Originally Posted by
SquidPuppet
My Dad is a Korean war Vet. When I was a little kid we'd go camping in the CA/AZ/NV desert and do a lot of target shooting. Before we'd leave we would make a zillion water balloons and put them in a 55 gallon drum. When we got to the desert we'd leave them outside over the first night and they'd freeze solid. We hung them up on a sawhorse using clothes pins. March 100 yards away and blast them. They shattered nicely.
One of my favorite sounds was that TWANG when the clip ejected. I used to tell my Dad how much I dug the sound. He told me it was one of his least favorite sounds. I had to think about that for a while before it made sense to me.
One of the most fun shooting sessions was shooting at icecicles on a cliff face with a Garand from long range. 06 makes such a nice twack! on impact, and the large icecicles falling was sweet. The memory is amplified since I was doing this with a best friend who was an Army doctor who died of MS with 5 kids, his youngest daughter was 2.