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So I know theres plenty of shooters and hunters on DAKKA, so I thought we could share out awesome shots. So over the weekend I went out shooting with my oldest brother. He was working on sighting in his ACR and I brought my scoped .22 and once we got everything in order we decided to set up some REALLY tough shots. I brought a package of tootsie roll suckers to shoot, and set them up at various ranges, they were roughly 25 yards, 50 yards, 75 and 1 at 100. I shot up the close ones with ease, and set my scope to max, and decided to get ballsy. I tried shooting the 100 yard sucker, which was very difficult because when I set the crosshairs on it, I couldnt actually see the sucker anymore. Took me 5 shots, but I shot a sucker, from 100 yards, with a .22lr.
Hurray for me!

Now share yours

The first time I went hunting, I shot a deer through the heart and dropped it almost instantly.

Thats pretty tough to do, specially for a first time hunting. Nice work

KingCracker wrote:So I know theres plenty of shooters and hunters on DAKKA, so I thought we could share out awesome shots. So over the weekend I went out shooting with my oldest brother. He was working on sighting in his ACR and I brought my scoped .22 and once we got everything in order we decided to set up some REALLY tough shots. I brought a package of tootsie roll suckers to shoot, and set them up at various ranges, they were roughly 25 yards, 50 yards, 75 and 1 at 100. I shot up the close ones with ease, and set my scope to max, and decided to get ballsy. I tried shooting the 100 yard sucker, which was very difficult because when I set the crosshairs on it, I couldnt actually see the sucker anymore. Took me 5 shots, but I shot a sucker, from 100 yards, with a .22lr.
Hurray for me!

Now share yours

Excellent.

I am terrible trying to mount scope rings and the actual scope. This last weekend howevr I think I managed to sight in the scope on the Marlin .22 I have. It helps I finally got high mounts so I can iron sight it to near the target and then look through the scope and adjust. ing finally.
We tested out the wife's Browning which she had previously destroyed. No problems now.

Personally Id rather iron sight it myself, then you feel like an uber badass when you pull off hard shots. But I got this one so damn cheap, it already had the scope on it, and its pretty much idiot proof. Although......I didnt notice how loose it was when we got there, and couldnt figure out at first, why it kept losing zero. Then when it practically fell off and into my mouth, I had that EUREKA! moment

Hmm my mate gave me an air rifle with a scope and 800 pointy tip pellets does that count as a firearm?..... I said POINTY TIP PELLETS people! and boy did I go to town on a printed picture of a storm trooper! 5 shot cluster right in his neck!

Yes MrFest, those count
http://www.youtube.com/user/EdgunUSA?feature=g-user-u

Seriously, I never knew the awesomeness that is an Airrifle until I became a fan of this guys channel

KingCracker wrote:Personally Id rather iron sight it myself, then you feel like an uber badass when you pull off hard shots. But I got this one so damn cheap, it already had the scope on it, and its pretty much idiot proof. Although......I didnt notice how loose it was when we got there, and couldnt figure out at first, why it kept losing zero. Then when it practically fell off and into my mouth, I had that EUREKA! moment

I like iron sights as well. However, Father Time has determined that, as you get older, you eyesight goes to ....

O.K cool I'll scan in some targets i shot and show you later on :-) first time i'd ever shot any kind of firearm! just felt pretty natural strangely enough, but hell of a lot of fun! and quiet enough to use in my backyard, now i need some more fun targets to put up..... maybe if i print KC's avatar?........

You dont want to print my avatar, the eyes burn with such hatred, they may melt your gun But yea, you can simply google free target PDFs and so on, you can get tons of them. Also, fun targets are shooting clays, you can get a big ass box for like 10 bucks, and they will break from an air rifle.



Frazz - lol yea I remember hearing my Grandpa bitching about that same thing growing up. He was an avid hunter before he died, and I remember he HAD to go scope, because he couldnt see gak

KingCracker wrote:
Frazz - lol yea I remember hearing my Grandpa bitching about that same thing growing up. He was an avid hunter before he died, and I remember he HAD to go scope, because he couldnt see gak

yep thats me and the Missus right there.

My favorite was when I was shooting trap with a friend of mine. He was on the highscool trap team, and went to state three years in a row, winning twice I do believe. Well, I went out to try my hand at trap shooting, and after a while we decided to shoot against each other - we both shoot at the same clay bird, first to hit it wins. Well, after plenty of that we went to throwing two clay birds at once.

The first time two birds were thrown, I raised my shotgun and blew both of them out of the sky before he got one shot off. Out-shooting a State Champion in a multi bird trap shoot made me feel sooo cool

Epic.

Been shooting pigeons off the roof with a 22 cal Benjamin airrfle for the last two weeks. They stopped landing on my house and I saw one on the roof of the house on the corner which is two house down. Prong! Splash of feathers. Look like a total wierdo wearing rubber gloves carrying a trashbag down the street.
I also started shooting in practical rifle shoots, and I still don't have dope past 200m. So Im depending on ballistic calculators which are garbage...still hit the 500yd IPSC torso mover 3/5 times. I was actually impressed...I expected not to hit gak at that shoot.
I got my first deer when I was twelve with a Winchester 30-30. I shot twice. The first time I missed over his back, too excited. I cranked the lever took a breath and re-aimed. He just dropped. When I opened him up it was a god damned blood bath. No heart, no lungs, just buckets of blood...mostly I go for head shots now.

Not mine by GC. At the ripe age of 8.

At the range for the first time. She is shooting a little .22LR. First shot is an absolute bulls eye, and shouts "NAILED IT!". The guy next to us stopped and started clapping, and the rest of the line followed support. Frazzled so proud.

The wife has a pic of her with glasses and earmuffs with ear to ear grin as her cell phone background.

Nailed a moving target over 3700 meters out while I was moving, at night from the TCs position with a HEAT round. Took the round so long to travel the distance I almost re-engaged, thinking I must have missed. Right as the loader was slamming in a Sabot round the HEAT came crashing in.

You da man!

My "favorite" story involves a company range in Germany, in the middle of January (last year)..

So, its like 10 degrees out, snow everywhere, and everyone is shooting like crap. I take my M-16, zero in 6 rounds, and proceed over to the qualification range.

There, I get stuck on the "bad" lane (basically, the snow was twice as deep there where I was, compared to anywhere else) and proceeded to shoot 40 out of 40 shots... the ONLY person to qualify Expert that day.


Each time I have qualified on the SAW (M249 machine gun), I have qual'd with a perfect score, AND rounds to spare, so I become an alibi firer... its always quite fun to burn off a crap load of rounds, especially when everyone else is struggling to get by.

I once shot a target no bigger than a Womp-Rat....

Johnny-Crass wrote:I once shot a target no bigger than a Womp-Rat....

Good to know. At two meters long thats perfect shooting in case extreme marksmanship of torpedoes is required. But thats rare. Its not like you'll have to save the galaxy or anything...

Frazzled wrote:

Johnny-Crass wrote:I once shot a target no bigger than a Womp-Rat....

Good to know. At two meters long thats perfect shooting in case extreme marksmanship of torpedoes is required. But thats rare. Its not like you'll have to save the galaxy or anything...

Dunno... Once those wiener dogs build their ultimate weapon.....

Johnny-Crass wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Johnny-Crass wrote:I once shot a target no bigger than a Womp-Rat....

Good to know. At two meters long thats perfect shooting in case extreme marksmanship of torpedoes is required. But thats rare. Its not like you'll have to save the galaxy or anything...

Dunno... Once those wiener dogs build their ultimate weapon.....

Heresy! There is no proof whatsoever that Titan is being hollowed out with giant, 20KM long storage tanks holding the concentrated bad breath of ten million wiener dogs, and Tbone's concentrated methane emissions, no truth whatsoever.

What? you say an astronomer reported that? I'd cross examine him, but since he had that unfortunate accident with a ten ton load of kitty litter we can't converse now can we.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:My "favorite" story involves a company range in Germany, in the middle of January (last year)..

So, its like 10 degrees out, snow everywhere, and everyone is shooting like crap. I take my M-16, zero in 6 rounds, and proceed over to the qualification range.

There, I get stuck on the "bad" lane (basically, the snow was twice as deep there where I was, compared to anywhere else) and proceeded to shoot 40 out of 40 shots... the ONLY person to qualify Expert that day.


Each time I have qualified on the SAW (M249 machine gun), I have qual'd with a perfect score, AND rounds to spare, so I become an alibi firer... its always quite fun to burn off a crap load of rounds, especially when everyone else is struggling to get by.

I have NEVER understood why people have trouble qualifying with the SAW. I also have never fired anything less than perfect, including the time a link hopped up and cut off the tip of my trigger finger, I weak sided the rest of the targets left my belt and gun with my loader and wandered down to the medic. Then again I don't understand why LTs cant seem to ever qualify on a first time go; with fething anything.

Im thinking most of the posters in this thread, should be DAKKAs first line of defense against the coming ZombieAPOC. Give other users a chance to run for their lives

KingCracker wrote:Im thinking most of the posters in this thread, should be DAKKAs first line of defense against the coming ZombieAPOC. Give other users a chance to run for their lives

no no no. Not Zombiepocalypse.

Zombiegames!

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.

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.

If you guys are such awesome shots how come you keep missing the Bradley 19Ds?

Heh.

As a recon platoon leader I used to tell my scouts you needed concealment from the enemy and cover from friendlies, partly in jest.

I once had a sabot petal thump on the roof of my scout hummer (and I was up in the hatch) when some dipstick tanker fired way out of sector. I'm pretty sure that getting wacked with a couple pounds of aluminum traveling at high speed would not have been a good thing for lil ol Jake.

I don't personally know a scout that has worked in Brads that HASN'T at least had a close call with Kiloz. Although there may be some amount of vested interest from the scouts to slander the good name of Tank Tards . But seriously...how the hell do you misidentify a Brad in IR...for reals.

We were hummer mounted, so it was scarier. Even a brad has more armor than a hummer.