[zimmerstutzen]

A fellow that I had done some work for came by with a little extra something.

A full regulation size 500 meter ram made out of 1/2 inch A500.

I'm thinking I am going to play a joke on the Mrs. I put the think down along side the goat pasture and when she notices and says there's a goat out. I go out with the the percussion rifle and shoot that darn "escapee"

I don't have room for a 500 meter range (at least not without clearing a lot of trees) but I have 100 yd. I am gonna hang it and I am gonna use it for long range muzzle loading pistol shooting. Haven't done any of that in a while. It makes a fairly loud clang when hit.

[72coupe]

You should repaint it to match your real goats first.

[Jaymo]

(zimmerstutzen) "Damn, honey. That's one TOUGH goat!! "

[foghornl]

When Mrs. Zimmer catches on to the joke.....

You may find yourself being smitten about the head & shoulders with your BP revolver...

[Busyhands94]

Very cool! I've been thinking about making some steel silhouettes for muzzleloaders and .22 rimfire. Shooting long range with BP rifles or rimfires is a lot of fun, although cans get boring after a while. Empty propane canisters are fun, same with steel gongs. I've got a nice little 6" steel gong I hang at 100 yards for my .22's. Steel targets are definitely fun!

You should get out the paint and paint it to look like a real goat. Use blonde and brown for the horns, grey or black (whatever color your goats are) for the fur, and do it up right.

Then get a Remmy and pick the thing off from a good distance away Dirty Harry style. :neener:

~Levi

[zimmerstutzen]

the target is already white, as are the goats.

Busyhands. At a local community recycling center, I saw a pile of discs from a dismantled farm implement. The discs are hardened steel and tough as tool steel. They withstand round balls just fine but a minnie ball can dent or crack them. I hung a few of them with chains to shoot. Ruined two drill bits each to drill holes to hang them.

[Jaymo]

Dang, are those discs from a harrow? If so, they should make pretty good knife steel.

[72coupe]

Jaymo the generally have a pretty good curve in them that would be hard to flatten.

[Jaymo]

That's what the forge and anvil are for. :)

[dlviolin]

My son makes a great work out of them...weld a piece of steel in the axle hole, attach a couple of re-bar handles...you're good to go!

[4v50 Gary]

Minies do hit harder than round ball. How did Mrs Zimmer respond?