Thread: Funnest things to shoot?

Originally Posted by NRT

The old girls round here will pull you up on anything, fuck are u a fit and proper person I say no but love me guns and having a good time,but Jesus I would never litter

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so are you telling him or using his name in vain????


I may have man boobs but definately male....... seen far too much shot up shit around countryside...and seen private blocks shut to others because of it....

I was also confused by NRT's statement so decided just to leave it.

See watermelon. Great idea no 'bad' mess, thanks steve.

Its not like im shooting an old tv or anything. I dont even like shooting clay birds because of the mess they leave. Shooting dosent always have to be super serious. We use the .22 to play games like darts, poker etc but i was just after ideas on other fun shit to shoot.

apples would be good...oranges too but birds n possums wont clean up afterwards..... 22lr golf is fun on well grazed paddock,but ball can be hard to keep track of with direct hit.

A mate and I filled some water balloons then froze them once. Launched them out of an oversized slingshot which was held by a warratah at each end. Shot them like claybirds with the 12ga, was pretty good fun. And any we missed, went and collected them and had another crack

Yep surplus fruit is good and if it is over-ripe even better. Grapefruit lemons apples and feijoas tomatoes for smaller targets... my girlfriend called it "making fruit salad".
No cleanup required, the birds and small animals eat the bigger chunks pretty quick.

A bridge. Or to be more specific a bridge panel. with a gun. A large gun. 165mm, so a tad bigger than my .223. But slow. very slow. Very subsonic. but the round carts a few kilos (15)of plastic explosive with it, so the 'hit' is pretty hard to miss.

Demolition gun on the front of our Engineer tanks, in Germany. Early 90's

^^^ Since we're going down that path . . .

Anti-tank live firing with 105mm M101 Howitzers - a decent size shell (28 lbs rings a bell) at 2800 fps with a tracer in the base. The only time we were allowed to fire the guns at charge 7. Farken big bang at both ends, would literally vapourise a car body at 600 or 800M. Only issue was there was always a fire after the shooting had stopped and it usually took all day to put out! Go 31B battery RNZA

Originally Posted by Tentman

^^^ Since we're going down that path . . .

Anti-tank live firing with 105mm M101 Howitzers - a decent size shell (28 lbs rings a bell) at 2800 fps with a tracer in the base. The only time we were allowed to fire the guns at charge 7. Farken big bang at both ends, would literally vapourise a car body at 600 or 800M. Only issue was there was always a fire after the shooting had stopped and it usually took all day to put out! Go 31B battery RNZA

You win sounds F ING awesome jealous

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Old broken tape measures are quite fun provided they are still under tension.

Originally Posted by Tentman

^^^ Since we're going down that path . . .

Anti-tank live firing with 105mm M101 Howitzers - a decent size shell (28 lbs rings a bell) at 2800 fps with a tracer in the base. The only time we were allowed to fire the guns at charge 7. Farken big bang at both ends, would literally vapourise a car body at 600 or 800M. Only issue was there was always a fire after the shooting had stopped and it usually took all day to put out! Go 31B battery RNZA

Got gunner ear much? Ha ha ha ha old ex infantryman asking.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Got gunner ear much? Ha ha ha ha old ex infantryman asking.

Nah - funnily enough I still have perfect hearing at 60. Good enough to hear a "Grunt" say "Drop-short" at 100M!!

Water balloons filled with warm water,thermo scope picks them up nicely in the evening.Easy to pick up and carry away.Never leave busted man made targets around invited private hunting grounds.Yr visits will be over.

So we ended up just shooting standard steel gongs during the day. Also got 2 deer, 50 wallabies, a headgehog, 80 odd bunnies and 2 magpies got hit with a .308 and .270 Bloody good couple days shooting.

Edit: Also hit 500m first shot with my first handload. Absolutely stoked. Cheers @Tommy for helping getting me going with that too.

remember the old instant kiwi ad ?

your kids rap cd's would be perfect !

I shot a stoat once with my 7mm rem mag at about 6 feet away gotta admit it was bloody hilarious, completely vaporized, only new I hit it cause of the cheers and laughter coming from my mates as I lost it in the recoil literally nothing left larger than I single corn kernel