Went target shooting yesterday

**RICHARD** · 04-06-2009, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Husky_mom

hubby has been wanting to take me there sometimes but I'm nervous I mean I want to but I don't wanna end on my butt LOL... or with bruises in my shoulder...

Get a tan first.

Or tell people Chris Brown was at your house on the weekend?

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Gather milk jugs, fill them with water and food coloring.

That's wild!

Also, old fruit is good..

**smokey the elder** · 04-07-2009, 07:47 AM

I remember when I went shooting around 30 years ago with some buddies from college. I got to try all sorts of weapons. The folks I shot with were very safety conscious; we had hearing protection and goggles, and they admonished us of the "zeroth rule" (Don't point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot.) If more folks were responsible like that there wouldn't be the gun trouble that there is now.

**kuhio98** · 04-07-2009, 10:28 AM

I remember when I was a kid and shot a rifle for the first time and it knocked me on my a$$. My dad either forgot to tell me -- or I wasn't listening -- to butt it up against my shoulder.

I was on the rifle team in Middle School -- yes, I'm so old that schools actually had shooting teams.

I am still a very good shot but don't get a chance to practice very often anymore.

**Trinityagain** · 04-10-2009, 01:34 PM

I go every so often with my hubby. About the only thing I have a chance of hitting the target with is my .22 target pistol. Can not hit the broad side of a day glo orange elephant with anything else. Hubby's gun glub has a bunch of bowling pins that I shoot at sometimes. I love it! It is so much fun when you hit them right and they spin like the bad guy falling off the saloon roof in the cowboy movies....

And being a Civil War re-enactor I also know how to fire a cannon...talk about a RUSH!!!

**RICHARD** · 04-13-2009, 09:17 PM

The next time anyone goes target shooting think about what those SEALs had to work with before they saved the Captain of that freighter.

A place to shoot from that is moving

A moving target

Three shots that have to be hit.

Distance, wind, sun?

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There is nothing more satisfying than making a long distance target.

Range shooting is fun, but rifle distance makes you feel like god.

**Cinder & Smoke** · 04-13-2009, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by Trinityagain

Can not hit the broad side of a day glo orange elephant ...

Those suckkers are hard to hit!

Have you tried with the CANNON ??

**Puckstop31** · 04-14-2009, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke

Those suckkers are hard to hit!

Have you tried with the CANNON ??

Well, I was a tank crewman....

Tank Table 8 requires a 2500+ meter shot, a moving target while the tank is in motion. Granted, we have a laser range finder, fully stabilized guns and a 12 lb projectile going 1672 meters/second.

/chest thumping

**RICHARD** · 04-14-2009, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Puckstop31

Well, I was a tank crewman....

Tank Table 8 requires a 2500+ meter shot, a moving target while the tank is in motion. Granted, we have a laser range finder, fully stabilized guns and a 12 lb projectile going 1672 meters/second.

But, I want to know how you get the Day Glo Elephant tied to the 'hood' of an M-1, where you dress it and what does it REALLY taste like?