BS: B******t Marksmanship

Subject: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 10:49 PM

So, I was watching this "Extreme Marksmanship" program -- well, a part of it -- of TV a couple weeks ago and this one guy shot a golf ball off the top of a post at 25 yards, using a rifle with iron sights.

I thought, so what? And this evening I took 5 golf balls out to the range. At 50 measured yards, using iron sights on a .22 rifle, I hit one golf ball once and another three times (I didn't realize I'd hit it the first two times because it didn't move). .22 long rifle ammo, Aguila's premium, lead round nose, standard velocity.

Then I shot two more golf balls at 25 feet using a .357 magnum Ruger New Vaquero revolver. Each took three hits of jacketed hollow point Blazer ammunition.

I may very well go shoot golf again sometime.

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 10:57 PM

Why would you shoot a Volkswagen?

BTW... 25 yards... rifle??? why was he on TV? I can spit betternnat.

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 11:32 PM

Yeah, on TV. I think it was a .45 long cold lever action rifle, and he only grazed the thing. AND it was embedded on top of a 2x4, whereas mine were balanced on top of a couple empty 12 gauge shells in a 20 mph wind.

I think I've developed a new Olympic sport.

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:04 AM

What does   B******t   stand for?

_{(You can whisper it, if you don't want ladies or children to hear.)}

DC

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:20 AM

poster appears to be gargoyle.

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What positions were you firing from? Standing, sitting, kneeling or prone? Braced or unbraced?

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: GUEST,Doug Chadwick
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:48 AM

What does B******t stand for?


OK, no need to explain, I've got it - I'm easily confused, you know


DC

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Dead Horse
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:19 AM

At any distance of less than 100yds I would expect to hear the order "Fix bayonets" :-)
(Which translates as "Je me rends" for the French)

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 09:36 AM

Good use for golf balls though.......

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 10:36 AM

Standing, one hand, for the revolver shots.

Sitting (the real position, not a chair) for the rifle. Braced against my own knees, feet flat on the ground. This is a position I rarely use because these days it's so damned hard to get up.

Yes, I could truly say that I've now shot my own balls.

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 10:54 AM

An uncle who took national trap championships a couple of times some years back used to bring out a .22 rifle with no sights (to simulate a shotgun), and would have us set up a row of matches in a crack in the backstop so he could practice lighting them without breaking the matchsticks - from about the distance claimed for the TV show.

He didn't light them all, but then he was "swing-shooting" as you'd do shotgunning clay pigeons. (He'd holler "pull," and we'd have to say "go" before he raised the gun.) He did light a lot of 'em.

John

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 12:01 PM

One of my favorite scenes in Secondhand Lions is the sale of the skeet-shooting thingie...

We used to burn golf balls, they turned into little rocket-propelled burning things (zoomed around like a balloon blown up and let go without being tied), but shooting them sounds like a load of fun!

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 12:15 PM

Golf ball, crap a six year old from my next of the woods could do that ... try this, find yourself some caps like in the old kids cap guns. Tape them to a cardboard box then try to set them off by hitting them with your .22 ...

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 01:25 PM

Sheeeoooot; if you ain't good enough that any of your kin can trust you to do it with a cap stuck on the end of his tongue...

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 01:57 PM

"What positions were you firing from? Standing, sitting, kneeling or prone? Braced or unbraced?"

At 25 yards with a rifle... staggering drunk and spun around three times might make it a slight challenge.

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:58 PM

Yeah, but I was at twice that and sober enough to remember which end of the bullet to insert first.

Back in the days when I was younger we'd shoot percussion caps at 75 yards. The caps would ignite a pile of black powder inside a pipe plugged with a croquet ball or something and whatever that hit on the target was your score. That target was 200 yards further out and held by your opponent in the shootin' match.

Are there any others among you who can truthfully say that they've shot their own balls?

Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:02 PM

I meant with a .22 revolver