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Fun with coins and guns!

EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 8, 2018 11:56AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Do coins and guns mix? YES, and a lot better than coins and politics IMO. >:)

Anyway, not long ago a buddy and I were on the shooting range and made a friendly little bet about who could hit a penny first at 30 feet with a Beretta 9mm. Yeah I know, probably not your choice of handgun but that's our service weapon and what we were firing with that day, so there you go. @ricko 's S&W Model 29 double action 44 Magnum probably would have been a better choice, but Dirty Harry was borrowing it that day so it was unavailable. I digress.... ;)

If you're wondering how this worked, we each simply taped a penny to the end of a string and then hung them from the rafters of the firing range in our respective firing lanes.

The GOOD news is we only used pennies ... and yes, coins were harmed as a result of this bet, so if you're offended by that dear reader do not view the photo below. :p

The BETTER news is that I'm only out one cent, as my penny is no longer spendable. :)

The BAD news is that I know a couple of forum members are going to PM me to tell me this penny is some kind of rare Wexler variety or something and I just destroyed a penny worth a couple hundred dollars! :D

The BEST news though is that I won the bet, hitting the penny just a few shots into my 15-round clip. B)

So ... if there are no shows in your area and you're looking for a fun, weekend coin activity this could be it! Just saying!

I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!

ANA LM

USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great story !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • rmpsrpmsrmpsrpms Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hitting a Cent at 30 feet sounds very tough. Standing, two handed I assume?

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  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @rmpsrpms said:
    Standing, two handed I assume?

    Yes, standing position, two-handed with no support ... just like the cops on TV haha.

    I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!

    ANA LM

    USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ...good shooting...and it's your 15-round magazine ;)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @EXOJUNKIE ....Well done... open sights or red dot?? Either way, a good shot.... Cheers, RickO

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coins and guns definitely mix. Some of the coin shops I've been in could pass for a gun shop!

    @EXOJUNKIE said: "...Yeah I know, probably not your choice of handgun but that's our service weapon and what we were firing with that day, so there you go. @ricko 's S&W Model 29 double action 44 Magnum probably would have been a better choice,"

    I'll take an 8" Royal Blue Colt Python Hunter to that contest. :)

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,594 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I favor my S&W 686 with 6 inch barrel. For a sure hit there's the Fox shotgun. Good shooting with an auto. I just do better with a wheelgun. Good post.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @Insider2 ....And most gun shows also have a table or two with coins... I have purchased several coins at gun shows....Cheers, RickO

    Yup.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can we leave the second amendment and coinage separate?

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And I should not have to write please...

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I didn’t know a cent would break apart like that, in the westerns the silver dollar was just bent or maybe a hole in it.

    GrandAm :)
  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,594 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GRANDAM said:
    I didn’t know a cent would break apart like that, in the westerns the silver dollar was just bent or maybe a hole in it.

    It's probably the zinc.

  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep, it's a 2014 DDO ... :)

    Y'all do know a handgun is just a tool to use to fight your way back to your primary weapon - such as a shotgun (best for self defense)

    Doug
  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This remind me of the civil war. They melted anything metal to make a slug. We are all so bless to not have to live in those times. I cannot imagine. Families on different sides. fighting just for a meal. soldiers invading homes. Just feel so grateful and blessed.

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well if I had a ruler handy I'd... oh wait ASDFGHJK mines that long. B)

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

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  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 8, 2018 1:28PM

    Not bad with a 9mm and off hand. I have a couple of 22 target pistols (original High Standards with 7 1/4 fluted barrels) that can put a box of 50 (Eley ammo) in a hole that can be "easily" covered by a quarter at 30 feet, off a simple rest, and I'm not a very good shot. Just goes to show you what a quality gun and good target ammo can do.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The sad news is I have not been banned yet... The good news is I choose not to shoot at US coinage...

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,399 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 8, 2018 1:56PM

    Or at anyone or anything else...I hope this ends my participation in this thread even though I doubt that it will

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like your 'distinguished' badge there Dave. There are probably not too many of those in the Air Force. I'm not familiar with the other two medals.
    My dad recently passed away. As the only other shooter in the family I inherited his distinguished medal. I think that he earned this around 1966.

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  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had to laugh at that, as a while back, my daughter and her fiance wanted to shoot a gun (neither of them had ever fired a gun before). At the range, set them up, 1 at a time, with a single action .22 revolver, lots of coaching and safety. They hit NOTHING until we got the target to about 6' away, and then they could understand better what they were doing wrong.

    Just for grins, I took a regular target, and put a thumbtack dead center for an aiming point, and put it at, IIRC, the 15 meter, might have been 20 meter line, and used my .45 Colt M1911, and LUCK drilled out the thumbtack, 1st shot. It is not a customized .45, but very high quality, and I had a palm size group with the whole mag. I also have probably 10,000+ rounds through .45's while in the Army, even a short stint on a division level pistol team.

    They were in AWE of Dad.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Are there any holes coins out there that were hit by Annie Oakley? Peace Roy

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  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 8, 2018 3:20PM

    @ricko said:
    @EXOJUNKIE ....Well done... open sights or red dot?? Either way, a good shot.... Cheers, RickO

    Thanks. Open iron sights.

    I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!

    ANA LM

    USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
  • LeroyLeroy Posts: 186 ✭✭✭

    I used to have a Kennedy half dollar with a bullet hole through the head

  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mustangmanbob said:
    I had to laugh at that, as a while back, my daughter and her fiance wanted to shoot a gun (neither of them had ever fired a gun before). At the range, set them up, 1 at a time, with a single action .22 revolver, lots of coaching and safety. They hit NOTHING until we got the target to about 6' away, and then they could understand better what they were doing wrong.

    Just for grins, I took a regular target, and put a thumbtack dead center for an aiming point, and put it at, IIRC, the 15 meter, might have been 20 meter line, and used my .45 Colt M1911, and LUCK drilled out the thumbtack, 1st shot. It is not a customized .45, but very high quality, and I had a palm size group with the whole mag. I also have probably 10,000+ rounds through .45's while in the Army, even a short stint on a division level pistol team.

    They were in AWE of Dad.

    GREAT story, thanks for sharing it. And the M1911 is my favorite handgun of all time. :)

    I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!

    ANA LM

    USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My instructor showed me that you can be fast enough with iron sights using good technique and practice, that lasers and red dots slow you down and even reduce accuracy.

    Doug
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Even in Canada Coins and Guns come together, I received one of these in change the other day, I was like WOW, Canada has guns on coins

    Steve

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OldEastside said:
    Even in Canada Coins and Guns come together, I received one of these in change the other day, I was like WOW, Canada has guns on coins

    Steve

    The Swiss have some nice pieces w/guns.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I saw Beretta 9, my carry of choice. What flavor? Px4 Storm compact here, love it.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @NVU...That is a great coin.... would love to have one of those... Thanks for showing us....Cheers, RickO

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    IMO, Beretta made some of the most attractive pistols. I have a few in different calibers but only in "blue" finish. the 92-S was the end of my collection.

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Leroy said:
    I used to have a Kennedy half dollar with a bullet hole through the head

    I used to have a deer with a bullet hole through the head. :D

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Liking the shooting stance on the skis. Bullseye! Peace Roy

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @coinkat .... Sorry to see you go.... You have had some good contributions here... would it not be easier to just skip the threads you do not like? Or, I would be happy to give you lessons in firearms.. I am a state certified instructor and licensed to carry in 38 states, I would be happy to help. This usually eliminates the distaste or fear of these inanimate objects. Let me know by PM if you would like my help... This is offered in all honesty, friendship and hope that you will stay and we can all remain friends. Cheers, RickO

    Better bring a lot of ammo as he's going to love it! <3

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. > @NVU said:

    @ricko said:
    "Can we leave the second amendment and coinage separate?"
    You certainly can. However, there are many of us who are involved with both hobbies, so you will often see threads such as these. So the'we' part will not work. Cheers, RickO

    @ricko seriously?
    How about coin and gun stick together ;)

    One of the best carved nickels I've ever seen. That would bring a good deal of money in an auction. They would need to pry it from my cold, dead hands if it were mine. :)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep... @Insider2 ... You and I would have 'shoot off' to see who would get it.... :D;) Cheers, RickO

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,818 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For whatever reason, the group of those who collect coins and the group of those who enjoy firearms intersect deeply. That’s just the way it is.

    I do pretty darn well with a rifle (out to 1000 yards) and decently with a shotgun. Hitting anything with a pistol takes plenty of training and practice. Haven’t mastered that one........ yet. It’s on the to-do list. :)

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