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aka Johnny Rifleseed, spreading gunliness
Well, I went and shot today at the Turkey shoot in Romulus, Michigan with the Wayne County Raccoon Hunters.
http://www.raccoonhunters.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
It was a friendly gathering, everyone I talked to was nice and shared info and let you check out their guns, quite a few unique long bbl shotguns there. And by long I mean elll ohh enn geeee.
36" with a scope, custom bbl made in "Georgia". This fella won 5 of the money shoots. ($160 total)
Foreground is a 32" Hastings bbl. Blue arrow is the 60" from the next pic and the red arrows indicate the two ends of 84" of 12ga steel. A 48" bbl custom gun with a Hastings metro extension 36" long.
The 60" from the above pic up close.
They told me don't be intimidated by the long bbls because a 30" stock bbl with a 0.640" Turkey choke has about as much chance as they do in this warm weather, it was 75 degrees today. After watching the gent from the first pic pocket 4-5 piles of $40 ea I think there may be something to the 36" custom bbls.
There are two different shoots, meat and money. Money is $5 per shot, 25yds 12/20/28/410 with the house providing the shells. In this case Remington Gun Club 3 dram, 1-1/8oz, #8, 12ga 2-3/4". Winner take all in the money shoot.
For a meat shoot it is $3 and the same ammo is provided. There are first and second place awarded for meat shoots. 1st is a Ham and 2nd is Bacon.
You have to use their ammo, rules of the game. Prevents anyone from "cheating" in that way. The guns used to be more limited and normal appearing but they told me the people complaining about the long guns don't come shooting with them anymore so it is "run whatcha brung" now.
I actually won one of the meat rounds, target below right. Left target is best shot I had in the money rounds; There is a 1mm dot in the center of the circle target, that is the determinant for winning, closest to that and you win.
Being lucky is better than being good I guess. I used my Benelli M1 Super90 with a 0.663 Turkey choke and a 28" bbl
This club also has regular IDPA shoots, heard them practicing some rapid fire drills one range over.
Oh yeah, the prize for winning the meat shoot, an 8lb frozen Virginia ham. Yum! It was a great time and I am going back next time with a longer bbl and tighter choke.
Shoots are 10am till approx 1pm with about 12-15 rds being fired. They set a table forward about 15' for my son, 11, to use his 20ga and for my daughter, 9 to use her 410. He shot 3 times and did not do so well, kept closing his eyes and jerking the trigger. This ain't like shooting clays where you slap the trigger. This game requires careful aiming to get the meat of the pattern on paper. My daughter decided not to shoot the ammo they had which was 3" 410 Max stuff. She only has fired 2-3/4 #9's so far, did not want her getting scared of the gun. There is always next time.
First asshole that asks about banjo music gets the chimney shot off their house.:finger:
http://www.raccoonhunters.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
It was a friendly gathering, everyone I talked to was nice and shared info and let you check out their guns, quite a few unique long bbl shotguns there. And by long I mean elll ohh enn geeee.
36" with a scope, custom bbl made in "Georgia". This fella won 5 of the money shoots. ($160 total)
Foreground is a 32" Hastings bbl. Blue arrow is the 60" from the next pic and the red arrows indicate the two ends of 84" of 12ga steel. A 48" bbl custom gun with a Hastings metro extension 36" long.
The 60" from the above pic up close.
They told me don't be intimidated by the long bbls because a 30" stock bbl with a 0.640" Turkey choke has about as much chance as they do in this warm weather, it was 75 degrees today. After watching the gent from the first pic pocket 4-5 piles of $40 ea I think there may be something to the 36" custom bbls.
There are two different shoots, meat and money. Money is $5 per shot, 25yds 12/20/28/410 with the house providing the shells. In this case Remington Gun Club 3 dram, 1-1/8oz, #8, 12ga 2-3/4". Winner take all in the money shoot.
For a meat shoot it is $3 and the same ammo is provided. There are first and second place awarded for meat shoots. 1st is a Ham and 2nd is Bacon.
You have to use their ammo, rules of the game. Prevents anyone from "cheating" in that way. The guns used to be more limited and normal appearing but they told me the people complaining about the long guns don't come shooting with them anymore so it is "run whatcha brung" now.
I actually won one of the meat rounds, target below right. Left target is best shot I had in the money rounds; There is a 1mm dot in the center of the circle target, that is the determinant for winning, closest to that and you win.
Being lucky is better than being good I guess. I used my Benelli M1 Super90 with a 0.663 Turkey choke and a 28" bbl
This club also has regular IDPA shoots, heard them practicing some rapid fire drills one range over.
Oh yeah, the prize for winning the meat shoot, an 8lb frozen Virginia ham. Yum! It was a great time and I am going back next time with a longer bbl and tighter choke.
Shoots are 10am till approx 1pm with about 12-15 rds being fired. They set a table forward about 15' for my son, 11, to use his 20ga and for my daughter, 9 to use her 410. He shot 3 times and did not do so well, kept closing his eyes and jerking the trigger. This ain't like shooting clays where you slap the trigger. This game requires careful aiming to get the meat of the pattern on paper. My daughter decided not to shoot the ammo they had which was 3" 410 Max stuff. She only has fired 2-3/4 #9's so far, did not want her getting scared of the gun. There is always next time.
First asshole that asks about banjo music gets the chimney shot off their house.:finger:
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