Making a moving target out of a tire?
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Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Michigan
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Making a moving target out of a tire?
Anyone have plans, or know of plans to make a moving target out of a tire for practicing shooting at a running target (deer)? Want to practice with my lever gun for doing some deer drives this fall.
Thanks!
Chris
Thanks!
Chris
#3
RE: Making a moving target out of a tire?
For fun at the range it's fine, but taking a shot at a running deer... seems a bit unethical if you ask me. I wouldn't do it. Maybe a walking deer, definately not a running deer.
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RE: Making a moving target out of a tire?
Just as an FYI.....will be doing these deer drives in Kansas. That's where I grew up and we do them all the time. It is the primary way that deer are hunted in Kansas with a firearm.
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RE: Making a moving target out of a tire?
I tried that, but my wife says she got tired of all the shattered glass getting in her hair. Women!
Chris
FYI....This is a JOKE, please do not actually believe that I've had my wife driving a car around while I shot at the tires!
Chris
FYI....This is a JOKE, please do not actually believe that I've had my wife driving a car around while I shot at the tires!
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RE: Making a moving target out of a tire?
ORIGINAL: Challynger For fun at the range it's fine, but taking a shot at a running deer... seems a bit unethical if you ask me. I wouldn't do it. Maybe a walking deer, definately not a running deer.
IMO - it would be unethical to shoot at a running deer without being well practiced and have the belief that you will indeed inflict aquick, fatal shot.
We used to roll an old tire with a hubcap from behind my uncles barn and down a small hill towards his pond. When first rolled we could hit it easily. But when it picked up speed - the hits went way down. We were mostly using a .22