**This is a guest post from our beloved community member, cheep thrills.

I’d like to take a moment and talk about the trip to Rampart in March of 1999. Let’s take a special look into the 16 minutes from a professional standpoint. Too start off with, some background:

The camera used was the school’s property, I believe the Sony 8mm. The parties involved include Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, Mark Manes, Phil Duran, and Jessica Miklich. We start off with E&D shooting sawed-off shotguns, one pump action & one side-by-side double barrel into a bowling pin tucked into a tree fork with buckshot & slugs. Right away, Dylan injures his hand and seems to love the pain and makes a statement about hurting his wrist & blood. This is an example of an inexperienced teen with a sawed-off 12 gauge. The force and kick changes dramatically once the stocks is removed and the barrel has been cut. You will see the force throughout the video from different perspectives.

The next part directly after the tree inspection, we see Dylan chamber the Tec-DC9 in an attempt to shoot the pin that’s tucked into the tree, but one thing I noticed was his first shot… then a stutter step forward and pause, even someone else chuckled watching. Then he attempts multiple times each time moving closer and closer to the target popping his neck in a fit of frustration. Then there’s the troll “yayyyyyy” when he connects with an awkward silence. From my experience, I would guess this may have been the first time Dylan shot the Tec.

Also, I’d like to note the small section of Harris shooting his High-Point, which is the only footage of that carbine being shot. Next, we have Mark Manes saying “party time” toting a Ruger Mini series Rifle. This particular model rifle is highly customized with a Chote folding stock, barrel shroud, 30-round magazine, and a scope. The older mini 180-189 series had thin barrels and were notorious for having barrel warp during prolonged firing, causing them to be highly inaccurate.

I believe Mark’s was an older 189 Series. What I can’t say is what model/caliber it is, it’s either the -14(.233) or -30 (7.62×39). It may also be considered an older ranch model since it has a mounted scope (scope ring mounts installed), but Ruger didn’t start roll marking their rifles “ranch rifles” until 2000’s, so even though it’s a ranch rifle it’s gonna be roll-marked as Mini-14/30 still.

Back to the Vid… he obviously can’t hit anything with the scope or iron sights as we later see in video and this issue goes with everyone. Notice the segment of Harris attaching what appears to be a barrel shroud extender to the Tec-DC9. This device mocks as a silencer, but allows one to extend the forward grip hand further out. I wonder where the extension ended up? I’m sure it came with the purchase of the firearm.

The trigger discipline on Jessica makes me cringe. She even waves a loaded pistol around later on in the video unsafely. Off camera, Phil bumps his eye on the optic from the rifle’s blowback.

I’d like to take this time to address the failure to feed issues with the Mini that Mark’s having. Now he has ripped the optic off and we can see the visible integrated scope mounts making his Mini a Ranch Rifle model most likely a 189 series’s. His FTF issues are from the high capacity magazine which I suspect would be aftermarket. He states it to be a problem with the ammo, but that’s not the case since the bullet fires and extracts, it’s the weak magazine springs that fail to support the next round up into the chamber causing mushy feeds.

Next, we have Phil and the Mini’s mag filled up to the maximum capacity which was causing bolt drag and lockup while he was trying to chamber a round and what the hell is Dylan thinking when he points a loaded gun at Phil? I can imagine there was little to no thinking involved. Dylan then asks for Eric’s left glove, how touching, but didn’t he hurt his hand in the beginning with the shotgun? Why is he just now asking for a glove?

Next, I’d like to address the semi-auto pistol that can be seen shot by Eric & Mark & Jessica. It appears to be a Ruger P-series semi-auto pistol in stainless, caliber unknown. A common double action 90’s gun that’s heavy and bulky and came in an assortment of calibers.

Phil makes a reference to Dylan while he pauses, shooting the Ruger pistol in an attempt to be safe while Dylan is waving it around. He states its “double action and it’s still loaded.” Mark chimes in momentarily and says “that’s not what double action means.” Mark’s statement is wrong and Phil’s was right all along. The semi-auto pistol can be fired in double or single action. It fired, then chambered a round, and is ready to fire hence 2 actions; and is ready to fire again.

Next thing I saw that’s shockingly scary is Jessica shooting one of the sawed-offs. It looks as if it literally jumped out of her control. What’s the deal with people saying “right up his or its ass” in these vids?

Thanks for reading my analysis and I’d like to take this time to thank all the great researchers that helped me understand some things I didn’t know!