Indians For Guns

A bit of innovative thinking is all that's needed to make "out of the ordinary targets" for plinking
While emptying the garbage bin at home I saw an empty beer can & a soda bottle cap....
A wild idea struck & this is what they ended up as!
I used transparent tape to stick the bottle cap on to the beer can....


At 15ft - just one shot with my Samurai 3G 0.22 cal - Hit the bottle cap dead centre


Family, Food & Fun apart this was the best celebration I did on Baisakhi Day
Briha

Good innovative idea Briha ji.

Aaha ! Aaha !!

Basu

Yow! That's deadly shooting, Brihaji!

Good idea! Pop cans make great targets and, after they are all shot up, they still retain their scrap value!

that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

toughsurvivor wrote:that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

It's 15 feet (5 yards)
The soda bottle caps are thick (1.5mm approx.) and the surface area being small the resistance to penetrate is comparatively high!
But the same thickness in a Deo Can offers less resistance because of a larger surface area - where the pellet goes through & through!
Try it!
Briha

timmy wrote: Yow! That's deadly shooting, Brihaji!
Good idea! Pop cans make great targets and, after they are all shot up, they still retain their scrap value!

Timmy,
> I find a great similarity between Golfing & Shooting....
> There are days when every swing winds up on 'par' & on other days its 'hack - 'hack' - the ball never kisses the sweet spot of the club
> Same with shooting - there are days when you pick up your gun - just aim and shoot & wind up with a 1/2" group @ 25 yds & on those days (I don't want to remember them ) the group gives you a 2" wide smile
> I have come to realize that when your body & mind are at peace with one another - everything you do - goes right
Briha

Brihaji, after your serving of Baisakhi food and notun gurer payesh, you would really have been in zen state!!

I tried the harder targets like tumblers, etc., but found the ricochet too dangerous, esp. since I shoot indoors. The old shoe box-and-telephone directory target stop works perfectly for me. And outside my window there's the national park. So no risk even if I miss a couple. To make life interesting I print out pics from the net. I once had "the most wanted man in the world" as a target!!

essdee1972 wrote:Brihaji, after your serving of Baisakhi food and notun gurer payesh, you would really have been in zen state!!

I tried the harder targets like tumblers, etc., but found the ricochet too dangerous, esp. since I shoot indoors. The old shoe box-and-telephone directory target stop works perfectly for me. And outside my window there's the national park. So no risk even if I miss a couple. To make life interesting I print out pics from the net. I once had "the most wanted man in the world" as a target!!

There you go...essdee - innovation at its best (Shoe Box + Old Telephone Directory)
BTW - The best part of "Nuton Gurer Payesh" is that you can savor it either 'piping hot' or 'chilled'
Briha

ahh Birha ji sorry i am too poor in yards and meter concept. but you are correct with deo can or beer can the pellets often goes through. your shot was great.

No doubt Sir your shot was great

brihacharan wrote:

toughsurvivor wrote:that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

It's 15 feet (5 yards)
The soda bottle caps are thick (1.5mm approx.) and the surface area being small the resistance to penetrate is comparatively high!
But the same thickness in a Deo Can offers less resistance because of a larger surface area - where the pellet goes through & through!
Try it!
Briha

Soda bottle caps thickness is not more than 0.2 mm & at 15 feet it should be easily penetrated by .22 pellets

Birha sir a little effort from my side, i know it is not so good but i tried. i have not plinked it yet.

Guys I super like Griha ji's idea of empty beer cans. But as I see it one shot destroys the can.
Therefore, a have bought loads of these cans and am in the process of emptying them to have a good supply of targets. But then I am too sozzled to shoot at them.

Regards

pratik_mahale wrote:No doubt Sir your shot was great

brihacharan wrote:

toughsurvivor wrote:that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

It's 15 feet (5 yards)
The soda bottle caps are thick (1.5mm approx.) and the surface area being small the resistance to penetrate is comparatively high!
But the same thickness in a Deo Can offers less resistance because of a larger surface area - where the pellet goes through & through!
Try it!
Briha

Soda bottle caps thickness is not more than 0.2 mm & at 15 feet it should be easily penetrated by .22 pellets

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Here's a hole rudely poked through the 26" armor used on IJN Yamato and Musashi main battery turret faces:



I wonder where the Navy got the tune up spring to do this?

Seems like the spring also went through, lock stock and barrel.