WestKentucky
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I know of a lot of different ways to have fun shooting guns of any type, but wondered about some of the ways you guys shoot for fun.
I shot a couple hundred rounds today between my delta, pt99, ar15, ruger single six, and contender, as well as my buddies guns...mk3 slab side, 45acp/45 colt birdshead blackhawk, pmr30. We were at his farm which is currently flooded. There's no houses, roads, etc for well over a mile from where we were shooting, and we were shooting down into the flooded fields, mud and water flying when we missed his ar 500 targets. Shooting these 8 and 12 inch plates was fun as a warmup at 25 yards (yes with handguns too) but it got to be more and more fun when I got my saw horses out of the truck. Drop 8 or 10 pieces of fishing line and clip on Easter eggs...his 3 year old daughter got to easter egg hunt with her savage rascal. So once the close range fun was over we went across the flooded part of the field to about 125 yards and did basically the same thing...easter eggs are hard to hit in wind at range with an unmagnified optic. The AR 500 plates were ringing very regularly between the rimfire rugers, and the contender. The AR was wearing them out too. It was a great day burning up ammo. After that we went up the hillside to what we believe to be an old Cherokee camp site and found several broken arrowheads. I found one that is 99% with only a small chip off the back end at the tie notch. Wonderful day. For us, competition and tough shots make the day better. They had plans for dinner or we would have bet dinner on a game of horse like we normally do.
By the way, if you scoop up flour as you clip the Easter eggs closed you get a nice poof when you hit, plus they are not effected by wind near as much.
I shot a couple hundred rounds today between my delta, pt99, ar15, ruger single six, and contender, as well as my buddies guns...mk3 slab side, 45acp/45 colt birdshead blackhawk, pmr30. We were at his farm which is currently flooded. There's no houses, roads, etc for well over a mile from where we were shooting, and we were shooting down into the flooded fields, mud and water flying when we missed his ar 500 targets. Shooting these 8 and 12 inch plates was fun as a warmup at 25 yards (yes with handguns too) but it got to be more and more fun when I got my saw horses out of the truck. Drop 8 or 10 pieces of fishing line and clip on Easter eggs...his 3 year old daughter got to easter egg hunt with her savage rascal. So once the close range fun was over we went across the flooded part of the field to about 125 yards and did basically the same thing...easter eggs are hard to hit in wind at range with an unmagnified optic. The AR 500 plates were ringing very regularly between the rimfire rugers, and the contender. The AR was wearing them out too. It was a great day burning up ammo. After that we went up the hillside to what we believe to be an old Cherokee camp site and found several broken arrowheads. I found one that is 99% with only a small chip off the back end at the tie notch. Wonderful day. For us, competition and tough shots make the day better. They had plans for dinner or we would have bet dinner on a game of horse like we normally do.
By the way, if you scoop up flour as you clip the Easter eggs closed you get a nice poof when you hit, plus they are not effected by wind near as much.