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Define "Plinking"

landislandis Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
Ok, just so I know for sure what this is what is it that you do when you "PLINK"?I expect that it may be different things to different people. Is it:1). Blowing away evil 10 cent returnables? (preferably filled with colored red water)2). Chopping down trees without the use of a chainsaw or axe? (10 inch thick Aspen will take about 150 rounds of .30 cal to knock over)3). Shooting to kill anything that moves in you back yard? ("Whose cat was that anyway?")I have done all of these things, I just want to know what others do and if I am doing it right.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My definitions:Class A Plinking-Shooting cheap ammunition.Class B Plinking-Shooting cheap ammunition, without having to pickup brass.Class C Plinking-Shooting cheap ammunition, without having to pickup brass, and not having to post or remove any targets...Class D Plinking-Pretending to shoot, because your so broke from buying that new gun you can't afford any ammo.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    I don`t have any definitions for ya,but one of the funnest targets is old cans of bright colored spray paint,shaken well.I set up a few for my boy to shoot,out behind the shed,with a bb gun.The bright blue one spun around,sprayin` 20 feet high. .218
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Plinking, to me, is just fun shooting (safely), shooting cans, or spending a whole summer off-and-on taking down a 20" maple. Not shooting for "groups", not "sighting in" and not shooting to kill (anything). It is separate, for me, than either target shooting, hunting or pest control.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Plink" is the sound a small caliber makes hitting a tin can or pop bottle. I've always thought of it as casual shooting outdoors. In the old days it might be at the junkyard, with the berm of the railroad tracks as a backdrop. Nowadays, it's tougher to find a safe casual location, but in Indiana a farm will sometimes have the necessary space. Anyone got a simple idea for a good, safe makeshift backdrop?
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    Old tires filled with sand.I take that back, hehe, don't do that.Sandbags filled with sand.[This message has been edited by simonbs (edited 01-23-2002).]
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My brother and I used to "paint" little faces on eggs and place them around our property. Then, we'd have little competitions as to who could shoot the most eggs using different stances and from various distances. It was especially fun after 9/11 when we made up a bunch of Osama eggs and put them on stumps or in the nodes of small trees. We only use a .22 and there aren't any neighbors close enough for this to be dangerous. That's my idea of plinking..p.s. The reason we use eggs is because they are inexpensive and they blow up when hit. Plus, they don't litter because they just decompose.
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  • AntiqueDrAntiqueDr Member Posts: 691 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rosie O'Donnell, with or without sand.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    AntiqueDr:Rosie the backdrop,..ha,haThat would scare the * out of`er..imagine the whopper she`d "backdrop" .218
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Step one buy a case of the cheapest, Nastiest beer you can find. Leave it in the sun for an hour. Step two set up cans of hot nasty beer in front of backstop.Step three shoot nasty hot beer with Lee Enfield watch with glee as stuff goes flying all over.Step four spend rest of day shooting empty cans with a .22Step five pick up shreds of cans for recyclerStep six Go home and clean guns.Step seven pour yourself a cold quality beer and enjoy the sunset.Step eight when people ask you what you did all day, Respond with, " Not much just killed a case of beer" WOODS
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    wwwwwaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllll, "Pull over, this is the beer police".
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When the weather is nasty out, plinking is what I do when my fingers hit the keyboard, responding to questions like these. When the weather is good out, plinking is what I do with a .22 at paper, when I'm not working, busy fixing something, hunting, cleaning guns, or just generally feeling lousy with a cold. Shooting is when you're seriously working up a load, sighting in, or evaluating a gun, or working on a position of fire.
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  • biganimalbiganimal Member Posts: 135 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    plinking is just plain shootin!!!as long as it's fun its plinkin
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,599 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    offeror, I'm about 25 miles west of Indy and use a 87 Ford Escort. My friends at work envy me because I have a shootin' car!Jeff
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A buddy of mine has a cabin on a lake, and needs a good backstop. The ground is all sand. Got himself a piece of 1/4 inch sheet steel, and set it in the ground at an angle to knock the slugs down into the sand. I'd guess it's 6 ft wide and 4 ft high. Not sure of the angle. Good for serious paper punching, plus you get a double-plink with cans. They keep calibers at or below .38 spl. There are a few dents, but nothing looks like it tried to get through. They dig up the lead, and re-cast it into more bullets. My own backstop is a pile of rotten pulpwood.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Plinking is the sound your bullet makes after hitting the Good Luck Charm hanging on Bin Laden chest while he is wearing it.
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  • landislandis Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think the best plinking backstop would be about 200 acres of woods surrounded by state and uninhabited land. Any direction, anything, any angle, or elevation. May have to go to Canada, or maybe northern UP of Michigan or Wisconsin or Minnesotta. Alaska is another one.
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    U.P. of Michigan is where the pulpwood pile is, Landis. If I shoot northwest, got about 30 miles before I hit anything (unless someone is in the woods). Only have 160 acres, though. (My cousin has an adjoining 40). Across the dirt road is all state. HEAVEN!!!!! (If you can do without plumbing or electricity)!
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  • landislandis Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Timber,Sounds like heaven to me.I have wanted to live up there for a long time, maybe when I retire.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    landis,I think Hollywood makes a much better backstop ... Rosie O., Hanks, Baldwin Bros, Fonda ... to name just a few ...
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Willow Creek winds through the sage covered foot hills that cozy up to the Blackfoot Mountains. The dusty, grass centered road drops from the windswept grazing land to the lush green of the creek bed below abruptly and steeply. An outcrop of weathered basalt on the canyon rim protects a small grove of quaking aspen. Settled in the shade of one of these small trees, back against a warm boulder, one can see the opposing side of the canyon, cut diagonally from creek to the far ridge with a three stand barbed wire fence, posts every thirty feet. Tape a small balloon to the top of every post, from creek bed at 90 yards, to as far as you want to climb up the slope and blaze away, alternate shots with your best friend. Now that's plinking. And yes, Virginia, you can hit a six inch balloon at 450 yards with a .22 rimfire, it just takes lots of shots and a full thermos of coffee.PS In June the place swarms with ground squirrels.Clouder..
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