Anyway, they shoot these little plastic BBs. Not the metal-ish ones like when we were kids. So when I got back to my hotel room, I, like ANY guy would, played with my gun. I learned some things, which I text-messaged to the others, just to prevent them from learning the hard way like myself. Among those tips:
1) Don't shoot at anything perpendicularly, as it will bounce right back at you
2) Don't shoot at anything glass, as it WILL break
And just so you know this isn't a stupid Shawn thing, but rather a stupid guy thing, the groom added to the list:
3) Don't shoot yourself in the foot to see if it hurts, because it does
AFTER (instead of before... again, it's a guy thing) I had my unfortunate incident with the hotel glass, I read the manual. Some of those same warnings are there, though they are worded differently. They specifically warn about bounce-back. And shooting at living things. Except you can tell the manual was translated from non-English as it says "do not shoot at the creature", with an image of a person next to that statement. Funny.
Also interesting was the performance stats... 65 foot range and a projectile velocity of 190 feet per second (more than a hundred miles per hour). For comparison purposes, a 9mm shoots up close to a thousand feet per second. So, almost 1/5 the speed of a real bullet, not too shabby. Had I seen that little stat before I started "playing", probably I don't then shoot at the glass.
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