greybeard
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Had a great Christmas. My Mean Santa gift was a pair of miniature posthole diggers that I KNOW had to have come from my twin brother. A big dinner, which we devoured after thanking the Lord for the Day and the food, and we didn't forget why or what ere were celebrating and acknowledging.
This is about all of us, my wife, my brother and his wife, my 2 sisters and their husbands, one of my sons, 3 nieces, and one of their husbands--some of the family were out of town or visiting their in-laws and couldn't make it--and big boy napping on the couch is one of my grandsons.
A little bit later, we moved out back to do just a little shooting. The girls wanted to practice with their handguns, my son and grandson wanted to shoot skeet and the rest of us wanted to shoot rifles, so I had a stack of crossties set up in front of a dirt berm and moved the cows out of the way, and shut the gates. Set up some sight in targets and some torso sillouehttes--took this pick from about 70 yards away as I was walking back.
I set us up a couple of tables at a measured 150 yards.
Some of the rifles.
My brother brought his black powder pistol--I "think" a 51 cal and pt 2 balls into one of the torso targets from 150 yards--didn't have any punch by the tie it got there but they did put a hole in the paper.
The girls took their turns with the rifles before we moved up close for them to use their pistols.
My sister-in-law with her .273.
The skeet shooters--that's my son on the machine and my grandson shooting--he is good, had lots of practice on the ducks over in Gueydan La.
We shot a couple 3 of these gizmos too--they were a hoot and brought everyone out of the house to see what was going on.
At one time, I counted laid out and/or being used..
4 12 ga shotguns
1 20 ga shotgun
1 sks
1 Weatherby .270
1 Win .270
1 Winchester 30.06
2 Weatherby 300 magnum
1 Winchester lever action 32-40
1 Taurus semiautomatic .380
1 Colt 1911
1 black powder pistol
2 Weatherby .243
1 Ruger .243
1 Ruger 9mm
1 Remington .22
I was busy with 'supervising' the pistol work and didn't get any pics, but the girls did a lot better this time, proudly took their targets home with them and are eager to come back and do it again once I get a better backstop up.
Hardest shooting weapon was my niece's husband's 30.06--I don't know what round he brought but it kicked like a mule, and the rounds were penetrating the cross ties and impacting the berm behind them.
This is about all of us, my wife, my brother and his wife, my 2 sisters and their husbands, one of my sons, 3 nieces, and one of their husbands--some of the family were out of town or visiting their in-laws and couldn't make it--and big boy napping on the couch is one of my grandsons.
A little bit later, we moved out back to do just a little shooting. The girls wanted to practice with their handguns, my son and grandson wanted to shoot skeet and the rest of us wanted to shoot rifles, so I had a stack of crossties set up in front of a dirt berm and moved the cows out of the way, and shut the gates. Set up some sight in targets and some torso sillouehttes--took this pick from about 70 yards away as I was walking back.
I set us up a couple of tables at a measured 150 yards.
Some of the rifles.
My brother brought his black powder pistol--I "think" a 51 cal and pt 2 balls into one of the torso targets from 150 yards--didn't have any punch by the tie it got there but they did put a hole in the paper.
The girls took their turns with the rifles before we moved up close for them to use their pistols.
My sister-in-law with her .273.
The skeet shooters--that's my son on the machine and my grandson shooting--he is good, had lots of practice on the ducks over in Gueydan La.
We shot a couple 3 of these gizmos too--they were a hoot and brought everyone out of the house to see what was going on.
At one time, I counted laid out and/or being used..
4 12 ga shotguns
1 20 ga shotgun
1 sks
1 Weatherby .270
1 Win .270
1 Winchester 30.06
2 Weatherby 300 magnum
1 Winchester lever action 32-40
1 Taurus semiautomatic .380
1 Colt 1911
1 black powder pistol
2 Weatherby .243
1 Ruger .243
1 Ruger 9mm
1 Remington .22
I was busy with 'supervising' the pistol work and didn't get any pics, but the girls did a lot better this time, proudly took their targets home with them and are eager to come back and do it again once I get a better backstop up.
Hardest shooting weapon was my niece's husband's 30.06--I don't know what round he brought but it kicked like a mule, and the rounds were penetrating the cross ties and impacting the berm behind them.
