Thanks to the great power of cinema, even a person who has never held a firearm in his life has a clear understanding of what shooting from a pistol or machine gun is like a, machine gun and grenade launcher, how all these weapons work and what can be done with it.
But in reality everything turns out completely differently. It’s a pity that this simple truth is revealed only to those who have forced themselves to go to the shooting range at least once to check whether they can shoot as smartly as the heroes militants
Shooting sport is one of the oldest. It all started with the bow and crossbow, and in 1896 rifle and pistol shooting competitions were included in the program of the first Olympic Games. However, ideas about bullet shooting are full of illusions. Let's try to debunk at least some of them.
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1. Only lazy people engage in shooting
This is what some mothers think, who unsuccessfully tried to instill in their child a love of hockey, volleyball, and football, but for some reason he became better at shooting. Actually, to each his own. And laziness has nothing to do with it.
Classic shooting creates a very heavy static load on the musculoskeletal system, so it is better for the frail and weak to first strengthen their muscles, and only then sign up for James Bond. By the way, this is why it is not recommended to engage in this sport until the age of 12–13.
2. Shooting will miraculously turn a hyperactive child into a calm yogi, so it is useful for fidgets
It is interesting that coaches and experts advise calm and balanced children to engage in this sport, while shooting statics that are too active will seem like a difficult challenge.
Shooting teaches you to control emotions, helps you become more attentive, balanced, and develops self-control. Some athletes, they say, can, like yogis, lower their heart rate so that it does not interfere with shooting. Really?
3. This is one of the easiest sports in which physical effort is kept to a minimum.
Some people imagine it this way: know, pull the trigger - only accuracy is needed. In reality, everything looks different: for 5-6 hours in a row, the shooter repeatedly lifts a rifle that weighs about 8 kg. An athlete loses 2–3 kg in one outing! Who there wanted to lose weight?
4. Is this a sport?
Shooting classes also include general physical training. The guys run, do pull-ups, and do push-ups. Shooting will not harm only a strong body. Remember the shooter's stance? The arch of the back is quite strong. Imagine the load on the spine if the position does not change for an hour and a half. Exercises from other sports, swimming, and yoga will help you stay healthy. So the activities are not limited to the shooting range, and the athlete develops harmoniously.
5. No need to think: bang-bang - and you’re done.
But abroad, shooting is classified as a psychological sport. Much depends on the athlete’s internal state, on self-control. A shooter with a weapon is the finest system. Just like in chess, thinking ahead is very important. This programs attention directed both to one’s internal state (muscle tone, stability of the stance, state of readiness) and to an external goal (position of the front sight relative to the aiming point).
The theoretical foundations are easy to understand; it is difficult to work on yourself. It’s also easy to aim accurately, but it’s incredibly difficult to sort out your thoughts. The point is not to hit the bull's eye, but to repeat this result forty times in a row, and for this you need to control the smallest movement of the body and everything that happens in the head.
6. Anyone can do it if they want to.
However, like any other sport, bullet shooting has contraindications. These are diseases of the nervous, muscular and endocrine systems, mental illnesses, epilepsy, deformation of bones and joints, heart defects and hypertension, blood diseases and some vision defects.
7. Bullet shooting is the most dangerous sport
Although the weapon itself is very dangerous, accidents are practically excluded due to the trainer's continuous work on safety precautions. For example, here are some rules: always treat the weapon as if it were loaded and do not point it where you are not going to shoot, do not put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot. Compliance with them allows you to compare shooting with chess in terms of safety.
8. There will always be enough cartridges
Almost all famous action films are guilty of this - endless cartridges. Sometimes the main character can fire a pistol without reloading for 2-3 minutes. For information, the most “voluminous” pistol magazine can hold up to 33 rounds of cartridges, at an average rate of fire this will be enough for 30 seconds.
In addition, “sniper” shooting, when one shot - one corpse, is nothing more than an unattainable ideal. The cartridges will fly away much faster than you would like. And if you remember that in some countries, by law, a pistol cannot be loaded with more than 10 rounds, then it becomes not at all interesting. Until you acquire the useful habit of carrying a couple of spare magazines with you and technically changing them. But you will have to learn this too. And keep in mind that you will have to act in very extreme conditions.
By the way, it’s better not to carry more than three stores with you - it’s useless. If you haven’t laid down an aggressor during all this time, then you have problems with your hands. And if there are too many of them, then the problems are already from a different category of complexity, in which a gun can only prolong the agony.
9. Shooting a pistol at limbs
As movies teach us, a bullet in the knee will reliably calm the enemy. You just need to hit this knee. Shooting a pistol in a stressful situation is difficult in itself. Multiply it by the difficulty of shooting at a moving target, and then increase it by another 10 times, since you need to hit a fairly small point. This is really difficult, although it is possible. But even specialists study this for quite a long time, but it’s still not a fact that they can then apply it in real combat conditions. So, alas, shooting at the limbs is not a solution to all problems.
10. Pistols with a polymer body are not scanned by security scanners
What can I say, “polymer weapons” are really worse visible on X-rays than weapons with a metal body. But you can still see them! The outline of the pistol (characteristic, to put it mildly) is still visible.
In addition, even polymer pistols have metal parts: drum, bolt, trigger mechanism. So how can you not detect them? So what if they have lightweight polymer bodies. The contours and metal parts are here to stay.
Talks about the features of shooting as a sportDARIA ZAKHAROVA (analytical chemist, 23 years old):
“I came to this sport quite recently: I’ve only been doing it for two months. I got there by accident. We were walking with a friend, she suggested that we “go shoot” at a competition. I performed and got good results. The coach advised me to go to the section. I was excited - it was very interesting to try. And here I am.
The theoretical foundations are easy to understand; it is difficult to work on yourself. It’s also easy to aim accurately, but it’s incredibly difficult to sort out your thoughts. The point is not to hit the bull's eye, but to repeat this result forty times in a row, and for this you need to control the smallest movement of the body and everything that happens in the head. Can you imagine how you can achieve such a sustainable, predictable result?
Only with total self-control. So I took aim and inhaled at the wrong time - and that’s it, the result was not the same. Or she didn’t pull the trigger straight, but slightly to the right. Or she moved her jaw a little - but the rifle was pressed to her cheek. And before the shot itself it starts to twitch. The shooter needs to keep all these moments under control and work with his nervous system.
Muscles must be developed to be obedient. And a static pose, when you do not have the right to even the slightest movement... Not everyone can stand this. It is no coincidence that the Olympic shooting champions swam, ran, and did pull-ups - their physical fitness was the strongest.
After training, the shooter must analyze what went wrong and why the result was lower than expected. Without this, you will not be able to improve your performance. An amazing sport."
On forums Experienced shooters share their insights the advantages of this particular sport.
- There is no age limit. A seventy-year-old shooter won the gold medal at a competition a hundred years ago. A lot here is determined by endurance and patience, and teenagers often lack these qualities. When learning to shoot, it doesn't matter whether a person learns quickly, it all depends on the ability to concentrate.
- This olympic sport, you can conquer Olympus - there is something to strive for.
- Shooting teaches you to control emotions, helps you become more attentive, balanced, and develops self-control. Some athletes, they say, can, like yogis, lower their heart rate so that it does not interfere with shooting. Really?
- Like any other sport, shooting develops character, strengthens willpower, endurance, disciplines. Teaches responsibility: lack of composure can cost the life of another person.
- Working with weapons develops the eye, A makes your hand hard.
- Shooting lessons give experience that may be in demand, if not in an emergency (we hope this doesn’t happen), then for fun, for example while hunting.
- This interesting hobby with an aura of detective romance. It’s especially cool if a girl does the shooting.
It seems like the fun in shooting happens on the inside, not on the outside. This mental training creates the most accurate mechanism out of the athlete, producing the most accurate shot at any time, anywhere, in any condition. You can't say more precisely.
Shooting toys can be bought in a store without any problems, but you can successfully make them yourself. On the pages of the website Secret of the Master, various designs of cool toys are considered, from the simplest to the more complex, which, in addition to gaming and experimental purposes, can bring practical benefits, for example, in protecting crops from pests at the dacha.
How to make an office cannon with your own hands
A simple gun design invented to carry out “office wars”. A projectile is a sheet of paper or a light ball crumpled into a ball. The gun does not allow firing in a straight line, but it shoots well with a canopy, which allows you to bypass obstacles in the form of office partitions;). The gun can be easily made with your own hands from a plastic bottle and rubber bands. For details, watch the video and.
How to make a rubber gun with your own hands
Rubber gunA simple wooden automatic three-shot pistol. The pistol fits comfortably in the hand. It is cut out of plywood with a hand jigsaw; you only need to cut out 4 parts. The gun fires rubber bands. With such a pistol it is easy to organize a small airsoft game in an apartment or on the street. We look at the drawings of the gun stencil (link at the end of the blog). Load your homemade pistol carefully according to the instructions. For safety reasons, wear safety glasses.
How to make a vortex cannon with your own hands
A wonderful weapon for children's games and experiments. The gun shoots... with air, an invisible toroidal vortex erupts from the barrel, which moves in the direction of the shot for some distance. A safe thing for children to play with weapons and remotely “destruct” toy buildings. Design details are shown in the video and.
How to make a pneumatic machine gun with your own hands
If you have an air compressor with a receiver on your household, then you have every opportunity to make a game console for the compressor. The weapon was adapted to the available ammunition - rowan and pea, and accordingly the machine guns were called rowan launcher and pea launcher. The design of a homemade machine gun is simple. It is based on manual blowing, which makes it easy to control the weapon. For manufacturing details, see the video.
How to make a gas gun with your own hands
When repeating this design, strictly follow the safety rules. You build a gas gun at your own peril and risk and take ALL responsibility for the construction, use, consequences of using this device, as well as for any damage caused. The authors summarized the accumulated experience in building potato cannons and tried to use ready-made elements in the design. In total, three types of guns of different calibers were designed.
Mini gun 32 mm caliber
The gun is made by hand in the shape of a pistol and shoots small balls. A reliable piezo spark source will not create problems. The gun is used for target shooting competitions. Requires some experience when loading. See production details
Gas apple potato gun 50 mm caliber
Gas gunThis is a serious design in terms of sound and projectile. The main application is to imitate the sound of a hunting rifle shot to scare away birds. A reliable budget gun, but only if used correctly and sparingly. Strictly follow safety rules and assembly recommendations. See how to make an Apple Gun
The other day, law enforcement officials discovered an arsenal of weapons from the Great Patriotic War era in the possession of a 66-year-old resident of the city of Dedovsk (Istra district, Moscow region). The pensioner kept a variety of rarities - from a Walther P38 pistol to two machine guns, and, according to the owner, they were bought in ordinary markets. Illegal arsenals of this size are rarely encountered by police; more often they come across all sorts of homemade weapons, which modern “Kulibins” with a passion for firearms assemble from improvised means. I present to your attention the most unusual handicraft “trunks” seized by the security forces.
Homemade pistols and shotguns
In March 2014, police from the Krutikhinsky district of the Altai Territory visited a 43-year-old local resident who had previously been convicted and was unemployed. The man who abused alcohol turned out to be very inquisitive: he studied old books and magazines and made weapons from them. Law enforcement officers seized an arsenal of three pistols and a shotgun from the self-taught gunsmith, and opened a criminal case upon the discovery of handicraft guns. 
Atypical smoothbore firearms chambered for 5.6 millimeter caliber cartridges 
In October 2015, during a search of a 37-year-old man at the Kochkovatskaya station (Omsk region), police discovered a mysterious homemade device on him. The examination showed that the homemade product is suitable for firing 5.6 millimeter caliber (“small”) cartridges. The owner of the unusual find explained that he found it seven years ago in his brother’s house. For many years, the crossbow lay idle, until finally its owner went to the forest to pick mushrooms, deciding at the same time to shoot from an unusual device. He came with him to the station, but did not wait for the train because he was detained by the police.
Homemade pistol chambered for 9 mm caliber cartridges 
In May 2015, in the village of Novy Rogachik (Volgograd Region), criminal investigation officers detained a 24-year-old local resident, from whom a 9 mm caliber pistol was seized. As it turned out, an unemployed young man made it himself. The only cartridge for the seized pistol also turned out to be homemade.
Homemade shooting device in the form of a pen 
In January 2014, law enforcement agencies in Voronezh detained four men aged from 40 to 65 years old who were involved in the manufacture and sale of weapons, ammunition and explosives. During searches in their apartment, law enforcement officers found 3,400 rounds of ammunition, about 400 grams of gunpowder, a sawn-off shotgun and three foreign revolvers. But the most exotic find was a homemade shooting device in the form of a pen.
Homemade multi-shot revolver chambered for 5.6 mm caliber cartridges 
In November 2016, law enforcement officers seized a homemade revolver chambered for a 5.6 mm caliber cartridge from a 55-year-old resident of the village of Arkhangelskoye (Stavropol Territory). The owner of the homemade product was taken into custody, and the police opened a criminal case upon the discovery of the revolver.
Homemade submachine gun 
In September 2012, police discovered a pensioner from the village of Udobnaya (Krasnodar Territory) with an entire arsenal of weapons: 171 cartridges for a pistol, machine gun, carbine and machine gun, two packs of gunpowder, a homemade revolver and even a homemade submachine gun. Upon discovery of the arsenal, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, their main parts, ammunition.”
Homemade pistol with a rifled barrel chambered for a small-caliber 5.6 mm cartridge 
In July 2013, two 50-year-old residents of the city of Zima (Irkutsk region) were fishing on the banks of the Igna River and found a package that contained a 16-caliber smoothbore gun and a homemade pistol with a rifled barrel chambered for a small-caliber 5.6 mm cartridge. The fishermen took the found weapons to the police and received a cash reward.
Homemade firearms 
In April 2013, Irkutsk police reported the destruction of more than 1,800 weapons in the steel smelting furnace of the local Kuibyshev plant. Among these trunks were those seized, voluntarily surrendered, found, and used as evidence in criminal cases. Very interesting samples of homemade firearms also went into the oven. The photo shows one of them. 
One of the handicraft “trunks” destroyed in Irkutsk.
Homemade muzzle-loading firearm 
On January 24, 2017, police from the Atyashevsky district of the Republic of Mordovia detained an unemployed local resident, who, during a personal search, was found to have a suspicious device. The man explained that he made it to scare away stray dogs. True, the examination showed that this was a homemade muzzle-loading firearm, and therefore a criminal case was opened against the unlucky gunsmith under Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, their main parts, ammunition.”
Shooting device 
In November 2015, police from the Belogorsky district of Crimea, by court order, conducted a search in the home of a 55-year-old man. Law enforcement officers seized a homemade weapon from the owner of the home, which he had made from a tree branch that looked like a pistol handle and a metal tube. This miracle of engineering fired shells with a diameter of up to 7.7 millimeters. The man explained that he needed the weapon to hunt nutria. Based on the discovery, law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, their main parts, ammunition”).
Single-barreled ramrod-loading pistol with a barrel diameter of 5.6 mm 
In June 2015, in the city of Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk region), police, as part of operational search activities, inspected the home of a 19-year-old local resident who had been repeatedly convicted. In his closet, law enforcement officers came across a mysterious object, which, as an examination showed, is a homemade single-barreled ramrod-loading pistol with a barrel diameter of 5.6 millimeters, firing homemade bullets. The owner of the unusual “trunk” claimed that he kept it for self-defense, which did not prevent the police from opening a criminal case against “Kulibin”.
In our turbulent times, the need for self-defense is simply enormous. Some may say that special government services should protect citizens. This is true.
But such protection is not always effective. Alas, very often people have to take care of themselves. There are situations from which it is simply impossible to get out of it in any other way except to respond to the attack.
Perhaps such actions may not always completely coincide with the letter of the law, but life and health are more important than any laws. Therefore, every person should have something with him. Or be able to make it in time from available materials. Read this article on how to make a self-defense weapon with your own hands.
Which weapon is better to choose for defense?
In some cases, you can use improvised means to fight off the enemy. It could be a stone, a stick, or just a pile of sand thrown into your eyes.
But such funds are not always available at the right time. In addition, a person may simply get confused and forget about everything.
It’s another matter if a person is already prepared for self-defense. He has a developed plan for such incidents and defensive means at hand. In a world where danger can be found anywhere, you just need to be prepared.
And, above all, a person must have means of protection. Such, for example, as or , or . You can buy them in a store, but it is much more profitable and reliable to use homemade self-defense means. This type of weapon does not need to be registered anywhere, hidden securely and there is no fear of losing it. And it’s quite possible to do it yourself.
Making a baton
A baton is the simplest and most reliable means of defense. It’s impossible to imagine anything simpler. It can be made of wood, rubber or any other material.
This is a pretty accurate weapon. It can be used to deliver quick and powerful strikes.
As a result, severe damage may be caused to the enemy. The main disadvantage of this means of self-defense is the size of the baton. It is inconvenient to carry with you.
Accordingly, it is better to use it at home, protecting the home and its inhabitants from intruders.
Nunchakus
Nunchakus are the most common DIY self-defense weapon made of wood. Using the nunchuk requires certain skills.
They are unlikely to help the person who picked them up for the first time. But a little training will fix everything. Nunchucks are superior to batons due to their convenience. They are smaller and lighter. They are easier to carry with you.
Making nunchucks with your own hands is quite simple. You only need two wooden sticks. Their size can vary from 15 to 30 centimeters.
You need to make a hole at their ends and connect them with a rope or chain. Due to the fact that they are made of two parts, there is almost no shock absorption.
Note: In addition to striking, you can also defend yourself with nunchucks. They will be able to avert a blow from a knife or other object.
Sling
This is a very ancient type of weapon. Memories of him can be found in the legend of David and Goliath. But you can defend yourself with this remedy even now.
To make it you need a simple lace. At one end you need to make a loop. Make a bed for the projectile in the middle. Any small solid object can serve as a projectile. Even a simple pebble.
The sling is used as follows. We put the loop on the hand, insert the projectile into the stock. The other end of the rope must be held tightly in the same hand. After the sling picks up speed, the free end must be released.
The projectile will take off and fly in the direction in which the hand is pointing. Moreover, such a blow will have much more power than if the stone was simply thrown. If you don’t have a sling at hand, you can use a T-shirt or belt as a sling.
You should always think about safety. Moreover, making self-defense means with your own hands is not at all difficult. Watch a video on how to make homemade nunchucks for self-defense and training using improvised materials with your own hands:
