close quarters I think bladed weapons are a better solution since they need no reloading.
No even sub-machine guns with 40 round clips
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02 Jun 2010, 4:00 pm
01001011 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
I'd prefer to use a rifle at long range, but for close quarters I think bladed weapons are a better solution since they need no reloading.
No even sub-machine guns with 40 round clips
Machine guns are a waste of otherwise more effectively used ammunition.
02 Jun 2010, 5:32 pm
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
01001011 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
I'd prefer to use a rifle at long range, but for close quarters I think bladed weapons are a better solution since they need no reloading.
No even sub-machine guns with 40 round clips
Machine guns are a waste of otherwise more effectively used ammunition.
Oh gee. So I shoot a few dollars worth of bullets.
That is a small price to save my life and the lives of my family.
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02 Jun 2010, 8:45 pm
Wombat wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
01001011 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
I'd prefer to use a rifle at long range, but for close quarters I think bladed weapons are a better solution since they need no reloading.
No even sub-machine guns with 40 round clips
Machine guns are a waste of otherwise more effectively used ammunition.
Oh gee. So I shoot a few dollars worth of bullets.
That is a small price to save my life and the lives of my family.
I still rather go by the "one shot, one kill" approach, if possible. And also, in close quarters combat with your family around, multiple shots increase the probability of ricochet with undesired vectors. Hence another reason for my preference of blade usage in such a situation. However, if I were to use a firearm, I'd prefer a .22 since the recoil is minimal enough to allow for proper aiming.
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02 Jun 2010, 10:14 pm
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
However, if I were to use a firearm, I'd prefer a .22 since the recoil is minimal enough to allow for proper aiming.
Wow, you're a manly man!
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02 Jun 2010, 10:45 pm
John_Browning wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
However, if I were to use a firearm, I'd prefer a .22 since the recoil is minimal enough to allow for proper aiming.
Wow, you're a manly man! I've used a Colt 1911 .45 at the shooting range (my bachelor's party was going to a shooting range, actually) and it is exactly like what one WWII vet I talked with said, "It can kill anything, but it is only accurate to about ten feet in front of you"... but even back when I was 15 I was able to hit a bullseye at 50 yards with a .22 pistol, so I like them. I also like the .177 Crossman 750, but if you were to kill someone with those you'd have to aim for the sides of the neck. Currently, my favorite rifle is a Remington 700 .223 caliber with which I was able to hit a five inch diameter grouping about 3" to the lower right of bullseye at an hundred yards.
But, what do you mean about "manly man"?
04 Jun 2010, 7:06 pm
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
John_Browning wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
However, if I were to use a firearm, I'd prefer a .22 since the recoil is minimal enough to allow for proper aiming.
Wow, you're a manly man! I've used a Colt 1911 .45 at the shooting range (my bachelor's party was going to a shooting range, actually) and it is exactly like what one WWII vet I talked with said, "It can kill anything, but it is only accurate to about ten feet in front of you"... but even back when I was 15 I was able to hit a bullseye at 50 yards with a .22 pistol, so I like them. I also like the .177 Crossman 750, but if you were to kill someone with those you'd have to aim for the sides of the neck. Currently, my favorite rifle is a Remington 700 .223 caliber with which I was able to hit a five inch diameter grouping about 3" to the lower right of bullseye at an hundred yards.
But, what do you mean about "manly man"?
He's just joking that BS about smaller calibers being for sissies.
In the house, you are fighting 0-10 feet. Something like a Saiga-410 or an AR-15 with frangible ammo is your best bet.
I'm not that big on knives except in places where they are all you can have.
04 Jun 2010, 7:21 pm
