Your Best Tall Tale at the Range.

[zfk55]

Do you have one? Your best day at the range?
Here's mine.

--------------------------------------------------

One Smooth Hole

It was mid-may when I set up to shoot a 200 yard target at the range out back of the place. By the time I was ready at noon the temperature was a mild 75 degrees. I rode the Rhino downrange and stapled a solitary target to the frameworks. Dead center was a black one inch paster.

My shooting bench was the old redwood pic-nic table I had used for years, but it was solid and made a good bench. I set up the number 6 shot bags and took the Swiss k31 rifle out of the case, attatched the bipod to the rail under it, uncapped the scope and began adjusting the height of the shot-bags.
I set up the spotting scope on the tripod, broke out the custom loads and inserted 5 of them into the magazine.

I proceeded to send five rounds downrange at three second intervals. I checked the target though the spotting scope and said "Yep" to myself.
"Yep, what?" came from behind me. Worden Hardy had walked up behind me just after the last shot.
Hello, Worden. Yep, I put all five of them trhough the same hole again, sez I. "All five through the same hole?" sez he. Yep........ all five. "Let me see that scope".... and I moved over for him to look.
"There's only one hole in that target. Dead center. What makes you think all five went in the same hole?" sez he. They always do, sez I. Every time.
Worden is standing with his hands in his pockets rocking back and forth on his heels looking at me through half open eyes. "Uh huh. All five through one smooth hole. Right".

And I never could'a proved it if it hadn't been for those five dead coyotes that had been trotting in single file, three seconds apart behind that target.
Yep. One smooth hole.

zfk55

 

[Pappy109]

I got one, the day some idiot dropped his cocked and locked $5,000 Kimber on the concrete floor. It hit right on the $100.00 barel bushing and it went off from inertia of his super duper$200.00 firing pin. It jumped back up though the ceiling tiles came down and hit him on the head and landed still cocked and locked in front of me.

The shrapnel missed me so that was a good day and the last day I ever went to an indoor range.

 

[Shadow Man]

You had me there for a minute Pappy

 

[Werewolf]

Note: Deleted. True story not a tall tale.

What happened to the delete function?

 

[627PCFan]

I shot a 25/25 on the skeet range, 3 rounds in a row. Uphill, in the snow both ways, with no shoes

 

[Shadow Man]

Had a friend once, shot a 110lb 6pt buck in light snow, with a moderate crossbreeze of maybe 3mph using a .270 Model 700. By the end of the day, he killed a bull moose with a rack bigger than your living room couch in a whiteout with hurricane force winds by blowing a soda-straw wrapper at him.

 

[Mr.Davis]

I'm reposting this from another forum (not a firearms forum, btw)

For the record, this is someone else speaking, not me! My BS meter doesn't go this high!

Once during the final day of deer season, we saw a huge doe at the far end of a corn field just before 4:30 - dark and shooting is closed.
We all popped out of the vehicle and Virgil dumped a full clip from a kneeling position into the frozen ground as he attempted to range her visually at about 450 yards, using the dirt puffs as an elevation guide.
He dropped her after 5 shots into the 2nd clip and for a semi 30-06, that was just about the fastest I've ever seen ANYONE go through a magazine, swap, and start through a second.

I know he was attempting to get to her before she heard the reports and bolted, but me?
I would have just popped one from my lever action Winchester .32 Special in her nose and been done with it.
It wouldn't have been the first time I took a running deer at extreme yardage with a single round either.
I took the eyes clean out of a broadside doe at about 300 yards one year, and she was hell-bent for leather and following a buck.
I only had a party tag left or I'd have dropped his arse too.

You SURE you really wanna shoot for beer money, Elmer?

I DO like those little 20 gauges too, but the .410 is a bit more accurate using slugs.
If a .410 were named by gauge it would be a 67.5 gauge.
Ever shoot an 8 gauge?
Knock my arse head over teakettle at 12 years of age.

....

I know, we all like to believe we can hit the bad guy with the first shot, but as an experienced user of firearms for a fair portion of my life, I HAVE seen "buck-fever" strike even the most experienced of hunters.
Shooting a human is a whole different chain of reaction than shooting game, and you WILL pause if you've never shot a person before.
That delay can and often does necessitate a second round.

Let me be clear, I am NOT a shot kinda guy. I am a slug user.
I learned to groundswat partridge and pheasant with a .32 Special, I was trained to make EVERY shot count by being given a single .22 round and if I missed anything, I went the rest of the day playing retriever while the Old Man got to have all the fun. The only way he'd give me another bullet, was if I made the previous one count. I filled my quota nearly every time I went hunting.

Home defense is not a Tim Allen issue, where the more horsepower the better the tool.
Accuracy is the name of the game, and anyone using a weapon for self-defense MUST be trained to be accurate, not just deliver a ton of lead in the general direction and hope to jay-ZUZ you get lucky in the general area.
Besides, blasting the hell out of your own home is a waste of valuable mud and tape when you have to repair drywall - not to mention the expense of the damn bullets.

I stand by my recommendation, the .410 is a VERY good weapon for both defense in your home and for survival/meat.
For pure home defense, I might consider reducing the barrel length and cut off the rear of the stock, so that it can be used more like a handgun.

 

[Pappy109]

Shadow Man:

I thought he had me there for a minute. When the old gal did my laundry she can attest to the fact of just how skeeeered I really was.

 

[Shadow Man]

I guess I need to re-evaluate my understanding of tall tales!

 

[Pappy109]

Yeah....I sure am glad he missed it too when he was grabbing for it as it fell..................That barrel looked like a tunnel and I was expecting a train

 

[NMGonzo]

Army

First time with the FN.

5 rounds.

First shot ... bullseye!

"Viva la Patria!" (hail to the faterland!)

NCO's approach "Do it again, Gonzalez!"

Did not happen