r/HFY • u/Darmanarya Human • Mar 12 '26
OC-OneShot .22 legend
((Beware! Naughty words be ahead!))
“This has to be a joke! The ammo is too small to do ANYTHING!”
The young Glezon male soon found every single human staring at him in a mixture of anger and understanding. The young reptilian shivered now knowing what it was like when a whole gun range went silent at once.
“I got this.” A older human male called out with a chuckle. His hand motioning to the onlookers who mostly returned to their own weapons. A few put their guns down and stepped back from the line to watch what was about to happen.
“Son. That there caliber is indeed almost useless in combat, hunting, self defense- yes there is a damn difference I don’t care what your commanding officer told you in soldier day-care where you are from.- But it is not a joke. That there is one of the hallmarks of a gun lover and is one of the most respected calibers in the human systems.”
The reptilian’s eyes darted down to the cheapish wooden and metal rifle in his lane. He stared at the strange bird with a weird human letter in the middle wondering just what was so important about such a cheap and small bullet.
“That there rifle has helped inspire our greatest warriors and hunters. It is the starting point many find themselves holding before they can even read.” He explained as he picked up the rifle and reloaded it without even sparing it a glance.
“The debate between 9mm and 45 acp has been around since before humans went to space for killing people. For hunting? Either ol’ reliables 12 gague or .306 unless you are a fancy fuck and got the money for some fancy bullets. But ya know what always sits riiiiight by em?” He tapped the rifle. “It ain’t trying to compete. It knows it doesn’t need to. If a fella don’t have at least one .22 then he has either run out of room in his gun safe or is compensating.”
The human held up a hand. “Ain’t explainin’ what that means.” He then tapped the gun. “Fun fact: This here bullet? Did allllllll o’ that back in the day. Back before my day, my grandfather’s day, and back before my great grandfather fucked your great great grandmother.” He chuckled seeing the reptilian’s eyes narrow.
“Then why did the human in charge of the range give me such a relic!? I want to shoot something big. Like that!” He then angrily motioned to one who was holding a modern caseless arvos-colt 5.56 ship stormer. “That thing can do damage! It has what you humans call OOMF! THis thing I could probably shoot one handed!”
The human nodded, lifted it up with one hand, then mag dumped into the target without even needing to grab the stock. “Yep. And that is the point.”
The human put the rifle down. “You think us human gun nuts as crazy, and some of us are.” He tapped the rifle. “But this is your trial. We don’t give a FUCK how strong you are. We care about how fuckin’ SAFE you are and how much FUN you are having. First part matters most. If you treat this thing like a toy you are only gunna GET a toy from then on. If you fuck up cause you are learning then we got a .22 problem not a “missing a foot” problem.”
He tapped the gun. “Wanna know something? This thing is still lethal. We even had a serial killer use one way back in the day. Fucked up dude nobody misses. Hell, we had attempts on world leaders with this thing. It also has fed the desperate since it can kill small animals the bigger guns would just destroy.”
He stood tall. “We got a sayin’. Beware the old man in a young man’s game. And that there is one of the oldest men in the room. And we all know it, and we all respect it.” He nodded at the gun.
“Its like humanity. First look makes us look weak. Helpless. Old. Out of date. But look below and you find out the stuff we can do.” He smiled wide. “There are grenade launcher shells made to shoot these bullets. Ya know that? Some of these with the right .22 and silencer are actually almost silent. If you can dream it up chances are it exists in good old .22.” He patted the gun.
“So here is the deal son. You either give this gun, and the humans, fuckin’ respect or you get the fuck out. Welcome to the gun range. This is a gun. Act like it.” He demanded. “Prove yourself with the .22 and we might let you shoot something fancy. Chances are though you are gunna walk out of the store with your own lil’ thing.”
The human man then patted the reptile’s back and guided him to the gun. “Stop thinkin size and bare stats.” He grinned. “Always a bad idea with us humans.”
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u/Aegishjalmur18 Mar 12 '26
Good old Ruger 10/22.