A good firearm/TV related story.
When I was a kid probably 7 or 8 we were at my uncles house. There was my 3 younger male cousins, me and my two younger sisters. The house was laid out so one could go from the living room, to the kitchen/dining room, down a hall to the bedrooms and back into the living room. A loop as it were. Well my uncle, my dad and my grandfather were sitting in the living room watching an old western movie. Us 6 kids were chasing each other around the loop.
My uncle had just finished cleaning his 22 semi auto, I of course don't recall the make or model but I'm pretty certain it was an auto.
Anyhow, I didn't hear it of course but my dad told me my uncle made the comment that the next time the bad guy came on he was gonna drill him. He then apparently dropped the slide (we all know what that does) and shot a hole dead center of the tv. The world stopped, all of us kids froze like stop action.
To my uncles credit he drilled the bad guy dead center proper. I happened to be entering the living room at the shot and saw the results first hand. For a couple seconds everything was fine, then the picture sucked into the hole and went away. Of course everyone in shock and mom, aunt and grandma extremely not happy.
While this is going on suddenly the picture came back out of the hole and worked perfectly as before. They had to replace the glass front but apparently it didn't damage the picture tube. They watched that tv for many years after that.
Years later my uncle got out of guns, he didn't have many. I bought most of them but didn't get that 22 whatever it was.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."