Once popular shooting sports?

[Ura-Ki]

Hum, don't have a vintage 1911 with me, but I might know a feller who does, and would probably be up for the challenge, so I'll supply the ammo for All! What say you @Kruejl up for a challenge with old school cool fighting irons

 

[Kruel J]

Yeah, I might be able to supply a 1944 Ithaca 1911.

 

[Ura-Ki]

 

[nammac]

Now THAT would be fun!
It COULD also be a good adult shooting game too!

Need to remember this for next Spring, we always have Easter eggs that were colored left over... and they're all bio-degradable...

 

[ob1]

Need to remember this for next Spring, we always have Easter eggs that were colored left over... and they're all bio-degradable...

Throw in a couple rotten "Hazard" eggs for the surprise factor
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[nammac]

Mentioned earlier was "candle" shooting, snuff out the flame leaving the candle itself intact...

Did this a couple of years ago with my brother in law... First time was a pillar candle, snuffed it out with a G19 I used to carry... it took a few shots to get it, that was a blast.

Then he challenged me to a dinner candle using his Ruger single six, put the flame out on the second shot, leaving enough wick intact for a relight...

He's since decided to restrict challenges to horseshoes...

 

[bbbass]

[QUOTE="MountainBear, post: 1977391, member: 2749"?]I've only seen a few guys who could get to prone and get the shot off in time.[/QUOTE]

Is there a prize category for time required to get back up?

 

[RVTECH]

The challenge is (with centerfire rifle, no optics, obviously) from a low ready, with a loaded rifle, assume a firing position and make a hit on a 6" round target at 100 yards within 5 seconds flat.

Can the 'firing position' be any? I know I can do this with a 30-30 in the kneeling position in this amount of time.

 

[rcnpthfndr]

the old exhibition shooting dudes who would shoot 5k small wood blocks a day for ten days straight with a 22. popular up until the 60s if I remember right.

ETA: Guys like this
Famous trick shooters wowed crowds for decades

 

[RVTECH]

Anyone 'old' enough to remember watching Herb Parsons 'The showman shooter' on Saturday morning TV?

 

[MountainBear]

Can the 'firing position' be any? I know I can do this with a 30-30 in the kneeling position in this amount of time.

Yes, kneeling, sitting, standing, prone. Just make the hit. The last time I shot the challenge, the steel was painted black. I thought I could do it to (I was wrong ).
I know (having done it) I can hit an 8" circular plate. I shoot it standing offhand. I just haven't hit the 6" yet.

As the guy who came up with this says, it's not a drill. It's not something to go to the range and try again and again until you succeed. It's something to try after you spend time working on your fundamentals of marksmanship, something a lot of us neglect when we are at the range.

I've seen a group of 30 shooters run this exercise. All are gun guys, most are pretty heavy collectors, some are very decent shooters. All missed their first time through. Three out of 30 hit on their second try...

 

[tac]

We used to compete in the 'charging bloon' shoot. Ten bloons were tied to the lower target backstop rail with strings about four or five feet long. You then took your trusty bolt-action, five-shot bundook and shot them from the standing position as they bounced around - from 100 yards - with any centrefire calibre you fancied using.

Fastest to do it won the prize.

'snot as easy as it sounds.

tac

 

[Certaindeaf]

 

[41mag]

"bundook"??? ah....." बन्दूक".....(one hand smacking forehead) of COURSE!!!!

 

[tac]

Tik-hai, 41Mag Sahib.

tac