This is a really bad way to end up with Burnt Parts. The parts that are about to get burnt up are what people call sensitive. Don’t do this!
Yes, I know this is likely staged and he’s not about to pull that trigger on a life round. But I’m not 100% sure. And it doesn’t matter. This is still a bad example of how to handle a firearm responsibly.
So bad for so many reasons.
Guns are not toys people…
Burnt Parts
Proper Grip and Stance
Guns are not toys. Guns are not props for photo shoots. They are dangerous tools. Mishandle them and people will end up hurt.
Why do I show these videos and pictures? Because I like to go to the range and every one of these videos gives the non shooting public a bad impression of the total shooting community.
Always follow the four basic rules of Gun Safety:
Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction.
Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
Zombie was originally released in 1979, and it is amazing how well this movie holds up.
A boat shows up in New York harbor, drifting into the main waterway. The coast guard goes to investigate. This kicks off the story of how the boat’s owner’s daughter begins a mission to find out what happened to her father.
The investigation leads our heroine to the islands around St. Thomas. On the way there we get to see some nice ta ta’s, which is quickly followed by an infected attacking a shark. Quality stuff.
Zombie Shark!
When you consider this is over forty years old you really have to give them credit for the quality special effects as well as the action scenes. There is also a nice little twist at the end. I loved how the cars are still moving in the background though. Comment if you see what I mean.
Zombie Scoring
Overall I’m giving Zombie a solid 80/100. It is Worth Your Time and stands up well to two plus decades of aging.
You do not want to feel 12g Pain. It can knock out teeth, leave bruises, and kill if you aren’t lucky. This is Bad Gun Handling.
Who gives a new shooter a shotgun with no stock?
This is not a weapon for a novice shooter. You need to push that weapon forward on the strap to help deal with the recoil, and you can see she barely has the grip in her palm, which caused all the recoil to hit her thumb. Hopefully its not broken.
12g Pain
Proper Grip and Stance
Guns are not toys. Guns are not props for photo shoots. They are dangerous tools. Mishandle them and people will end up hurt.
Why do I show these videos and pictures? Because I like to go to the range and every one of these videos gives the non shooting public a bad impression of the total shooting community.
Always follow the four basic rules of Gun Safety:
Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction.
Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
Republic Z was originally released in 2018. It is a Russian film, and I believe the native language was originally Yakut. At least based my google map skills. I looked up the region and it appears to be in the far north of the country.
Republic Z
The movie has English Subtitles. If you are a native Russian speaker please let me know how well they did with the subtitles. There are times when I think something got lost in the translation, but I’m not sure. Maybe there are phrases that just don’t translate well. No worries though, this is a Popcorn Movie. It is sometimes silly, but I found it to be an enjoyable movie nonetheless.
The CGI and special effects vary from good to okay, but I actually liked the characters, even if I lost some of the depth due to the translations. I won’t ruin the ending, but I did enjoy it, and I hope there is a sequel in the making, because I would definitely watch it.
Have a drink, yell at them when they do something stupid, and enjoy something just a little bit different.
Republic Z Scoring
Republic Z just missed being Worth Your Time by a few points with a 68/100. That makes it a Rainy Day Movie, but just barely.
Pulling out your 40 in the Restroom in just Bad Gun Handling. Pistols aren’t toys. They aren’t props. Treat firearms with respect. Best case this ends up with a shattered mirror. Worst case the round hits someone and kills.
Sure, she was at least pointing it at the mirror, but there could be people on the other side of that wall and who knows if the wall would stop that round?
Guns are not toys. Don’t play with them.
Proper Grip and Stance
Guns are not toys. Guns are not props for photo shoots. They are dangerous tools. Mishandle them and people will end up hurt.
Why do I show these videos and pictures? Because I like to go to the range and every one of these videos gives the non shooting public a bad impression of the total shooting community.
Always follow the four basic rules of Gun Safety:
Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction.
Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
Overall, the total packaged scored a 66/100, which is the average of the nine shorts below. Let me know if you agree with my scores in the comments. This makes Zombie Feast just one point into Worth Your Time territory.
The main character is at the mall, clearly interested in one of his female coworkers when all hell breaks out. The mall is overrun by the undead, and only a small band of survivors are left. They quickly form a plan to try and get to the parking lot and escape, but the Zombies are everywhere.
The filmography is really good, and while the native language is Spanish the text seems well translated and makes sense. (I’ve had some subtitles that were clearly done by a PC. That means they didn’t make any sense with what was going on.)
Zombies and Cigarettes Scoring
As the initial short it was strongly done. At least up till about 7/10ths of the way through when we find out that the Zombies destroyed by perfume? How? We don’t ever get any info on that, which makes the ending seem a little abrupt. I know its a short, but still.
We then get to the other side of this short there is a small twist. This is really a love story about how the main character strikes out. Right up to the end of the short…ouch. Overall I’m giving Zombies and Cigarettes a 66/100.
Bitten
This short begins at 15:20 and and at 21:00 .
Bitten opens with a woman desperately locking herself inside her apartment. Blood splatter is visible on her shirt as she struggles to lock the door. When she turns around we see she’s been bitten, and has a nasty wound on her neck.
Really Painful Hickey?
Inside we see that the apartment is safe. There is evidence of violence on the walls, the mirror, and smeared across the cabinets.
As our victim slowly turns we get flashbacks of what happened. The special effects were really well done. I can see the emotional impact the short is trying for, but for me, it didn’t satisfy that Zombie craving. There was gore, and there was a little bit of violence, but who wants to see mum stab her (presumably infected) family to death?
Dead Hungry opens with a late middle aged Zombie in coveralls wandering through the woods. The Zombie sadly groans, “Brains,” every so often. Farmer Zombie is of the classic slow variety. Even after he finds two campers trying to get it on, he can’t score a bite.
The next scene has kids retreating to a cabin. The cabin is surrounded by the Undead, and our Farmer Zombie end up losing an arm. There is also a bit of Zombie Love going on? Farmer Zombie seems to recognize one of the lady Zombies?
Zombie Love
In the end, our Farmer Zombie did get a snack, but he didn’t get to keep his love? Unless eating her brains counts?
Dead Hungry was short and overall a little silly. But it is worth watching on a Rainy Day as it scored a 60/100.
The Skin of Your Teeth
This short begins at 30:55 and ends at 44:30.
The Skin of Your Teeth opens with a man putting a few more nails in his boarded up windows. Outside a woman waters their garden. As night falls they take shelter in their little country home while listening to the radio. The broadcast warns them to stay inside.
The morning begins with two men waking in the woods. They look nervous and anxious as they walk their bikes along the woods. At least until they get to the farm house. The group knows each other and the campers are greeted with hugs and smiles.
The next day we see our first Zombie. The group quickly takes it out before dragging the body to the pile. Apparently our farmers have been taking care of business.
Body Pile
Why did they cover the pile with a tarp? Why not make a burn pit or just dump them? While two of the men are distracted with the bodies, another Zombie almost gets to the woman as she’s farming.
Someplace Safer?
The farming couple wants to find someplace safer. The two who came from the city seem to think the farm is a good place to stay. They have food, and lots of open ground to see the Zombies coming.
The group is woken in the morning by a Zombie banging at their boarded up window. This Zombie is quickly shot, and drug to the pile. As they are are placing the latest Zombie on the pile we see a horde come over the hill. This was an awesome scene:
The Horde Cometh
Sadly, one of the campers doesn’t make it back as the group flees to the farmhouse which is quickly overrun. The surviving men get quickly pulled down and the woman is forced to flee. She makes it to a grain silo where she is trapped, holding off the horde with a piece of plywood.
There was so much potential with this short. Even if the Zombie effects were really basic, the scene where they come over the hill was just epic. The ending on the other hand was a bit weak in my opinion. Which cost The Skin of Your Teeth some points.
The Skin of Your Teeth just squeaked by into Worth Your Time territory with a score of 70/100.
There is not a lot going on for XXX. The audio quality is pretty bad, and for a Zombie short, the action takes forever to get started.
The dialogue is C+ at best. The whole short should have started when the main character, Dan got back from his food run. Everything before that is basically just filler.
There is a good bit of gore though, so I’m giving the gore a B+. But the special effects are a solid C.
Drill Press Kill
I did like the ending, but the overall production values are a bit lacking, so Arise is getting a 63/100.
Zomblies
This short begins at 1:03:30 and ends at 1:47:50.
Zomblies begins with a man an camo running through the forest. He is shooting Zombies as he comes across them while screaming for Porosa. Porosa is nowhere to be found, but he does find one of his buddies who’s been gutted. He briefly tries to help, but runs when its clear the wounded man isn’t going to make it. The wounded man turns quickly and appears to hunt down his buddy. We then cut over to a woman calling for help on a radio. A group of government and military leaders listen to her from around a boardroom table. Whatever is going on, no one at the table seems surprised.
When we cut back to the wilderness. There is a small caption telling us we are 15 miles west of “The Wall” before seeing a squad of soldiers come up out of the water in classic action movie style.
Water Entrance
The soldiers quickly encounter a swarm of fast moving Zombies and run for the high ground. The soldiers enjoy some target practice as they search for the signal of the last team who’d been sent in.
For a group of elite soldiers, they seem undisciplined. Their most critical piece of gear, their radio, rapidly breaks, forcing the group to go find the radio from the first team who they’ve lost contact with.
The team is quickly overrun as they move north, but it does lead to some nice Zombie Violence.
Zombie Kills
Run & Gun
There are lots of Zombies in the woods, and the team is forced to run and gun as they flee. They don’t seem overly burdened with gear, at least not visibly. They are apparently carrying a ton of ammo, because they are blowing through it really quick.
We then see a montage of soldiers running across fields. The control center tracks them via satellite before the rangers find themselves in what looks like an abandoned industrial complex. For some reason they take a sample from a Zombie. This is done with no gloves, and no face shield. Which of course means the Zombie the soldier is collecting a sample from coughs blood into his face and eyes.
We then get to meet Porosa, who rapidly gets bit, and hides it from the team. We get introduced to one more survivor before the soldier who caught the blood spit in his eyes blows his head off, apparently realizing he’s been infected.
The group is then overrun and forced to flee but the control center wants them to bring back samples – which happen to be with the soldier who blew his head off.
There is a lot of Zombie action, hordes of undead, a bombing run by jets, a motorcycle escape with lots of explosions, and then the team reaches The Wall, were the auto turrets are quickly turned on them. Luckily for the sole survivor, the guns can’t point down right at the base of the wall.
Wall Turrets
Zomblies Scoring
Zomblies is by far the longest episode so far, and it clearly had a much larger budget than the other shorts so far. There are good special effects, tons of Zombies and fighting, but, it only scored a 71/100.
Why? The plot is pretty bad, the dialogue is horrible, and people yell and scream for no reason that makes any sense. With a better story, better dialogue, and some slightly better directed actors, this could have been an awesome short, instead of being at the lower end of the Worth Your Time scale.
Fear of the Living Dead
This short begins at 1:50:30 and ends at 2:06:00.
Fear of the Living Dead opens with a young woman walking down the street, an axe in hand. The infection is two weeks old. She enters a home, her ax at the ready as she searches the home. In the back she finds a Zombie having some dinner, and does a little bit of Zombie whacking.
Time To Swing That Ax
With the house cleared she raids the cupboards for some supplies before heading out into the woods where she encounters a few more hungry undead which she quickly dispatches.
After finding a cabin to sleep in our heroine gets disturbed midway through the night be a female Zombie which she destroys quickly. Apparently she’s not so good about clearing spaces she’s going to be sleeping in?
Bitten!
The next day she finds another survivor who is alarmed by the bitemarks on her arm. She has been bitten, multiple times, but she thinks she is immune.
She wants to keep moving, but the male survivor wants to stay put. In the end the pull of company makes him follow her back out into the Zombie infested streets.
After entering a random home to find supplies, the male survivor uses his pistol to kill a Zombie inside the house, which brings all the local Zombies in to investigate.
Surrounded
Thanks to some luck and a few pistol shots the pair escapes, but not before our female survivor gets a few fingers bitten off. They find a vehicle and flee to a safe place.
This is when things take a turn. There is a nice little twist. It’s not overall original, but it was a surprise, which earned Fear of the Living Dead a 75/100. There isn’t much dialogue, and there is a “College Project” feel to Fear of the Living Dead, but it is Worth Your Time.
The final short opens with a man slowly going into his shed to fed his now Zombie girl. Jackie has clearly seen better days.
Jackie
After making his wife angry because he only has one cow brain, Jackie gets pissed. She clearly doesn’t remember her husband, and him yelling at her about their daughter doesn’t seem to do much.
Angered, Jackie escapes just as her husband trips, which results in him getting bitten. As she’s tearing into dinner, who comes to the stop of the steps but the daughter, and thus this very short short, ends.
Not Even Death has some good subtle backstory that was put in as the husband is talking about getting brains for Jackie, but the overall content isn’t anything new, which is why Not Even Death scored a 60/100.
This French short begins with a couple getting married, which includes a promise to send the other to heaven if they turn into one of the undead before jumping right into the action.
Zombie Killing Action
There is fairly nonstop, over the top Zombie killing action which culminates in the wife having to uphold her vows after her husband gets bitten. She uses a rocket on him and somehow gets bitten when his head lands on her leg.
The short ends with the two of them kidding, surrounded by other Zombies.
As silly as it was, I’m giving this episode an 80/100 as it jumped right into the action and didn’t let up.
There is nothing like heading to the Range to enjoy some Plinking. My son and I headed out and enjoyed some disaster prep range time.
It has been a crazy year so far.
I started to look for the last Range Day Post and realized I missed at least one or two days. I didn’t log taking new shooters out to plink for some reason – mostly because it slipped my mind.
Anyway, I settled on calling today Day 2.
My Steel Babies
I have to say that I really love my Case Club case. I am running out of room in my safes so having the ability to lock this up and then put it in a locked room gives me some extra space, and also means if I have to run for it I have a nice package of firepower that is easy to move.
The club put up these new green flexible targets, which were really odd to shoot at.
These targets are screwed to the wooden base, and meant to kind of wag when you shoot them as they don’t lie down. The real issue is that they don’t actually move all that much, to the point where its not clear if you are hitting them. We ended up wrapping one in a target to see, and sure enough we were hitting them. It’s just really hard to see, which makes me think that the rounds are moving so fast, and the targets are so soft that they just fly through them.
In any case we did have fun.
Plinking Targets
You can see that I am a little low and to the left, but since its a six inch target I’m still happy.
My Target
My son was shooting a bit faster than I was, and you can see how it impacted his grouping.
My son’s target.
If you look careful you can see where we each put a 12G slug through each target as well.
My brother went with us, but for some reason I failed to get pics of his targets.
Basic Safety is so important. This is a scary example of a new shooter sweeping her friends with her muzzle. Very Scary.
I take every new shooter to my local range. There is a wooden table between the shooters and the targets. That table is super important. I put one round in the weapon to start and tell the shooter to put it back down when they are done shooting. The weapon is always pointed down range. At all times.
This isn’t her fault. Whoever handed her that weapon should be standing right behind her to help her and assure everyone’s safety.
Be safe out there…
Basic Safety
Proper Grip and Stance
uns are not toys. Guns are not props for photo shoots. They are dangerous tools. Mishandle them and people will end up hurt.
Why do I show these videos and pictures? Because I like to go to the range and every one of these videos gives the non shooting public a bad impression of the total shooting community.
Always follow the four basic rules of Gun Safety:
Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction.
Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
Putting a gun down your crack with No Holster is just asking for an Accidental Discharge. It’s not safe. Use a Holster! If you are not careful your finger ends up on the trigger and instead of pulling the weapon free you pull the trigger back. That is going to put a bullet right into your butt unless you win the lottery and you put the round between the cheeks!
Never tuck a weapon in you pants (or bathing suite) – this is how you end up shooting yourself.
No Holster
Proper Grip and Stance
uns are not toys. Guns are not props for photo shoots. They are dangerous tools. Mishandle them and people will end up hurt.
Why do I show these videos and pictures? Because I like to go to the range and every one of these videos gives the non shooting public a bad impression of the total shooting community.
Always follow the four basic rules of Gun Safety:
Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction.
Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
Shooting while on Bad Footing is a bad practice. The weapon recoil can knock you off your feet and that can cause an accident discharge.
Big or small, it is always important to make sure your weapons are always in good condition and you are firing from a stable platform. If you are on Bad Footing you need to fix that before pulling the trigger! Most of us are going to try to stop the fall. That means there is the potential for an accidental discharge which could end disastrously!
This could have ended very poorly.
Bad Footing
Proper Grip and Stance
uns are not toys. Guns are not props for photo shoots. They are dangerous tools. Mishandle them and people will end up hurt.
Why do I show these videos and pictures? Because I like to go to the range and every one of these videos gives the non shooting public a bad impression of the total shooting community.
Always follow the four basic rules of Gun Safety:
Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction.
Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.
