Target of opportunity

[Boyd L.]

This afternoon was a good opportunity to casually try a couple of my smallbore silhouette guns from the bench with the ammo I usually compete with. A lone fly just couldn’t help itself. Neither could I. The hole between the first two smiley face targets was a miss during one of the 5-shot strings. The second smiley face has the “splatter” from the hit. Looks like the critter left some mascara on it’s way through the target board. Great fun.

Ammo was SK Standard Plus. Distance was 50 yards.

 

[ebb]

Nothing more fun than shooting flies. My friend used to spray sugar water on the target to attract them. He had a 30BR that was the fly champ. With out a doubt the most accurate rifle Ive ever shot. He passed away a few years back, I sure miss the crazy stuff we used to do.

 

[Outrider27]

Many years ago I used to shoot benchrest at Fairfax Rod and Gun in northern VA near Washington DC with my cousin, and practiced there with him once in awhile. At one such practice session (northern VA mosquitos seem to be attracted to a bullet hole in a target, no need for sugar soaking, lol) I saw precision mosquito shooting for the first time. I watched through my spotting scope in awe as two of my friends went 25 cents a shot at 100 yards, alternating to see who could be the first to hit the bug. Not one bug lasted more than two shots. Great fun to watch.

 

[1shot]

Several years ago, my shooting buddy and I were doing some load development with our 308's @ 100 yds. He is shooting, I'm on the spotting scope when he says "do you see that wasp that just landed on the target?" I replied are ya gonna try and hit it? Naaa, I'm just gonna wing it. He fires and I see the wasp fall to the ground. We walk down to the target and low and behold the wasp was buzzing in circles minus his left wing!!
Sadly my friend moved out of state and those days are gone.

Lloyd

 

[T.Rhodes]

Nice shooting! Too bad there was so much damage...would have made a nice 'mount'.

 

[Gary Schiefelbein]

Hope it was a head shot.

 

[Delfuego]

Poacher

 

[okie]

Nothing more fun than shooting flies. My friend used to spray sugar water on the target to attract them. He had a 30BR that was the fly champ. With out a doubt the most accurate rifle Ive ever shot. He passed away a few years back, I sure miss the crazy stuff we used to do.

I gotta do that with the kids!! sounds better than mice with their BB guns in the feed pile!!

 

[okie]

I did get lucky and two wing a crow that landed near my target...never did it since, only a couple single wings...

 

[steve123]

In the spring of this year there was a fly hatch. The most numerous fly's were of a decent size but there were the other types and sizes too.

At the time there were four of us shooting our PCP air rifles - perfect timing for us. A table made out of an old metal door was 12 yards away and there was a sight in target 30 yards away.

It was about the most fun with a rifle you can have because it was a race to see who could get to the next fly that landed at both distances. We laughed and laughed for hours! It was great sport!

A massive slaughter is the best way to describe it. There were splats all over the sight in target and all manner of fly parts on the table. Even a few on the ground going in circles that we couldn't make out where they were shot.

As the wife would say - men...

Another time with one of those friends, he and I were checking our zero at 100 meters with our tactical rifles. A fly landed, friend says take the shot, I did, as perfectly centered as is gets! We cut it out and saved it, friend wrote RIP on a tombstone shaped cartoon with date and my name on it, lol.

 

[ebb]

My hunting buddy told a story of ranchers that have a shoot in Okeechobee Florida. His wife's best friend was falling asleep on the school bus one morning, and told her friend that her dad and a bunch of the local ranchers had a rat shoot and keep her up all night shooting. Seems her dad has a dairy farm and when they shoot rats they put hav-a-hart traps all over the dairy barn and catch a bunch of rats. When the shooters show up they set up a table and tie wire a rat to a screw in the middle of the table. When a price is agreed on the shooter put his money in a pot for every shot, the person who hits the rat gets the pot. They usually shoot at 600yds. After the bullets start hitting the table the rat starts moving around and there is a luck factor cause the rat can step out of the way or into the bullets path. Ive heard when it gets late and pride is on the line it could get to $20 a shot. I have never been invited, and I am pissed that is the case. When my 6.5-284 is tuned I could get into that kind of thing.

 

[Rsadams]

Everytime I go to the gun range , I stop and get breakfast to take with me... When the flies are bad a rub a little of what ever I have left over , cheese works great , on the target out at 50 yards and wait.... This was my first one a few years ago...lol

 

[Fotheringill]

Does one need a bottleneck round (.223) to shoot bottleneck flies?

BTW, too bad there were no before and after pictures.

Mr. Adams- are you waiting in a tree stand?

 

[Rsadams]

Does one need a bottleneck round (.223) to shoot bottleneck flies?

BTW, too bad there were no before and after pictures.

Mr. Adams- are you waiting in a tree stand?

Me..??? If so no , no tree stand just shooting at my range it's normally empty and only open to non members a few hours a week... It's about a 78 miles round-trip , so I get breakfast when heading out because there's nothing around for miles... They have some nice wooden benches on the 50 yard pistol range I shoot Rimfire at 50 , and super nice concrete at the actual rifle range... When there's no flies i cut down the long grass stems at the back wall at 60.... Shooting paper I hate to say gets kinda old after awhile.... Maybe I spend to much time out there..lol

 

[Fotheringill]

Try taping a strip of ten uncooked couscous onto a target board. It got my attention after shooting at the same green targets for years.

 

[Ned Ludd]

Better hope your local game warden doesn't frequent this website. It wouldn't surprise me if some states required a permit for that.

 

[Fotheringill]

I am in NY. I had better lie low before being picked up for shooting endangered grain.