natedog
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Well, the subject line says it all.
Has anyone ever shot down a tree?
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El Tejon
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[insert banjo music here]
How about a stump?
How about a stump?
Pumpkinheaver
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When I was a kid I used to think it was cool to keep shooting at the same tree to see how many rounds it took to chop it down, so yeah.
Smoke
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Guilty.
As a kid I used to shoot at small trees occasionally to see if I could make them fall.
In more recent times a friend and I had a competition to see who could cut down a similar sized mesquite tree. Reloads were necessary. I was shooting a High Cap 1911, he was shooting a Browning HP. (The ULTIMATE .45 vs 9mm test )
At a recent range outing the trees were sporting new leaves which were sagging into my field of vision. 870 was implemented to trim the offending branches. Worked so well, I trimmed a few other trees too.
YEah I shoot trees....what of it?
Smoke
ps. .45acp won
Smoke
As a kid I used to shoot at small trees occasionally to see if I could make them fall.
In more recent times a friend and I had a competition to see who could cut down a similar sized mesquite tree. Reloads were necessary. I was shooting a High Cap 1911, he was shooting a Browning HP. (The ULTIMATE .45 vs 9mm test
)At a recent range outing the trees were sporting new leaves which were sagging into my field of vision. 870 was implemented to trim the offending branches. Worked so well, I trimmed a few other trees too.
YEah I shoot trees....what of it?
Smoke
ps. .45acp won
Smoke
My father and my uncles had a tradition of going bird hunting every Christmas Eve day. My father always came home at the end of the day with our Christmas tree. I was probably 10 or 11 before I realized that other kids dads didn't come home with trees that were all raggedy at the bottom.....
ScottsGT
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I set a target up against a rotted tree to shoot the Garand. It went thru the rotted tree and cut a 2" diameter pine sapling in half in one shot.
Hemicuda
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Used aq Dan Wesson .44 on a small poplar tree once... and did in many a new tree W/ my shotguns as a kid...
yep
was a tall skinny tree with nice green leaves. we had a plate hanging on it and did some good damage to it. THe next time we went back a few months later the tree wasnt so green anymore. in fact it was the only brown one out of about 10 thousand trees. so i figured i might as well end his life. I took out the garand and about 3 shots later the tree fell over creating a nice set up for targets and such
was a tall skinny tree with nice green leaves. we had a plate hanging on it and did some good damage to it. THe next time we went back a few months later the tree wasnt so green anymore. in fact it was the only brown one out of about 10 thousand trees. so i figured i might as well end his life. I took out the garand and about 3 shots later the tree fell over creating a nice set up for targets and such
Ahem. Oleg, do you have some Uzi stories for us? 
Chip Dixon
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A 12 gauge shotgun with slugs crack a dead pine tree in 2 a just a few shots, if kept close to each other. It's my favorite way to do spring cleaning around the yard on dead trees.
Stand_Watie
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A colorado blue spruce for the family christmas tree. 12 guage with #6 birdshot at about 6 feet blows through a 2 inch diameter trunk with one shot.
Ala Dan
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Yep, shot down a southern pine one time with a
Ruger .44 magnum carbine.
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Ruger .44 magnum carbine.
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
SodaPop
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I know that 7.62x39 does a better job at cutting trees down than 5.56mm.
Use 7.62x39 if you want it done quicker.
Use 7.62x39 if you want it done quicker.
Greg L
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Just this past weekend. I was RO for a Scout Camporee (300 boys, a good turnout) & they managed to do it to a 6" diameter tree. The supports for the targets didn't get packed so we just leaned the targets up against some convienent shrubs & a couple of trees. About 2 hours into it there was an awed hush over the line as the tree slowly fell towards us
.Funny memories for everyone. The best part was that it was a Troop from a very urban area of the District that did it. Can you imagine the stories in school this morning
.Smoke
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Then there was this tree behind the pistol stand at my range.
Funny what a few thousand rounds of 45acp will do to a 25ft juniper. I need to move the stand so I can kill a few others.
Smoke
Funny what a few thousand rounds of 45acp will do to a 25ft juniper. I need to move the stand so I can kill a few others.
Smoke
natedog
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I started this thread thinking there would only be 1 or 2 replies...Looks like we all have some confessing to do.
"You know you're a redneck if..."
"You know you're a redneck if..."
Edward429451
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We harvested one Christmas tree one year one the spur of the moment. 12 GA, birdshot, 2 shots.
Flashpoint
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So what's the best caliber to use on mutant-ninja-trees 
TonyB
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2 of them in my yard actually....one went down in wind storm after a few weeks of using it as a back stop..and one smaller one as I was shooting ...it was pretty funny.....my wife made me a target stand for Christmas and said....to save the trees
armoredman
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Yep - palo verde tree - buddy caught it on camera. No, I will never post the pic.....
P-35/53
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My wife shot down a tree in 1977 with a charter Arms Bulldog in 44 Special. We were shooting on her Fathers property and had ben setting up a target board against the same tree for a year or so .she was concentrating on the front sight and di not see the slow topple of the tree at first . It was funny to see her reaction when she realalized it fell.
Yes - with a shotgun. Tree needed to be taken down anyway. Took a while.
Joe Demko
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I removed several quaking aspens from my property by shooting them down with an AR-15. Quaking aspens are junk trees with very soft wood, so it only took a few shots each.
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