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Has anyone else had any experience with this?
My Dad told me a story (From Der Alt days) about an incident plinking with a .22. He was in South Alabama shooting on a small river...a lot of those rivers have exposed sandbars and he had set up some cans and was shooting from different distances and elevations. When he got home (small community where everybody knows everybody else) the place was buzzing about an attempted murder of the local power linesman. Seems he was down by the river taking a nap in his truck with the doors open when bullets started punching the truck. At least 3 hit inside the truck and one hit the heel of the guy's boot. Talk about lucky shots. There's a thread here somewhere about "your luckiest shot". Sometimes the luckiest shot is the one that DOESN'T connect.
We had a resort on the lake when I was a kid. (Der Alt days, too.) One of my summer jobs was snake, muskrat and turtle control. Muskrats would bring their meals onto boat transoms and snack there. Then they would snack on mahogany boat hulls. Had to cull 'em. Turtles would sometimes eat our baby ducks. A surfaced turtle head is a tough, challenging shot. The big snappers were easier hits, of course. The lake is almost 2 miles wide at that point so I skipped a lot of .22's way out there. I wish I could tell how far they skipped...all of my shooting was towards the surface of the water. My dad told me to never take a shot while aiming even remotely close to a boat dock or toward shore, I should be aimed lake-wards. I wish he had told me his story then, just for background.
Anybody?
My Dad told me a story (From Der Alt days) about an incident plinking with a .22. He was in South Alabama shooting on a small river...a lot of those rivers have exposed sandbars and he had set up some cans and was shooting from different distances and elevations. When he got home (small community where everybody knows everybody else) the place was buzzing about an attempted murder of the local power linesman. Seems he was down by the river taking a nap in his truck with the doors open when bullets started punching the truck. At least 3 hit inside the truck and one hit the heel of the guy's boot. Talk about lucky shots. There's a thread here somewhere about "your luckiest shot". Sometimes the luckiest shot is the one that DOESN'T connect.
We had a resort on the lake when I was a kid. (Der Alt days, too.) One of my summer jobs was snake, muskrat and turtle control. Muskrats would bring their meals onto boat transoms and snack there. Then they would snack on mahogany boat hulls. Had to cull 'em. Turtles would sometimes eat our baby ducks. A surfaced turtle head is a tough, challenging shot. The big snappers were easier hits, of course. The lake is almost 2 miles wide at that point so I skipped a lot of .22's way out there. I wish I could tell how far they skipped...all of my shooting was towards the surface of the water. My dad told me to never take a shot while aiming even remotely close to a boat dock or toward shore, I should be aimed lake-wards. I wish he had told me his story then, just for background.
Anybody?
. It's a strage sinsation to hear a 9mil round go in between to people and hit the basketball goal 20 feet behind you. havent shot their since.
from a steep angle. It was weird.