New target

[Catscratch]

Put up my birthday present from the wife today. I like to hear hits, and see misses... so steel in front of water.

 

[b116757]

Very nice I very much like ringing steel targets. I have a couple targets on the edge of ponds myself one at 450yards and one at about 585yards makes getting on zero a lot easier if your scope doesn’t have zero stop as most of mine don’t and occasionally I forget to zero one after shooting and the next time out is more interesting because of my lax in memory.

 

[jsasker007]

What's the orange piece for?

 

[b116757]

Flipper

 

[jsasker007]

Moves when target is hit?

 

[b116757]

From side to side yes

 

[Catscratch]

Exactly, swings to the other side when it's hit. Adds a visual as well as the "ding" when the bullet hits. Plus it's a smaller target to aim at for more challenge.

 

[b116757]

I’ve been tempted to put up a dueling tree at 400 yards

 

[Catscratch]

I’ve been tempted to put up a dueling tree at 400 yards

2 things... that would a blast, and you're better shots than we are! :)

 

[b116757]

We do egg shoots at 400

 

[Catscratch]

We do egg shoots at 400

Wow!

 

[b116757]

One of my shooting partners has 22-243 wildcat on an untapered shillen barrel it looks like a truck axle he is the king of 400 yard egg shoots. I’ve seen him shoot $.50 cent piece 5 shot groups at 600 with it

 

[Catscratch]

Holy smokes! What's some impressive shooting!

We typically shoot .22's freehand from the deck. Not exactly long range precision, but fun in it's own right.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Offhand shooting is a lost art to many, myself included!

 

[b116757]

My own offhand is hit and miss lol

 

[Foggy47]

I like shooting steel occasionally too. I set up targets at 25, 50, 100 and 200 yards. Use them for quick sight in's or to check zero on deer rifles. But in the summer, I like to use my lever action guns a few times.....and just ring the 100 yard "gong" free hand or try the 8" plates with 38 special ammo and those lever guns. I keep a 357 lever action in my tractor cab and another in my wheeler. Seldom get used unless for a porkie or a woodchuck. Fun. (my rifle range is also a food plot. lol.....stand is off to the left....and 200 yard steel is out of sight here).

 

[drycreek]

If I shot eggs at 400 yards they would hatch before they broke !

 

[bigboreblr]

If I shot eggs at 400 yards they would hatch before they broke !

I go to a blackpowder shoot where folks put a dollar in the pot, then they pick a rane. They hang an egg at 75 yards and if he hits it, he get the money in the pot. Otherwise, the money pot gets bigger each shoot.

I shot it once, but was using a lyman 54 cal flintlock with a peep sight. Which technically is cheating. So, they took half the 200 or so bucks and put it towards the club, the other half went back in the pot. That was my go to gun in NY for several years, so I wanted to practice with it at the shoot.

90% of my practice shooting is offhand. Mostly with a open sighted 22lr. UP at camp, I sit the 1st 2 hours, then wander on foot slowly. Take a break around lunchtime, then wander again back to the treestand for the last 2 hours. Large wooded lot hunting with no clear day n night features, like fields you need ot be able to hunt offhand. I do practice shooting off my knee and leaning against a tree.

In the farmland I hunt, my brother in law lets anyone permission or not to hunt there. I take the shooting rails off my treestands. If I do hunt there, I put a golf ball on the bottom of a shooting stick. That way It can sit anywhere on the steel grate floor.