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seamusTX wrote:I've met NcongruNt. Nice guy. I've lost track of him.

I rarely have dreams that involve firearms. However, I had one last week. I dreamt that (a) it was back in something like 1986 when my son was a baby, and (b) one of my shirt-tail relatives was involved. I was screaming at the guy that I was going to shoot him. Problem is, I started screaming out loud and my wife practically went through the ceiling.

The kind of dream where you are being attacked and fighting back doesn't work is rather common.

- Jim

I'm still around. I'm more active in the reloading and rifle/shotgun areas these days. Having gotten married and started some projects, I don't devote as much time to the forum as I used to.

I almost gave you a call a couple of days ago to see if you wanted to get together, being down your way with my wife's family this past weekend. We hitched a ride with her parents though, so I didn't have transportation of my own to meet up with you and decided against it. I'll let you know next time I'm down your way. I haven't had a good round of skeet in a while.

I will still every once in a while have a gun dream, but only maybe once a year. I guess they've become more normal and everyday for me, so they don't tend to show up as often.

Most of my gun nightmares involve equipment failure more than anything else. I had a dream the other night where I was fighting in some sort of street warfare with a Dragunov rifle, but it was like I was shooting on primers only. My shots weren't having any affect, and were barely breaking skin at a range of about 20 yards. I wasn't even getting enough recoil force for ejection and had to cycle each round manually.

When I first got my license, I was in a living situation that did not allow me to have a gun in the house (under my lease agreement). I had a nightmare where I needed my pistol because of a nighttime break in, but it was locked up in my van. I moved shortly after getting my license, and the main reason was the "no guns" issue. I've not had this one again.

I had a dream a couple of months ago similar to the Dragunov one, where my PA-63 exhibited the same behavior - the gun fires but does nothing to its intended target. It was a nighttime break in, and my gun had no effect, even after multiple shots at point-blank range.

I've read on these forums that it's a relatively common dream for police officers to have... pull the trigger and nothing happens. It certainly seems to be a recurring theme for me thus far.

I need to get to the range and work out the cobwebs in my head. Someday I'll buy that Dragunov. I sure do dream about it enough.