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I’ve just had a weekend in Bratislava, Slovakia for a friend’s stag do – it was a pretty good trip all in all, we did the usual stag related activities (drinking Pilsner, eating, partying, strip joints), plus an activity I’d never done before – shooting guns.

Fuck yeah. I was really looking forward to this particular activity – you get driven out to a remote quarry with an English speaking guide, get some basic safety information, then are unleashed on a series of more powerful weaponry as the session goes on. We started off on Glocks firing 9mm bullets, which were ultimately my favourites (I’ve always preferred the idea of using a handgun) and moved up through Scorpion semi automatics, to AK47s, big ass shotguns and finally a sniper rifle.

The whole session was progressively scarier as the guns got bigger. Until you’ve held a gun with live ammunition in it, you don’t really realise how dangerous it feels. All in all, recommended if you can find somewhere that’s relaxed enough to let someone with no weapons training loose on heavy artillery.

Here’s me owning the targets with the Glock: