What kind of "trick shooting" can you do?

[Cee Zee]

There's a whole world full of trick shots. We've all seen the greats pulling off impossible feats for us mere mortals like when Bob Munden showed us he could draw his single action revolver, fire 2 shots at targets that were 8 feet in front of him and 8 feet apart forming a triangle with him, and hit both and have his pistol back in his holster in less time than it takes to blink an eye. He was someone you didn't want to get into a cowboy type showdown with. But others can do great things too. I just wonder if anyone here can do great things. Not necessarily as great as Munden but impressive enough to make everyone say "wow".

Here's Bob doing one of the most amazing things I've ever seen any human do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XsU5AMxvlKg#t=171

I'll wait to list my only trick shot until others post theirs.

 

[RainDodger]

I have no trick shots.. however... way back when, when I was in college, I went shooting with a friend that was a trap shooting champion of some kind (got no details).

He said he could take my .22 rifle (Remington 572 Fieldmaster), toss a dime in the air and hit it.

Danged if he didn't do that. Multiple times. He said it was timing and reaction only. We didn't always find the dimes, but the ones we did find had obviously been hit.

(obviously not a semi-auto pistol trick, but hey, it was a trick!)

 

[Cee Zee]

I saw video of Munden throwing up a washer with a piece of tape over the hole. He would put a bullet through the paper and through the hole in the washer. Sometimes I think old Bob was an alien.

 

[Rembrandt]

I have killed flies with a .22LR at 100 yards....sprinkle Coke on the back side of a target, let it dry. Flies will land on the target and go for the dried sugar. You know its a kill when bug blood is around bullet hole. Done with a .22 rifle, not a handgun.

Some day I'm going to try lighting matches with a .22LR.

 

[1911 guy]

My only claim to fame was shooting doubles with a H&R Topper 20ga. I'd had that shotgun since i was about 12 (could kick myself for selling it to finance a Belgian A5). It was my only firearm for several years and I shot it a lot. Automatic ejectors helped with reloads.

Anyway, over the years i sorta switched disciplines to handgun and rifle. My shotgunning stinks now. On a good day, I'm average.I struggle with doubles and a pump gun now.

 

[Cee Zee]

My only claim to fame was shooting doubles with a H&R Topper 20ga

I saw a guy do that when I was just a kid and we had a trap range in the back yard. People laughed when he asked for 2 clays. He nailed both of them with a single shot that was very likely a Topper. Pretty tough to do unless you put in a "lot" of practice I would think.

Also I've killed spiders and bugs at 50 yards with a .22 but 100 yards is a whole different story. That's shooting.

BTW I meant to post this in General Gun Discussions forum. I guess I was half asleep when I posted here in this forum. If the mods could move this to the other section it would be great and I wouldn't look so goofy.

 

[MICHAEL T]

My trick is I hit the target 1st try.

I saw a guy do that when I was just a kid and we had a trap range in the back yard. People laughed when he asked for 2 clays. He nailed both of them with a single shot that was very likely a Topper.

Last summer we were shooting out in yard It was getting somewhat dark . My daughters boyfriend wanted to fire one last time We launched a clay and he fired He busted the clay and took out a bat same time

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

I am just an amateur but I dabble sometimes in the "trick shooting" realm.

In this Vid I shoot 4 clays out of the air with a Remington 870 20 guage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jXn39SKmmc

This one I shoot a frying pan at 240 yards with my Sig P226 stainless (my camera guy was a little gun shy ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNxPvg8-yY

I have been working on getting out to the range more often for these kinds of shoots but idpa and work have really gotten in the way
I want to split a card with my 45 colt at some point and shoot further with the pistol.

 

[WestKentucky]

Long distance revolver shots used to be my game before the EPA and FDA got together and changed the formula on my inhalers that help with my asthma. Now I'm too jittery to do much good. My only current shot I can do is an upside down pump shotgun shooting doubles. Shoot flip pump flip shoot.

 

[MrBorland]

Well, it ain't fast, it ain't with a semi-auto, and it ain't even a "shot", but it ain't a "trick", and I haven't seen anyone else do it yet :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmy5mkjpUNI

 

[btg3]

I saw video of Munden throwing up a washer with a piece of tape over the hole. He would put a bullet through the paper and through the hole in the washer. Sometimes I think old Bob was an alien.

My dad could shoot thru a tossed washer with a cheapo BB gun.
He was also a world class skeet champion.

I was not sufficiently enamored with the BB gun trick to stay with it, but pulled it off a few times and was done. The BB is slow enough for the shooter to see it.

 

[Cee Zee]

I am just an amateur but I dabble sometimes in the "trick shooting" realm.

That looks pretty impressive to me! I think I'm doing well to hit 2 clays with a 870.

And that coin trick is pretty neat MrBorland. It's good practice for trigger pulling obviously. BTW you could move this to the general discussion group for me if you wanted. I really thought I was posting it there but messed up.

 

[Deaf Smith]

What kind of "trick shooting" can you do?

Cee,

I'm so fast I go back in time! And I can bend bullets!

In reality I can do the road agent spin and a few interesting twirls.. with live guns.

I used to be able to hit coke caps with my revolvers from the hip quite consistently at 5 yards. But that was along time ago.

Deaf

 

[Cee Zee]

OK it's my turn. My best trick shot I ever pulled off was taught to me by the guy who owned the farm next to mine. He taught me to throw up a pop can and shoot it with a rifle right as it got to it's highest point. The rifle will knock the can even higher in the air (sometimes) and you do it again when the can reaches it's highest point (at which time it's actually sitting still for a split second. I saw him shoot a can in the air 8 times. I could only manage 6.

The weird part was that it wasn't nearly as hard as it sounds. Still none of us could do it every time. It was a matter of keeping on doing it until you got a good string going. I had several strings of 3 or 4 but only got to 6 once.

I haven't tried that again since that day and maybe being old and tired like I am I couldn't do it now but I did it then. It's the only true trick shot I ever learned I guess.

 

[1KPerDay]

My trick is to make hitting anything with a rifle look a lot harder than it should be.

 

[rcmodel]

There was a time 50+ years ago when I was 18 I when I could toss a coffee can in the air with my right hand, draw a S&W 1917 .45 ACP, and shoot the can 6 times in the air from the hip before it hit the ground.

There was a time when I shot a crow in a tree 150 yards away with a Ruger Standard .22 pistol when I was 18 or 19 in front of witnesses.

There was a time in 1969 when I shot Olympic Team Trials with 5th. Army AMU (and didn't quit make it by 3 points.)

During that same time I could hit a .50 cal. GI ammo can at 100 yards, 3-4 times out of 5 with a 2" S&W Chiefs Special. ( And won enough money doing it to keep me in beer money!)

But that was then, and this is now.

At 71, I'm doing good to keep it centered in the porcelain bowl in the bathroom now!

My trick shot days are long gone now!

rc

 

[Agsalaska]

I can usually put 15 or 16 or however many rounds a Glock 19 holds on a profile target from 10 or 15 feet as fast as I can pull the trigger.

I can almost always hit a deer with a high powered rifle sitting in a deer blind from about 100 yards if the deer is sitting still.

I can hit just about anything with a Remington 121 Fieldmaster no matter what the circumstances. I dont know what it is, but I can really shoot those guns.

 

[Malamute]

I did a neat trick once. I managed to shoot a hole in a wall with an unloaded gun.


The only up side, I did in fact hit what I was aiming at as a (not) dry fire target.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Dad demonstrated he could drive nails in a fence post with an uncle's .22 revolver. That uncle still likes to tell that story to this day!

Had an uncle who would do the dime trick with a .22 rifle.

About the only real trick I could do was consistently out-shoot an older Marine Corps brother of mine. Used to get on his nerves!

 

[CajunBass]

The neatest "trick" I ever saw was my uncle shoot a dove, then reach out, and catch the falling bird in his hand and never move out of his tracks. He camly put the bird in the back of his hunting coat, likke he'd done it a thousand times. I guess I was about 15 at the time, and let me tell you boys and girls, that was the COOLEST thing I'd ever seen.

Me? I'm lucky if I can hit the ground with my hat.

Back in the day I did right regularly bust arrow nocks, but that's just a matter of tight groups, not really a "trick" shot. I could shoot a bow back in those days.

 

[USAF_Vet]

Not really a trick, and pretty stupid, but I used to shoot 12 gauges shells with my .22lr. Big deal, you say? Well, these were live shells, and I was shooting the primers, detonating the shells. What I should have done, and might do in the future, is set up a patterning board and strap the shells down, see what sort of patterns I can make. Call it art, and sell it on ebay.

 

[Cee Zee]

My brothers did a couple of things that were pretty impressive to me (but then what do I know?). They would shoot the bottom out of plastic Pepsi bottle. Not impressed? They shot through the opening at the top. If they clipped the top at all they got ticked. They did this at a pretty good distance but I couldn't say how far. Another thing they did was to shoot pig nuts out of the tops of the tree. Not impressed again? They didn't shoot the pig nut. They cut the stems in two.

Hey that's something I can still do. I can cut a blade of grass in two with a .22 at up to about 50 yards. I did it about a week ago. And I haven't done much shooting at all for a while.

 

[Voodoochile]

My trick shooting doesn't involve firearms.

Been shooting archery for 35+ years & teach it for going on 20 years.
As a demonstration for my students mostly to show them proper hold on the string, I sometimes will shoot my 46# recurve upside-down.
No not like the contortionist because my body doesn't bend like that but close enough & will consistently hit the X from 10 yards away.

 

[Cee Zee]

My trick shooting doesn't involve firearms.

I was wondering if you were going to say you stood up next to a mountain and chopped it down with the edge of your hand.

Jimi was special. Only a fair grunt from what I hear. But the 101st Airborne isn't for sissys. He did get his Screaming Eagles patch. Jimi wasn't much of a marksman. He spent his time playing that guitar instead of doing army stuff. He only joined to keep from going to prison I guess.

 

[StrawHat]

I used to split bullets on the edge of a double bitted ax. I could do it with a rifle or a revolver.

I could also shoot short barrels revolves at long range, I was good enough to keep others shaking their heads.

I managed to hit a crow on the wing with a 38 Special but that was a fluke.

Kevin