|
29 Jun 11 - 10:49 PM (#3178823) Subject: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Rapparee 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. |
|
29 Jun 11 - 10:57 PM (#3178827) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: gnu Why would you shoot a Volkswagen? BTW... 25 yards... rifle??? why was he on TV? I can spit betternnat. |
|
29 Jun 11 - 11:32 PM (#3178841) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Rapparee 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. |
|
30 Jun 11 - 03:04 AM (#3178891) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Doug Chadwick What does B******t stand for? (You can whisper it, if you don't want ladies or children to hear.) DC |
|
30 Jun 11 - 03:20 AM (#3178899) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: GUEST
What positions were you firing from? Standing, sitting, kneeling or prone? Braced or unbraced? |
|
30 Jun 11 - 03:48 AM (#3178907) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: GUEST,Doug Chadwick What does B******t stand for? OK, no need to explain, I've got it - I'm easily confused, you know DC |
|
30 Jun 11 - 07:19 AM (#3178996) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Dead Horse 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) |
|
30 Jun 11 - 09:36 AM (#3179051) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: jacqui.c Good use for golf balls though....... |
|
30 Jun 11 - 10:36 AM (#3179083) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Rapparee 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. |
|
30 Jun 11 - 10:54 AM (#3179091) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: JohnInKansas 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 |
|
30 Jun 11 - 12:01 PM (#3179124) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Mrrzy 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! |
|
30 Jun 11 - 12:15 PM (#3179130) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: olddude 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 ... |
|
30 Jun 11 - 01:25 PM (#3179156) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: frogprince 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... |
|
30 Jun 11 - 01:57 PM (#3179175) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: gnu "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. |
|
30 Jun 11 - 03:58 PM (#3179266) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: Rapparee 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? |
|
30 Jun 11 - 07:02 PM (#3179350) Subject: RE: BS: B******t Marksmanship From: olddude I meant with a .22 revolver |