went shooting clays yesterday with some in-laws. i actually enjoyed myself. i've never shot clays before. and not a whole lot of experience with firearms in general. before yesterday i had mostly shot pellet/bb guns. i got to shoot a 4-10, a 20 gauge and a 12 gauge. also got to shoot a couple pistols. a .22 long and a 9mm. i believe the 9 was a ruger. i didn't particularly like the grip on the 9. i've got small hands so the gun didn't fit well in my grip. not too much of a kick though. i had a good time anyways. :2guns: :2guns: :cheers:
Shooting clays can be fun, but it can be frustrating as well.
Good to hear that you enjoyed yourself. :thumb:
Shooting Clays is excellent fun!
Shooting pheasants though is the best!
Shooting Squirrels with an 8mm Mauser is always fun :icon_twisted: :cookoo:
Would so love to live in America and be able to just shoot for a hobby. You know not have the hassel of finding somewhere to go shoot and then the hassel of just owning a gun here in the UK. Would be nice to just pop down to the local gun range or if i lived in the country just go out in the yard and shoot targets safely.
My main hobby is shooting. :thumb:
There is a bit of paperwork involved in getting and owning firearms, but it's all worth it.
Shooting bunnies with a 22-250 is a hoot. O0
We shoot bunnys on the farm to keep the population down, i sit on the front of a quadbike in a special seat we built then someone tears around the farm and i shoot them with a 12guage. Mighty fun but shooting rabbits at close range with a shotgun can get very very messy.
Would love to be able to shoot targets though with a real firearm but there is just no facility for it here in the UK really. I shoot targets with airrifle and pistol but its just not the same. I mean i can hit pears at a bloody long way off with an airrifle but i can't do any long range shooting like shooting targets with a 22 rifle or larger caliber. We have the space just not the license's
what......you kill them just to kill them..... :cookoo:
them's gud eatin'
Alot of the ones we have on the farm have Mitsy. You can't eat em if they have got that. Were not talking about lovely healthy meaty rabbits, were talking about the scraggy scrawny scruffy pest rabbits. Plus their aint much left to eat :laugh:
If we're going out hunting bunnies,we 'll take a shotty and/or a .22, that way we bring home the bunnies for the dogs. :thumb:
Ugh, i cracked.
I was just browsing in one of the better gun shops here in town and spotted a Berreta CX4 9mm for $570 :o
I put 300 down and am going back in 2 weeks to pay the rest off and probably get some goodies for it. :icon_twisted:
In my spare time I run the shooting range for a private Trap and Field club :thumb:
We have a GREAT trap league that I help run. We have a GIANT hydraulic voice activated trap :icon_mrgreen: Its a great sport for everyone :thumb: I have been doing it for about 6 years now and I love it :thumb:
Here are some pics of the Trap area of our range.
(http://www.tremontclub.com/trappop13.png)
that big green box is the trap house. It goes about 5' underground and holds the trap and extra boxes of targets. The trap machine in it is HUGE it holds about 550 birds. It is remotely activated by the small mikes in front of the shooters :thumb:
(http://www.tremontclub.com/trappop1.gif)
The local shooting club i go to is Edgehill Shooting Ground
http://www.edgehill-shooting.co.uk/index.html
We shoot a huge range of sports, English Skeet, Olympic Skeet, Down-The-Line. Just to mention a few.
We also have a few portable traps on trailers which we can put on large hill tops to simulate different birds "strafing" across the shooters line of sight. It's excellent as we have 100's of acres to set up shoots in all sorts of different ways. Plus we have live pheasant shoots also.