Tiny Targets At Short Range

[ironlion269]

Waddaya do when the weather closes in and there's no chance of going outdoors to stretch out your shooting? Why, you challenge yourself with ever smaller targets at short range!

First up, a 7mm wire nut that became my first Tiny Target success. Crosman F4 - detuned - in .177 at 10 meters hit dead center. Note the pellet remains.

Next, another coil from a wire nut. This one had the outer plastic shell disintegrate to reveal the stresses placed on the coil as it caught the pellet.

Finally, my grandson left me some .22 brass that he'd collected. I decided to try threading a pellet into the open end of the casing by embedding the rimmed end into a block of duct seal and pointing the open end toward my shooting table. I knew I'd hit it when it was driven deeper into the seal material but was really jazzed to find the ultimate fate of the pellet when I retrieved the casing.

 

[crittahitta]

Where are you shooting? Basement? I wish i had the room to shoot in mine. Cant wait for weather to break. Got 5 to 6 inches of snow today. Stinks

 

[Hynzie]

snowed in BOSTON also just watched xtended forcast 8 straight days of rain ..wtf when i was 12 or so i would tape matches to my bedroom wall 12 ft away ,i would sit up in bed shooting the tips off of them ,,man would i pay to go back and redo a lot sadly

 

[Windmill01]

Pete it looks like that detuned F4 of yours nearly succeeded in blowing the pellet straight through that casing. Nice shooting.

I have been confined to my shed of late as the rain keeps persevering. Just been paper punching but I think I’ll give your tiny target idea a go.

Gary

 

[intenseaty22]

Nice shooting! Gotta love the .22 casing. I too miss my basement, shoot, I miss the whole house on all of it's 5 acres. Sigh.....

 

[ironlion269]

My "indoor range" is either 8 meters from the interior garage door to the outside wall of the garage. If I open the door into the house there's a secondary interior door I can shut to cut off the kitchen, leaving me at 10 meters shooting into the garage from the utility room. You make do when that's all you got to work with. I confess that pretty much every day I have to police up spent pellets that didn't stick into the backing I have up to protect the finished walls in the garage. I've not damaged anything yet and take reasonable precautions to stay safe... buuuuuut, c'mon, a guy's gotta have some trigger time or he starts climbing the walls.

 

[Skillet]

Used to have a pellet trap up in the attic, (years back), 'till my Dad shut me down.

Desperation/boredom makes a shootist do strange things.

 

[G-Man]

When I lived in the Bay Area before retiring, I used to shoot coins (13 yards, quarters mostly) and beer caps in my basement. Best was shooting a spent C02 cartridge on its side, into the opening. Still have it... Took me 3 tries!
Greg