The incredible disappearing penny ...

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I took some drink tokens (like Chuckie Cheese tokens) to the range. I taped them to the front of a 8" deep box. At 100 yards a .308 blew them through the front of the box, but they bounced off the back of the box and all I had to do was open the box and shake the coins out. Much simpler than building a 4x4 contraption, etc.
 
Golf balls do heal themselves, sort of...

This one was hit by a 6.5-06 at 500 meters. The small black dimple close to 3 o'clock is the entrance wound. (The other black specks were the remnants of the silver paint covering the ball before the bullet hit) The backside of the ball is blown out, and the rubber windings unravelled for quite a long time once the ball stopped moving. It still amazes me how small the entrance hole is!


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Pax, I blew several quarters through a cardboard target backer before I figured out what I was doing wrong. Success was achieved at last, a .308 from a Remington 700PSS at 100 yards:

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A good day at the range, makes for good reading,too. You have some fortunate children.

In reguards to the small hole left in the golf balls. When I was in the service we shot m-16s at pop-up targets that were made of fibre-glass and the holes melted shut from the heat of the round going thru it. I shouldn't say shut but reduced in size to about .17 cal.with a raised melted edge. Could the heat of the round do that to something the size of a golf ball???
 
Yes a penny will get drilled by a .22...*ahem*.

Ok there is another way to "deprime" a shotgun hull...granted it won't take new primer afterwards...

The pc of plywood just happend to have holes drilled that accepted an inserted shell - but not allow the case head to push through- imagine that! :p

Funny thing is this plywood had holes that accepted 12, 20, 28, .410 and lo and behold some 30-30 and various others cases - even 22 lr.

Gets real challenging with the .410...and 22 lr. sizes. I found a way to cheat... I used shotgun slugs. :D Didn't find them of course but hey you find the hull and case and show me I "didn't hit them". ;)


I also cheated with the pennies on the RR track. Train was unloading the circus..."Mister will you be backing up soon?" [me as a kid with a handful of pennies] Engineer grinning...he knew. So yep sure enough he needed to back up and made sure I was clear...he rolled back and walla.

I wasn't supposed to be down at the tracks...dumb me shows mom the pennies...( duh -kinda obvious where I had been). I didn't get in trouble for the RR tracks ...spilling Brasso on the couch didn't go over to well though. :uhoh:

Somehow I survived - more surprising - my mom survived bringing me up.
 
Pax

Just a thought...Take a piece of plywood two feet square by 3/4 inch thick, then glue the pennys to the plywood with contact cement about 3 or four inches apart. That's 30 to 40 three quarter inch targets that wont fly a hundred yards down range when you hit them.:D



Contact cement is a great aid for all sorts of projects...like glueing coins to rail road tracks to flatten them out.:D
 
Pennies make great targets <--cheap.

Helps a bunch to take a wire brush to them to make them shine.
Keep the sun @ your back and you can pick them up in the sights out to 50 yards w/enough contrast w/the background.
I use staples kinda like this \_/ to cradle the pennies on a sheet of plain paper or a paper plate.
 
Sounds like fun. I hope to be a cool mom that takes her kids to the range. Course I don't know how lucky I'll get with having boys. I would love to have 5 boys. Boys tend to be more fun, but then again having a girl and training her to be like Pax or any other awesome woman on this forum would be cool too. Oh well time will tell. Good job on the range trip and good luck with the boys.
 
Seems that I recall someone saying that you could do the coin shoot and recover the perforated coin by taping it to the front of a cardboard box. The bullet will drive it through the front of the box but the coin won't go through the back of the box, particularly if you put some rags in the box.
 
JohnKSa said:
Seems that I recall someone saying that you could do the coin shoot and recover the perforated coin by taping it to the front of a cardboard box. The bullet will drive it through the front of the box but the coin won't go through the back of the box, particularly if you put some rags in the box.
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I've posted about this before. I've taped quarter sized tokens to the front of a medium-heavy cardboard computer box. The bullet zips right through but the token only gets enough energy to be pushed through the first side. If you think yo might have a problem with the coin getting too much energy from a larger bullet, just tape another box to the back of the first. (a .308 never pushed a token through the back of the first box, but I was using heavy shipping boxes)
 
As an elongated Penny Collector

Let me educate you all on the "destruction" of pennies.

It's actually not illegal in the US at all.

What __IS__ illegal is the disfigurement of currency with the intent to pass it off as something else. So if you pounded a Nickel into a quarter and use it in an arcade machine (it works by the way, but you didn't hear that from me!!) then that would be illegal.

If you put a hole in a penny and tried to pass it off again as a penny, then that's illegal. If you deburred it and sold it as a souvenir, then it's legal.

and Pax is so much more than just a woman.. ;)
 
Pax had better stop this!

Between this thread and the (self edit to not spoil surprise) thread she started, there have got to be more folks than me claiming to be under 18 and wanting to get adopted! Boy, will my "real" Mom be ticked!
 
Okay, the reason the entrance wounds into the Surlyn cover look so small is that the stuff actually stretches in the direction of the bullet's movement until it the bullet pops through the thinned, stretched Surlyn. When it snaps back, the hole shrinks back down. The bullet did not get squeezed down to that size as it passed through the cover. :D Same with all those pins I kill every week. They have cooler exit wounds, though.:evil:
Josh
 
Cool toy, nice person, will be getting a couple in trade. :)

http://www.surplusrifle.com/reviews2006/fore/index.asp

molonlabe said:
I once shot a golf ball with an AR at 25 yards and launched it down range. I thought it would make a nice variarion of the game. Beleive it or not it never penetrated the ball. it just put a little ding in it. Maybe we are using the wrong thing for our armor... but I digress. I miss the ranges I could do this on in the midwest. Like showing my wife what a 200gr JHP from a 44 mag does to a mellon. We couldn't even find enough whole pieces to eat.
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Great story Pax... we used to do that with bottle caps.

of course my mom's weapon of choice is a Belgian Browning Grade 1 take-down autoloader and sometimes she forgets to flip up the rear sight...

Go moms.
 
Souvenirs

When I was a kid we would go shooting at the back of my Grandpa's land. After shooting, my brother and I would go back behind the targets and dig bullets out of the hill side. The angle of the hill was shallow enough the bullets just dug in near the surface after skimming along for a few feet. If we had a steel pistol target, you could pick up a few .45 bullets that had smashed flat against the target and fell to the ground. That was lots of fun for us. I don't worry about it anymore mostly. Now I just have some bullets taken out of phone books. I was surprised how many phone books a high powered rifle would penetrate.

:) Shootin' stuff is fun. :)
 
griz said:
And by the way, you can use something tougher such as duct tape to secure the coin. For such a valuable trophy, you can get a bit closer to the target to make the hole centered.
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Keep up the good work, Griz
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Just not TOO close. .22 ammo spalls when it hits a coin at close range. Uhm,.. don't ask me how I know. :eek:
 
Pax,

I know I have asked you before, but will you adopt me?

I am over 18, way over, but I cook, do the grocery shopping and the laundry and children and animals generally think I'm pretty cool. Also, I have been told I look a lot like Santa.

Thanks for the story.

What did you ever decide about the boy who wants to hunt elk?

DM
 
reminds me of when i was a kid, my dad and uncle jerry would pull the "shoot through a penny in the air" trick, and pretend to catch a penny they had pre-shot.

someday, i'll play the same trick on my own kids.
 
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