smokey04
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If you shoot clay pigeons be aware that the pitch is poisonous to pigs.If you have a wild pig problem,you may be killing two "birds" with one "stone". Nick
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Lian
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claypigeons;
old computer harddrives with 2+ platters. .22 tears right through a single platter;
solid hockey ball... i call it "rifle golf";
off-cut wooden blocks, about 4x4x4", bounce and spin like crazy until they shatter apart.
old computer harddrives with 2+ platters. .22 tears right through a single platter;
solid hockey ball... i call it "rifle golf";
off-cut wooden blocks, about 4x4x4", bounce and spin like crazy until they shatter apart.
Skeptic 9c
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Mini sniping Blazer Aluminum cases at 100 yards with a .22 LR. Work back from 25 yards. Make sure of your backstops!!
Shooting into water is dangerous and barely acceptable when you have a small body of water against a 50 foot cliff, hopefully of clay.
Remember always begin and end with paper. Paper never lies to you, no matter how much you wish it might.
Geoff
Who passes on wisdom from his father.
Shooting into water is dangerous and barely acceptable when you have a small body of water against a 50 foot cliff, hopefully of clay.
Remember always begin and end with paper. Paper never lies to you, no matter how much you wish it might.
Geoff
Who passes on wisdom from his father.
We used to have a lot of fun down on the bayou in Plaquemines Parish. We would build a big bonfire in a place where we did not have to consider forrest fires.
then we would take a number of 20lb propane tanks (full) and throw them into the fire and let them get good and hot.
Then we would shoot them with a high powered rifle.
A pretty cool display to say the least!
that sounds ridiculously dangerous/fun! got any vids?
Majorlk
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We used to have a lot of fun down on the bayou in Plaquemines Parish. We would build a big bonfire in a place where we did not have to consider forrest fires.
then we would take a number of 20lb propane tanks (full) and throw them into the fire and let them get good and hot.
Then we would shoot them with a high powered rifle.
A pretty cool display to say the least!
To each his own, but I gotta tell you I don't want to be within miles of you guys when you are pulling stunts like that.
Tennis balls are fun to roll around the range with .22's.
OldEagleEars
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I noticed a couple of suggestions for floating targets (briquets, etc.) which would be great IF you are very sure of what is in the potential beaten zone. Bullets skip on water just like little, super-fast rocks and can really keep their velocity. We had a young girl killed here locally by a bullet that some guy shot into a lake on the 4th of July. It skipped off the water, came onshore a couple of hundred yards away and got her in the head. I used to float corncobs on the pond and shoot at them when I was a kid on the farm, I'm damn lucky that I didn't wound an Angus with a ricochet.
Majorlk
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When someone mentions floating targets, One of the cardinal rules of firearms safety comes to mind...
Always be sure of your backstop and what's behind the target.
Always be sure of your backstop and what's behind the target.
Kayback
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The backstop for our floating targets is a 100m cliff. The fun of having a shooting range in an old quarry.
Shooting into the water.
The water is in the FAR center "corner" of the quarry.
Shooting into the water.
The water is in the FAR center "corner" of the quarry.
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Majorlk
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Nice Backstop! Any problem with ricochets?
Kayback
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None that we know of. That backstop works great, the range is divided into 4 parts, pistol range at the front, 50m and 100m rifle range in middle and down one side, and the rear part is used for clays. No fall out area or anything 
There is a rather large glacis at the base of the rock. To get a ricochet you'd need to be aiming way up than a normal target, and even if you did, it most likely would strike another rock face and stop.
KBK
There is a rather large glacis at the base of the rock. To get a ricochet you'd need to be aiming way up than a normal target, and even if you did, it most likely would strike another rock face and stop.
KBK
Majorlk
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Sweet Setup!
Bikemobile
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2x4's 8x8 1/8" steel plates on the sides. 1/2" plate in the middle for larger calibers.
They hang on s hooks and door hinges. When you hang them on a door hinge they hang at a slight angle back to deflect lead to the ground. No ricochets with this setup.
Majorlk
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Nicely done.
duppie
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The infernal,tortuous,aggravating,time and energy sucking Dell computers and laptops I've had to displeasure to own.
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