Was mining YT for air gun content last week and happened to check out the video content from The Meathead Marksman... aka Old Uncle Hodge from Down Under. Hodge put forward a new (at the time) challenge: hit a Mentos candy on the first shot while shooting standing/off hand. No slings, no shooting sticks, no benches or bags or chairs or trembling shoulders of gangly kids corralled into your shooting adventures. Just the shooter, the gun, a Mentos candy, and a single shot. You begin at a range you feel confident you can manage and, with each successful shot, you move farther and farther away from the target. When you eventually miss the candy then you report the last range at which you were successful. Here's Hodge's demo video: https://youtu.be/W6vUXCAt0k0
I began practice for this challenge over the weekend. DANG!! This is hard! Hodge is right, gonna take lots of practice to get my fine muscle control trained for this. On Saturday I put four caps out in my pellet trap (freestanding), laid out a cloth tape to 20 yards, and began shooting in 5 yard increments beginning at 5 yards. Managed one-shot-one-cap at 5, 10, and 15 yards - but the 15 yarder was a wobbling prayer more than an aimed shot. 20 yards was right out.
Bought some Mentos at Wally World at lunchtime today. I'll conserve the candies but now that I have the "official target" I'll find a substitute target for practice. Not paper, but something that'll react with a hit. Then it'll be train train train. As my old Karate instructor would say, "Tears in the dojo bring smiles on the battlefield." Or, pellets in the pellet trap bring shattered candies on the range.
I began practice for this challenge over the weekend. DANG!! This is hard! Hodge is right, gonna take lots of practice to get my fine muscle control trained for this. On Saturday I put four caps out in my pellet trap (freestanding), laid out a cloth tape to 20 yards, and began shooting in 5 yard increments beginning at 5 yards. Managed one-shot-one-cap at 5, 10, and 15 yards - but the 15 yarder was a wobbling prayer more than an aimed shot. 20 yards was right out.
Bought some Mentos at Wally World at lunchtime today. I'll conserve the candies but now that I have the "official target" I'll find a substitute target for practice. Not paper, but something that'll react with a hit. Then it'll be train train train. As my old Karate instructor would say, "Tears in the dojo bring smiles on the battlefield." Or, pellets in the pellet trap bring shattered candies on the range.