Drgong
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What are the smells that you love about shooting...
Me, its Hoppes No 9.
Me, its Hoppes No 9.
The Smells of shooting....
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Tommygunn
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BLACKPOWDER!!!!!
scrat
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Both Black powder and smokeless.
love it kinda reminds me of the 4th of july
love it kinda reminds me of the 4th of july
woodfiend
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For me it would have to be a medley of steel, gunpowder, nitro solvent and gun oil.
scrat
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YOU GUYS HAVE TO SEE THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w
Dont you just love that smell
Victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w
Dont you just love that smell
Victory
Drgong
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Shooting as a whole.. not just when it goes bang e7
ACP230
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I like the smell of burned Unique and H4895. Burnt Bullseye ain't bad either.
Those are the powders I use most in my reloads.
The smell of the woods in the fall, especially when it contains the trace of a 20, 16 or 12 gauge No. 6 that was just fired at a grouse, is great too.
Those are the powders I use most in my reloads.
The smell of the woods in the fall, especially when it contains the trace of a 20, 16 or 12 gauge No. 6 that was just fired at a grouse, is great too.
Mark K. C.
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Opening my range bag and letting the years of shooting stuf drift into my nostrils always helps get me into focus. From old rags with some #9 on them to the guns themselves. I just can't say the same for Break Free. I like to use it but I do not like the smell.
Bigdtc
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.22 Lr
JTW Jr.
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I can handle all the smells of shooting except Wolf Ammo.
Thernlund
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I remember waaayyy back in the day. I was maybe 8 or 10. Parents sent me off to summer camp for 2 weeks.
They had archery and crafts and hiking. And shooting.
I remember going down to the range deep in the woods. Paying my few bucks (or whatever it was) for a box of .22LRs, being handed a Ruger 10/22 and shown how to use it. Walking to the line and given the go for some target practice. They had big area where you where you laid prone (that was the rule) and shot at a target about 50 yards away. I remember that it used to rain, and down in the valley where the range was a layer of mist would form. It smelled of rain and the woody outdoors. The smell of rounds being expended hung lightly in the air with the mist.
The whole experience had such a smell as to almost become a taste. A taste of solitude, of youth, of freedom.
I still remember that smell. I go north every now and then to catch a faint breath of it and remember the good days before the morning commute, the water bill, the car payment. A time when all there was was me, the rifle, the ammo box, and the target.
-T.
They had archery and crafts and hiking. And shooting.
I remember going down to the range deep in the woods. Paying my few bucks (or whatever it was) for a box of .22LRs, being handed a Ruger 10/22 and shown how to use it. Walking to the line and given the go for some target practice. They had big area where you where you laid prone (that was the rule) and shot at a target about 50 yards away. I remember that it used to rain, and down in the valley where the range was a layer of mist would form. It smelled of rain and the woody outdoors. The smell of rounds being expended hung lightly in the air with the mist.
The whole experience had such a smell as to almost become a taste. A taste of solitude, of youth, of freedom.
I still remember that smell. I go north every now and then to catch a faint breath of it and remember the good days before the morning commute, the water bill, the car payment. A time when all there was was me, the rifle, the ammo box, and the target.
-T.
45crittergitter
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Freshly fired paper shotshell hulls.....
esmith
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Im suprised no one has said cosmoline. It's how my hands smell after shooting milsurp stuff.
sm
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Young ladies that smell of , grape bubble gum, lemonade, corn dawgs, chocolate, .22 rimfire, sweat and puppy-dawgs.
Young men sporting grape mustaches, that smell of cheeseburgers, chili fries, jalapeño' peppers, .22 rimfire, sweat, puppy-dawgs and the only mud puddle to be found.
"We made our own mud puddle..."
Target boxes being burned, and later marshmellows being roasted to "neat flames and burnt".
Bug spray, sunscreen and cherry chapstick...
Smelling like wet dawgs, sweat, shotgun hulls, gunpowder...after shooting in a downpour and having a ball while getting totally soaked.
"We all look like drowned rats, and we stink"
"It sure was fun though!"
Smells of freedom and fun with good folks.
Young men sporting grape mustaches, that smell of cheeseburgers, chili fries, jalapeño' peppers, .22 rimfire, sweat, puppy-dawgs and the only mud puddle to be found.
"We made our own mud puddle..."
Target boxes being burned, and later marshmellows being roasted to "neat flames and burnt".
Bug spray, sunscreen and cherry chapstick...
Smelling like wet dawgs, sweat, shotgun hulls, gunpowder...after shooting in a downpour and having a ball while getting totally soaked.
"We all look like drowned rats, and we stink"
"It sure was fun though!"
Smells of freedom and fun with good folks.
AZAndy
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esmith has already mentioned it, but I gotta put in a plug for Cosmoline (the substance, not the THR member-- no, wait, I don't mean to denigrate Cosmoline the THR member at all, mind you, I like him just fine, but I have no idea what he smells like, um, wait a minute, I'm not saying that I'm particularly interested in what he smells like, not that I'm suggesting that he might have a particular odor or anything, though of course we all have our own particular scent due to pheromones and suchlike, and... uh... what were we talking about? Oh yeah.) When I open my safe, the Mosins render their delightful musty "I'm a really old gun that has been slathered in a preservative substance, and I'm gonna make you pick me up and pay attention to me by wafting that aroma towards your nose and heart" smell. I've cleaned 'em and cleaned 'em and it never goes away, and I think they like it that way.
Titegroup has a nice smell, too, beats the heck out of the catpee aroma of Romanian surplus 7.62x25 powder, lemme tell ya.
Hoppes #9, too, blends well with anything and everything except my girlfriend. I think she was nose-damaged as a child, though, so it's probably not her fault. After all, she likes the smell of sandalwood, and we all know that's not right.
A.
Titegroup has a nice smell, too, beats the heck out of the catpee aroma of Romanian surplus 7.62x25 powder, lemme tell ya.
Hoppes #9, too, blends well with anything and everything except my girlfriend. I think she was nose-damaged as a child, though, so it's probably not her fault. After all, she likes the smell of sandalwood, and we all know that's not right.
A.
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Bud Tugly
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I second the smell of fresh-fired paper shells. I used to sniff them after firing, and the plastic shells just aren't the same.
Also, the sweet musty smell of the woods in late fall, when most of the leaves are down and starting to decompose. Especially sweet-smelling when there are lots of maple trees and it has been raining for a few days before.
Also, the sweet musty smell of the woods in late fall, when most of the leaves are down and starting to decompose. Especially sweet-smelling when there are lots of maple trees and it has been raining for a few days before.
WinchesterAA
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acp230 nailed it.. That's the best smell ever.
Second only to the smell of the duck, deer, squirrel, etc etc frying.. I don't think we get grouse down here.
Second only to the smell of the duck, deer, squirrel, etc etc frying.. I don't think we get grouse down here.
esmith
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That was really funny for some reason.
tbtrout
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First volley of fire on qual day. When it mixed with the smell of the salt marsh it was intoxicating.
Mrs. Armoredman
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We could get rich selling shooting smell #5. I can smell it now.
Hardtarget
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If you can get that "shooting smell #5" in a air freshner for my truck...I'm in...send me a box!
Mark.
I like the smell of leather holsters and the slight squeak of a rifle sling.
Mark.
I like the smell of leather holsters and the slight squeak of a rifle sling.
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