Shootin' Eggs

[Handgun Midas]

A work friend and I took an old Remington Nylon '66 and a beautiful full-length stocked Ruger 10\22 up to some country property that his uncle owns today, along with a crate of eggs.

Now where a box of 50 .22LR costs $2.00, that is $.04 per round.
Where a dozen eggs costs $.67, that is less than $.06 per target.
What a perfect match.

It is messy, and it is wasteful, but by god if that wasn't some of the best shooting I've ever had. And all the targets are biodegradable!
If we had a third man, I would have brought some pictures back, but neither of us could stop plinkin' and reloadin' except to set up more eggs.


So now I need to construct a better stand for my egg targets. A simple sawhorse could hold a flat piece of wood with egg-holders cut into it with a router. I guess I should run some metal across the front, so my low misses don't perferate the wood. Maybe think about some kind of wood sealent so all the yolk splatter doesn't rot the wood faster.
Time to get cracking.

 

[Foxtrot427]

you could use a large drill bit to hold the eggs. Im sure there is plenty of brush on stuff you could use to keep it from rotting.

 

[CZguy]

I have some experience with this. First we acquired our eggs from Sam's to hold down costs. After extensive testing we came to the conclusion that hard-boiled eggs are much better than raw. They literally exploded when shot. We also noticed that wildlife had consumed the mess overnight. We just put ours on an old log, for a target stand.

 

[redloki]

I have often thought about how to setup eggs to shoot. Here's my idea that I have never implimented. Take a 2x4 drill a bunch of little holes in it and use golf tees. Probally not original but worth a try in my book.

 

[Pumpkinheaver]

We have egg shoots at my gun club. 200 yards centerfire rifle. Golf tee's work great to stand them up. Have fun and good shooting.

 

[BoySetsTheFire]

I've shot some eggs as well. That usually happens only when I go up north and find those old eggs in the fridge. If they weren't spoiled, we'd eat them.

With regard to setting up targets, here is an idea although I've never tried it. Use crazy glue to attach a string to the egg and then hang from the branches of bushes or some other structure.

 

[Handgun Midas]

Use crazy glue to attach a string to the egg and then hang from the branches of bushes or some other structure.

I thought of that too, but we're talking about a whole lot of eggs here. I bought 15 dozen in a case at Walmart for about ten bucks; that's 180 eggs.

A 2x4 with 12 holes and a dozen golf tees seems ideal.


BTW, we also shot cantelopes and coconuts, but those are too expensive to have more than a couple. One of the coconuts sprung a leak in my trunk and my new car's aroma now has a sweet hint not unlike suntan lotion.

 

[Lupinus]

Time to get cracking.

Pun intended or am I the only one that found that perfect wording?

 

[carterbeauford]

Imma have to try this. What about boring holes slightly smaller than the base of the egg in a 2x4 using wood bits?

 

[Steel Talon]

Hello Midas,

FWIW

I suspend them. This is how I do it

Materials eggs, mono fishing line, hot glue gun some 1x3 some bricks and a few cup hooks.


Set eggs out of fridge allow to become ambient.
Screw in some cup holders into the 1x3 piece/s
Cut lengths of mono tie loop on one end
Once eggs get ambient, hot glue non-looped end onto top of eggs.

Go to range etc.
Set up brick supports
Place 1x3 on bricks ( you can make any type of frame that you want)
Dangle eggs from the cup hooks..

When you view the eggs through your scope beyond 100 yards you cant really see the thin mono just the "floating" egg . Also by suspending them they can become a moving target based on the wind speed

Peace
Steel Talon

 

[Cosmoline]

The problem I see with shooting food is it may attract wildlife. On the range that's bad news.

 

[10-Ring]

Yeah, we used to buy a bag of potatos & onion (roughly $0.99 per 10# bag) and would shoot for a long time....I bet those eggs were a lot of fun!