Snowman Shoot, ends January 31st 2013

[trigrcreep]

its now a matter of principle,this snowman is going down!

 

[jethro224]

I'm picturing a target in my mailbox with only an unscathed snowman left and no paper around it anywhere. :rotf:

 

[trigrcreep]

your about as cold blooded as that @#$%^&* snowman

 

[MDK_WV]

Today was the day for the Snowman shoot in North Central WV. We had snow on the ground, no wind, sunshine and some time to shoot. I asked around and found a volunteer snowman to hold my snow man target. I told him everything would be fine and all he had to do was stand still and after three shots he could go back and play with the other snowmen. :haha:

I fired the first shot and as you can see things did not go well. :rotf:

The other snowmen that were watching ran off and hid in the snow. I couldn't find any more volunteers for the rest of the shoot. May this one rest in peace.

I had to resort to my regular target holder to finish the shoot. Jethro pretty well described my target that I am sending out in the mail Monday. Good luck to everyone else, because that top ring is hard to hit.

 

[jethro224]

:rotf: Now that's funny!

Good luck to everyone else, because that top ring is hard to hit.

Well, you coulda just flipped it over and shot for the bottom ring again... :idunno: :haha:

 

[jethro224]

your about as cold blooded as that @#$%^&* snowman

Icewater in our veins. :blah: :haha:

 

[trigrcreep]

Go ahead-laugh all you want.I finally got it and will send that swiss cheese looking target up to you to score :blah:

 

[jethro224]

:shocked2:

 

[MDK_WV]

"Well, you coulda just flipped it over and shot for the bottom ring again.."

Now you tell me, stand the snowman on his head? All the frost would have run out. :haha: Too late now, I will just torment you now in trying to score my target, Good Luck to you!

 

[Maven]

Well, I shot the "snowman" target today. Not being creative, I mounted it on a corrugated cardboard backer (although there was easily enough snow around to make a snowman) and blazed away, if that's the right term. I inverted it so that the large, blue ring was on top and the miserably small green one was on the bottom thinking the larger target would be easier to start with. Was I ever wrong! The middle one got more hits, some even in the white, while I tried to hit the blue and green circles. The latter, btw, faded almost to invisibility due to snow glare and the low sun. (Unfortunately, we shoot to the southeast.) I'll mail the mutilated snowman to you shortly.

As an aside, I used a slightly modified version of Stumpy's "Moose Snot" as a patch lube and had no trouble loading without cleaning after 20 shots. When I ran out of those lube patches, I used some I prepared this AM using the highly touted 103 Lube: Suffice it to say, it can't hold a candle to Stumpy's.

 

[davecampperry]

Please email me a printable copy, davecampperry ampersand yahoo period com. thanks!

 

[jethro224]

E-mail sent.

 

[Deadeye]

Still hoping the temp. will get up to above freezing. So far this mo. it's been from about 20 below to a high of about 7 degrees+ a lot of snow. Too cold for these old bones but maybe it'll warm up, still got 2 weeks. Deadeye

 

[jethro224]

Brrrrrrrr!!!!!
You need an indoor range. Or a really big space heater...

 

[Dave Marsh]

Well I mailed my not so hot shooting target this morning. That was pretty tough. :surrender:

Dave

 

[Deadeye]

I finally got mine shot yesterday, temp about 14, wind chill about 3, my fingers were registering about 40 below. I was shooting low, finally figured it out and made a good hit with my last shot. I'd be willing to do this again in about July! Deadeye

 

[Maven]

Not even in July! I couldn't really see the smallest, green circle, but managed to hit it more by accident than design!

 

[blackpowder shooter]

please send me a copy of the target

 

[jethro224]

OK, but you better hurry up and shoot.

 

[Silex]

Hi Jethro,

I didn't send a target because it'll look the same like if you print one :grin:

Maybe next time I'll do better but this time I sucked - the story is here: http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...fid/16/tid/277039/pid/1246115/post/last/#LAST