"Couple tips about the gun"

One of the groomsmen at the wedding bought toy guns for all of the groomsmen for some joke pictures. The groom said at one point we looked like James Bond in our black suits, so... guns for pictures.

Anyway, they shoot these little plastic BBs. Not the metal-ish ones like when we were kids. So when I got back to my hotel room, I, like ANY guy would, played with my gun. I learned some things, which I text-messaged to the others, just to prevent them from learning the hard way like myself. Among those tips:

1) Don't shoot at anything perpendicularly, as it will bounce right back at you

2) Don't shoot at anything glass, as it WILL break

And just so you know this isn't a stupid Shawn thing, but rather a stupid guy thing, the groom added to the list:

3) Don't shoot yourself in the foot to see if it hurts, because it does


AFTER (instead of before... again, it's a guy thing) I had my unfortunate incident with the hotel glass, I read the manual. Some of those same warnings are there, though they are worded differently. They specifically warn about bounce-back. And shooting at living things. Except you can tell the manual was translated from non-English as it says "do not shoot at the creature", with an image of a person next to that statement. Funny.

Also interesting was the performance stats... 65 foot range and a projectile velocity of 190 feet per second (more than a hundred miles per hour). For comparison purposes, a 9mm shoots up close to a thousand feet per second. So, almost 1/5 the speed of a real bullet, not too shabby. Had I seen that little stat before I started "playing", probably I don't then shoot at the glass.

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