While hiking a Forest Service road last week in the Jefferson National Forest (VA.), Mt. Rogers area, I came across a music CD someone had flung from a vehicle, "Best of Disco". CD was undamaged, no scratches, obviously it didn't pass muster with someone as it was abandoned miles from the nearest paved road.....

Got back to my truck and put it in my CD player, "Best of Disco" worked great, but it wasn't the best of disco. Sounded like a pirated CD sold on the streets of Tijuana or New York, some lounge band covering disco's greatest hits. No wonder someone drove miles into the wilderness to discard it.

Got me in mind of one of the trick shots on the reality TV show "Top Shot", shooting through the hole in a CD. On the show, they use a scoped Volquartsen 10/22 rifle, shooting standing at 50 feet or closer. I figured I'd go a little farther, 25 yards, and use my CZ 452 Military Trainer with open sights from the prone position.

The opening in a CD is 3/4" in diameter, .75 inches, a .22 projectile being .223 in diameter means you must put the projectile through a .669 diameter hole to get a clean shot through. I put a piece of black target paper over the opening to record the hit, practiced a little bit on small targets, then sent one round into "Best of Disco":





As you can see, the bullet just nicked the inside rim, missing the .669 window, but making the .750 cut. I'll have to try this again if I find another offending CD, perhaps one of our fellow CZ enthusiasts (or other .22 rifle enthusiasts) can make this shot, make it challenging though, no bench rested shots...

Haha i love this. Sounds like something i would do! I shoot everything i can within reason of course. Love that CZ btw, wanna get one for myself eventually l.

I visit rim fire central and the CZ's seem to be very accurate. Most have nice wood also. Nice shooting, Larry

If only Cz would get off their ... and start building left handed guns

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Arik,

They do make a left handed 452, the "Lux" version. Same as the Military Trainer only with a walnut stock. Costs about $400, $100 more than the Military Trainer....

I wouldn't try this on one of my CDs unless it was as bad as the one you describe. I'm sure I could come up with a few that screamed to be shot.

i did this with a bunch of lp records i used to have...except i used a 12ga.
rick springfield never even saw it coming.
pretty nice shooting by the way, iron sights and all.

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Canoeguy,

I own...and love...an exact duplicate of your rifle, down to the same sling. I just bet, with a little practice you could do the same with a 33 1/3 LP.

Ed

being a son of the south, I much prefer other targets of opportunity....like old ice boxes and stop signs.

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You beat me to it. I was thinking 100 yard from the bench with my 223 rem 40x. I just changed scopes from a Leupold fixed 24x to a 30mm variable Leupold 6.5x 20 x 50. just zeroed it at 50 yd's and need to go to 100, then further. PLENTY of the wifes Yanni, Enya & Ricki Martin cd's to practice on.

I agree with Collects, & just to be sure, drive a stake through it & bury it at a crossroads at midnight on a full moon. You know how these things have a tendency to come back, & that for sure is something we don't want to come back!

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Keeping a .223 bullet inside a .75 diameter hole in a CD is equivalent to hitting a .304 diameter target. I just measured an aspirin as about .40 diameter.

Yeah well maybe the MUSIC sucked. But the girls of ABBA were hot. (at least I thought so)