Thursday afternoon, I had an appt. in town. Jerry was coming up Friday. I figured we needed something different to shoot. I had some cut-offs of 3/16" plate steel. Sawed out a few quick segments and welded them together. Made up this handy, dandy steel fox target!



Glad I did. It took a pounding all day. By the end, it was getting a Taco shape and needs a truck to roll it back flat! hahah.

We found that with the leg on a hinge behind the kill zone, it would stand up to pounding with Jerry's Woodsman 32 insert and long Pepper Grinder slugs. It would stand kill zone shots with my Orion and the smaller 485 grain slug. Jerry's Yukon with his 577 grain slug would flatten it at any yardage. My Orion with my 600 grain would flatten it too. His full scale Yukon still has about 100 foot pounds on me though.




Here's my 600 grain slug at 106 yards. And, that's the slug I should have been shooting in Texas. Live and learn. You don't know now, what you'll need to know tomorrow. haha. Figured I better get in my meager contributions to the show first, before Jerry steals the whole show later ...



Jerry!

just kidding ... hehehe. This tree is the only thing he did not knock over yesterday ...



We stayed all day. Good day.

Gary

Looks like you guys had a great day! And I think you pretty much killed that fox
Gary, that 106 yard group from your Orion looks tiny...what did it measure?
Happy New Year
Neil

Hi Neil,

That was just the first volley on the fox. That was NOTHING to the lead it absorbed during the day. hahaha.

Looked just like a fox standing way out in the field. We also had a wooden one made from scrap plywood pcs. on a previous trip. I always want something to spice up the field of targets. I have some I made for the first Standing Stone (rent a place to store them about 10 miles from here. Probably cost me an absurd amount over the years to keep them. But they have this large footprint each. Probably a trailer's worth of stuff and I just don't have room for them anywhere on the property). Therefore; I'm target poor here, when I want to go shoot. And running and getting them, and taking them back ... it a pain. So; show up at the estate sale after I've spent 30 grand to store them for 25 years ... hummmm OH ... nice job Neil ... bringing up my storage facility and how silly that is ... hahahah

Gary

Neat target, looks like it got used pretty hard. Good choice of animals, if you just let it rust outside in the rain it's the perfect color!

That cloverleaf at 106 is definately a wall-hanger target, don't get much better than that!

Happy New Years, by the way.

Ohhhhhhh MY, thats an AWESOME group guys at 106 yards. Also love the RED FOX. Awesome stuff once again from you to trouble makers.

GB, isn't it funny how fast time really goes by when you go out for a shoot. I went out yesterday and got there at 7 oclock in the morning and the next thing i know, it's getting dark and cool. I look at my watch and it was 4 oclock and i still didn't do HALF of what i wanted to.

dont worry bout the fox ,,,, look what you did to the tree

it is verrryyyyy gooodddd. superrrrrrrrrrr