What's the weirdest thing you've ever shot?

[Powderman]

There I was, stationed at Ft. Bliss, TX, at the rod and gun club. Just me on the range, and my .44 Magnum, and 300 rounds of 250 grain LSWC midrange loads and 180 grain screamers, packed to the gills with H110.

I was setting up on my bench when this crow decided to land on the shelter right above my bench. Before I could register it, the crow had POOPED right on my ammunition.



I said a few choice words while cleaning the bird excreta off the ammo.

Then, fate stepped in. The same crow responsible for the defecation attack went downrange and landed on the 25 yard target frame.

Bad move, Mr. Crow.

No one else was on the range.

I loaded with Ammunition, .44 Remington Magnum, Jacketed Hollow Point, 180 grain Sierra Power Jacket, w/ 27.5 of H110, 1 each.

I took careful aim.

I carefully pressed the trigger.

The result?

Explosion, Crow, Black w/Feathers and Beak--1 each.

There is justice in the world, my friends.

 

[Tamara]

A cantaloupe that, with magic marker and a toilet paper turban, had been transformed into Osama bin Melon.

Scott Evans, that was creative genius!

 

[KMKeller]

A glock...

(quickly dons flame retardant suit)

 

[KMKeller]

Fed168

That's just plain nasty!

 

[M67]

Stupidest target?

Bachelor party. Inflatable sheep. Blackpowder cannon.

 

[Sisco]

You guys in Norway know how to party!
I've been to a lot of batchelor parties, but never one with a black powder cannon present.
Or an inflatable sheep for that matter.

 

[hso]

Filling inflatable toys with jello -

second set of hands
narrow throat funnel
jello
hot water
ice water
ice
large cooler

ready cooler by putting "Barney" on bed of ice
insert funnel into nipple
disolve jello in boiling water to make concentrated mixture
carefully pour mixture into funnel/"Barney"
immediately pour ice water into funnel/"Barney"
agitate "Barney" (not like shooting it won't be agitating enough)
repeat until "Barney" is full
seal nipple
put more ice around "Barney" and fill cooler with water
close lid
have beer
repeat (the beer part) until "Barney" is semisolid
surprise friends and horrify onlookers

I first did this for my son's 10th burthday, but we actually "attacked" Barney with a sword and my son and his friends ate barney "flesh" in a gooey frenzy. [my wife did not exactly approve]

 

[M67]

Sisco, the sheep was a joke. We tried to make the groom-to-be take the carcass back to the store to complain...

We started the party at a shooting range (no drinking involved at that stage). The guy had tried a little bull's eye and those organizing the party wanted to let him try something with a higher "coolness" factor - that's when they called me and a couple of others . Between us, we brought some black powder guns, "grown up" hand guns, suppressed "sniper" rifles... add a few reactive targets... we had a blast

The cannon belonged to someone's father in law, who thought it was really cool that we borrowed it and actually fired it. You should have seen the on-site cleaning of that gun - three soot faced gentlemen outside the range rest room, busy with cannon, hot water, motor oil and a toilet brush - just the right caliber, you'da thunk it was made for cannon cleaning.

 

[JHill]

A falling rain drop.

 

[coop57]

A empty vietnamese refugee boat in 1977 in the South China Seas. Used a 5" MK 54 Naval Gun. After we had unloaded the 100 or so refugees from this 30 foot POS we then sank it from about 1,100 yards away. It only took two shots. It was a hazard to navigation.
Those were the days.

 

[DonP]

Does a Water Buffalo count?

Two of us were checking the wire outside of our base at Phu Loi and one of the normally totally passive water buffalo, that the kids use in the fields, got weird and started snorting and huffing. After two or three false charges it came galloping from about 100 feet away.

It took three rounds of .223 but it dropped it. All in all, a very Hemingway kind of moment. But having something the size of a VW charging you is unsettling.

We (the US Gubmint) had to pay the Papa san $1000 for it. The only reason I didn't get busted for it was about twenty other people, including the OIC, saw the whole thing and said there wasn't any other alternative.

Don P.

 

[4570Rick]

Is this weird?

You know those big extinguishers mounted on hand trucks, the ones that sit around airports? The plume went about 20 feet up in the air and lasted several mins.

 

[Pawcatch]

Does an otter in a trap count?Everything was within the law,though.

 

[bogie]

My father had a cow somehow accidentally walk in front of his Browning MG in Germany. His outfit had steaks...

 

[CWL]

Shot a cow with an RPG. It was communist.

 

[Drjones]

Shot a cow with an RPG. It was communist.

Dude, I BUSTED A GUT when I read that!!!!


Got any pics???

What, praytell, did an RPG do to a cow???

 

[Big Al]

Weapon - Crosman 760 Pumpmaster - .177 caliber
Target - common snapping turtle, approx. 12-15#
Ammo - Crosman .177 pointed pellets and air gun darts

First shot was to the back of the head, with air gun dart. Sent turtle into floating spins on pond surface. The rest of the shots were finishers. First turtle I ever ate (yummy!)

 

[hso]

While I did not make this shot it, and many others like it, is documented in the environmental investigation records at a Govt. site.

Hazardous chemical containers and pressurized gas cylinders were disposed of at some facilities by being shot with 30-06 or .308 rifles while partially suspended in ponds. Most would slowly fill with water and sink to the bottom of the pond. Most, but not all! Some of them were not exctly empty at the time. Some of the cylinders would briefly slip the bonds of gravity to merrily go skipping across the surface of the water before sinking (or embedding themselves into the bank). In at least one instance a drum of lab chemicals refused to sink after being dropped into a quarry. The rifles were broken out and one of the lucky marksmen hit the 55 gallon drum. This resulted in a bright flash, rapidly moving P-wave, and a thunderclap. No one was injured, but a 30 ft site trailer was blown over on it's side and the trees on the quarry walls and around the rim caught fire.

 

[Thumper]

There were about fifty of us sitting under the trees, eating brisket from Dozier's in Fulshear, TX, and sipping suds from the keg.

Dozier's rocks.

 

[HadEmAll]

At the range one morning, I used my backpacking stove to make coffee. When it was time to leave, I disassembled the stove, and the propane cylinder wouldn't seal up. A slight hiss and smell of propane. What do you do? At the rate it was leaking it would leak for hours. Couldn't throw it in trash, couldn't put it in truck. Hmmmmm....... I'm at the range..........so... Only had pistols, so shot it at 25 yards with a .357 while concealing myself behind a sturdy oak tree. In my ignorance, I expected a fireball for sure, but just produced a big mist that dissipated pretty quickly.

 

[Bainx]

I once enjoyed placing a 30.06 round into a defunct printer.
Man, the plastic shrapnel was falling for quite a while!

 

[Butch]

A 5 gal can of gasoline set in frount of a fire with a safe backstop at night. Now I know how they make all those a-bomb explosions in the movies

 

[Fed168]

My dad was shooting in a high power match a while back and had a bumble bee fly in front of the M14.

 

[Gewehr98]

Aluminum arrow...

Out of a .410 bolt action shotgun. Went completely through a 10" diameter sugar maple tree. I had to hacksaw off both ends of the arrow flush with the tree, it wouldn't budge.

 

[Uncle Ethan]

My 1957 GMC pickup while on a deer hunt in Arizona-- Don't ask!