Plinking

greener · Post by **greener** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:10 pm

Yes, but the Master leaves me in the dust.

Hakaman · Post by **Hakaman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:53 pm

I think my record was 6 in a row without a miss.

Are you sure that wasn't 25 inches away!

Hakaman · Post by **Hakaman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:56 pm

Weak hand, standing on one leg, no glasses after warming up by shooting the wings off flies? Laughing

Ican do all that stuff.......plus I can face the opposite direction and use a mirror !

Hak

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:05 pm

Hakaman wrote:
I think my record was 6 in a row without a miss.
Are you sure that wasn't 25 inches away!

25 yards and I got a WITNESS

Hakaman · Post by **Hakaman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:08 pm

25 yards and I got a WITNESS

I like bear, he seems like a wonderful dog, but he doesn't count as a witness !

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:10 pm

Hakaman wrote:
25 yards and I got a WITNESS
I like bear, he seems like a wonderful dog, but he doesn't count as a witness !

Bear will not tell an untruth and neither will Joe

KAZ · Post by **KAZ** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:13 pm

HAK, I can see why those are two favorite handguns to shoot! Very nice

As to plinking targets I like to shoot flies. Most of the time they are dead flies flying! Regards

Hakaman · Post by **Hakaman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:31 pm

Man, I must have missed my hg training growing up, cause I'm thinking about using sporting clays at 50 yards!
Haka

greener · Post by **greener** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:46 pm

Hakaman wrote:Man, I must have missed my hg training growing up, cause I'm thinking about using sporting clays at 50 yards!
Haka

Going laterally, away at an oblique or toward you oblique?

I like one of those small 55-gallon tin cans at 50 yards

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:51 am

greener wrote:
I like one of those small 55-gallon tin cans at 50 yards

Boy hav e I been in the dark, when did the start making 55 gallon tin cans in large medium and small? Stuff just sneaks by us old guys.

greener · Post by **greener** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:41 pm

A large 55-gallon drum is 80 gallons
a medium is 55-gallons
A small 55-gallon drum is 30 gallons.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:49 pm

greener wrote:A large 55-gallon drum is 80 gallons
a medium is 55-gallons
A small 55-gallon drum is 30 gallons.

Must have happened during my nap time that day.

greener · Post by **greener** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:06 pm

Right under your nose

Hakaman · Post by **Hakaman** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:01 pm

Sorry to dig up this "plinking" thread again, but I have been having some fun at the outdoor range lately.
We have hanging steel animals at 25 yards to shoot. They are abut 3 to 5 inches across,
depending on which one you want to shoot at. Willber the pig is about 5", and Sam the rooster is only 3" across.
I can probably hit them 4 out of 10 shots, but I don't take my time, I just draw and shoot (well, more like point and shoot).
After we spray paint them black, we have fun. It's another way to make practicing more fun.
Haka

bigfatdave · Post by **bigfatdave** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:27 pm

(Shooters' view)

(Rear view)

I had an "ah-hah!" moment last time I was at the range for some casual shooting, we were shooting everything from airsoft to .45acp to 5.7mm to .22lr, and I wanted a reactive target, hence the hanging tennis balls.
(really, that ball-o-tape used to be a tennis ball before it became faintly greenish lacework covered in tape)

So I was hanging up the balls on strings and I went to take down this punched-out target from the hanger ... and eureka! ... I figured out that if I hung the ball behind the hole and put up no target at all it would force the shooter to find the spot where they can hit a 2" target rapidly, but be unable to focus on misses.

It was, of course, a hit with everyone on the range, and I expect that there will be either a replacement hanging object next time I get there, or this one shot to shreds of taped-together shreds. I ended up hanging a smashed pop can in the hole as well bu the end of the day, so there would be a second thing to shoot while the first one was swinging out of view.

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Haka, I want steel for my outdoor range, but I know that if I leave it out I'll come back and either:
- find it drilled with hunting rifle rounds
- find it missing or in the trash
or
- find it moved to an unsafe spot

And since I have nowhere to keep a steel target (and no desire to hump it up and down the range every trip) I'm pretty much stuck improvising.
Steel is a blast, though ... immediate feedback and no screwing around calling a cold range to walk new targets up.