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On behalf of Speed Beez, we’d like to wish you a very happy 4th of July! It’s a time to celebrate the founding of our country and to think about what we can do to make it a better place. Most everyone (who’s not in retail) will be taking some time off to celebrate the independence of our nation.
How will you be spending your 4th of July? Will you be staying home and enjoying it with your family, or heading to the riverfront to enjoy a public show? And, being a site that sells speedloader, holsters, and moon clips, how do guns work into it? Let’s take a look at a few ways that you can have some safe fun on the 4th.
Some ranges like to stay open on Independence Day, because they know that many gun owners want to spend their day having fun with their guns. If the range if part of a retail shop, it’s even more likely they’ll be open to cater to those who want to celebrate the 4th by exercising their rights to buy a firearm. And if the gun range gets too crowded for you,…
Whether you have property or have to drive to a friend’s to take a walk in the woods, the 4th of July is a good time to do so. It’s a day to celebrate freedom, so get free from your work life and go for a walk in the woods!
When you’re there, why not do some plinking at the watering hole? Take something like a Ruger LCR (load up the LCR 5-shot 9mm moon clips and leave the ammo box at home) and just have some fun shooting at a can against a muddy creek bed. Just be sure to take the can home with you to recycle, because you shouldn’t celebrate your country by trashing it.
You might like to hunt, and we don’t blame you. We’ve wiped out too many large predators over the years, and the prey populations can get out of hand. Plus, venison jerky is just plain amazing!
Of course, weekends often fill up with too many things on the honey-do list, whether it’s painting the house or heading to the grocery store. But the 4th of July is a great time to say “I’m taking the day off to spend some time tracking something.”
Now we can’t tell you what to hunt, because we don’t know what’s in season where you are (or how much you pay attention to hunting seasons at all!). But if you’re starting to feel that hunting with a rifle or shotgun has gotten a little too easy, why not try hunting with a revolver? You could turkey hunt with a Governor and some .410 shells (no surprise that we have Governor holsters and Governor moon clips, if you like to hunt turkeys with .45 ACP), or bigger game with a .44 Magnum and matching speedloader.
If you’re lucky enough to live in an out-of-the-way area and have a place to fire a pistol into a berm, you’ll probably be making making use of it on the 4th of July. But paper targets can get boring, and watermelons are cheap this weekend!
You’ve probably seen videos online of watermelons vs. shotguns, and they’re fun to watch. But it’s more fun to actually perform this little “experiment” on your own. Once again, it’s good to have a Judge or a Governor so that you can mix rounds to see how differently they react with the fruit. Bring the kids around and turn it into a science experiment about velocity, impact, and stopping power. And if there’s anything left afterwards, eat some watermelon…just watch out for shot!
We’ve all heard that you shouldn’t fire guns into the air, yet many people do it anyway. Can it be dangerous? People have been wondering that for more than a century, but the variables are so many and the bullets so hard to track that the answer isn’t clear.
The argument goes that a bullet fired into the air can come down and kill someone. Most people agree that a bullet fired straight up can’t kill you, because it loses its spin and then is slowed by wind resistance on the way back down. But the lower the angle, the more deadly they can be. At a 45-degree arc the bullet may still be spinning when the force from the gunpowder gives out and gravity starts to pull it back down. To think of it another way, a bullet fired at a 4-degree angle is essentially the same as firing horizontally, and that’s exactly how most people die from bullets. So the lower the angle, the more dangerous it is.
If you’re like us, you’re a big fan of the show Mythbusters, even though they stopped making new episodes in 2016 after 13 seasons. Are falling bullets dangerous? They took every pain to find out, and in the end they discover that the answer is…kinda. In most instances, bullets aren’t falling quickly enough to kill you or even break the skin. The exception would be if it hit you in the eye or inside your mouth. However, their research discovered one person who had been killed by a falling bullet. Are bullets fired into the air likely to kill you? No. Is it still better to be safe? Yes.
Instead of shooting into the air, why not actually shoot at something instead of shooting blindly into the air? If your interest is in mimicking the flash and bang of fireworks at night, get out the night-vision goggles and blow up some night watermelons! (They’re the most dangerous of all melons.)
We at Speed Beez are big fans of the 4th of July, and we bet you are too. Get out there and have some fun with your sidearm. We want you shooting for a lifetime, so be sure to be safe about it. And if you want to shoot faster, don’t forget to grab some moon clips no matter what you’re shooting at.
