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From: crs@beta.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Plinking targets
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Date: 20 Jun 91 23:40:24 GMT
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# In article <35661@mimsy.umd.edu> bercov@bevsun.bev.lbl.gov (John Bercovitz) writes:
# #I sure don't want to be a preacher, but some mention was made of shooting
# #bottles recently.  I hope that bottle-shooting was done at the local dump.
# #We shooters gotta be careful about making enemies we don't need.  Busted
# #glass will do that for you.  The stuff's impossible to completely police
# #up.  No flames intended.
# #     JHBercovitz@lbl.gov    (John Bercovitz)
# #
# #
# #[MODERATOR:  A good reminder, John, thanks!]

YES!!!!

# A great alternative is aluminum soft drink cans and beer cans (as long
# as you didn't remove the contents immediately prior to shooting)
# filled with water.

Also try plastic gallon milk jugs filled to overflowing with water
and capped.  I haven't tried it with .22 rimfire but it's
*spectacular* with my .250 Savage.

Don't forget to pick up the trash.

# I used to get frustrated shooting at cans on top of a target stand and
# having them not move when I scored a clean hit.  Most handgun loads
# (FMJs, WCs, and SWCs) tend to punch through clean and don't dissipate
# enough energy to knock the can over.

The problem is the soft, thin, aluminum.  In the old days when pop
and beer cans were tin (actually steel), they absorbed energy just
fine and one could keep them hopping with successive rounds.  Try
empty *food* cans (beans, corn, etc.) instead.

Best,

Charlie Sorsby						"I'm the NRA!"
	crs@lanl.gov