Hostage targets

[taliv]

Dang calves. 537 yards. Take the shot?

 

[FL-NC]

You probably could have just put one in the dirt behind it and scared it off. I wouldn't have shot the steel due to the frag hazard.

 

[badkarmamib]

You probably could have just put one in the dirt behind it and scared it off.

Not in my experience. The few times I have shot in pasture, the shots either didn't faze, or actually ATTRACTED the bovines...

 

[taliv]

Yeah actually shooting the target is why they went over and laid down

 

[imashooter]

Take the shot. There's enough exposed where you minimize hitting the people.

 

[Art Eatman]

Shame to disturb the peace and quiet.

 

[Varminterror]

Always how it goes... I joke from time to time, if I ever lose heifers, I can just set up a few targets and they’ll come running, right into the line of Fire.

 

[taliv]

Closest I ever came to hitting one was shooting with night Vision. The black ones stand out and are super easy to see but there was one coyote tan colored cow that was the same shade as the berm haha. She walked of the back of the berm and right behind that target and was about to lick the back of it. I shot and It hit the plate and she jumped back. I saw her when she moved. She was on all four sides of the plate. A miss any direction would have been a wounded cow.

 

[Cokeman]

Steaks for dinner?

 

[Hokie_PhD]

Steaks for dinner?

I was thinking the same thing.
Lots of steaks and burgers for the fridge and freezer

 

[jeepnik]

Not unless you own the cow, and don't care about the loss. If the cow belongs to someone else, it's going to really cost you.

 

[Hokie_PhD]

Not unless you own the cow, and don't care about the loss. If the cow belongs to someone else, it's going to really cost you.

But Officer the cow just followed me how and jumped on the grill!

 

[hdwhit]

And even if it's your own cow, many processors won't accept a dead animal. That would mean you're on your own to butcher it yourself. And, time's wasting because you've got to get it bled pretty quick.

 

[imashooter]

Not unless you own the cow, and don't care about the loss. If the cow belongs to someone else, it's going to really cost you.

And it'll always be a registered, one of a kind from royal stock, worth potential millions from breeding and off-spring, touched by the hands of God himself, cow.

 

[hdwhit]

"But Officer the cow just followed me how and jumped on the grill!"

Yea. And she somehow managed to skin and gut herself in the process. Must have been one very talented cow.

 

[Art Eatman]

A gum-chewing girl and a cud-chewing cow;
I can hardly tell them apart, somehow;
But I have it; I have it now!
It's the intelligent look on the face of the cow!

 

[WestKentucky]

I just want to know where you found that range around here. Had to be private, and there’s not too much land that flat.

I’m jealous.

 

[taliv]

been shooting on that farm for the better part of 15 years. hosted lots of PRS style matches there, and arfcom hometown forum fun shoots. you're welcome to come shoot with me

 

[entropy]

I saw a couple M60 teams take out 4 steers at Camp Roberts in '88. They were Cal. NG, we were ARTEP'ing their Bde. , and they set their silhouettes up on the side of a hill, went back 3-400 yards and set up a firing line. By the time they were ready to go, a herd of steers had wandered over the top of the hill and were grazing behind the targets. They didn't notice them and opened up, and 3 of them dropped, (to their knees) the fourth had to be culled. the rancher that was grazing them on post (they paid for the privilege) made out like a bandit. I'll bet the NCOIC got a butt chewing, too. I was about a quarter mile back of them, too far to yell, but I figured if I saw them they certainly should have.

 

[WestKentucky]

been shooting on that farm for the better part of 15 years. hosted lots of PRS style matches there, and arfcom hometown forum fun shoots. you're welcome to come shoot with me

Wish I had more time to. 60 hour work weeks and 2 little girls combine to guarantee that I don’t get much free time.

 

[CapnMac]

Lots of steaks and burgers for the fridge and freezer

There is no better way to discover how inadequate one's freezer capacity is until one attempts to store a side of beef.

In my old hometown, it was small enough that the local butcher would rent "locker space"which was passing convenient when you knew enough people with excess does, or after winning a side of beef in a raffle.

Proper prior planning preventing . . . and all []

 

[bikerdoc]

When I go to see my friend in Tazwell Tn, it is his horses that wander down to range and screw up our shooting.

 

[clearcut]

Looks like a slow elk, it's hard to get tags for those.

CC

 

[entropy]

My son shoots them all the time, with .22 Mags, and .223. The farm he works at has a rendering truck/mobile butchering set-up.

 

[HB]

A buddy’s “farm” in the ozarks had a tame deer. Its name was buckwheat, they saved him from a flood as a fawn and he loved them since.

He is/was unafraid of gunfire entirely. Also, he loved eating cig butts right off the porch. They shot some orange paint on him during hunting season but havent seen him recently... I hope whoever ate him tasted the old cigs.

HB