Posted on 03/01/2018 5:28:05 AM PST by w1n1
How good of a shot are you?
Do you think you can hit a drop of water with your pistol?
Youtuber 22plinkster is an excellent shooter, he takes on this challenge.
22Plinkster uses a Victory 22LR pistol and with the slow motion technology to validate the hit.
From 20 feet away 22Plinkster sets a water bottle upside down with dripping water in front of a silhouette target.
It takes about 4 or 5 tries to pulls off the shot, totally amazing marksmanship. See the full shooting a drop of water footage here.
If we get out to the desert to shoot this weekend, I think we will try this. I’m sure my 10 years would love this. We’ve been doing the Mythbusters tests (fruit), shooting paintballs with 22LR and others, shooting golf balls, etc. Some things work well, others not so well. Convinced them to not bring out messy things that are a pain to pick up (anything that is not biodigradable gets picked up and some things make a big mess). Anyway, shooting water, looks like fun.
At 25 yards? Not a problem.
Saltine crackers are great .22 targets. Rip a groove in a 2x4, set them in and bust them up. Biodegradable too!
We have a box of several thousand paintballs. They are great when it and the boys do quite well, even at distances, though the longer distances are are to see. We've settled on pistols at 21 and 30 feet, the latter as practice for indoor bullseye league competition we are in.
Has anyone shot AT paintballs? Suggestions for something other than sitting them on the ground? We've tried golf tees but that gets messy. Duck tape reverse and hanging or across things sort of works, but then we've got the tape to pick up and it is covered in the paintball innards.
On our list of to-try is ballistic gel, ice cubes, etc.
One of the twins tried a dead phone recently. 22LR punched neatly through it. A pain to pick up all the pieces after several shots.
I got the water drop and the bottle in one shout with my 12 gauge./snicker
shout=shot
Can you shoot a Drop of Water?
Only with a bump stock /sarc
Seems easier than the method I used to do preparing for hunting season.
I used a pellet gun and went into the basement. 40 feet away I had a cardboard box hanging from a string. The box had a target on it. A string went from the bottom corner of the box to where I was. I’d give the string a sharp tug which would make it bounce and spin. I would drop the string and give myself 1 second to get a sight picture and squeeze off a round.
In the beginning I missed the target a lot and sometimes even hit the back of the box while it was spinning, but after 6 weeks, I was ready for hunting season and almost every round hit the bullseye.
Henry Bowman (Kent Lamont) could.
With all the precip we have been getting just keep shooting and you are bound to hit one.
When I was a young man Cragmont brand Grape Soda was so inexpensive that guys were bringing 6 packs to the tin can range at our gun club and blasting them.
Personally I was a fan of empty liquid laundry soap containers, because they pooped around a lot when you hit them, but were heavier than 2 liter soda bottles.
This was at the La Honda rod and gun club. I remember them because their speed limit was 3 mph so it took about 8 minutes to get from the gate to the parking lot.
“popped”. They popped around.
No pooping occurred.
I'm going to be telling people "Saltine crackers" the highly reactive targets. (And I'm going to tell them that I thought of it.) Anybody who really know's me, will immediately know that I'm lying straight through the remaining teeth I have. wink/wink. Cant's wait for the grand-kids to be of shooting age. Approx. another 4 plus year's to go.
I could hit a drop of water from a thousand miles away, with a nuke. Does that count? /s wink, wink. Roll your eye’s now. :-)
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