Brother's brother in law, nice guy, can not hit a thing with a shotgun. He misses ducks with the wings set. Put 6 pellets into my last dog instead of the pheasant a good twenty feet over the dogs head, dog was fine, just annoyed. Took three shots to pot a grouse that was sitting in a tree branch, using a 20 gauge. Doug is not a dufus, he is good softball player on good team, excellent down hill skier, plays club level hockey.
We went up near on the Iron Range to visit a guy from college, he has a old pit mine near his house and we went out to shoot clays seeing it was summer and everything was out of season. I had my old Winchester 190 .22 in the car too. Doug, brother's brother in law, decides to start shooting cattails on the edge of a little slough at the bottom of the pit. This is the guy who can not hit water from a dingy with a shotgun, missed the side of the barn, while in the hayloft. He looks at a cattail. SNAP cattail puffs. Does it again. SNAP puff. HMMMM I ask did you get new glasses? He laughs at me. Keeps doing it. We get the clay launcher hooked up on the trailer hitch of buddies truck, buddy sits on the little seat and I yell pull and off a pidgeon sails, BOOM it keeps sailing SNAP it puffs. WTH I look over at Doug, "Did you shoot? He shrugs. "Pull," just before I smoke that bird it PUFFs. Now I am looking around for candid camera. NO WAY this guy can hit two in a row shooting anything. These are like shooting trap, basically longer shots at targets going more or less straight away. Five more times, no misses, he pops clays with that .22. He moved way off to the side, shooting as if he is pass shooting teals, SNAP puff SNAP puff. Finally he missed. He reloaded the tube and did not miss a shot.
I hand him the shotgun. ELEVEN misses in a row. Buddy is laughing hysterically by now, can hardly pull back the launcher. Doug puts shottie away and picks up .22 SNAP puff.
Buddy now is in danger of wetting himself. He goes in bed of pickup and pulls out his 870 with a rifle sight slug barrel on it. Loads a couple of 8's in the slugger and hands it to doug. Doug hits two clays. Reloads same results. Apparently having a real sights lets him hit his spots.
First day of grouse hunting, guess who was walking thru the woods carrying a slug gun. guess who hit four of four. not me.
Another topic. A former Twin City gunsmith, had a Sako action with a truck axle sized barrel in .17 rem. He used to say that he had threaded the barrel to fit the action and just decided to try it as it was. It shot one holers all day long after that he decided that tapering the barrel was not so important anymore. I watched him at the old Moon Valley shooting range put grape jelly on a target, wait for a fly to land on the target and walk to the jelly, then cut the Fly in half. Someone said no way, that was pure luck, just then a yellow jacket landed to see what was going on. He cut that one in half too. Then he packed up the rifle and went home. I have to believe it was pure luck but twice in a minute or two. It was impressive.
I have seen video of a A-10 driver hitting a SAM after it came off the launcher. It was on the military channel one night. You see a plume and a split second later about 40 to 50 feet off the launch rail a big explosion. It was gun camera footage and it only last a few seconds but it is clear that he was going to 'gun" the launcher and he jerks back on the stick as the plume erupts and the missle explodes. I have no idea of the launch speed of something like that, but it has to be tremendous.
Same night, footage of a F15 E driver hitting a helo with a 2000 pounder Laser guided, while the helo was airborne. Not a chance shot, but a called one. You can clearly hear the Weapons Officer state that he was painting the helo with the laser.