What's the coolest target you ever shot?

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WETSU

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Not what's the coolest gun, but what was the most spectacular, or neato thing you ever shot at with a firearm. Sorry, no prior service or active duty folks punishing us civilians with stories of TOWs, Dragons, M203s, etc. No fair! Knob Creek shooters welcome.

My personal favorite was a pumpkin, filled to the top with water. I cut a small 1" hole in the top, filled it with water and shot it at about 25 yards with a 62g .223 HP. Wow!It turned into an orange cloud.

Com'on, all training and no pumpkin blastin' makes WETSU a very dull boy.
 
My father and I had fun while sighting in our rifles before hunting whitetail in Minnesota. We filled a large glass bottle with gasoline, made a ring of gas on the ground, set the bottle in the middle, then lit the ring. Shot it with a Ruger Mark II target rifle (in 22-250), making an impressive fireball. We don't usually shoot a lot of reactive targets like this (due to the mess), so it was a nice treat.

--Mercator
 
Well, as far as spectacular is concerned…..

A long time ago (and before they became popular little critters) a 300g SP round from .375 H&H mag intersected with a nine-banded armadillo, at a range of about 40 yards.

That was pretty spectacular!
 
As someone who considers armadillos cute and mostly harmless (except for burrowing in unopportune places), I think that was a waste of an animal's life. Next time, why don't you shoot a JBT, they are a slight less cute OR harmless.
 
Oleg, why are you in favor of taking a human life but not a animal???

This is one facuett of the entire anti gun thing that we keep getting pounded with. Kill the JBT. They are human can think and reason, ever wonder how many JBT's are on our side????????

What you think is a JBT is means somthing entirely diffrent to sombody else. Perception is everything in the war between the antis and pro gunners.

PS......Since I'm in the military and a policeman does this make me a JBT?????
 
Mr. Volk

Sir, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

As stated, this happened a long time ago.

I will assume you are attempting to inject humor into the thread.

Skyhawk



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I Commie from the door of a Blackhawk w/ an M60D.

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Now, my comment in this post was meant as humor. I do not condemn hunters as they generally kill for food or hide or to control pests.

The reason I have no trouble talking about eliminating people is that I'd only do so in self-defense. I reason that anyone attacking me has it coming.

If you are a police officer AND a decent human being (which has been true for all cops I have ever met in my life in the United States), you are not a JBT in my mind. I'd come to your aid if need be.

Seriously, I am in favor of eliminating only those who are currently OR habitually prey on others people, esp. if they use the resources of the government to do so. What makes them so loathsome is that one can hope to survive a home invasion by freelance thugs but not by the DEA. A sad excuse of a human that would ambush and murder someone innocent and then claim it was to fight drugs or whatever other canard of the day is definitely qualifies as a JBT.

To put it in historic terms, not all Gestapo employees were JBTs but it was a pretty safe bet that any given one was. So, if we were at war, I'd try knock off every one of them.

Since we are at peace AND uniforms or place of employment are not reliable indicatiors of allegiance, I am holding my fire. I have no targets right now and hope it will stay that way.

I do have a general view that I would feel more for a neutral or friendly human or even animal than I would for a hostile one. That means that the life of my (friendly) cat is more important to me than the life of a professional cat-stomper. That also means that I would be morally justified in my mind to fire on a human to save my cat (besides, people who kill other people's pets EXCEPT in self-defense tend to behave likewise with the pet's owners). I may not be legally correct to waste a human to save an animal, but that doesn't change how I feel about it.

I hope I was clear: if I wasn't please tell me. I do not want to ruffle feathers through unclear phrasing.

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Oleg "cornered rat" Volk (JPFO,NRA)

http://dd-b.net/RKBA
 
Coolest target was the pilot of a UFO which threatened the security of my planet. When I finally blasted it with my photon weapon it splattered all over the screen like technicolor fireworks. Didn't smell later like armadillo roadkill. :p

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Teach a non-shooter to shoot. Educate a voter.
 
We get "exploding targets" by the caseload. They're a small box about the size of a pack of cigarettes. Taped to the back of a target in the regin of the bullseye, they make quite a spectacular display. Always alotta smoke, usually a big bang, often showers of sparks, occasionally burning the target stand to the ground. :)
 
Maybe mundane, but pumpkins do splatter nicely, especially if over-ripe and hit with birdshot at a distance where the pattern diameter equals that of the pumpkin.
 
The coolest thing I ever shot at was, no joking a block of dry ice. Get it..hehehe.

Really, I dispatched a chunk of dry ice once, just to see what would happen to the bullet.

On another note. A pal o' mine who work in the LOX plant had a nasty habit of tossing the spilloff (nitrogen liquid) out the door. One day, a butter bar walked right into this stuff when he tossed it out. Whhhooooooosssshhhhh sssss was all you could hear at first. Then this horrendous scream came from the leuy. Didn't hurt him a bit, but I literally wet myself I laughed so hard.

Oh yeah!! We were taken to the brig for assault. I was released, but my pal wasn't quite so lucky.

Sorry, couldn't help but include that little chapter. Since he's the guy I got the dry ice from, it just clicked in there.

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
Had invasion of grasshoppers last summer. Shooting them off barbed wire fence with .22LR shot loads (out of handgun) was a blast.
 
Doesn't make the top 10 most spectacular things to shoot at, but for pure outright fun and challenge, try shooting bats at dusk when they come out. Talk about fast and erratic flight patterns, not to mention the body the size of a mouse. It's a challenge, especially when you miss the first shot, then they kick into overdrive. Now thats fun!!! :D
 
scratch all

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I have fond memories of one time when I was about 13.
My dad, took my buddy and I shooting with his Browning Challenger II .22 LR. I remember the targets very well, it was Freon!
Remember when Freon cans cost around $0.30 cents each, and EVERYONE could buy them? (this was in the early 80's...)
Well, talk about exploding targets!!
Y'all should try it...
Cowboy
 
Hi Everyone-

Set up a combat-style course complete with helium balloons stuffed in old shirts and tethered to "float." These represented the "agressors."

We would run through the course at 85% pace to elevate heartrate to make the aiming a bit more difficult and realistic.

Once the helium balloons had been deflated with shotgun blasts, we would transition to pistols for the balance of the run. Typically, we would used clay pigeons placed against an embankment. This section demanded finesse shooting.

No explosions, fire, or vaporized fruits and vegetables, but it was still pretty cool. :)

Just one little area of concern:

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Doesn't make the top 10 most spectacular things to shoot at, but for pure outright fun and challenge, try shooting bats at dusk when they come out. Talk about fast and erratic flight patterns, not to mention the body the size of a mouse. It's a challenge, especially when you miss the first shot, then they kick into overdrive. Now thats fun!!! :D[/quote]

Bats are really, really beneficial to the environment in terms of eating harmful insects. The occasional threat to livestock pales in the benefits that they provide. It is my strong belief that the bats should be spared in favor of other targets. Not a flame, just an opinion.

Regards,

~ Blue Jays ~




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I'll second that opinion, Blue Jay. One of the most precious things that we have is the bat colony that lives behind our barn door from April through September. 'Bout 300 of the little buggers, been roosting there since time began. I forget how many pounds of insects they eat each season, figured it out once, and it was a lot. They also leave behind a couple of 5 gallon buckets of guana each season, best fertilizer on earth. Stuff sells for $7.00 a pound or more, but you can't have none! :p
 
I won't brag about shooting the dual 40MM machine gun mount, BUT, watching 55gal drums fly 250 feet into the air, and seeing the results on a junked out van of about 50 rounds of 40mm all this taking place at night, all I can say was....WAY COOL MAN!

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DOCSpanky HM3 USN
Happiness is a smoking gun and a dead criminal;)
 
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