Shooting bowling pins with a 45

[hswaters]

I went to a bowling pin match at the Pearland Shooting Club Sunday and besides shooting bowling pins I shot some video. This is done by an old fart with an old cell phone so if you need Hollywood quality video this aint it. It is less than ten minutes of the 4 hours of shooting but it includes the shoot off for first place at the end. I am not in the video so you don't have to suffer me wasting ammo shooting past bowling pins. As usual I make a pitch for subscribers, something that is hard to get. If you subscribe the only thing you get is a notice in your gmail when I post a video and that is months in between.

Shooting bowling pins with a 45 - YouTube

 

[Qball]

Good shooting

That is fun,
but you can get some really nasty recoshets.

 

[hudsonvalley]

Haven't done a pin match in a few years....NY was short on ammo for awhile...thanks for the video....good shooting...good fun

 

[Lt JL]

Nice shooting. I once shot a pin match with an M1A. Pins never moved, just had a .308 hole right through them.

 

[RonJ]

Someone recently complained about Hollywood and handguns knocking a guy back 6 or 8 feet. A .45 won't even knock a bowling pin back very far.
Some nice shootin' there!
I once tried shooting bowling pins with a K22. Even though the pins are set a lot closer to the edge of the table it still ain't easy to knock them off. I won my class!

 

[ACP230]

Pins were my main event for 10 years.
They were a whole lot of fun. And I had the advantage of going
to the best pin match in the country, Second Chance.

I still miss that match.

 

[ACP230]

I once blew a pin in half and sent half of it over a five-foot sand bank.

The gun was a .30 Carbine. I forget what the load was, most likely ball, or a lead round-nose reload. Pin was "experienced." I'd been shooting it in practice with my .45 for a while.

That's what makes pins entertaining, you never know what they might do.

 

[Engineer1911]

Use Hodgdon data, HS-6 powder and 255 gr LSWC will make a 45 ACP a "Pin Killing" machine. Pins go straight back about 4 feet before falling to the ground. Ain't no "roll off the table" and hope.

Great video and thanks for posting.

 

[badge]

Went to a match via an invite from a Safari Club member and had never competed in such a match although I had heard of them. I shot against folks with great skill and new guys like me. I used my duty Beretta 92 and did well against custom 1911's and heavy revolvers with 115 ball ammo. I won it actually although it certainly wasn't a professional type situation. Wish I could find a range locally that offers it.

 

[max]

I have not done that in years, but always enjoyed it. I won twice, once with a Gold Cup and once with a BHP. I wish the range would start doing it again.