Proven Plinking Valor

[pale horse]

Had some fun last night. My buddy and I went out, he has not shot many weapons since the service, to bust some caps. Well we were shooting all of my hand guns and he liked the my new 1911 and the walther p22.

Well anyhow he looks at me with the lets see how good you are look in his eyes and says "Are you up for proving your valor." I had some clue what he was asking so I play along and he threw the challenge. At 25-30 feet he set up 6 shotgun shells and said "see how many ya' can hit." Well I told him that I am more of rifle guy for pin point accuracy. So I pick up my ruger mk II and said lets do it. Well I load up and get my breathing down right and Unleashed the Beast. It took 12 shots to get them all and his jaw was agape. I looked at him and asked him if he wanted to try. He smiled and said "yeah!" Well he took 20 shots and hit one. I told him semi braging that "It took me 12 dont feel too bad." To which he replied something to the effect of well yeah you hit all 6 and I only hit 1. So we packed up and took off.

It was good fun and he really enjoyed the time shooting.

Do any of you have any stories about Proving your Valor?

 

[Keith]

I tracked a wounded Budweiser can into the tall grass one time and got stung on the elbow by a bee. I would have cried, but my friends were watching.

Keith

 

[Dr.Rob]

I recall once in my youth lighting up a pop can with a ruger Mk1 target pistol at arange of 20 feet or so. I only hit it 8 out of 9 times.....































7 of them before it hit the ground.

(at least that's how my dad tells the story.) From that day forward he claimed i was a 'pretty good shot" I think I was 12.


My brother and I often get into these who's more man with an onloaded port arms or worse shotgun, locking the action open with a shell in your fingers (or two) and yelling PULL and trying to get a double. A single is no big deal, a double is TOUGH.

 

[Trisha]

The most fun I've had recently was with my snubby .357 (full-power defensive loads) on bowling pins at 25 yards vs. a G36. After three sets without a miss I was asked to trade with my friend.

I missed the first one, but got the next 14.

I've been going to the range alone since then, but that might've been because I also beat him by a full 1.5 seconds on an "El Presidente" drill.

Twice.

(I've run out of aquaintences to take me to shoot during the week, as I can't drive that far any more. . .)

Trisha

 

[Dorrin79]

my brother and I took turns popping spent 9mm casings from 15 yards with our .22s. (iron sights)

I got 4 out of 5

he got 5 out of 5 (little whippersnapper....)

compared to that, shotgun shells are easy.

 

[Majic]

For bragging rights:
Throw out a can and alternately take shots at it. The can has to move to count. You can't move from the shooting line. You have to take the shot as long as you can see the can. If can becomes hidden then you start over. First one to miss buy the beer or winners choice.

 

[Ky Larry]

I drove up to my uncles house one day and my two cousins were shooting at a pop can setting on a picnic table about 20 yrds away with a pellet pistol. I went up and sat on the porch with my uncle. After a few more shots the cousins came up and sat on the porch too. I said "Let me try a shot from here." Now the distance to the pop can was about 55-60 yards. I didn't even aim and drilled it dead center. My 9 yearold cousin ran down to the table and set the can back on the table. They both begged me try again. I said "No. That would be showing off." They still talk about that shot. What I didn't say was I couldn't have hit that can again in 10,000 shots.

 

[hillbilly]

Two words........

Golf Balls.


Toss some golf balls out on the berm and then have at from about 20 yards with a .22 target pistol....Ruger MK II bull barrel is what we use.

For real fun, try to keep the golf ball in constant motion.

Or, for real sicko fun, buy a cheap bag of plastic army men. Pretend they're Al Quaeda or North Koreans or just annoying little pieces of plastic.

Try popping some of those at about 15 yards with a .22

I must gleefully confess that my wife came up with the idea of shooting the little army men one day when we were in a Dollar Store and she saw the package and said, "Ooh! I bet these would be cool to shoot at!"

God, I love that woman.

hillbilly

 

[blades67]

I almost burned my fingers picking up brass that was laying in the sun for a couple of hours while we were shooting. It was 119 that day, so the brass was cooking. I would've said something but Jonel would've called me a wuss, so we all pretended that the brass wasn't hot.

 

[444]

I got two stories, I have told them both at one time or another on-line, but what the heck.
When I turned 21 I wanted to exercise my new right to buy a handgun. I didn't have any money, so I bought a Raven. Now this was long before internet gun forums, so I hadn't read that they were junk, so I just shot it and never had a lick of problem. No one I knew owned a little gun like that, so I hadn't heard that they wern't accurate, so I just shot it and never realized that point; it seemed to shoot fine to me. One day, I went shooting with some guys I had just met. The only gun I had was my Raven, complete with a belt holster. Not thinking anything of it, I walked over to a split rail fence and set up five shotgun shells. One of the other guys went crazy at the idea that I thought I could hit those shells with my Raven; he yelled, I will bet you $20 if you can hit those from here (about 5-7 yards). At that time, $20 was a lot of money to me; the gun only cost like $50 or $60, but I KNEW I could hit them because I shot the Raven all the time and I knew it was no problem. I almost hated taking that much money from him, but did anyway.
Shortly after that, I had gotten a real job and started seriously training with a pistol. I bought a Beeman P1 .177 pellet pistol to shoot in the basement. When I was a kid, my best friend and I spent all our free time hunting chipmunks with his Benjamn air rifle. So, when he came home from college, I couldn't wait to show him my new air pistol. We were standing in his driveway and he spotted a chipmunk sitting on a railroad tie at least 50 yards away. He started trying to lob pellets into the chipmunk by holding the gun at about a 45 degree angle to the target. I told him, this isn't like one of those BB pistols we had as kids, you don't need to hold 30 feet over it. I grabbed the pistol, held a couple inches abover the chipmunk and hit it on the first shot. Pure luck.

We do something like Majic described only we use a ball. We shoot out in the desert so we have unlimited room for safe shooting. One of us throws out a ball (golf, tennis, whatever we have) and we start shooting. Of course when you hit it, the ball rolls or flys further downrange. The rule is that as long as you can still see it, you can't move any closer. When it gets out of sight, we start walking forward, but, you have to shoot the instant you see it again. It is a blast to hit the ball right out from under the other guy's sights.