Shooting Eggs with Various Calibers

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I watched a show on cable where Bob Mundon was shooting chicken eggs at a 100 yds with a .38 snubbie and paper plates @ 300 yds with a 1911. That guy could shoot.
 
joem1945 said:
I watched a show on cable where Bob Mundon was shooting chicken eggs at a 100 yds with a .38 snubbie and paper plates @ 300 yds with a 1911. That guy could shoot.
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Man, I make no claims like that. This was at like 15-20 yards. I have a .38 snub nose that is surprisingly accurate, but it would take a crazy amount of luck to hit an egg at 100 yards.
 
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joem1945 said:
I watched a show on cable where Bob Mundon was shooting chicken eggs at a 100 yds with a .38 snubbie and paper plates @ 300 yds with a 1911. That guy could shoot.
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Perhaps Mundon was the guy who taught Jack Lord's Steve McGarrett to hit felons with his .38 snubbie from across Waimea Bay.:D
 
^ Hadda laugh at that one. Reminded me of Broderick Crawford in "Higway Patrol" knocking guys down from 100 yards with his snubby. And from the hip. Loved that show, especially the outdoor scenes of California when California was California.

Say, did you ever try those rounds on Level III eggs?

<Terry runs and hides.>
 
C'mon, I wanna see video of him shooting Sporting Clays with the SKS as you claimed in another thread. I would imagine the Duck Tower doubles shots would be awesome.......

You do realize I mean on an actual Sporting Clays course, not shooting at static clay pigeons in a piece of fibreboard....
 
entropy said:
C'mon, I wanna see video of him shooting Sporting Clays with the SKS as you claimed in another thread. I would imagine the Duck Tower doubles shots would be awesome.......

You do realize I mean on an actual Sporting Clays course, not shooting at static clay pigeons in a piece of fibreboard....
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We'll get a taller mountain to shoot into and try to break a flying clay with the sks. That sounds fun.

I've done it with my 10/22 years and years ago when the Federal 525 pack was $7.95 at Walmart.
 
Turftech1 said:
We'll get a taller mountain to shoot into and try to break a flying clay with the sks. That sounds fun.

I've done it with my 10/22 years and years ago when the Federal 525 pack was $7.95 at Walmart.
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A couple of years ago, someone near us (at a very popular informal "range") decided to try shooting clay pigeons with an AR. There was a hill that, theoretically, should have served as a backstop, but they kept gradually throwing the clays higher and more vertical to the point that they were easily clearing the hill and probably well into the not-so-sparse farmhouses on the other side. My son and I packed up our stuff as fast as we could and beat a hasty retreat. We were met on our way down the mountain by a couple of sheriff deputies and we pointed out where the idiots were. I don't know what the outcome was and I'm glad we didn't stick around to find out.

I have an uncle who used to be able to hit them about 80% of the time with a 22, but we were in an area where we could see close to 15 miles of bare salt flat in the direction we were shooting. Not much of a backstop, but there's no way that anyone was anywhere near enough to get hit. Not even coyotes or jackrabbits (unfortunately).

Matt
 
morcey2 said:
A couple of years ago, someone near us (at a very popular informal "range") decided to try shooting clay pigeons with an AR. There was a hill that, theoretically, should have served as a backstop, but they kept gradually throwing the clays higher and more vertical to the point that they were easily clearing the hill and probably well into the not-so-sparse farmhouses on the other side. My son and I packed up our stuff as fast as we could and beat a hasty retreat. We were met on our way down the mountain by a couple of sheriff deputies and we pointed out where the idiots were. I don't know what the outcome was and I'm glad we didn't stick around to find out.

I have an uncle who used to be able to hit them about 80% of the time with a 22, but we were in an area where we could see close to 15 miles of bare salt flat in the direction we were shooting. Not much of a backstop, but there's no way that anyone was anywhere near enough to get hit. Not even coyotes or jackrabbits (unfortunately).

Matt
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Areas like that used to be plentiful here. Not so much anymore. Just 15-20 years ago, we used to always shoot on the west side of Utah lake, and never had issues. We don't even try to go there anymore, too many people, too many atvs, shooters, runners etc.

One of the last times we were out there, we were shooting into a real good mountain backstop, having a good time. A guy pulled up not far from us. He was not young, maybe 40-50yrs old. He starts shooting incendiary rounds into Juniper trees. We packed up and got out of there. Within minutes he'd started a fire.

You never know. I have a pretty good spot right now, but not a steep enough backstop for shooting clays out of the sky with anything but a shotgun.
 
" but it would take a crazy amount of luck to hit an egg at 100 yards."

Not sure if it was luck because he did it more than once. Paper plate @ 300 yds, he did it 3 times. Sure wish I could shoot like that.
 
joem1945 said:
" but it would take a crazy amount of luck to hit an egg at 100 yards."

Not sure if it was luck because he did it more than once. Paper plate @ 300 yds, he did it 3 times. Sure wish I could shoot like that.
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I meant for me to hit an egg. My .38 snub nose is more accurate a firearm than I am a shooter with a tiny sight radius like that.

I think most of my guns are more accurate than what I can shoot them. At one point, I was shooting my Remington 700 BDL a lot, (it was back when I had $$$$ instead of kids). For a while, I felt like I was really getting just about everything out of the gun. Most of my guns, I don't come close. I have a Mosin M44 that is astoundingly accurate, even with milsurp ammo. When I miss, and I do sometimes, I am confident that it was operator error.
 
I tried aerial shooting with both a .45 and a .22 up on the Grasslands. Sucked at it, even with the hint to wait for the targets to start coming down, where they sort of stop for a moment. Gave up.

morcey2 said,

I have an uncle who used to be able to hit them about 80% of the time with a 22, but we were in an area where we could see close to 15 miles of bare salt flat in the direction we were shooting. Not much of a backstop, but there's no way that anyone was anywhere near enough to get hit.
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Same thing up on the Grasslands... where your "safe backstop" is the planet Earth. :D

Not true anymore, I guess. Haven't been up there for a while.

Terry
 
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