RemingtonLover

Today I went to the range and was shooting my Marlin 25N when I had the odd Idea of seeing what kind of groups I could get out of it with cheap remington ammo at 200 yds. Man was I ever surprised! From a rest I shot at a 3 1/2 inch square peice of wood. It would hit it every time. Now one thing I did notice is that When the wind picked up It really put that bullet off course. I had the wood block sitting at the end of the range on the dirt pile and if I hit the block it would kind of jump a bit and when it was windy I could see the dirt jump about 5-6 inches to the the right. It was very interesting and i learned a lot today about wind drift and the balistics of my .22. Well not to my surprise at 50 yards I had the bullet at 10.5 inches above zero. It was pretty interesting. I knew it didn't have much energy at 200 yards cause the penetration in that soft wood was about 3/4". Ill probably be back there next weekend sighting it back in for 50 yds unless I find some reason to keep it at the setting it is at now. Just thought Id let you all know about what I did. Being a new reloader(of rifle cartridges, but experienced with shotshell loading) just these type of little experiments are really interesting. What types of things have you done like this that you may have thought yourself to be crazy?

Tree climber

interesting info. I also like to do weird things.


I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest

remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.

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Briman

When I was a kid, my dad would drop me and my best friend off at the local range with our .22's and several bricks of ammo. The shooting range was part of a trap club that was used only 1 one day a week so we picked up clay pigeons and large fragments and set them up at different distances. We took turns calling shots and challenged eachother to take difficult shots. The back berm was 185 yards out and either one of us could hit unbroken pigeons off the berm consistantly. This practice made me a really good shot when I started shooting centerfire rifles a few years later. I still practice with a .22 rifle and probably fire 100 rds of rimfire to each single centerfire I shoot. My best accomplishment with a .22 was hitting a head shot on a squirrel at about 80 yards- I usually shoot them MUCH closer, but this one was sitting out on a limb begging to be shot and I knew I could make it.

BTW I had my MK II pistol out at the range about 2 months ago and decided to shoot a 16" gong set at the 200 yard berm. I was suprised that I could hit it nearly every time with a pistol shooting off hand once I took a couple of shots to walk it onto the gong.

paulyseggs

i like to do things like that myself. keeps it fun, another thing me and my buddies did alot was hit a pumpkin that we would place on the hill of a powerline (probably 300yrds+)we started using our hunting rifles but quickly got bored, till i whipped out my 12gauge slug gun and that was quite a challenge. i read somewhere that the 22lr and the 12g slug have almost the same ballistics. i don;t know how true that is but i don;t see why it wouldn;t be. just some food for thought

BigEd

This is my kinda fun I love to stretch different rounds beyond thier "practical" range. I want to get a mil-dot scope for my C-Z Varminter .22 would be great for holding over for windage and elevation. Though this ain't hunting practice I like to shoot at combat silhouette targets at 100yds with my 9mm's and 45's.

1SHOT_1KILL

I shoot 6x6x1 steel plates at 100 and 200yds with 22 LR's. When hit they give a nice "ding", and when I have them suspend, they swing a little. A little white spray paint on tehm and you can see exactly where you hit them at.

Pro-Line

1SHOT...I do the same thing. I like to practice my offhand shooting doing this with my 223, and sometimes 270. I just hang a 12" square of 3/4" plate steel and shoot offhand from all kinds of distances.

The white spray paint is a good idea! THANKS

Duffy

Once I was shooting at a dime sized spot at 25yds. (some friends and I would bet quarters on who could keep most shots in it). It was my turn to shoot when a bumbble- bee landed on the target and I hesitated. "Shoot the son-of-a-B said one fellow." I did. When we walked up to look at him (stuck to the target) my friend said "A good head shot, you didn't spoil the meat."
Robin

wingnut

Had an old sharecropper shack on a hunting club I was in. Owner was going to rent a dozer to level it, my friend and I volunteered to do it for him, to make a few brownie points. We just asked that he not rush us.

We used our handguns instead of heavy equipment. Started at the top of the chimney, worked our way down. Then the porches.

When we got ready for the walls, we got serious. Took a piece of chalk, marked a nailhead. Tossed chalk over shoulder, shot from where it landed 'til nail was driven thru. Soon, started tossing a rock instead, chalk wouldn't go far enough to make it a challenge.<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Took all summer, and many thousand rounds of ammo, but we actually shot the house down. Then had to rent equipment anyway to clean up! Well worth it! The next spring, I took my first handgun turkey. 97 long steps over open, flat ground, with a 4&quot; .357 Magnum.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>