Back when I was powder fire shooting almost every weekend,, depending on which group of people it was, three of us normally went to a canyon that was almost fully surrounded by mountain side, with a smallish area where you drove in. It wasn't a very large area, so if you were the first there, you could park the car, truck so no one else could get in. This "was" a mostly friendly arrangement by the three or four car loads of folks that shot there, mostly because it was a small area. I do have one "stand-off" story too !
Anyway, someone had drug a piece of 3/4" steel plate up the hillside for everyone to shoot at. On any given weekend, it could be about 75/80 yards away, sometimes it could be 150 or more yards away, up one of the hills. We never figured out how it got moved, or even got put there, it was heavy !
One of those "long distance" days, I had my little Berretta, M-70 (.22) with me. Once I figured out the hold-over, you could pull the trigger, and then count to 4 or 5 before you heard the "tink" of the bullet hitting the plate. We all found shooting that plate with smaller calibers and pistols more fun than with rifles or larger calibers because of the time it took the bullet to get there, and the sometimes "massive" hold-over that we had to use to even hit it.
So yeah, hitting steel was a great time.
Mike
