The Official Nerf Thread

[Phantasee]

I wonder if a anyone has ever done the opposite of you Tim, and tricked out their actual rifle to look more Nerf-like (bright blue and yellow stocks/grips/etc).

[Aaron]

Yup. Look up Hello Kitty AR15

[Aaron]

[Aaron]

I've seen others with bright colours but I can't recall were.

[Phantasee]

Yeah I mean specifically NERF-like, not just bright colours.

[Phantasee]

Orange mag, tip, blue stock, etc

[Count Chocula]

Well, there are the various examples of LadySmith-ery:

although this one looks like a Colt Detective Special.

Tasers tend to be fluorescent yellow or lime green IIRC, but they aren't guns. Guns are SRS BZNZ and are colored SRSLY unless you're some kinda artsy-fartsy wierdo.

EDIT I think it says "Smith & Wesson" on the barrel, so example present.

[Aaron]

I like it,it brings people into the sport.

[Aaron]

The gun world is deeply conservative. Its quite fucked.

[Darksi4190]

I suppose it'd depend on where you shoot. That indoor pistol range my friends and I went to had a pretty normal atmosphere, so I doubt a Hello Kitty gun would get more than a few chuckles.

The outdoor range we went to yesterday was in a more "rural" area, and was what my friend Allen described as a "Bubba Range." The crowd there was decidedly....... stranger than the other one. I think you'd get a few looks or insults there.

[Oxymoron]

When I was doing archery, our instructor's car had a Zebra paintjob, with a plastic zebra glued on the car's body in a Spirit of Ecstasy impression.

He was a pretty cool guy.

[Phantasee]

i think it makes sense that you wouldn't see a rifle painted up like a toy nerf gun

guns can actually kill you

black is a sombre reminder of this fact

[Aaron]

I suppose it'd depend on where you shoot. That indoor pistol range my friends and I went to had a pretty normal atmosphere, so I doubt a Hello Kitty gun would get more than a few chuckles.

The outdoor range we went to yesterday was in a more "rural" area, and was what my friend Allen described as a "Bubba Range." The crowd there was decidedly....... stranger than the other one. I think you'd get a few looks or insults there.

How's your shoulder?

[Darksi4190]

Purple

[Aaron]

Excellent. And you doubled up your ear protection?

[Darksi4190]

Yeah. No ringing this time, even though the guns were certainly louder. Although this one time Eric (another friend of ours) Fired some sort of Glock pistol less than 3 feet away from me without any warning so that startled me a bit.

[timmy]

Go out shooting with my uncle, the collector: plugs. Go out shooting with my brother-in-law, the farmer: no plugs, overloaded rounds.

[Darksi4190]

Overloaded?

[Oxymoron]

At a guess, too much powder in the manually-loaded cartridge ?

[Count Chocula]

++P++ 9 mil. Pour the powder in that .303 case to the neck and stuff in a bullet! YeeeHHAAAWWW! or the Australian equivalent.

Collectors here in the US tend to fire "Cowboy" loads.

[Aaron]

Those are all low powered right?

I'm hesitant to exceed the max load listed for my .30-30, even though Marlin makes a solid gun. Would suck to have invested all that money in reloading and then blow my face off.


My 77/44 might be ok, bolt actions are inherently stronger then levers.

[timmy]

Okay, so who in North America goes into Walmart regularly enough to tell me if they're selling these and how much for

[Comrade Pollux]

The few Wal-Marts I've been in recently have been selling them, for $30 - $40, I believe.

[timmy]

Hmmm. I can get a US spec delivered for that much. Thanks for the info though!

[timmy]

OR CAN I?

Amazon is being a shit

Who might be inclined to help a brother out? By which I mean letting me know postage and giving me your paypal/bank details so I can throw trust at you in the form of currency.