Thread: Target Shooting

Some good lookin iron in this thread.

I'm "old school".


She's in full recoil in that pic and the empty is just above my left hand just out of the shadow.

I try to be able to shoot a "minute of man" out 500yds. I used to do a click with a 1903, BUT my darned eyes have gone South,

LOVE pictures that capture brass mid flight.

Here's one of my stepson shooting it.


It knocked him around a bit and that was his first experience with a high powered rifle.

The clip landed on his head and the look on his face was PRICELESS!!

He didn't listen to me about what to do with his right thumb either. He got his nose bumped on the next clip. LOL

I told him twice and said no more. After his nose got sore, he decided maybe I wasn't full of poo poo.

Tha'ts funny! You sit like a young man shooting, and your stepson sits like an old man! .. Tell him if he keeps shooting leaning back like that he will never get a grouping. He has to sit forward like you to absorb the recoil..... Kids...

Originally Posted by Wintchase

Tha'ts funny! You sit like a young man shooting, and your stepson sits like an old man! .. Tell him if he keeps shooting leaning back like that he will never get a grouping. He has to sit forward like you to absorb the recoil..... Kids...

That was his very first time with an -06. He watched me shoot half a clip and I handed it to him him, gave him a few pointers, got him situated and told him to go for it. He hit the ground on first three shots. LOL. His fourth shot, ( the one in the pic ) he got it beside the target and got the clip on his head.

I was raised in a family of WWII and Korean vets. All of them were great shooters. They were all farm and ranch boys when they were raised and they were taught by riflemen.

I was mentored when I was a few years younger than that lad's age by a gent who pretty much walked from Normandy to Berlin and my Dad who was trained as BAR gunner. The war ended when my Dad was on the boat to Italy. He and my father were our 4-H rifle team coaches. Our little school's team went to the the State 4-H shoot in 1967 and kicked some serious 22cal ass. Dad's 87 now and "Uncle Fuzz" is 93. I wouldn't want to be downrange from either of them if they were shooting at me.

My boy has grown quite a bit since that pic was taken. He's not particularly interested in rifle shooting. I don't push it. If he decides he wants to get better, I'll teach him like I was taught.

Last night was the first practice of the season. I was issued a new rifle and spent the night shoot surprisingly good groups (no practice since October) but all high. After practice I realized that the rifle that they issues had a front sight that had been literally shaved down with what I can only assume was a pocket knife. We swapped it out and I'm hoping to do much better next week.

Just curious how many of you pistoleros have done target shooting with a moving target (and I don't mean clay pigeons and a shot gun or typical hunting)

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Just curious how many of you pistoleros have done target shooting with a moving target (and I don't mean clay pigeons and a shot gun or typical hunting)

Two legged or four legged?

Yes to all the above.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Just curious how many of you pistoleros have done target shooting with a moving target (and I don't mean clay pigeons and a shot gun or typical hunting)

I don't even know what that is supposed to mean?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Just curious how many of you pistoleros have done target shooting with a moving target (and I don't mean clay pigeons and a shot gun or typical hunting)

No moving targets of any kind for me. No pistols, either.