I was shooting the .22 tonight to remove limbs and small trees from my vision of the range. Tree limbs and young trees occasionally block my view from the house. I shoot off my back deck at targets 200, 300 and 400 yards down in the field. After shooting 30 rounds at one walnut linb with no luck I was mad...so I brought out my 22-250. The 1st shot , down went limb number 1, limb 2 took two shots and limb 3 took two shots. I began wondering what innovative ideas you might have to shoot your guns?Q ;)

Q, I just love the smell of burning powder. I also live in the middle so I don't need much of an idea.

A buddy of mine once casted his nice new red + white fish hook clear across the river, and into a tree. Not wanting to lose his hook, he went back to the truck and got the .22, and a box of my yellow jackets. He did managed to get his hook shot free, but not before he burned up most of the box. :D

I was duck hunting as a kid. Dropped a mallard in the river about 5 feet past the dropoff.
I waded back to shore, grabbed my trusty Stevens 311 double, and blew a 3 inch
aspen tree in half with both barrels.
Took the tree, and then retrieved my duck.

Cheers!
Big Mike Gallagher

I have never used a firearm for other than it's intended purpose. You guys make me sick. What kind of people are you........ ugh wait a minute, shooting missel toe out of trees at Christmas, playing poker shooting a deck of cards.......sorry. I guess you guys are OK.

I have never used a firearm for other than it's intended purpose. You guys make me sick. What kind of people are you........ ugh wait a minute, shooting missel toe out of trees at Christmas, playing poker shooting a deck of cards.......sorry. I guess you guys are OK.

Chief, are you trying to put the comics out of work? You know that no southern boy ever went without shooting Missle toe out of the trees, or hickory nuts off the trees, or knots out of old pine boards. :confused: :D :D

As a young kid - my forte was shooting glass insulators off abandoned railroad telephone/telegraph lines. At least, I think they were abandoned! :p

I just shot an oak limb that took 6 shots from the 22-250 to drop. I wonder how many shots it would take to drop a 24inch oak. I love to see that limb crash to the ground after a well placed shot. I can see the range much better now.Q :D

I have a good friend that does good wood work. He likes to do picture frames, tables, drawers, and other neat stuff.

We were camping in late fall/early winter a few seasons ago when he asked to borrow my rimfire .22. "Sure". Gave him a box of ammo.

He "harvested" a few bee hives with it. He lauquers them and hangs them as decoration. Looks "pretty cool" with his high "A-frame" home. Perhaps sells a few to the "arts and crafts" folks too?

He reports that it takes a very precise "hit" to take one down. Must cut the attachment point to bring one down.

Is very uphill shooting into the trees. We must know where that bullet lands!

Cheezywan

I just shot an oak limb that took 6 shots from the 22-250 to drop…
Might take somethin' bigger than a 22!

OK I'll stir things up - does it take energy or momentum to kill an oak?

:p

"OK I'll stir things up - does it take energy or momentum to kill an oak?"

Neither... Arsenal!

My triple 4 likes watermelons and cedar trees.

A friend's brother is a back woods mechanic. He was doing an engine swap and needed a hole in a bracket. Since there was no drill on the place, drug out a rifle and punched a hole where it was needed. A little file work and on with the project.

I've seen a varmint gun used as a wire cutter.

Was spotting for a friend who was shooting from one pasture into another. Said, "Jim, looks like that wire is in line with your shot." Boom-Twang.... twice in the same weekend had to fix fence.

Had another experience with a vietnam vet. We went christmas tree hunting in a national forest (illegal). Didn't see anything we liked. Wayne spotted the top of a 50' pine that he thought was perfect. Hammered away at the top with his AR until he ran out of ammo. Fired up the chain saw and fell the tree right across the road just as a truck was coming around the bend. Fortunatly it wasn't a ranger.

The tree had a flat spot on one side so it just stood a little closer to the wall.