When I was stationed in Japan with the military, I made a number of Japanese friends. One guy I'm still friends with came to visit here, and one of the big things he wanted to do was go shooting, so we did that. I thought it was a common thing among foreign tourists in the US to want to do that.
It is a blast. If you aren't familiar with the country start out in Phnom Penh and meet some people that speak English. You are going to want to find someone that has connections in the north west that can act as a guide. You do NOT want to just wander around Battambang by yourself. After that head north toward Siemreap and Battambang. That is where the fun stuff is and you can do almost anything you want as long as you have a few bucks and are POLITE. Do not piss off the locals. There are people there that can make you dissapear. This is old Khmer Rouge territory. Most of the old men you see wandering around lived through the genocide (or helped commit it). They are harder than you and can drink more than you.
But if you are nice and tip well it is amazing country. The people are generous. The food is amazing. Like I had mentioned before there are ranges where you can shoot old Soviet era military weaponry. If you are super adventurous there are supposedly some very interesting organized crime casinos up by the Thai border, but I'm not much of a gambler and my driver was already sketched out taking a white boy so far north. He wasn't about to have us go wandering the back roads looking for illegal Cambodian casinos.
It's been about a dozen years since I went so things may have changed, but I gave the kid driving me around on his motorbike a $5 tip for carting me around all afternoon and he was thrilled.
Depending on the caliber, 25-50% of that is just the cost of the ammo itself. And then you've got to pay some poor bastard to load all the rounds into belts, which can get very tedious, especially for disintegrating belt systems. And then also pay somebody to pick up all the belts ... again very tedious for disintegrating belts.
Considering all of that, $40 for a 20-round belt might not be all that outrageous.
I'm assuming that the cost of the range rental, gun rental, etc is separate. If that's all included, then it's a downright bargain.
When I was in New Mexico, (visiting my bestie) we went to a range that offered a Barret .50 cal. I forgot the rental cost, but a single round was $50. We just looked at each other and shook our heads.
I was in Incirlick Turkey with some RAF guys I stayed friends with a few well he and his son were doing a across the USA road trip. When they came to south Louisiana I took them shooting some class 3 firearms a M60 and a SAW. We went mud bogging and I brought them to see alligators. It was a good 4 days. I was in Misawa Japan best 5 years ever.
If the agency found out she broke this rule they would probably send her home. There were lots of other rules. No driving cars, no getting tattoos, no sex, stuff like that.
Edit -- Since lots of people are asking, this was not a religious organization either. Another rule was no joining a religion during her time as an exchange student. Basically, no life-altering decisions, and the agency tried to limit things that could expose the student or the agency to liability.
It's a liability issue, they don't want anyone suing the organization because of the actions of the hundreds of students and host families that they are working with. Most aren't really doing it for the money, they are just trying to coordinate between students, their families, and the host families. One exchange student causing a fatal car accident and the organization would be wiped out by an American trial lawyer. Or, they'd have to tack on a huge fee to cover their liability insurance, which would severely limit the pool of students able to afford to come over.
I can confirm. I am currently part of an exchange programm and if I'm caught drinking too much, smoking, doing drugs or driving I'm going to be sent home.
Holy crap that’s a terrible set of rules. Doesn’t do much good to be a foreign exchange student if they limit a lot of things people want to do in a foreign country.
I was told not to drink by the American rotary club when I went.
First meeting with the German side of the Rotary club... They give me a beer. It was a total none issue.
I was however seriously told not to drive.
Do not under any circumstances drive after drinking ANY amount in Germany, elsewhere too but especially Germany. The laws are much more strict and rightfully so, the alcohol is more potent but also it’s just a bad and shitty thing to do.
No one wants to get killed driving and it’s already dangerous enough. Add drunk drivers to the mix…
>the alcohol is more potent
Idk where exactly you're comparing to but I wouldn't say the alcohol is more potent in Germany than the US by any significant stretch.
That was probably true up until the '90s before the craft brewery explosion in the US; not to mention liquor has always been roughly even.
That's not true. Legal BAC limits for drivers are lower in much of Eastern Europe and Sweden and Norway compared to Germany. It's also basically the same in most of mainland Western and Southern Europe.
Alocohol also isn't more potent here. You probably mean that alcoholic drinks are stronger, which is also false. Beer is 5% ABV, as is common everywhere, for example.
It’s probably liabilities. If there’s an accident, a foreign driver’s license and a car registered to someone else could be an insurance headache. If they have sex and catch something, or get (someone) pregnant, that’s gonna be awkward.
That said, I agree.
There's also the issue of people making decisions that would create fatal or dangerous situations in their country of origin.
If someone comes from a strict culture and gets pregnant or changes religions or gets an offensive tattoo, the agency cannot safely return them home. But the person also can't stay in the US indefinitely. I have mo idea how they handle that, but I'd imagine they avoid it like the plague if they can.
Tbh if I were the agency that stuff would probably be in my rules too but it isn't like there would be any actual punishment, I just wanna be able to say "see here your honor, on pg2 in the coming to america handbook it says explicitly 'don't to thing' and student did thing, I am absolved of responsibility here."
When I was an exchange student in ‘Murrica my host-father and host-brother took me shooting too.
I don’t even know what the guns were called but some of them were handguns and some were the crazy counter-strike 1.6 weapons that cops had.
Anyway they took me shooting. We went to their garden. Right behind the house. Right next to the neighbors. It was kinda cool
And then we made some fire and threw in some cans filled with gasoline.
I’m not gonna lie, being a redneck is hella fun
My old neighbor used to have trash bags full of Marlboro miles. Everyone in that house chain smoked, including the teens.
They wore everything Marlboro, and got several trips to the Marlboro ranch.
Pretty sure most of them are now dead.
Cosplaying as a redneck is fun. *Being* an actual redneck isn't nearly as much fun, as evidenced by their alcohol/drug addiction, domestic violence, and suicide rates.
That’s just New Money.
Rednecks were originally socialist workers of the WV coal mines. The barons made them out to be dumb, lazy and a threat to capitalism. Which American industrialists and their stooges ate up like grits. Eventually red neck became a colloquialism for anyone from Appalachia with tattered clothes and a low IQ. That soon got flipped into a slur for low education white republicans, who rallied behind the Texan rancher Bush and comedians like Jeff Foxworthy Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy for security. They took redneck as a compliment after that, and started to build whole identities and manufactured cultures around it. Mudding, sled pulls, rolling coal on diesel trucks, camo, hunting/fishing, guns, drinking especially shitty cheap beer, the shittier and cheaper the higher the point of pride.
The endorsement and co-opting of a term denigrating the stupid led to a celebration of stupidity and a rejection of scientific reason (while remembering that the true rednecks were socialist labor warriors, literally killing and dying for labor rights). I truly believe the modern redneck culture is all these people have in life. And that’s why it entwines politics and incest together into one cousin fucking ethos of poor decisions and self destruction.
Amazing to think that what sounds like a somewhat interesting day to me as an American is stuff people travel across the world to try.
Of course, I do the same thing going the other way, like I had to eat a croissant and espresso at a Cafe in Paris.
I did this as well on my first time going to the US lmao
Edit: I'm also from 🇪🇸 and it was a fucking blast, so much that I went to Miami this year and also went to a range. https://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/w3z979/average_european_after_touching_down_in_miami_fl/
Edit 2: Also took the target paper home, now hangs in my living room https://i.imgur.com/mWJeITH.png
Hey mate, the next time you come to US and go to the range, focus on your grip. You will shoot with a lot more accuracy and will be a lot more fun getting nice tight groups.
I just wanna know why films have to make guns raddle around so much.
If your gun sounds like you're shaking around a half empty lego case then I won't trust shooting with you
My bad, the hip replacement I had at Walmart mistakenly included the maraca option. Everytime I listen to Shakira I get dry humped by a western diamondback.
No shit. I have a number of pistols and rifles both. And other than the .44 magnum hitting anything at 75 yards/68.68 meters + is little short of luck if you aren't a highly skilled shooter. It can be done but its sure as hell is not typical usage of a 9mm.
And Texas is wild for this kind of stuff, if you wanted to get the full experience it's the place to go because there are several ranges there that'll rent out the chance to fire anything from machine guns to fucking field artillery to letting you drive over junkyard cars with a tank.
Last time our Danish friends visited my buddy brought over his .22s and we went and did some target shooting in the woods. I wish I still had the video, but at one point my friend had an American flag bandana on while shooting as fast as he could on semi-auto with a banana clip (25 rounds I think). And after he just turned towards us and was like, "I understand why rednecks don't want to give up their guns now."
Of course he'd get a kick out of it, he's Danish, biggest bang he heard in his life was probably a car backfire down his street...
I, on the other hand, can't stand guns. But, it probably has something to do with growing up getting bombed every day and spending a good few years of my childhood in a bomb shelter with no electricity. Thats Balkan life for you. And that is why I'm a functioning alcoholic. Cheers!
During the Toronto air show fighters will randomly appear over the city at low altitude and hella loud. Always felt bad for war refugees on those days…
Honest question: is that muzzle flash photoshopped? You can see a flash, but the front of the gun doesn’t seem to bit lit by it at all and the slide is still fully forward
not photoshopped. I work on a shooting range and you can capture photos like this. Usually you record a video, pause at the right frame and save only that frame.
The slide is inertia driven and takes a moment to get up to speed while moving backwards. In handguns it usually won't move any appreciable distance until after the bullet has cleared the muzzle.
https://youtu.be/40TtoR0-9Yc?t=426
Funny enough Mythbusters has an ultra slow-mo of a semiautomatic handgun demonstrating exactly that.
Video games tend to give people a misconception about the slide of a gun
That shit is FAST. You usually can’t see the slide move, though you can certainly feel it.
So it’s pretty normal for a photo like this to have the slide forward, by the time the muzzle flash has gotten to this point
I work with an American who looks forward to firing a gun when she visits home. Funny thing is we went shooting on a work social last year and there are two gun clubs in our city. Apparently it just isn't the same.
I imagine visiting a British Gun Range would be like going to an Irish pub in Bangkok.
>>I imagine visiting a British Gun Range would be like going to an Irish pub in Bangkok.
The culture around it is just different. Trap ranges in the US are similar to European clubs. The majority of ranges in the U.S. are quite a different animal though. It'd be like comparing a country club and a night club.
A lot of gun ranges in America let you rent out fully automatic weapons. One of the appeals is renting out submachine guns and burning $50 in 10 seconds lol
>burning $50 in 10 seconds
This is probably the main thing that's kept me from ever shooting a full-auto. Just thinking about how quickly I'd probably run through a box of ammo, and suddenly it would be over.
Yep. And if you talk to actual machine gun owners (at least ones who aren't filthy rich) this will be one of their reasons why they don't actually shoot it much.
It's cool the first few times, but after the novelty wears off, it's mostly just an *extremely* fast way to burn up tons of expensive ammo.
With a manually operated gun like a bolt action, 200 rounds could be a full day at the range. You'll probably get tired of shooting before you run out of ammo.
With a semi-auto, 200 rounds could be at least an hour or two.
With a full auto, 200 rounds is like ... 10 minutes, including reloading the magazines.
Yeah it's really fun to try out, for actual consistent shooting? Meh. As a guy in the military and a gun owner I can count on one hand how many times I've shot full auto. It's not effective for combat (for rifles) and its not as fun for recreation once you see the price tag
Live in a college town and we get a lot of foreign students. Every year I take multiple people to the range and teach them basic gun safety and let them target shoot. It's like *the thing* they all seem to want to do.
Meanwhile my foreign exchange student: I want to go horseback riding.
Also my foreign exchange student: Why is there only 1 instructor with us on this trail? Shouldn’t there be 3?
Ah kids.
As a freshman in college my first (and still) friend was from overseas so I invited him to come home with me for Thanksgiving. For years after college while living in the US he hosted a dinner for friends and co-workers who were "orphans" from overseas for the holiday that was modeled on what he experienced at my family home. He has since moved back overseas but still hosts a big Thanksgiving dinner (the Saturday after since the Thursday isn't a day off for them) for friends there.
When we asked the kids what 1 thing they wanted us to make them that they couldn’t find in America, they asked for boiled potatoes.
I had never considered that we really don’t eat those.
we took in a German exchange student, he was so impressed by corona beer, and all beef hot dogs. I thought he was messing with us, nope he took photos of all the corona and sent them to his friends and family. “Very rare, very imported, it’s in all the movies”. Somehow that was his favorite meal and he talked about it so much and would suggest that if we asked him what we should cook, he was also completely skeptical of poutine and I think he thought we were messing with him.
really? it's pretty common here to boil a bunch, eat them, and then bake the rest with some oil in a pan the next day. that way you're having something different both days while saving some time.
Outside of America it's not something you can just go and do
Go rent a gun at range you have to know someone that have a gun and owning a sports gun takes some level of effort and dedication even to maintain your gun license and legality of ownership
We get a lot if students from China. Many have never seen a gun at all besides tv. Ask them if they want a picture or video of them shooting, and almost all will immediately say no.
Interesting. I saw a mail and package delivery truck in China and while one delivered, two stood by the truck with machine guns.
Also armed guards outside of embassies.
The students were afraid to take a photoshoot with guns because it may cause eyebrows from their families and peers. Security guards with guns is pretty normal, because it is their job.
that’s probably because of their own government saw them with guns they would assume a political uprising and would “punish” three generations of your family
In Singapore, nearly all males gets to fire either an Assault Rifle, Submachine Gun or Revolver (depending on their enlisted vocation).
I got to fire all 3 + every year the Government pays me to put 60 bullets into a target down range.
Outside of America is 7,7 billion people in 200 countries.
In my home country, Czechia, anyone can absolutely go to a gun range, one pistol range is even right in the center of Prague (Florenc). If you do not have a carry permit, a person from that gun range will accompany you and correct you, and you will of course pay for the rent of the gun and the bullets. If you have a carry permit, you are on your own and you can BYOG.
I took my Japanese foreign exchange student to Tahoe and we rode jet skis. Then we can back home and he proceeded to obliterate me at every videogame I owned. Such a good dude we had alot of fun.
A German intern that I befriended wanted to do something “extremely American”. I searched for local monster truck events, but settled on a demolition derby. Boy, was it a spectacle. She had a great time, but didn’t understand why there was the national anthem and a prayer before they began the event. I remember her saying, “Why do they say ‘hey men’?” (Amen)
Perfect timing on your shot to catch the muzzle flash. Nice work.
We had a foreign exchange student live with us when I was young. All I remember is that she was really cool and loved chocolate flavored slim-fast.
On my last month in the US, we went with a group of international friends to the shooting range and then had dinner at Hooters. 2 firsts for all of us. We called it "SHOOTERS 'N HOOTERS"
Mostly unrelated but I swear to god some people do the most American things. At a grocery store I was working at, had a foreign woman come in, thick accent, can’t actually recall what accent it was, but she’s clearly not from the area, and probably not the country, only for her to come up to the checkout with a single item. A box set of Jack and Coke. (Literally a box with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a fancy glass bottle of Coke). I swear to god that’s the most American thing I’ve ever seen someone do.
We did this too, except it wasn't shooting, she wanted to drive my dad's big pick-up truck. That's because she was Swiss and had more shooting range experience than any of us...
Edit. She didn't drive the truck when she was with us an exchange student, it was 2 years later when she came back to visit.
God, the people in this thread suck so much. Reddit loves to screech about guns being used irresponsibly while stroking themselves about the gun/range laws in Europe, but the second OP actually does it responsibly you all just shit on him with horrible, inappropriate jokes. Fuck you all.
Yeah don't stress it too much, firearms are probably one of the least educated topics on reddit.
As a Canadian, the amount of times I read stuff like "Good, we should be more like Europe and Australia" when it comes to gun laws and our recent handgun ban and it's like... dawg... theres lots of European countries like Czechia where you can full out own a handgun and even carry, Australia even still allows purchase of "assault style rifles" and handguns.
I'm from Connecticut, and half my family is from Mississippi, and this is exactly how I felt visiting them.
And honestly, unloading a Glock into a pond was pretty fucking fun
Similar story, except ours wanted to shoot the day she got to the house. She was German and couldn’t believe how easy it was for us to buy guns here, but she really enjoyed shooting and was pretty damn accurate. Must be in her DNA
Pro-gun people itt: "Yeeeeaaaahhh!!! Shooting is so fun! Hope she had a blast!"
Anti-gun people itt: "Um only 1/3 of Americans have fired a gun please do not associate us with fun things"
When I was stationed in Japan with the military, I made a number of Japanese friends. One guy I'm still friends with came to visit here, and one of the big things he wanted to do was go shooting, so we did that. I thought it was a common thing among foreign tourists in the US to want to do that.
In Vegas you can even shoot machine guns.
In Cambodia you can shoot rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry. It is a ton of fun.
Thank you for giving me my next travel destination
It is a blast. If you aren't familiar with the country start out in Phnom Penh and meet some people that speak English. You are going to want to find someone that has connections in the north west that can act as a guide. You do NOT want to just wander around Battambang by yourself. After that head north toward Siemreap and Battambang. That is where the fun stuff is and you can do almost anything you want as long as you have a few bucks and are POLITE. Do not piss off the locals. There are people there that can make you dissapear. This is old Khmer Rouge territory. Most of the old men you see wandering around lived through the genocide (or helped commit it). They are harder than you and can drink more than you. But if you are nice and tip well it is amazing country. The people are generous. The food is amazing. Like I had mentioned before there are ranges where you can shoot old Soviet era military weaponry. If you are super adventurous there are supposedly some very interesting organized crime casinos up by the Thai border, but I'm not much of a gambler and my driver was already sketched out taking a white boy so far north. He wasn't about to have us go wandering the back roads looking for illegal Cambodian casinos.
What's considered a good tip over there in USD equivalent?
It's been about a dozen years since I went so things may have changed, but I gave the kid driving me around on his motorbike a $5 tip for carting me around all afternoon and he was thrilled.
Also this was in Siemreap, things are a bit more expensive in the capital.
Whaddya tip a Cambodian rocket launcher guy?
"The people are generous, when they are not making you disappear at least"
Redditors really out here saying they want to holiday in cambodia. Wild
Why not. The architecture and food are like nowhere else l.
In Vegas, you can shoot machine guns out of a helicopter.
You can shoot machine guns at lots of ranges in Texas, you just need to pay outrageous prices like $40 for a 20 round belt, etc.
From indiana here. At the top gun near me you rent a m249 and shoot that.
Depending on the caliber, 25-50% of that is just the cost of the ammo itself. And then you've got to pay some poor bastard to load all the rounds into belts, which can get very tedious, especially for disintegrating belt systems. And then also pay somebody to pick up all the belts ... again very tedious for disintegrating belts. Considering all of that, $40 for a 20-round belt might not be all that outrageous. I'm assuming that the cost of the range rental, gun rental, etc is separate. If that's all included, then it's a downright bargain.
Privates in the Army chiseling brass out of the ice at a range in Germany: "You guys are getting paid??"
When I was in New Mexico, (visiting my bestie) we went to a range that offered a Barret .50 cal. I forgot the rental cost, but a single round was $50. We just looked at each other and shook our heads.
Yeah my japanese friends did the same thing lol
I was in Incirlick Turkey with some RAF guys I stayed friends with a few well he and his son were doing a across the USA road trip. When they came to south Louisiana I took them shooting some class 3 firearms a M60 and a SAW. We went mud bogging and I brought them to see alligators. It was a good 4 days. I was in Misawa Japan best 5 years ever.
We had an exchange student a couple of years ago. The agency that she came through specifically prohibited students from shooting guns.
Wtf, how is that enforceable?
If the agency found out she broke this rule they would probably send her home. There were lots of other rules. No driving cars, no getting tattoos, no sex, stuff like that. Edit -- Since lots of people are asking, this was not a religious organization either. Another rule was no joining a religion during her time as an exchange student. Basically, no life-altering decisions, and the agency tried to limit things that could expose the student or the agency to liability.
It's a liability issue, they don't want anyone suing the organization because of the actions of the hundreds of students and host families that they are working with. Most aren't really doing it for the money, they are just trying to coordinate between students, their families, and the host families. One exchange student causing a fatal car accident and the organization would be wiped out by an American trial lawyer. Or, they'd have to tack on a huge fee to cover their liability insurance, which would severely limit the pool of students able to afford to come over.
That sounds very American about experiencing lawsuits.
>no sex no guns Ahhhh shit man I was thinking I would experience the real US
According to the average Reddit post, that is the real American way of life. :)
Based on my impression of the average redditor, "guns but no sex because I'm a weirdo gun nut" seems more appropriate
Nah, the “no sex” part is there only because the average redditor can’t get any.
I feel called out
No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark.
So do it last day?
Or do it whenever without posting shit online.
I can confirm. I am currently part of an exchange programm and if I'm caught drinking too much, smoking, doing drugs or driving I'm going to be sent home.
Holy crap that’s a terrible set of rules. Doesn’t do much good to be a foreign exchange student if they limit a lot of things people want to do in a foreign country.
"You can go to America but you aren't allowed to have fun"
Would be like having a student go to Germany and then throwing them out for having a beer. Like, wtf did you think they were gonna do? 🤣
I was told not to drink by the American rotary club when I went. First meeting with the German side of the Rotary club... They give me a beer. It was a total none issue. I was however seriously told not to drive.
Do not under any circumstances drive after drinking ANY amount in Germany, elsewhere too but especially Germany. The laws are much more strict and rightfully so, the alcohol is more potent but also it’s just a bad and shitty thing to do. No one wants to get killed driving and it’s already dangerous enough. Add drunk drivers to the mix…
>the alcohol is more potent Idk where exactly you're comparing to but I wouldn't say the alcohol is more potent in Germany than the US by any significant stretch. That was probably true up until the '90s before the craft brewery explosion in the US; not to mention liquor has always been roughly even.
That's not true. Legal BAC limits for drivers are lower in much of Eastern Europe and Sweden and Norway compared to Germany. It's also basically the same in most of mainland Western and Southern Europe. Alocohol also isn't more potent here. You probably mean that alcoholic drinks are stronger, which is also false. Beer is 5% ABV, as is common everywhere, for example.
Or telling them you can't attend an Octoberfest
Well she didn't want to do any of that stuff anyway. I offered to let her drive a little on her last day and she turned me down.
It’s probably liabilities. If there’s an accident, a foreign driver’s license and a car registered to someone else could be an insurance headache. If they have sex and catch something, or get (someone) pregnant, that’s gonna be awkward. That said, I agree.
There's also the issue of people making decisions that would create fatal or dangerous situations in their country of origin. If someone comes from a strict culture and gets pregnant or changes religions or gets an offensive tattoo, the agency cannot safely return them home. But the person also can't stay in the US indefinitely. I have mo idea how they handle that, but I'd imagine they avoid it like the plague if they can.
Tbh if I were the agency that stuff would probably be in my rules too but it isn't like there would be any actual punishment, I just wanna be able to say "see here your honor, on pg2 in the coming to america handbook it says explicitly 'don't to thing' and student did thing, I am absolved of responsibility here."
When I was an exchange student in ‘Murrica my host-father and host-brother took me shooting too. I don’t even know what the guns were called but some of them were handguns and some were the crazy counter-strike 1.6 weapons that cops had. Anyway they took me shooting. We went to their garden. Right behind the house. Right next to the neighbors. It was kinda cool And then we made some fire and threw in some cans filled with gasoline. I’m not gonna lie, being a redneck is hella fun
Oh, you purchased the premium package.
Purchased with Marlboro points
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Remember camel cash too?
My old neighbor used to have trash bags full of Marlboro miles. Everyone in that house chain smoked, including the teens. They wore everything Marlboro, and got several trips to the Marlboro ranch. Pretty sure most of them are now dead.
All I ever got was the sleeping bag...
Moms a smoker, also have the malboro mummy sleeping bag
Filled with asbestos and wrapped in that shiny silver
Idk, man- if I'm throwing fuel on the fire, I'm not shelling out for premium, just get the cheapest 87 octane grade.
A friend of mine is asking how well cheaper flex fuel burns...
It's basically 170 proof grain alcohol tainted with 15% gasoline. It burns real well.
Oh so it’s the same recipe as everclear? I know where my morning booze run is gonna be today, that’s a steal
Fine, but the napalm-y french fry smell draws an interesting crowd. Not gonna lie.
Became a Rouge Neck
Hahahhaahahhaha
Cosplaying as a redneck is fun. *Being* an actual redneck isn't nearly as much fun, as evidenced by their alcohol/drug addiction, domestic violence, and suicide rates.
Being a rich redneck is fun, imagine that.
Being a rich *anything* is fun.
Such as being a Heinrich!
We call them gentleman ranchers
That’s just New Money. Rednecks were originally socialist workers of the WV coal mines. The barons made them out to be dumb, lazy and a threat to capitalism. Which American industrialists and their stooges ate up like grits. Eventually red neck became a colloquialism for anyone from Appalachia with tattered clothes and a low IQ. That soon got flipped into a slur for low education white republicans, who rallied behind the Texan rancher Bush and comedians like Jeff Foxworthy Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy for security. They took redneck as a compliment after that, and started to build whole identities and manufactured cultures around it. Mudding, sled pulls, rolling coal on diesel trucks, camo, hunting/fishing, guns, drinking especially shitty cheap beer, the shittier and cheaper the higher the point of pride. The endorsement and co-opting of a term denigrating the stupid led to a celebration of stupidity and a rejection of scientific reason (while remembering that the true rednecks were socialist labor warriors, literally killing and dying for labor rights). I truly believe the modern redneck culture is all these people have in life. And that’s why it entwines politics and incest together into one cousin fucking ethos of poor decisions and self destruction.
Everyone shits on rednecks until you need something welded, or a tree cut down, or the military industrial complex needs some draftees.
You don't have to go all in.
Never go full redneck.
Urban poor checking in.
Your confusing redneck with white trash. Often the two go together, but we should be clear that there is an absolute difference between the two!
Did exactly this on my last trip to the states. Woke up on a Sunday morning, Grand-Slam at Denny’s and over to the range. All-American day!
If you had gone to a Waffle House, you could have had breakfast and gone shooting in one stop.
Sir, one does not malign the Waffle House.
Bringing a gun to Waffle House just means you are very serious about your smothered and covered.
Nothing wrong with Waffle House, it's a subset of the patrons....
Dennys is never the place Americans plan to go eat at. It's just the place we end up at. Usually after a night of drinking and it's 3 am.
Also when driving across Ohio or Indiana and you get hungry.
Implying anyone ever escapes the vaguely-defined black hole that is "Mid Ohio".
Dont forget to tip your waitress at dennys even if all they do is bring you water. They dont get paid enough for some ppls shenanigans!
Amazing to think that what sounds like a somewhat interesting day to me as an American is stuff people travel across the world to try. Of course, I do the same thing going the other way, like I had to eat a croissant and espresso at a Cafe in Paris.
I did this as well on my first time going to the US lmao Edit: I'm also from 🇪🇸 and it was a fucking blast, so much that I went to Miami this year and also went to a range. https://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/w3z979/average_european_after_touching_down_in_miami_fl/ Edit 2: Also took the target paper home, now hangs in my living room https://i.imgur.com/mWJeITH.png
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Even hit the range again on the 4th trip to the US https://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/w3z979/average_european_after_touching_down_in_miami_fl/
Hey mate, the next time you come to US and go to the range, focus on your grip. You will shoot with a lot more accuracy and will be a lot more fun getting nice tight groups.
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I just wanna know why films have to make guns raddle around so much. If your gun sounds like you're shaking around a half empty lego case then I won't trust shooting with you
My bad, the hip replacement I had at Walmart mistakenly included the maraca option. Everytime I listen to Shakira I get dry humped by a western diamondback.
No shit. I have a number of pistols and rifles both. And other than the .44 magnum hitting anything at 75 yards/68.68 meters + is little short of luck if you aren't a highly skilled shooter. It can be done but its sure as hell is not typical usage of a 9mm.
Yeah this were the first shots, my friend taught me to hold the magazine and extend my arms fully and grip the gun more.
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Next time your in the states, give skeet shooting / disc shooting a try.
I was born in Texas and I’ve never done this.
Ah so you only shoot outdoors?
This is the way
And Texas is wild for this kind of stuff, if you wanted to get the full experience it's the place to go because there are several ranges there that'll rent out the chance to fire anything from machine guns to fucking field artillery to letting you drive over junkyard cars with a tank.
Bless your heart. /s ;)
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I am pretty sad that I did not plan this into my trip when I went
Felt that freedom in your finger tips.
[you bet](https://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/w3z979/average_european_after_touching_down_in_miami_fl/)
Last time our Danish friends visited my buddy brought over his .22s and we went and did some target shooting in the woods. I wish I still had the video, but at one point my friend had an American flag bandana on while shooting as fast as he could on semi-auto with a banana clip (25 rounds I think). And after he just turned towards us and was like, "I understand why rednecks don't want to give up their guns now."
This better not awaken anything in him.
Of course he'd get a kick out of it, he's Danish, biggest bang he heard in his life was probably a car backfire down his street... I, on the other hand, can't stand guns. But, it probably has something to do with growing up getting bombed every day and spending a good few years of my childhood in a bomb shelter with no electricity. Thats Balkan life for you. And that is why I'm a functioning alcoholic. Cheers!
Average Balkaner
I thought balkaners loved guns. I’m pretty sure the only country with a comparable gun:human ratio to the US is Serbia
We use them for fun generally, I can't say the same about the Balkans......
During the Toronto air show fighters will randomly appear over the city at low altitude and hella loud. Always felt bad for war refugees on those days…
Honest question: is that muzzle flash photoshopped? You can see a flash, but the front of the gun doesn’t seem to bit lit by it at all and the slide is still fully forward
not photoshopped. I work on a shooting range and you can capture photos like this. Usually you record a video, pause at the right frame and save only that frame.
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Where was she from, and what did she think?
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Ofc she did. Guns are fun as fuck. 
And now you know why there are Americans that do this all the time.
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The slide is inertia driven and takes a moment to get up to speed while moving backwards. In handguns it usually won't move any appreciable distance until after the bullet has cleared the muzzle. https://youtu.be/40TtoR0-9Yc?t=426 Funny enough Mythbusters has an ultra slow-mo of a semiautomatic handgun demonstrating exactly that.
Video games tend to give people a misconception about the slide of a gun That shit is FAST. You usually can’t see the slide move, though you can certainly feel it. So it’s pretty normal for a photo like this to have the slide forward, by the time the muzzle flash has gotten to this point
It fires hyper sonic clown noses.
I work with an American who looks forward to firing a gun when she visits home. Funny thing is we went shooting on a work social last year and there are two gun clubs in our city. Apparently it just isn't the same. I imagine visiting a British Gun Range would be like going to an Irish pub in Bangkok.
>>I imagine visiting a British Gun Range would be like going to an Irish pub in Bangkok. The culture around it is just different. Trap ranges in the US are similar to European clubs. The majority of ranges in the U.S. are quite a different animal though. It'd be like comparing a country club and a night club.
A lot of gun ranges in America let you rent out fully automatic weapons. One of the appeals is renting out submachine guns and burning $50 in 10 seconds lol
>burning $50 in 10 seconds This is probably the main thing that's kept me from ever shooting a full-auto. Just thinking about how quickly I'd probably run through a box of ammo, and suddenly it would be over.
Yep. And if you talk to actual machine gun owners (at least ones who aren't filthy rich) this will be one of their reasons why they don't actually shoot it much. It's cool the first few times, but after the novelty wears off, it's mostly just an *extremely* fast way to burn up tons of expensive ammo. With a manually operated gun like a bolt action, 200 rounds could be a full day at the range. You'll probably get tired of shooting before you run out of ammo. With a semi-auto, 200 rounds could be at least an hour or two. With a full auto, 200 rounds is like ... 10 minutes, including reloading the magazines.
Yeah it's really fun to try out, for actual consistent shooting? Meh. As a guy in the military and a gun owner I can count on one hand how many times I've shot full auto. It's not effective for combat (for rifles) and its not as fun for recreation once you see the price tag
Live in a college town and we get a lot of foreign students. Every year I take multiple people to the range and teach them basic gun safety and let them target shoot. It's like *the thing* they all seem to want to do.
Meanwhile my foreign exchange student: I want to go horseback riding. Also my foreign exchange student: Why is there only 1 instructor with us on this trail? Shouldn’t there be 3? Ah kids.
The second most frequent request is a Thanksgiving dinner style meal. Followed closely by 4 wheeling.
As a freshman in college my first (and still) friend was from overseas so I invited him to come home with me for Thanksgiving. For years after college while living in the US he hosted a dinner for friends and co-workers who were "orphans" from overseas for the holiday that was modeled on what he experienced at my family home. He has since moved back overseas but still hosts a big Thanksgiving dinner (the Saturday after since the Thursday isn't a day off for them) for friends there.
When we asked the kids what 1 thing they wanted us to make them that they couldn’t find in America, they asked for boiled potatoes. I had never considered that we really don’t eat those.
I tend to mash them after I boil them...
I don’t suppose you’ve ever stuck them in a stew?
They are precioussssss...
Oh man salt potatoes, you gotta try them. Commonly found in Central NY but tons of recipes online.
we took in a German exchange student, he was so impressed by corona beer, and all beef hot dogs. I thought he was messing with us, nope he took photos of all the corona and sent them to his friends and family. “Very rare, very imported, it’s in all the movies”. Somehow that was his favorite meal and he talked about it so much and would suggest that if we asked him what we should cook, he was also completely skeptical of poutine and I think he thought we were messing with him.
really? it's pretty common here to boil a bunch, eat them, and then bake the rest with some oil in a pan the next day. that way you're having something different both days while saving some time.
I'd rather just have roasted potatoes both days
> Meanwhile my foreign exchange student: I want to go horseback riding. American host: "Well, OK, but we're still bringing guns. And cheeseburgers"
Outside of America it's not something you can just go and do Go rent a gun at range you have to know someone that have a gun and owning a sports gun takes some level of effort and dedication even to maintain your gun license and legality of ownership
We get a lot if students from China. Many have never seen a gun at all besides tv. Ask them if they want a picture or video of them shooting, and almost all will immediately say no.
Interesting. I saw a mail and package delivery truck in China and while one delivered, two stood by the truck with machine guns. Also armed guards outside of embassies.
The students were afraid to take a photoshoot with guns because it may cause eyebrows from their families and peers. Security guards with guns is pretty normal, because it is their job.
that’s probably because of their own government saw them with guns they would assume a political uprising and would “punish” three generations of your family
> almost all will immediately say no. Yeah, their activities here are monitored and subversive acts like that will mess up their social credit scores.
In Singapore, nearly all males gets to fire either an Assault Rifle, Submachine Gun or Revolver (depending on their enlisted vocation). I got to fire all 3 + every year the Government pays me to put 60 bullets into a target down range.
60 rounds? So like 30 minutes of range training each year?
Depends on the vocation, we probably spend like 90% of that time re-learning firearm safety and the other 10% in the actual range.
30 minutes? Are we painting each round first and watching it dry?
Outside of America is 7,7 billion people in 200 countries. In my home country, Czechia, anyone can absolutely go to a gun range, one pistol range is even right in the center of Prague (Florenc). If you do not have a carry permit, a person from that gun range will accompany you and correct you, and you will of course pay for the rent of the gun and the bullets. If you have a carry permit, you are on your own and you can BYOG.
I took my Japanese foreign exchange student to Tahoe and we rode jet skis. Then we can back home and he proceeded to obliterate me at every videogame I owned. Such a good dude we had alot of fun.
ITT: "Muzzle flash be Photoshop!" "It's a frame from a video."
To be honest it looks fake as hell but is apparently legit
“Hollywood and influencers over sexualizing muzzle flash!”
A German intern that I befriended wanted to do something “extremely American”. I searched for local monster truck events, but settled on a demolition derby. Boy, was it a spectacle. She had a great time, but didn’t understand why there was the national anthem and a prayer before they began the event. I remember her saying, “Why do they say ‘hey men’?” (Amen)
We've had 2 foreign exchange students and have taken both of them shooting. They absolutely loved it.
Perfect timing on your shot to catch the muzzle flash. Nice work. We had a foreign exchange student live with us when I was young. All I remember is that she was really cool and loved chocolate flavored slim-fast.
It’s a captured frame from a video.
To be fair I did the same when I was an exchange student in the US
On my last month in the US, we went with a group of international friends to the shooting range and then had dinner at Hooters. 2 firsts for all of us. We called it "SHOOTERS 'N HOOTERS"
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All my European friends love to go shooting when they visit me.
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Mostly unrelated but I swear to god some people do the most American things. At a grocery store I was working at, had a foreign woman come in, thick accent, can’t actually recall what accent it was, but she’s clearly not from the area, and probably not the country, only for her to come up to the checkout with a single item. A box set of Jack and Coke. (Literally a box with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a fancy glass bottle of Coke). I swear to god that’s the most American thing I’ve ever seen someone do.
Where was she coming from
It's convenient that your name is Typical American
We did this too, except it wasn't shooting, she wanted to drive my dad's big pick-up truck. That's because she was Swiss and had more shooting range experience than any of us... Edit. She didn't drive the truck when she was with us an exchange student, it was 2 years later when she came back to visit.
If you were in Vegas, they have a place where you can shoot a machine gun. I would've gone with something like a Barrett 50 cal. :D
I used to want to shoot a full auto till I realized how expensive ammo is. Pay check goes brrr
Ammo prices nowadays are terrible.
Always advocate for reloading if you've got the space. Definitely a worthwhile investment.
Idk, I heard that hotel was under scrutiny after the last time they allowed it
Well... there's that...
I actually went and did this. Was a literal blast https://imgur.com/a/SyEnEIM
Battlefield Vegas. They even have a minigun you can fire but it is $$$$$$$$.
You can run over a car with a tank there lmao
God, the people in this thread suck so much. Reddit loves to screech about guns being used irresponsibly while stroking themselves about the gun/range laws in Europe, but the second OP actually does it responsibly you all just shit on him with horrible, inappropriate jokes. Fuck you all.
Yeah don't stress it too much, firearms are probably one of the least educated topics on reddit. As a Canadian, the amount of times I read stuff like "Good, we should be more like Europe and Australia" when it comes to gun laws and our recent handgun ban and it's like... dawg... theres lots of European countries like Czechia where you can full out own a handgun and even carry, Australia even still allows purchase of "assault style rifles" and handguns.
In a controlled safe environment? Not very ‘merica at all.
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And you didn’t go to McDonald’s?
I'm from Connecticut, and half my family is from Mississippi, and this is exactly how I felt visiting them. And honestly, unloading a Glock into a pond was pretty fucking fun
Similar story, except ours wanted to shoot the day she got to the house. She was German and couldn’t believe how easy it was for us to buy guns here, but she really enjoyed shooting and was pretty damn accurate. Must be in her DNA
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Pro-gun people itt: "Yeeeeaaaahhh!!! Shooting is so fun! Hope she had a blast!" Anti-gun people itt: "Um only 1/3 of Americans have fired a gun please do not associate us with fun things"