Our local trad club got together for our yearly pheasant shoot recently. It felt great to finally get out and do some shooting. This year I tried to prepare some with a little practice.
I have a launcher with about a 5 foot long rail. Wide enough to launch one liter soda bottles in the air at different angles. You can set the launcher from about 30 degrees to 90 degrees. It has 5/8 surgical tube you pull back and latch to a release trigger. The bottles are stuffed full of Styrofoam pellets for weight. It slings them out real well.
After a couple days practice I was not good at hitting them but a lot better than I was from the beginning.
We all had a lot of fun shooting and joking around and was amazed we actually ended up with a lot of contacts. Thought I would share a few photos. They are blurry from the moving targets but you can get the idea.
Hope these don't upset anybody.
This bird is in trouble!
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii185/bofish-il/pheasant1.jpg)
Different bird
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii185/bofish-il/pheasant2.jpg)
Different bird
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii185/bofish-il/pheasant3.jpg)
Practice pays off...
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii185/bofish-il/pheasant4.jpg)
That's some good shooting my friend and good eating I might add. :clapper:
Man that looks like fun!!!
Good shooting.
Looks like real fun and good shooting :clapper:
Niiiiice.Congrads on some good shooting.
that is great - practice is the best....doing it for real is better
JB
Congrats :thumbsup:
Fun stuff for sure.
Way to go...not and easy task, but your practice payed off! Good for you!
way cool .....
Great shootin guy
:bigsmyl:
That is totally awesome. Love the shots.
That is Awesome.
I cant wait to try this! :clapper:
Nice shootin'; didn't upset me a bit...well except for the mild envy.
S.
Wow, great pics! Love the first one best. Congrats on some good shooting.
Awesome. You're the man!!!!!
I have to say up front only a couple were shot by me. The practice did pay off because even the one's I missed were very close to connecting.
Way Coool!! Makes me want to practice more! Great shootin, sounds like a blast. Thanks for sharin!
Barry
Yo thats the bomb!!
Elmer, very nice indeed. Pat Cebuhar was telling me about that at the UBI Banquet. Thanks for sharing the memories. Flint