Price of shooting a few rocks

don`t understand this post

I like shooting rocks too, but sometimes rock shoots you!

shooting at a hard object seems kind of a bad idea to me with the chance of a ricochet and shrapnel but you do you i guess .

The only rocks in Florida are imported and expensive. I have shot carpenter bees with 22 shot shells and wasps with 12 ga loaded with corn cob tumbling media.

e rex said:

Blue rocks or clay targets are what us country boys just call rocks.

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Hmm I am a country boy and never heard this before, must be a regional thing.

If he is talking clays, yes at least once a month. Not as much as before but that is a more ME thing and slowing down then anything else. Saturday I went out and took two boxes, 40 rounds setup in the back yard under a shade tree and shot. A buddy was out, I mainly shot and hit the switch when he said pull. He did 3 boxes I did one. I really enjoy it, but I just can't take it like I once did.

e rex said:

Anyone go out and shoot a few rocks just for fun with the price of shells (if you can find them) and clay targets what they are?
I just went over the hill with my little Trius One Step trap and shot 6 rocks and came home. One of them was a tough little bugger, took me 3 shots to kill it.
I'd normally shoot 25 or so but not anymore.

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I also use a One Step, great for getting back in to shooting "rocks"

I shoot hard rocks the size of a golf ball or smaller that disintegrate even when hit with a .22. I don't do it up close tho. I have never in my life heard clay pigeons called rocks. I am from the south tho and contrary to popular belief we don't know everything.

Dang! 77 years old, sixty of them shooting the shotgun sports both modern and black powder in the Midwest and south and now maybe my vocabulary is complete. Now I can say, "I've shot 2500 rocks this year". Think ill do that at rock league Thursday.

Zygodactyl,

I really must have you up north of state road 40 to explain to the limestone next time I dig post holes or the perfect spot to plant a tree that there are no rocks in Florida!

Even further north in LA (Lower Alabama) or Baja Georgia in the panhandle when I was a kid we made basically mud pies from Red Clay and left them out to bake in the sun. We shot at them with BB guns and mostly missed thrown ones. Wasting a .410 round on one could produce a satisfying red burst though.

We had to be careful when camping with BSA that some es-spurt camper did not use limestone in a fire pit.

-kBob

I forgot about the limestone. I dig a hole I first hit sand, then clay then water. I moved to Florida 65 years ago from a state that was full of granite boulders, and I still think of those as rocks.