Tack Driver - literally

[essayons21]

I like to play golf with my Savage .17 HMR.

Throw a golf ball out about 25 yards. Each hit will drive the ball between 15-25 yards. Gets pretty hard to hit out around 125-150 yards.

 

[gbran]

Put a 12 ga shot shell in a knot-hole in an oak tree and shot the primer with a .22. It took several shots but it blowed up real good.

 

[myrockfight]

Uh....I hope I didn't come off as too much of a buzzkill. I've done my share of bone-headed things. I just figured I would save someone else the feelling that comes when everyone else is staring and shaking their head at you.

I've also tried to become more aware of how we are perceived and how we can forward the idea responsible and civil gun ownership/use. It is also important to make sure that our own actions aren't perverted by anti-RKBA advocates in a way that serves their purposes. (Bill Ruger's actions come to mind, for eg.)

I really am making an effort to offend as few other forum members as possible. While it is impossible to avoid it completely, I imagine we can keep from turning this place into a anti's wet dream and settling our disputes like it's the "Wild West."

 

[Clifford]

The 12 gauge shells out at 20-50 yards is fun with .22's and even the .45&.38 super. I'm fond of golfballs as well. Well start the golfballs at 20 yards and by the time they reach 75-100 yards they are pretty safe from all but the centerfire rifles.

My best one was a golfball at 80ish yards with my S&W model 28. I noticed the stray ball way out and called the shot. I nearly crapped myself when I actually hit the thing (one the first shot) with a 158 grain JHP at 1350. That ball went into orbit!!! We never found it.

 

[usmc1371]

Hit a golf ball at 25 yds with springfeild 45, drove it about 100 yards. I don't think I could hit one that far with a club.

 

[Dnaltrop]

My standard outdoor target. the 12 ga spent shotgun shell.

Police the trash in the clear cut, thread the shells on small shrubs, earthworks, waving grass blades.

If I lay off the caffeine, it really brightens my day at 3-7 yards with the revolvers. ^^

And shooting the grass blade doesn't count unless the shot is called first. (no cheating)

 

[Jon_Snow]

I shoot the small targets that are printed on the inside of my ammo boxes at 50 yards with my 22. If I'm shooting well I'll try to shoot the staples out of it once I;ve used up the target. One guy at the club brings plastic pill bottles and throws them on the berm at the end of the range, ~125 yards out. Then a bunch of us kick it around for an hour or so. Sometimes we'll have right side/left side competitions, where each side is trying to push the pill bottle toward the other team. That's fun.

 

[welldoya]

Back in the 70s I bought a High Standard .22 revolver called "The Marshall" from my brother-in-law. Looked like a Double Nine.
My buddy and I were out plinking cans. I commented that I didn't see how they did the quick draw and shot from the hip in the old west. We were shooting at probably 15-20 yards.
Just for the heck of it, I did a fast draw and shot from the hip. The can went flying.
I tried to do it again several times. No dice.
Another time he and I were shooting flies on the wing at about 200 yards from our front porch with rifles. No wait, that was Jed and Jethro.

 

[DataMonkey]

A fun target is a tennis ball. It doesn't sound that hard. But here's what we would do:
Each person gets their own tennis ball and the same number of shots with the .22. Whoever can make the tennis ball roll the furthest wins. The cool thing about the tennis ball is that it captures the bullet (a .22 anyway) adding additional weight for each consecutive hit. Once you get it moving, don't let it stop.

 

[Is_That_A_Gram?]

I've also tried to become more aware of how we are perceived and how we can forward the idea responsible and civil gun ownership/use. It is also important to make sure that our own actions aren't perverted by anti-RKBA advocates in a way that serves their purposes. (Bill Ruger's actions come to mind, for eg.)

what did bill ruger do?

 

[XxWINxX94]

I can hit every time on soda cans at 100+ yards.
I use a Browning model 52 w/Leupold M8-4X Compact scope in .22LR.

 

[Gaffer]

One of the fun matches at our range was to shoot eggs hung from a string at 50 and 100yards. Three shots for the price. Hit the 50 yarder and then the 100 yards target using your own rifle. We had one guy who used a borrowed rifle, got the 1st at 50 with the first shot and the second on his last (third) shot. All this was off hand and it is very difficult even for the very best shooter.

 

[mbopp]

Eons ago at the 100 yd range a fly landed on a guys target. And he was shooting an all-out benchrest gun. No less than 5 people witnessed the fly's demise, complete with a bit of fly splatter on the target.

 

[481]

Ah, push pins. Lotta fun.

We've (my best friend and I) been doing that for years.

Our spin on the tradition is to put a push pin in the center of a cardboard silhouette target at whatever we deem to be an acceptable "combat distance" for the day (somewhere between 7 and 25m) and take turns shooting 'til someone hits it.

The "bet" is a cheeseburger at our lunch spot right afterwards and braggin' rights 'til the next time.


Always a ton of fun.

 

[Flame Red]

There is this retired SWAT officer at our range who takes a spent 223 or 308 case and puts it up on a target stand vertically, and can hit the center of the case on the first shot from 50 yards. But what is truly amazing, I have seen him do it with a rifle (mine) that he never used before!

 

[N.O. Saints]

The gun range I used to belong to had deer, gophers, bluebirds and other creatures that would wander across the range on occasion. I never witnessed anyone shoot an animal there, but I know it happened in the past. The shooters were immediately kicked out of the club for life. Sometimes you just have to use common sense, I guess.

 

[MinnMooney]

Quote:
I once hit a humingbird at an estimated distance of 80+ yards, with a Smith
& Wesson 4" barrel model 18 in .22 LR. He made the mistake of landing on my
target stand; making for an excellent target~!

Seriously? It might be in your best interest to stow the guns until you reach an appropriate level of maturity.

I totally agree. My brother used to shoot chipmonks, wrens or any "convenient" target while hunting. He thought it was hilarious... until dad made him hunt for the rest of the weekend with no ammo in his gun! My brother wasn't laughing anymore - and never did it again. He was 7.