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range results,,, to graphic for photos....
hillbille
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after about 10 minutes of the news this morning I had had enough, loaded few rifles up and headed out, stopped at small vegetable stand at the end of the road, asked the young ladies there if they had any bad melons got funny look and told them just wanted a cantalope/watermelon or two to shoot and would take any bad ones off their hands, gave the young lady $5 and got 2 cantolopes, and cracked butternut squash, and two small zuccinni?. add all that to about half dozen green/or overripe tomatos I had and off I went.
first off was the 22lr, well the tomatos could roll away and try to hide from these hits, it took about 3-4 to finally put them out of their misery. next 357 either rifle/pistol, though I did only get one hit witht the pistol left the front half of the tomato with nice big hole and tomato guts strung out a few feet behind it, but it was one shot kills. next the 30-06 and finally the 8mm both of which tended to just make red/green mist out of the tomatos. cantolopes didn't fair much better, though it did take a few more 22 shots to kill them but the results were relatively the same.
toughest of the bunch was the zuccini/sqash they just rolled over on their backs and laughed at the 22's, but the laughing stopped when 30-06 and the 8mm took over. so for all you vegetarians out there I only have one thing to say........ nnnaaannner, nnnaaannner, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaa, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaa. I feel completly better less stress and I now know I am safe from any veggy attack, and just for Ricci if I had had any lima beans I would have done them in also, though I do think the 22 would have been enough for them......
first off was the 22lr, well the tomatos could roll away and try to hide from these hits, it took about 3-4 to finally put them out of their misery. next 357 either rifle/pistol, though I did only get one hit witht the pistol left the front half of the tomato with nice big hole and tomato guts strung out a few feet behind it, but it was one shot kills. next the 30-06 and finally the 8mm both of which tended to just make red/green mist out of the tomatos. cantolopes didn't fair much better, though it did take a few more 22 shots to kill them but the results were relatively the same.
toughest of the bunch was the zuccini/sqash they just rolled over on their backs and laughed at the 22's, but the laughing stopped when 30-06 and the 8mm took over. so for all you vegetarians out there I only have one thing to say........ nnnaaannner, nnnaaannner, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaa, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaa. I feel completly better less stress and I now know I am safe from any veggy attack, and just for Ricci if I had had any lima beans I would have done them in also, though I do think the 22 would have been enough for them......
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we have back yard get together's once some times twice a year ( ten to twenty family and friends ) more often just a coupe of us banging away . at one of back yard ammo wasting days a nephew brought out must have been twenty or thirty pumpkins he got a deal of fifty cents each maybe a bit cheaper they set up at local farmers markets and sell produce .
any way along with our normal used appliance assortment that is rounded up each time + well any thing that was laying loose to be shot is dragged out or set up down range . every one has a great time .
My guess something viral about seeing reaction targets other than just a hole punched in a paper ( we do that too ) we skipped it this year due to the ammo and of course the dreaded covid anti social rules