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Caption This for 07/23/10

Posted July 22, 2010 4:45 PM
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07/22/2010 4:53 PM

What do ya mean, this isn't the right cartridge?

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07/22/2010 5:05 PM

Things that only happen when Elmer Fudd is your hunters safety instructor.

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07/22/2010 5:06 PM

So where you hunting Duwk or Wabbit?
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07/22/2010 5:09 PM

Just saw it off at the stock (and maybe a bit of the stock too). It will still work just fine for pigeons!

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07/22/2010 6:05 PM

With minor modifications to the rifle, Homer was able to shoot four pigeons at one time.

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07/22/2010 10:36 PM

Quadruple by-pass gone wrong. Kidney will fail next.

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07/23/2010 2:18 AM

Cavendish is in no danger of extinction, knot if bananna hunting becomes the knew craze!
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07/23/2010 3:12 AM

OK, so why does it look like one of Del's crossbows?

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07/23/2010 3:45 AM

Bill was starting to regret saying yes when his son asked to borrow his gun for an art project
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07/23/2010 4:25 AM

And this is the new zipper barrel for easy cleaning.
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07/23/2010 4:28 AM

We call this our 'Goldman Sachs' model...
it seems great then it blows up in your face
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07/23/2010 6:17 AM

You think this is something, you should see the finger of my partner after we tested this urban myth!

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07/23/2010 7:44 AM

He was bi-polar and cross-eyed and didn't see a thing wrong with it.

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07/23/2010 7:54 AM

Superman is still amazed when the villain pulls the trigger after he has tied the barrel into a knot.

He is reported to comment, "After all these years , you would think they would know better"

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07/23/2010 8:16 AM

They went that-a-way.

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07/23/2010 8:21 AM

Dang, that wascally wabbit.
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07/23/2010 8:30 AM

I thought I ordered an improved cylider barrel
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07/23/2010 10:08 AM

The effect of Robin Hood time traveling to modern times

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07/23/2010 10:16 AM

And you thought this only happened in cartoons

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07/23/2010 10:23 AM

I can't get it sighted in!

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07/23/2010 10:25 AM

Gun for sale, slight blemish on barrel!

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07/23/2010 10:30 AM

Don't worry, that will buff right out.
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07/23/2010 10:38 AM

Root cause analysis: Barrel too long.

Solution: Shorten barrel.

Comments: shooter whined about the unusually harsh recoil
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07/23/2010 12:21 PM

Q. What's the difference between that rifle and a constipated owl?
A. That rifle will shoot but not hit...
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07/24/2010 12:00 AM

How could this have escaped all the rest of the warped minds out there?

That rifle will shoot but not hit...

Come on people, this is priceless!!!!!!!!

Cat humor at it's best.
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07/24/2010 7:51 AM

Bad Kitty!

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08/27/2010 6:17 PM

YOWZA!!
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07/23/2010 3:05 PM

That's a real crack shot.

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07/23/2010 3:06 PM

Like my new scatter gun?

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07/23/2010 4:04 PM

I told you what would happen if you stuck your finger in the barrel! But did you listen? NOOOOOO!

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07/23/2010 6:14 PM

Was that 30 grains powder to 250 grains lead?

Or 250 grains powder to 30 grains lead?

Oh well, lets try em both and see what works best!

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07/23/2010 8:37 PM

Remington's latest work in progress is the all-new multi-function umbrella-rifle.

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07/23/2010 10:59 PM

They found the bear on the next ridge, dead from a cleaning rod through the heart.

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07/24/2010 3:27 AM

Another fine product from ACME. (U gotta wonder if W sends anything back to them for warranty repairs)

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07/24/2010 7:00 AM

Intel on the Osama 2000 kitchen-sink Corner Shot deemed it to be in the hazardous experimental stages. Unknown sources have offered technical help on further bending and magnetic rounds.
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07/24/2010 11:18 AM

Here's your problem, the scope is on backwards!

"I wondered why I could never get close enough."

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07/24/2010 11:24 AM

Now introducing; "The Squid Ray" It stops the perpetrator with a precise blast of ink!

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07/25/2010 5:28 PM

They had warned him not to bring a gun to a knife fight!
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07/26/2010 2:31 AM

I wanna see the knife that did that.

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You guessed it, it's the Ginsu

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07/26/2010 11:44 AM

Made in China ??
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08/02/2010 3:24 AM

Bubba's solution to puzzel: HOW TO MAKE RIFLE STAND ON BARRELL.
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Yeah! Boomerang bullet works at last! S.M.
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