Stangest targets shot with shotgun?

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Daves thread about the swirled crimps entered into a different thought about shooting moon pies from a trap. I just wondered what else some of you may shoot for fun. I'll start with my own :D . My son has built a potato gun which is more like a small cannon which can fire a raw potato several hundred yards. For those of you unfamilier with said weapon, we can start something about that maybe later. Anyhow, he thinks its fun to see if I can hit a potato with my shotgun before it gets out of range. Believe me that spud is traveling! I have done it a couple of times. He has also loaded the potato gun with shelled corn to make a large shotgun out of it. We have tried to hit a standard white flyer with this setup however the shelled corn loses velocity so fast that it can't keep up with the target:( Anybody else with some good ones?
 
Fella had a tennis ball throwing machine. Since I had been doing Tueller drills...well...I just had to know.:D

Mounted behind metal and with old tennis balls, shooter up! at the sound of the "K-chunk", me with shotgun in low ready about 25 yds...at a slight angle ( so I wouldn't shoot machine) it's like L1 on skeet, except they keep coming at you, L1 plus the "flurries" :D Get closer and it's L8 add the flurry and things get exciting real fast!!

I must say this was most educational . :p Very fast and challenging. I've done the "flurries"...but when mean yellow Wilson is charging fast, no time to diddle daddle. Now I actually got into it, I mean this was SERIOUS but fun. I really think there is place in training for this type of set up.

I also proved somethings, to some fellas whom argued against me-- a longer bbl can be mounted just as fast and smooth as a shorter one. I used a variety of gun and bbl lengths, from 18.5" to 32". yep that 32" bbl worked fine.

I also used an shooter's trick which I later had to explain, as some fellas had never heard or seen it. Dave, Correia, Denny and other's already know what I did...hint: model 12.

I kept the trigger pulled, shucking like crazy..."Wow he shot that pump quicker than I can a semi SG"...:evil:

Sent the fellas home with the instructions to use proper stance/mounting techniques, and start with 25 repetitions and dry fires a day...work up to 100.

Aside: If one has an retriever pup that never tires of chasing tennis balls...well we had two labs that became plum tuckered out...my shooting did not disturb their nap. :p

Seriously, if one comes by one of these machines it could become a great training tool just like the moving Tueller targets.
 
Do rats count?

How about a 1950 something Buick?

And then there's the great Nutria Expedition.....

Old 78 RPM Records?
 
At our cowby shoots we hit a popper that falls and slams one end of a "teeter totter" that flings a charcoal briquet.skyward..and who knows where from there!!
Makes ya keep a obx of no. 9's on hand,'just in case.' :)

Uh,what's a Tueller drill??
 
Shotgun Targets hat have proven most amusing in the past.

1) Dead Computer Monitors.

2) Frozen Butterball Turkey......With very classy Browning Citori Lightning, no less.

3) Golf Balls......that had just been launched with a pitching wedge. Pull...thwack...BOOM!

4) Old dead Box Fan......00 Buck at 7 yards.

5) Sheet metal real estate signs........Very satisfying smack-down with birdshot.

6) Suspicious snowmen..............I'll post some pics later.

7) Computer keyboard. Very amusing, the way the broken keys flew in the air was great.

8) Assorted pumpkins, squash and melons.

9) Old rice steamer.

10) Gallon milk jug full of water and red food color with Osama Bin Laden's picture taped to it. ............Happiness is a fine red mist.

hillbilly
 
Tueller Drill

SASS,

Basically a moving target coming at shooter from 7ds that will reach the shooter in 1.5 seconds. This is a LIVE fire drill where shooter is to draw ,shoot and hit the target before the knife wielding target overcomes shooter in that distance and time.

This is just one link , but it provides some additonal info:
http://www.suarezinternational.com/teuller.html

Reading this thread so far...a mall ninja hasn't a prayer shooting against the Redneck Club participants...not a prayer...:p
 
Dead (for awhile) cow with a belly full of opposums - although I didn't know that until after I shot. My dad laughed harder at my reaction when the opposums came out than he did the first time I shot my Uncles sawed-off single shot 12 (the one with no butt pad that also didn't weigh much and neither did I (then)):rolleyes:
 
All those disks that AOL kindly sends you for free, and every time your burner chokes on one...

Toss....BLAM.

Mke
 
Coronach, about those AOL discs...
If one tires with the SG...CCI does make the 45ACP shotshells...I call this a "transition" drill.:)
IME these "pattern" better than other pistol caliber shot shells. The fact they cycle in my 1911s is another advantage.
 
I've actually tried to shoot skeet with a potato gun, loaded only with a potato. I came very close on the second shot, I was very surprised. Ran out of potatoes so couldn't try it a third time. Shooting from the hip with that I could somehow get on target pretty easily. Maybe the really long barrel helps the eye visually match up the trajectory.

Jeff
 
Abaddon, now that would be tough, skeet with a potato:D. I may just have to try the AOL disks out of my little trap. I'll bet they would have some very strange flying characteristics.
 
What is the best way to make a potato gun? I have an uncle that built one years ago. He used large diamter PVC pipe. He had some sort of chamber in the back that you unscrewed the large pipe plug and sprayed hairspray or something in. There was a BBQ grill igniter in the side. When you pushed the igniter button, the spark set off the hairspray and it shot the potato.

I never shot it, but I wondered how you knew how much hairspray to spray into the back. I wondered how much would be too much and cause an explosion. Was pretty inexact.

Are there good plans on the Internet?

Thanks,
Steve
 
My uncle had the exact same setup.

The "how much hairspray" thing it's hard to say. If you knew some chemistry information about the hairspray one could figure it out. Remember that it's not simply a matter of more and more hairspray equals more and more bang. There will be some point where additional hairspray will actually reduce the explosive effect, due to insufficent oxygen availability and the unburned fuel cooling the exhaust gases.

I'd just handle it like reloading... add a little more each time. You could wrap the chamber in some sort of strong fabric or cord for a little extra factor of saftey.

We fired ours lashed to a tractor fender the first few times... just to be sure.

I should add.... homemade cannons are dangerous, don't build one... that should have me covered. I also recommend using aquanet in that cannon you don't build.
 
Uh, an empty box of shells.. Then once again after it had hit the ground, just to be sure.

Various tossed beer bottles (fun!).


Hit a tossed coke can with a paintball gun from low ready once.. :D How's that for point shooting?


Once we run low on skeet, we basically shoot anything somebody can heave airborne... and sometimes even if it doesnt quite make it :cool:
 
Use PVC pipe and PVC glue. You can use ABS and ABS glue, but I heard that PVC is more resistant to quick extreme shock (read explosions), whereas ABS is better for heavy, but steady pressure (as in potato guns that use compressed air). Instead of a BBQ ignitor you can use a flint thingy from an old lantern - either one works good.

Regarding the danger of explosions... external from the potato gun. I wouldn't worry about too much hairspray. I think that the point Wheelman made is true - there is a point where too much hairspray means less oxygen and less explosion. In my experience this point comes pretty quick. I don't think there need be much worry that it explode from too much hairspray as there are too many non-explosive ingredients in hairspray to make it potent enough for that. Provided, of course, that the potato gun is constructed adequately.

I have heard of accidents wherein the potato gun got fired too much for too long and got overheated, leading to an explosion and of course many situations of idiots looking down the barrel and having it go off. Treat it like a firearm and don't fire it for too long at a time and you should be fine.

The best potato gun I've fired had a barrel which was 1.5" in diameter and a chamber of 4". The barrel was about 4 feet long and the chamber about one foot with a reducer from 4" to 1.5".

A google search for "potato gun" can turn up some cool websites.

Jeff

Jeff
 
Yes. there are some really cool sites if you do a search. Thats how my son built his. The hairspray or even deodorant spray is relatively safe. There are certain things that should not be used as a propellant such as ether. WILL CAUSE EXPLOSION!
 
Peeps:Those yellow sugar chicks you get at Easter.
Road flares/fusees, with a pistol.
When I am flush: Pocket change or pennies with rifle or pistol
Happy meal toys from fast food places. Those of us with kids know all about these- they need to be culled.
 
A box of stale corn flakes tossed up in the air makes a pretty impressive hit. Bread from the day-old store.Zuchinni, squash, apples. I try to only destroy organic matter that will help feed the wild life. However, I've been know to shoot bowling balls at 200 yards with my .30-06 and pool balls at 100 yards with my T/C Contender .223. :D
 
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