School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers

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The only time I've ever really had that problem was when I first got my Desert Eagle and was trying to figure out which .44 loads it liked and didn't like; turns our it really doesn't like Cor-Bon high velocity loads, and shows it's displeasure by flinging the case straight into your shooting glasses... No other round has ever ejected straight back like that from that gun, and it was consistent too, right in the eye or to the cheek right under it, where it actually managed to draw blood. Needless to say, I ran the rest of that box through a revolver and worked up a hand load that cycled the DE properly without attacking me with the brass, a +p+ loading topped with a 240 grain TMJ turned out to be the winner. The fact that it lights up the range like a signal flare and sounds like a small cannon being fired are just bonuses to being accurate and reliable.

Total side note, but DEs really are the Italian sports cars of the handgun world; finicky, require premium fuel and constant maintenance, but oh so much fun to shoot, and danged cool looking too. Not a serious firearm, but a fun one.

Ooh, that always smarts. Sounds like you got lucky though, I've seen the extractor get punched through someone's thumb nail, and then tear the whole nail off when they pulled the bolt back... Lot of blood to clean out of the gun. That was another gunsmithing student too, in the class ahead of mine. It was moments like that I remembered that the only entrance requirements to my school were passing the background check and having your check clear, we certainly had our share of *interesting* accidents and injuries there, plus that time someone put a .22 through the ceiling after failing to verify that a rotary 10/22 mag was actually empty. THAT guy got expelled on the spot. Thumbnail guy just got mocked mercilessly while the nail grew back, until someone else managed to hurt themself in an amusing manner.

Were you using mickey mouses or plugs; perhaps both? A lot of the guys I went to school with had custom plugs made up, you'd buy this kit to take an impression of your ear, send it off to the company, and they'd send you a fitted foam plug that fit your ear perfectly. I never personally had a problem with anything pistol caliber, indoors or out, but some narrow indoor ranges could get nasty if someone was shooting a rifle in there, the overpressure waves could actually make you feel sick. Outdoors, I never had a problem with anything, thought the first time someone touched off a Barret at the booth next to mine while I was close to the line was *interesting*, you don't realize just how much the muzzle brakes on those things vent sideways until you literally feel it hit you in the chest.

You could make some special ramadan cupcakes if you use scratch-made cake mix with a special extra ingredient. They might cook off in the oven though, even without the presence of a flame!

Next September 11, try decorating your cupcakes with some of these.

No he's not!!

A boy or nice?

Both, but especially the nice part.