I thought this might be a good rainy day topic.

Seems it's going to rain forever here in the East. I'm growing moss on my back again. The yard grass is nearly up to the window sills. However; someday, I hope to be able to go shooting again. Jerry considered coming up Saturday to shoot some. The forecast, however; said we were all gonna die if we went out Saturday. Rain, storms, more rain and storms. So, when it started raining Friday evening, we cancelled. It takes Jerry 2 1/2 hours to get here. He usually arrives about 9:30 am.

Well, you guessed it. At precisely 9:30 am, it stopped raining, and it was a beautiful 68F day ... all day and evening. Started raining again about the time he'd have gotten home ... and it will evidently never stop now.

But ... let's talk about targets!

I like to knock things for a loop. I like the ring of steel, and the good ole cartwheel of a heavy steel target. Of course, you have to be pounding out a few fpe to do that. I also like splinters ... but, they are unreliable. You can videotape nine wooden targets in a row ... and they will just "paper punch" with a clean hole, and no splinters or splits will occur. I guarantee, you do NOT film one shot, and the target will burst apart in five pcs., each taking off like a missle! haha.

What to you like?
Gary

For sighting in, and precision work... the "shoot n see" ones so I dont have to remember to bring the spotting scope.

Gophers the last few days....

Reactive tagets.... soda or beer cans (still containing beverage) shook up and placed at unknown distances. No doubt whne you hit it.

and if I ever get a line of sight on them, some crack heads that live across the river (kidding, at least till I get a spud gun going.....)

Depends what caliber.

You covered the bigger stuff Gary. I like shooting pieces of cordwood stood up on end, in order to test penetration into the hard oak at distance.

For smaller stuff -- brittle plastic toys are a lot of fun. E.g., plastic army soldiers filling in the role of Taliban fighters. I had a cheap Mr. Potato Head toy from a fast food kid's meal last year that provided hours of entertainment until he became too deformed to reassemble. The tried and true beer can also takes a lot of damage around here.

-- Jim

Hmmmm... now what would you be doing with a kid's meal? You didn't snatch some poor kid's toy and high tail it out of Mcdonald's did you?

Stuff that does stuff when you hit it hard with lead stuff

Though the wife gives me withering looks usually reserved for delinquent teenagers when I smash stuff.

Also my 5 year old daughter definately does not like it when Barbie, in full evening wear, gets blasted from 50 yards....



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Barbie, in full evening wear, gets
> blasted from 50 yards....

Head shots? hehehehe

I mean, for shame, taking that kid's precious toy!

Pics of said carnage?

OK ... now we're sure to get discount group rate offers from therapy clinics.

I HAD to ask .....

Gary

You shot Barbie? Boy, I thought I had a problem with women..

"Barbie, in full evening wear" !?

Everybody knows she should be wearing khakis and be in her Jeep. This is outdoors man!

At a distance small ballons make great targets no doubt when there hit but only good once.

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> At a distance small ballons make great targets no
> doubt when there hit but only good once.


Plasters' book "the Ultimate Sniper" says to use heluim ballons at various distances, tied with different lengths of string.
He says when the breeze kicks up, the balloons react differently depending on a number of factors. Might be fun....

If ya'll want me to delete this topic to protect the guilty, just let me know!

I like your gopher target the best Gary. Is there any chance you make one for sale? He..he. I like to break things when I shoot, soda cans, glass bottles, clay targets, spinner steel targets. My most favorite was a quarter that I taped it to the target, and I shot a hole through it at 100 yards with a Savage .300 Winchester Magnum. I kept that quater in my wallet awhile to remind me how accurate that gun was. I love accurate guns, doesn't matter if it was a firearm or airgun. Just talk about it makes me want to go out and shoot he.. he.

I like steel cans ("tin" cans) since they hold up so much better than aluminum beer and soda cans do. You can fill them full of holes and they'll still be intact and shootable long after a pop can is reduced to tattered whisps. If it's a range where shotguns are used, you can often find intact claybirds that were missed or just nicked and didn't break. I've found that perhaps the best target backer material is old political campaign signs, the ones that look like corregated cardboard but are actually plastic. They're weatherproof, last forever, and you can usually get them for free after the latest campaign is over. It's just coincidence that most of them seem to be Obama signs.

Hi Sean,

I wonder if there is different mixes of plastic used in those signs. I bought a sheet of "correplast" ... corregated plastic sheeting. I thought it would sort of "heal" behind the slug strike. Kent has used the material on some projects and it seemed like such neat stuff. I tracked it down to a sign company - bought a sheet. However; the version I bought shatters around the hole. The hole becomes 2-3 times the size of the strike, and therefore won't last as long as a sheet of cardboard. I wonder if you know ... or anyone knows, what specific type of the correplast is more flexible? I'd rather not go to the Obama campaign headquarters. Guess I could get a couple of hundred of those signs from the neighbors though ....

Gary



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clays , they make good targets , easy to see and they do things too , or , crackers and dog biscuits . sticks of chalk , and as much as i hate to admit it , anything mcdonnalds gives away.

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LOL. Yup, guilty of that one too....!!!

Steel! Spinners because you don't have to reset them.

Here's some of my favorites rearranged just for fun. Now if only they would cooperate. Lon you wouldn't like these, too much resetting here.

These are shot with the Carnivore 58 and a 450 gn slug. The piece you see flying off the target weighs 180 grns the rest are little petals of lead. I have another video but alas it is too large for the photobucket, I've got to learn to shoot faster! BTW this is shot at 100 yards from a bench with line hook up at 3100 PSI.


Kent



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Kent,

I would like to ask you something and can't find you e-mail addy. Would you shoot me a "here" that I can use to reply to?

lbeshiri@bellsouth.net

Lon

P.S. I'll set those up!



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Now that looks like fun! I like the shot through the card board!

Cool video Kent. Those slugs are getting there quick for 100 yards!

The Carnivore is a beast . . . good stuff.

-- Jim

Hey - Great video.

Seems those heavy steel plates disappear rather quick when struck!



Gary

Hey Gary, I'm not sure what plastic they use for the political signs but it feels slick to the touch, almost greasy (coincidence? I think not) I'm guessing some sort of polyethelene, but I don't know for sure.