Thread: Funnest things to shoot?

Originally Posted by Beavis

Those cheap crates of soda from the warehouse are great reactive targets. Added bonus is the pleasant aroma of grape as you pick your rubbish up.

I used to buy them on special and use them as targets with my (then) 5 year old daughter. Good fun with a 22, and easy cleanup.

Better fun with a 22.250, more involved cleanup.

100% tracer out of a GPMG in SF mode

Most NZ Army training areas ban tracer during the summer (very effective at starting fires), so the poor buggers in the ammo area have to pull all tracer rounds out of the belts (normally 4 ball 1 tracer as purchased from overseas)

Come wintertime and a fire power demo, or support weapons course, out come the 100% tracer belts. Like squirting a big red flamethrower all over the place. And you learn a lot about ricochets! (hint, ricochets can come off almost any surface, and at almost any angle. You wouldn't believe it till you see it)

Originally Posted by XR500

100% tracer out of a GPMG in SF mode

Most NZ Army training areas ban tracer during the summer (very effective at starting fires), so the poor buggers in the ammo area have to pull all tracer rounds out of the belts (normally 4 ball 1 tracer as purchased from overseas)

Come wintertime and a fire power demo, or support weapons course, out come the 100% tracer belts. Like squirting a big red flamethrower all over the place. And you learn a lot about ricochets! (hint, ricochets can come off almost any surface, and at almost any angle. You wouldn't believe it till you see it)

It is a sight to behold alright. Last saw it in 1973.

Originally Posted by XR500

100% tracer out of a GPMG in SF mode

Most NZ Army training areas ban tracer during the summer (very effective at starting fires), so the poor buggers in the ammo area have to pull all tracer rounds out of the belts (normally 4 ball 1 tracer as purchased from overseas)

Come wintertime and a fire power demo, or support weapons course, out come the 100% tracer belts. Like squirting a big red flamethrower all over the place. And you learn a lot about ricochets! (hint, ricochets can come off almost any surface, and at almost any angle. You wouldn't believe it till you see it)

Yep, roads, rivers etc made for interesting ‘experiments’ when seeing how tracers ricocheted peeled off in acute angles everywhere, sometimes almost at right angles from where the bullet entered the river.