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CptJake wrote:From a 'hunting' perspective there is rumored to be an incident in which a certain bovine critter may have been hit by a 120mm Sabot round from about 1540 meters at night.

Rumor has it the offending tank crew endured 'Target on the mooooover' jokes for a while afterwards.

This happened at Fort Carson, to a group of tankers from my old unit prior to my first deployment... Needless to say, the range briefings became much more in depth, and the US Army paid the guy who owned the ground beef (beef puree?) a ton of money for the situation. And having seen the targets used at night through imagery, I can definitely see where said crew thought the bovine creature was in fact, their designated target.

Yeah, we were on a big range as part of a BN CALFEX. We were the counter recon screen the night prior to the Big Show. We had been up for a couple of days. Acting gunner tells me he sees a hot spot. I look and it doesn't look wrong, but it doesn't look right either. I call up and ask if there are any blue down range (hate to pop some range control pickup...) and get told 'No blue forward of your position, enemy in sector engage and report'. We laze it. Range is good, and it is in the area we had been getting targets the last 12 hours or so. Call up to confirm no blue again, get the same answer. Lase it again, confirm the grid is 100% in our sector. No doubts.

Pop it. Literally. Turned it inside out and spread it into a cone shaped hot spot covering many square meters of terrain. At that point her buddies broke cover and started running and you could clearly see they were cows...

Oops.

this must have happened a few times then, because I noticed you did not once say "squadron" in there

And it was at Hood.

yeah... I heard this happening on Carson, to some 3d ACR troopers

Well since we've walked into silly range stories I have two.
In 2004 at Ft Stewart our unit arranged a qual for 9mils for all of our BNs pilots (45 or so) and other pistol toters. The AV community at Hunter AAF is pretty tight so the shithook guys caught wind and asked if a couple of their rear det chiefs could join in, and the would bring thier own ammo. We did our thing set up the ASP, arranged the firing orders and thier chiefs showed up, loaded thier own mags in the ASP( and were quite prickly about THIER mags), and stepped into the last firing order. One or all of those geniuses decided it would be a good idea to draw 9mm tracers for the at4 trainer so they could "see" where they were hitting, and between the five of them set the range on fire. All that was left of our range detail jumped on that gak, and did a pretty good job of containing the fire before the installation firefighters got there. The fucknozzles responsible and the NCOIC that never checked thier ammo got a thorough ass reaming, I think our NCOIC actually got off with just the butt chewing; no idea what happened to the chiefs.

Our BN moved from FORCOM to INTSCOM during the shake up in 2006. Under the new organization we were obligated to provide support for our sister BNs range on FT Stewart because apparently facilities were not available on FT Gordon. At some point I got tricked into taking on Unit Armorer as an additional duty, and our BC decided he should appoint a BN armorer too...guess bloody who(I'm a UAV operator by day).
Oops sidebar, so these guys contact our S3 with a request for support. The morning of. I was already on FT Stewart (Wright AAF) and my Range boxes and tool kits are at HAAF, awesome. So after a round trip to pick up my stuff, I get out to the crew served range...Chaos. They had a M2 mounted on a ring in an MTV that was jammed, and a MK19 refusing to fire more than one round at a time. No TMs and more importantly no lube, for anything. Fixed thier MK19 by showing the operators that M16 links actually have two sides, and when fed the right direction work fine. I also gave them a couple tubes of nut butter as they didn't have any. And then the doosey. The bolt was stuck half back with a fired case stuck but no new round fed. We delinked, and removed the belt and while I was looking at it I found out it had been working, started to jam but continued to function and then stuck where it was. Thier armorer and I tried to at least get the bolt forward in place to do a functions check but to no avail, we couldn't cock it back to bolt release it and we couldn't force it forward so we dismounted it. I told him to start applying lube generously while I got my tools. When I got back to him he was spraying some kind of liquid wrench product into it. At first I didnt think anything of it but then I looked around for regular issued lube...he told me that was all they brought. As it turns out they picked up that particular 50 from the division depot that morning: brand, spanking, new(or newly overhauled whatever). Didn't open the BII bag and use the approved typewriter oil, and instead sprayed lubricant onto that burned off, heating the receiver and bolt. Swelling the bolt and receiver enought that prolonged firing bent the receiver; placing it in a damaged and unrepairable condition. I had never thought such a thing possible.


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Does that count?

When I was on the ranges as a recruit one of the instructors said "If for any reason a live animal wanders onto the range, dont think your clever and shoot it, because we have to pay a fortune to the farmers if we kill their sheep"

Shortly afterwards in the middle of a rotation a large Seagull flew onto the range and started pecking the remnants of a sausage roll or something near the garbage, of course all 12 men switched fire and started trying to brass the Seagull up.

A few bursts later said Seagull was dead, and when the Sergeant shouted "who the feth shot that Seagull!?" one of the lads shouted "me me! See that shot?! I blew its fething head off!" possibly expecting a chuck up for his shooting prowess?

The sergeant said "Think your clever?! I told you fethers not to shoot ANYTHING! Go and put that poor animal in your daysack, you can give it a proper burial when we get back to camp"

Recruit Lamb proceeded to cram that strangely huge bird into his daysack and was forced to carry said Gully on his back all day. And when we got made to double up a hill in our respirators for not carrying out our details as expediently as the instructors liked, I shall never forget the look of those cold dead avian eyes staring back at me from under the top flap of his daysack... :(

It was buried in an unmarked grave that evening.

At his funeral, nobody said anything.

In Austin (hot, dry, full of liberals).

Had a lizard cross under the targets at the short pistol range. A whole bunch started blasting. Of course they missed the lizard but one ricocheted the bottom of the metal frame holder which caused a spark which caused a fire which caused everyone including Frazzled to book it over the chainlink fence. Insert image of fat Frazzled in August heat flopping over a fence with a bag of guns which - naturally- fell on his head.

I swear there was a Benny hill soundtrack playing...

Frazzled wrote:In Austin (hot, dry, full of liberals).

Had a lizard cross under the targets at the short pistol range. A whole bunch started blasting. Of course they missed the lizard but one ricocheted the bottom of the metal frame holder which caused a spark which caused a fire which caused everyone including Frazzled to book it over the chainlink fence. Insert image of fat Frazzled in August heat flopping over a fence with a bag of guns which - naturally- fell on his head.

I swear there was a Benny hill soundtrack playing...

Hey, we're not all anti-gun. I, for example, am a liberal, and I loves meh guns. Just bought a Mosin Nagant and 2 single action revolvers in fact. Actually I don't know any liberals around me (other than my grandparents) who are anti-gun. Most liberals I know own several, in fact.

So yeh...


As for awesome shots, me and some friends were plinking around, shooting some cans and a few eggs (and a dime that I put there just for the heck of it) that were across my pond with .22s, and they have no clue how to sight in their guns, it would seem, because they weren't hitting anything. To demonstrate a gun that was truly accurate, I grabbed my .17 rifle and hit the dime on my first shot. It doesn't really sound awesome here in text, but it was at the time lol.

Also we were "shooting skeet" (one of us threw a can in the air and we tried to shoot it) and I hit one of the cans with a 12 gauge slug while it was in the air. That was a "Holy gak" moment

Well I am a okay shot at times. But the one experience that stands out is hitting a running deer at some 180 meters, and only needig said shot to make it fall. The terrain was quite hilly and it was a uphill shot. With a 308.

I got my first gun almost half a year ago and have only shoot at indoor ranges. I do remember getting pencil-thin groups at about 20 yards with a Marlin 795 -- does that count? :>

When I was an ROTC instructor at UTEP we had an indoor range in our building that the university women's markmanship team used, and we used as well.

When teaching basic marksmanship/fundamentals of shooting (steady hold factors and so on) to our cadets I would sometimes have fun.

The targets were held on with small metal binder clips/butterfly clips. I would stand behind and to the side of a cadet who was massively focused on their target and as I could see them about to take the shot, I would shoot the metal binder clip so their target would flutter to the ground.

I always found it funny.

Guess I'm not a nice guy.

CptJake wrote:When I was an ROTC instructor at UTEP we had an indoor range in our building that the university women's markmanship team used, and we used as well.
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Sorry I had higher hopes for this post devolving into something more Animal Houseish...

Yea me too.......thanks for the let down CptJake

Hey, those stories only get told over beer and bourbon face to face.

Jake

Last time i went out. Before winter screwed over all the fun. I took my 91-30 mosin nagant out.Using iron sights and cezch sliver tip rounds. I shot a 1.5 inch group at 100 yards. I need to get my rifle out more. It needs work. The iron sights shoot to the right way to bad. Before i sold my ati c45 i shot 9 rounds off in less than 7 secs with a 2 inch group. Only at 25 yards though. I haven't gone hunting yet. I have been waiting for my family to go out. Just need to find out when.

Can I use a paintball shot for this?

Castiel wrote:Can I use a paintball shot for this?

I don't see why not. I used a tank shot

PapaPiggy wrote:Last time i went out. Before winter screwed over all the fun. I took my 91-30 mosin nagant out.Using iron sights and cezch sliver tip rounds. I shot a 1.5 inch group at 100 yards. I need to get my rifle out more. It needs work. The iron sights shoot to the right way to bad. Before i sold my ati c45 i shot 9 rounds off in less than 7 secs with a 2 inch group. Only at 25 yards though. I haven't gone hunting yet. I have been waiting for my family to go out. Just need to find out when.

Did you have a doctor on site to put your shoulder back into joint? I hear if you alternate switching shoulders when shooting it takes cares of that.

I felt like a total dick a couple weeks ago; no epic shots here BTW. I took my buddy out to practice postional shooting at 25M for the German Armed Forces Proficentcy Badge shooting portion, but warned him I was dismally out of practice. Between coaching him I shot my own target and in the 20 minute round at the public range my dude lost his heart, the center of both lungs and his mellon and Berts had 4 or 5 holes on the torso. We ended up switching out his gun for one of mine, and the stars aligned but for that first round I felt like a total dick.

PapaPiggy wrote:Last time i went out. Before winter screwed over all the fun. I took my 91-30 mosin nagant out.Using iron sights and cezch sliver tip rounds. I shot a 1.5 inch group at 100 yards. I need to get my rifle out more. It needs work. The iron sights shoot to the right way to bad. Before i sold my ati c45 i shot 9 rounds off in less than 7 secs with a 2 inch group. Only at 25 yards though. I haven't gone hunting yet. I have been waiting for my family to go out. Just need to find out when.

Dang, that is very accurate for a mosin nagant, especially when using cheap ammo and iron sights. How the hell'd you do it? Also, does the bayonet being on/off make any difference as far as accuracy? I've heard some stuff on the interwebs about that.

I just bought a nagant about three weeks back, And it's accurate enough, but my grouping sure as heck isn't 1.5 in. Though there is still a bit of cosmiline in the barrel, and my front sight is bent over the slightest bit. No visible pitting though, which is a good thing. I'm sure as I put more rounds through it it will get more accurate, because the barrel is quite rough. Also do you know if silver tip ammo is corrosive? It freaks me out a bit so I spend 15 minutes running patches down the barrel every time I get done shooting.



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Frazzled wrote:

PapaPiggy wrote:Last time i went out. Before winter screwed over all the fun. I took my 91-30 mosin nagant out.Using iron sights and cezch sliver tip rounds. I shot a 1.5 inch group at 100 yards. I need to get my rifle out more. It needs work. The iron sights shoot to the right way to bad. Before i sold my ati c45 i shot 9 rounds off in less than 7 secs with a 2 inch group. Only at 25 yards though. I haven't gone hunting yet. I have been waiting for my family to go out. Just need to find out when.

Did you have a doctor on site to put your shoulder back into joint? I hear if you alternate switching shoulders when shooting it takes cares of that.

lol If you are reffering to the nagant, their recoil is not that bad. It's about the same as a .12 gauge, less if you are shooting very hot .12 gauge loads. Though I have only used silver tip rounds in my Nagant so far, so stronger loads might have more recoil I guess.

Why are we putting a . Before 12 gauge?
Is this "silver tip" ammo new production? The head stamp or maker is more helpful than bullet type as it is the primer not the bullet that is corrosive.

Paintballing - It was the last round, the vaunted FFA. Had 2 women sitting down because they though they made less of a target. I aimed for the stomach, ended up getting both of them in the groin...

Also, one guy came through the window, and I turned and shot him in the head, before he even pulled the trigger. Blam, straight in the gob.

22 rifle on the farm, I was hunting foxes. Hit one from about 250 meters away, no scope.

Well, I don't know if this counts but, here goes...

I was visiting my grandparents in Texas last summer and everyone was in the back yard taking turns shooting a pellet gun at one of those small spinning targets. Well I hadn't had a turn yet and everyone was kind of making fun of me about not being able to aim worth gak since I had glasses at the time. Well I looked directly at my father and told him to shut the feth up before I shot the cigarette he was smoking out of his mouth(I have a bit of an issue about being at the receiving end of family jokes). He ignored me and I aimed at the target, but I ended up hitting the metal supports for it and the pellet ricocheted and hit my glasses, bounced off the frames and put out dad's cigarette. It was kind of funny because everyone thought I had done it on purpose. Probably didn't help that I turned around afterwards and glared at them all.

Skycrawler wrote:Well, I don't know if this counts but, here goes...

I was visiting my grandparents in Texas last summer and everyone was in the back yard taking turns shooting a pellet gun at one of those small spinning targets. Well I hadn't had a turn yet and everyone was kind of making fun of me about not being able to aim worth gak since I had glasses at the time. Well I looked directly at my father and told him to shut the feth up before I shot the cigarette he was smoking out of his mouth(I have a bit of an issue about being at the receiving end of family jokes). He ignored me and I aimed at the target, but I ended up hitting the metal supports for it and the pellet ricocheted and hit my glasses, bounced off the frames and put out dad's cigarette. It was kind of funny because everyone thought I had done it on purpose. Probably didn't help that I turned around afterwards and glared at them all.

Unfortunately I am a generic villain from a James Bond film; took me 6000 rounds inside that barn, but I finally hit the fething door.

The OC-D

theocd wrote:Unfortunately I am a generic villain from a James Bond film; took me 6000 rounds inside that barn, but I finally hit the fething door.

The OC-D

AustonT wrote:Why are we putting a . Before 12 gauge?
Is this "silver tip" ammo new production? The head stamp or maker is more helpful than bullet type as it is the primer not the bullet that is corrosive.

Oh yeah, I meant 12 Gauge, obviously No it is old ammo, probably 50's-60's.


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Skycrawler wrote:Well, I don't know if this counts but, here goes...

I was visiting my grandparents in Texas last summer and everyone was in the back yard taking turns shooting a pellet gun at one of those small spinning targets. Well I hadn't had a turn yet and everyone was kind of making fun of me about not being able to aim worth gak since I had glasses at the time. Well I looked directly at my father and told him to shut the feth up before I shot the cigarette he was smoking out of his mouth(I have a bit of an issue about being at the receiving end of family jokes). He ignored me and I aimed at the target, but I ended up hitting the metal supports for it and the pellet ricocheted and hit my glasses, bounced off the frames and put out dad's cigarette. It was kind of funny because everyone thought I had done it on purpose. Probably didn't help that I turned around afterwards and glared at them all.

Well I went shooting with the Giant a couple days ago. This story isnt a WOW did you SEE THAT?!?! story, its more of an "are you fething KIDDING ME!??!?!?" story.

So at the back of his property he has a large 2 story barn, that we decided to take the upstairs window out, and pretend we are snipers. So we set up targets, and even stuck a "zombie doll" he made for Halloween a few years ago from one of his daughters dolls (I must say it looked fantastic, but shooting things is shooting things). So we go up stairs, and start shooting at some targets, Id say we were a good 50-75 yards away from it all. My groups with my rifle and shotgun slugs were fairly tight, I was certainly happy with them, the Giants were pretty decent as well, so we deice its time to kill some zombie.

So I load my .22 with 14 shots and have at it, Im aiming at the head (duh) and get some really close shots, but in the end, miss. Giant gets up, refills the rifle, and shoots at the head, again close, but all miss. I reload a 2nd time, say feth it Im going for center mass, miss all 14. Giant does the same, and misses every fething shot. Annoyed, I load his 12 gauge up with slugs, take 2 shots, miss 2 shots. He does the same, misses 3 shots. Anger bubbles rising, I try one more reload on my .22, miss AGAIN! Now we are laughing, because I said "Christ, if that were a real person, theyd be gaking their pants saying GOD!!! These guys are so good, they are PURPOSELY MISSING!" So we go down to check everything, and all the other targets, about the size of a human eyeball, had dead center hits, and the misses were REALLY close, and this fething doll was about barbie doll size, if the bitch weighed 100 pounds more, so fairly good size. We look at the doll, and all you see, is bullet holes completely outlining the the entire top half of this doll, even its arms, which are stretch outward. When the Giant pulled it away, the backing it was sitting on, even had the outline of this doll. It was hilarious.

Paintball is acceptable? Excellent.

I was paintballing with some friends in a field near where we lived. It was the end of the day and we were all low on paintballs except from one guy. It was down to me against him. Anyway, I ran out of paintballs in my gun and went to reload. Only to find I had one paintball left. My mate thought I was out of paintballs and charged me. I loaded my last paintball, cocked the gun and spun out of cover. I fired one-handed as I came out of cover and hit him square between the eyes at a range of about 35 yards. It took him clean off his feet and sat him down his ass. It was hysterical!