Shooting one big gun

We were handed a flyer promising 20 dollars off at some shooting range, and Seamus actually wanted to go to one, as he was interested in shooting a fully automatic machine gun. When we showed up, of course it turned out that we can only use the coupon if we spend more than a 100 dollars, and we didn't really want to do that, so in the end he just settled on paying for having only one shot with a 50 caliber sniper rifle. It was only 20 bucks, and it seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity. There was actually a short line, so we had to wait around in the hall, which was also a gun shop. We got slightly freaked out seeing how you can just buy a brand new gun for 200-300 dollars easily, especially with the gunshots coming from the firing range in the background, for a while we kind of decided we never want to move to this country, with all these guns around... Finally Seamus's turn came around, so we both put on ear protection and went inside. There was another guy firing an ak47 inside, which was so so loud that it really hurt your ears even with the protectors on. Actually Seamus's gun was about the same loudness as that one. He said that the recoil wasn't actually that strong, but the fireball was so bright that it hurt his eyes a little bit.Read more