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Participantwhat’s the shortest LEGAL barrel you can put on a shotgun in CA?
I have a semi-auto Browning B-80 that I would like to buy a short barrel for, with a much wider shot pattern for close-in home defense purposes.
I think that B-80 has something like a 28″ original barrel on it now.
Yes i do agree that the 3″ Mag 12-gauge shells really do kick! I used to go hunting with three guys and for fun i would sometimes put some 3″ Mag shells packed with BB shot into my gun, and use the tight choke.
This was great when a very close – flushed pheasant would rattle the nerves of my hunting buddies so they would each take a shot and miss the bird. I would hold back and watch that show as the bird flew away
After the bird got by their nervous misses and reached about 50 yards, they would give up trying to down it with their #5 shot (0.110 dia.)
Then I would fire off a round of 3″ Mag with BB shot (0.18″ dia) at the bird. Often that would bring down a rooster flying straightaway even at a range of 60 yards. It would also put a bruise on my shoulder. Damn, those shells kicked. And my hunting buddies would usually look at me and say, “shit! What the hell you got loaded in that gun?”
Also, during the game dinners, when my buddies chewed into bird meat and bit down upon shot that turned out to be BB-sized, it settled arguments real fast over who shot which birds!
Participantwhat’s the shortest LEGAL barrel you can put on a shotgun in CA?
I have a semi-auto Browning B-80 that I would like to buy a short barrel for, with a much wider shot pattern for close-in home defense purposes.
I think that B-80 has something like a 28″ original barrel on it now.
Yes i do agree that the 3″ Mag 12-gauge shells really do kick! I used to go hunting with three guys and for fun i would sometimes put some 3″ Mag shells packed with BB shot into my gun, and use the tight choke.
This was great when a very close – flushed pheasant would rattle the nerves of my hunting buddies so they would each take a shot and miss the bird. I would hold back and watch that show as the bird flew away
After the bird got by their nervous misses and reached about 50 yards, they would give up trying to down it with their #5 shot (0.110 dia.)
Then I would fire off a round of 3″ Mag with BB shot (0.18″ dia) at the bird. Often that would bring down a rooster flying straightaway even at a range of 60 yards. It would also put a bruise on my shoulder. Damn, those shells kicked. And my hunting buddies would usually look at me and say, “shit! What the hell you got loaded in that gun?”
Also, during the game dinners, when my buddies chewed into bird meat and bit down upon shot that turned out to be BB-sized, it settled arguments real fast over who shot which birds!
ParticipantUmemployment in CA now stands at 7.7% (aug)…and this recession is just getting started. Not a very rosy picture developing here.
Makes one wonder WHAT level will it crest at during this recession/depression!
ParticipantUmemployment in CA now stands at 7.7% (aug)…and this recession is just getting started. Not a very rosy picture developing here.
Makes one wonder WHAT level will it crest at during this recession/depression!
ParticipantUmemployment in CA now stands at 7.7% (aug)…and this recession is just getting started. Not a very rosy picture developing here.
Makes one wonder WHAT level will it crest at during this recession/depression!
ParticipantUmemployment in CA now stands at 7.7% (aug)…and this recession is just getting started. Not a very rosy picture developing here.
Makes one wonder WHAT level will it crest at during this recession/depression!
ParticipantUmemployment in CA now stands at 7.7% (aug)…and this recession is just getting started. Not a very rosy picture developing here.
Makes one wonder WHAT level will it crest at during this recession/depression!
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ParticipantUPDATE: I get some follow-up information that this confidence SCAM may involve illicit participation by actual US government officials. Be on the lookout for bald, cheezy-looking con men wearing pin striped suits. If seen, call the police. Hide your money.
ParticipantUPDATE: I get some follow-up information that this confidence SCAM may involve illicit participation by actual US government officials. Be on the lookout for bald, cheezy-looking con men wearing pin striped suits. If seen, call the police. Hide your money.
ParticipantUPDATE: I get some follow-up information that this confidence SCAM may involve illicit participation by actual US government officials. Be on the lookout for bald, cheezy-looking con men wearing pin striped suits. If seen, call the police. Hide your money.
ParticipantUPDATE: I get some follow-up information that this confidence SCAM may involve illicit participation by actual US government officials. Be on the lookout for bald, cheezy-looking con men wearing pin striped suits. If seen, call the police. Hide your money.
ParticipantHere’s my funny story about asking for two months off.
My boss didn’t much care for me. I worked for a global mobile phone handset provider with an R&D center in San Diego.
It was a slow time for engineering at our R&D center; i figured good time to ask for a sabatical. I was a principle staff engr so had earned it.
I asked my boss, “I would really like to take eight weeks off for a trip through Europe that my wife and I have been dreaming about for ten years. I’m giving you a couple months advance notice. You’re such a great boss, I really do appreciate your consideration of this request” *SMOOCH* *SMOOCH* …gratuitous ass kissing
He says, “NOPE! We are so busy. Sorry. We need you so much. We cannot afford to have you away for two full months”
Now, Piggington readers, are you ready for the ironic punch line that God bestowed upon this absurd scene?
A few weeks later the GM of that R&D center announces,
“All twelve hundred of you are laid off in ninety days. Now we cutting the center down to five hundred jobs, so this means we’ll have a free-for-all where you all scramble and scrap by re-applying for those five hundred remaining jobs. Sounds like fun, eh? Ready, Set, Go!”
So I had three months left of work, and ZERO job security.
I walked in my boss’ office and said, “You know that two month vacation request of mine you rejected? Well, I’m TAKING IT. All eight weeks.”
He says, “It doesn’t sound like you are ASKING my permission?”
I say, “I’m not.”
He says, “Well, I guess that’s OK for you to go for the two months! What am i gonna do after all, lay you off TWICE?”
(He had gotten his own walking papers himself, and in fact turned out did NOT get one of the five hundred remaining jobs.)
Now I am implying that I went ahead and enjoyed two months backpacking in Europe while I should have been searching for my next job, since I only had a few weeks remaining once back from vacation before getting laid off…ahh but I did have several months severance pay coming…it all worked out in the end. Found a job up in the Bay Area.
ParticipantHere’s my funny story about asking for two months off.
My boss didn’t much care for me. I worked for a global mobile phone handset provider with an R&D center in San Diego.
It was a slow time for engineering at our R&D center; i figured good time to ask for a sabatical. I was a principle staff engr so had earned it.
I asked my boss, “I would really like to take eight weeks off for a trip through Europe that my wife and I have been dreaming about for ten years. I’m giving you a couple months advance notice. You’re such a great boss, I really do appreciate your consideration of this request” *SMOOCH* *SMOOCH* …gratuitous ass kissing
He says, “NOPE! We are so busy. Sorry. We need you so much. We cannot afford to have you away for two full months”
Now, Piggington readers, are you ready for the ironic punch line that God bestowed upon this absurd scene?
A few weeks later the GM of that R&D center announces,
“All twelve hundred of you are laid off in ninety days. Now we cutting the center down to five hundred jobs, so this means we’ll have a free-for-all where you all scramble and scrap by re-applying for those five hundred remaining jobs. Sounds like fun, eh? Ready, Set, Go!”
So I had three months left of work, and ZERO job security.
I walked in my boss’ office and said, “You know that two month vacation request of mine you rejected? Well, I’m TAKING IT. All eight weeks.”
He says, “It doesn’t sound like you are ASKING my permission?”
I say, “I’m not.”
He says, “Well, I guess that’s OK for you to go for the two months! What am i gonna do after all, lay you off TWICE?”
(He had gotten his own walking papers himself, and in fact turned out did NOT get one of the five hundred remaining jobs.)
Now I am implying that I went ahead and enjoyed two months backpacking in Europe while I should have been searching for my next job, since I only had a few weeks remaining once back from vacation before getting laid off…ahh but I did have several months severance pay coming…it all worked out in the end. Found a job up in the Bay Area.
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