Has anyone broken clays in flight with a rifle? (with proper backstop of course)

I've shot washers out of the air with a bb gun. Hitting clays with a rifle couldn't be much more difficult if any.

It takes a few tries, but I can get 'em with my Marlin 60 when they're bouncing across the ground, rabbits I guess that's what they're called. I haven't tried throwing them up in the air since I don't really have a suitable backstop for that.

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It was called Quick Kill and Daisey air rifles marketed to the public as Quick Skill. It was a form of point shooting with initially an unsighted BB gun and then the skill was applied to popup targets out to around 35 meters. The ful course started with shooting at targets hangin on strings from a clothes line like wire, then moved to ruber balls on the ground and then to tossed rubber bals in the air. the final training was hand thrown washers. The biggest issue for the Army was that the full course required too much time and those BB guns and toys.

The attenuated version involved tapeing thefront and rear sights of an M-16A1 and learning to keep the head up and eyes on the target. After a very little bit of such training on full sized pop ups (standing man) the troops shot using this during regular qaulification at total of eight rounds at four target esposures from 35 meters down to about 15.

Not like shooting hand thrown washers but certainly "minute of bad guy" at 35 meters or less.

I believe there was a discussion about this system around the time I joined THR, but it may have been elsewhere. I believe one of the Gun Digest annuals had a write up on it at one point and that I have it somewhere.

I still try to get in some practice at this skill and when I have not been to the range in a good long while with some sort of AR ish rifle I walk around the yard with a Crossman AiR-15 single pump pellet/BB gun and practice at leafs and such. Seems to keep the hand in.

-Bob Hollingsworth

Never. I have only broken clays as static targets.

A range was shut down a few years ago because of individuals doing this.
The rounds were landing around rural homes and animals miles away.

Yep. Marlin 39A. My grandpa's old rifle. Very nice shooter.

We used to do it when I was younger using a 10/22 (sometimes, with low power scopes) and a wobble trap. We would shoot "down" onto the targets from a hill, so the bullets would strike into the dirt. The bullets were not shot into a dangerous, upward direction, but always into some type of back stop (dirt). Amazingly, after a few clips, it was not too difficult to hit a few out of every 10-15 shots.

Dr Rob the Browning take down is the best aireal rifle to use IMHO. Great pointing abilities and flat top allows to point the rifle pretty easy. I've owned three in my life time still have two one in LR and one in short.

Jim

Here's a guy busting some up with an AK.

http://www.ultimak.com/AKClays.htm

"I've shot washers out of the air with a bb gun. Hitting clays with a rifle couldn't be much more difficult if any."

Boy, that does remind me of...

"We used to bulls-eye womp-rats in our T-16's back home, and they're not much bigger than 2 meters."

Ash

Done it plenty of times with .22's and buddies hand-throwing the clays. They're probably moving about 20-25 MPH and will hit the ground at 30-40 feet if missed. Never did it from a slinger, though.

I don't believe its ethical to shoot pigeons with anything less then a shotgun. You owe it to the clays to pick something that will break them quickly and completely.

I learned how to do it at Chief AJ's rifle camp last year. Even broke three in a row with a Ruger MKII, thrown from a machine.