Was messing around today with a carbine and some clays. Had to get the setup right so I had a good safe backstop but could get the camera to see the birds. This is on a controlled access range and all shots were positively contained on the range impact area.
Don't try this without making sure all your shots are contained in a safe manner.
Edited out some of the misses to speed things up.
Optic was a 4.5-14X50mm Leupold.
John Burns
I have all the sources. They can't stop the signal.
Nice shooting but let's not confuse that with sporting clays.
Originally Posted by reelman
Let's see a hard left to right bird now! LOL!
What?? You guys mean a straight away trap shot from the 0 yard line isn't "Sporting Clays"??
I don't know how much ammo it would take to finally luck into a hard crossing bird. A guy might get lucky and tracers would sure help to get some kinda handle on the lead.
Originally Posted by CBMJR
Nice shooting.
Now, lets talk about that strange scope mount setup....
Funny you should ask....
John Burns
I have all the sources. They can't stop the signal.
Oh I bet if you had hash marks in the scope and could shoot tracers, you could figure out how to hit a crosser.
Nice shooting. We used to do that with 10-22s here many moons ago. When it was safe to shoot down into a little bowel below the house. And no neighbors. Alas I now have neighbors I can see, much as I dislike it, it is life.
Jeff
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
john, very cool and it looks like a whole lotta fun, any tips for trying to do that, you probably want to take the shot when the bird kinda floats for just a moment.
Great shooting; looks like fun. Reminds of some games we used to play with .44 revolvers and shot loads on the skeet field (after hours of course). Again, good shooting.
Looks like a lot of fun! A 10-22 might be even more so.
One shot I'll never forget was on a Thanksgiving afternoon, back in the late 1950's. We were at my grandparents farm. After the meal Granddad, Dad and Uncle went out to shoot some hand-thrown clays. I wandered out to where they were shooting and watched Granddad and Dad miss repeatedly as Uncle threw the birds. Uncle asked them to give him a minute and he went into the house and retrieved Granddad's old Remington M24, an iron-siighted, bottom -eject, take-down semi-auto .22 rifle on Browning's design.
Uncle loaded a round in the chamber and leaned the rifle up against a fence. He then threw another clay bird and grabbed the rifle. After Granddad and Dad had both missed, Uncle took a shot. The bird was now out quite a ways. Not sure of the distance but Granddad had three round grain bins and it was out by the last one. (Near as I can tell using Google Earth it was about 40 yards.) To everyone's amazement, Uncle's shot hit the bird.
A side note. We kids loved that rifle. I figured I would never live long enough to inherit it so my first big purchase after getting out of the service was a new Browning rifle of the same design. I've put untold thousands of rounds through it but couldn't duplicate Uncles shot on my best day (not that I ever tried). Granddad died at age 100. (He was born in 1911, an easy year to remember.) I'm glad I got my Browning back in '74 because I'd still be waiting on the Remington - Dad has it now,
Last edited by Coyote_Hunter; 04/18/14. Reason: spelnig
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