"You should be able to catch that bullet in a baseball glove at that distance!"

[Vanilla Gorilla]

"You should be able to catch that bullet in a baseball glove at that distance!"

Yeah, somebody said it.

I hadn't shot my 17-4 since I added the Kuracs to it, so I felt I should fix that today. We were out shooting targets and such for a while before I decided I should try what is admittedly my favorite type of shooting.

We backed up toward the house a ways and I settled in for some longer range stuff, much to the surprise of my friends. I really don't know why this type of thinking persists, but it does, and one of the onlookers assured me that I'd be doing good to even hit a gallon milk jug at 115 yards, much less punch though the poor thing. [:/]

With a little smirk, I assumed my favorite Elmer Keith position and proceeded to drop 29 of 30 of the little 36 grain bullets through that jug, and achieved the satisfaction of shutting up yet another Doubting Thomas. Normally, I offer to show how easy such a feat is, but today I just felt better basking in the knowledge that some idiot neighbor of my friend thinks he was in the presence of a gun god.

That's what my dad would call a "little ways off."

Too bad I don't own a real camera any more, maybe these wouldn't look like what I see when I don't have my contacts in.

 

[boatme99]

Okay. I only count 28 holes in that jug. That nick in the handle doesn't count!

Looks like you had a good time. Nice range, too.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Nice range, too.

Pretty much the only rules are

1. Be safe
2. Don't shoot the boat

 

[M E Morrison]

There have been a couple of cases where guys with big mouths & bad attitudes said similar words. I always smile politely & ask them if they'd like to try it. So far - no takers.

 

[rburg]

Ya know what I learned long ago? As for informal target shooting, where scoring is just general holes? Or even making the jug/can jump? Shoot low, you almost always get the target on the skip or bounce. As long as windage is in the game, altitude or elevation doesn't really matter very much. A milk jug is nearly a foot high, and even a foot low shot will skip and nail it, often as not. I once had a drinking buddy who pointed out that each bullet should have 2 holes, not one. They go in and out.

 

[rwsmith]

Who was the Civil War general....

Who was the Civil War general that said, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this range." and a few minutes later got a bullet in his head.

 

[rwsmith]

Uuuuuum...

What milk jug?

 

[redlevel]

Who was the Civil War general that said, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this range." and a few minutes later got a bullet in his head.

John Sedgwick at Spotsylvania.

 

[zzzippper]

Using a baseball glove is like getting a free lunch, I use tweezers.

 

[M E Morrison]

Using a baseball glove is like getting a free lunch, I use tweezers.

If you were really talented, you'd catch them in your teeth!

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Ya know what I learned long ago? As for informal target shooting, where scoring is just general holes? Or even making the jug/can jump? Shoot low, you almost always get the target on the skip or bounce. As long as windage is in the game, altitude or elevation doesn't really matter very much. A milk jug is nearly a foot high, and even a foot low shot will skip and nail it, often as not. I once had a drinking buddy who pointed out that each bullet should have 2 holes, not one. They go in and out.

Been doing that for years on cans.

 

[zzzippper]

If you were really talented, you'd catch them in your teeth!

I tried, that's why they call me Popeye.

 

[M E Morrison]

I tried, that's why they call me Popeye.

A wee bit off, were ya?

 

[WR Moore]

Long time back my older son and I were doing some shooting at a range I belonged to. He was banging away at a gong at 100 yards with his .22 rifle and doing pretty well.

While checking targets with a couple of guys shooting ARs at 200 yards, I noticed a B27 was clean. When my son got bored, he asked if he could shoot at that. After getting permission from the guys, I guesstimated the hold over and he went at it.

On the way to the targets, one of the guys sidled up to me and said: "Those bullets won't go that far." My reply was "We'll see". The look on the guy's face was real interesting when he saw all those little holes in the 10 ring.

 

[boatme99]

A wee bit off, were ya?

Just keeping his eye on the bullet.

 

[kaaskop49]

115 yards? That would be about the length of 5-6 subway cars (with over 200 people in each at rush hour). After all those years of strap-hanging on the iron horse, maybe that's why I shoot at 5-7 yards. I couldn't imagine any longer distance. Good show and happy holidays!

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

Sounds like something one of those "tactical" shooting TV shows would say.

 

[skrazo]

What milk jug?

Yeah! Me too! I can barely see something that size from that distance. Good shooting, Vanilla.