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Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
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Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
Laugh if you will but twenty minutes of plinking is better than not shooting at all. Any trip to the range involves packing and unpacking twice plus actual travel time. It is three hours minimum.
This Red Ryder is quite accurate inside of ten yards but after that it’s more of a crapshoot. The target from the front of the shed at about 18 yards. The inside of the steel targets is the target. I just want to hear it plink against the steel and not thud against the wood. The target is visible from the street so I camouflaged it in yard art. It does not look like a target area from the street. This is my true BB-gun target to the side. It is closer and within the accuracy of the Red Ryder. Here some of the cans are just an inch across. Try hitting an inch at ten yards. Then try doing it ten times in a row. My best today was hitting the orange can on the right three times in a row. It’s about three inches across
This Red Ryder is quite accurate inside of ten yards but after that it’s more of a crapshoot. The target from the front of the shed at about 18 yards. The inside of the steel targets is the target. I just want to hear it plink against the steel and not thud against the wood. The target is visible from the street so I camouflaged it in yard art. It does not look like a target area from the street. This is my true BB-gun target to the side. It is closer and within the accuracy of the Red Ryder. Here some of the cans are just an inch across. Try hitting an inch at ten yards. Then try doing it ten times in a row. My best today was hitting the orange can on the right three times in a row. It’s about three inches across
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Hi, my name is Gene and I'm a Henryholic from Wisconsin.
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Re: Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
I have fond memories too.
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I agree. An inch at 10 yards is not as easy as some folks might think, given those sights and the fact that you're shooting a BB gun.
I'll definitely second the stay at home and shoot thing. This time of year, packing up the car, driving to the range and then having maybe 30 minutes of shooting until our hands turn too cold to shoot, then drive back home, unload the car and so on gets hard to justify. By comparison, we can walk out the door and shoot air guns for 30 minutes, come in and warm up, quick, and go back at it. Better yet, I mostly just stay indoors and shoot as long as I want.
The ONLY way I can shoot on a regular basis with our long winters is with air guns. I'll actually log more hours of shooting in the winter with our air guns than I do with regular guns in the summer. Typically, in the winter, I"ll shoot air guns on an almost daily basis. Cheap to shoot, too.
I'll definitely second the stay at home and shoot thing. This time of year, packing up the car, driving to the range and then having maybe 30 minutes of shooting until our hands turn too cold to shoot, then drive back home, unload the car and so on gets hard to justify. By comparison, we can walk out the door and shoot air guns for 30 minutes, come in and warm up, quick, and go back at it. Better yet, I mostly just stay indoors and shoot as long as I want.
The ONLY way I can shoot on a regular basis with our long winters is with air guns. I'll actually log more hours of shooting in the winter with our air guns than I do with regular guns in the summer. Typically, in the winter, I"ll shoot air guns on an almost daily basis. Cheap to shoot, too.
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Re: Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
I remember my Daisey (sp?) lever BB gun that I got about 6 yrs old...right before I got my Grandfather's Belgian double barrel 12 ga. (hammer gun) when I about 7 or 8... living on a farm targets abounded...but I really liked clothes pinning tin-foil pie plate to the clothes line in the back yard...you could hear it and it put a hole right thru....I used shoot it from about 15 yards or so...great memories.. BobG inVA
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Daisy Model 1894 (1960s). Looks like a Winchester. BBs loaded through a side gate. Still have mine. Still shoots.
Daisy Model 1894 (1960s). Looks like a Winchester. BBs loaded through a side gate. Still have mine. Still shoots.
BobGinVA wrote:I remember my Daisey (sp?) lever BB gun that I got about 6 yrs old...right before I got my Grandfather's Belgian double barrel 12 ga. (hammer gun) when I about 7 or 8... living on a farm targets abounded...but I really liked clothes pinning tin-foil pie plate to the clothes line in the back yard...you could hear it and it put a hole right thru....I used shoot it from about 15 yards or so...great memories.. BobG inVA
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That is cool Mags.
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You'll shoot your eye out.
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Re: Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
Hey Ive been to that range and heard some clinks and thuds. I think I might of even made a few clicks but probably way more thuds
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Re: Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
The area has changed a lot. Gone is all the junk and in came big pots and plants. When it warms I will make the shed more comfortable with better seating. But standing and shooting off to the side is still the same.BigAl52 wrote:Hey Ive been to that range and heard some clinks and thuds. I think I might of even made a few clicks but probably way more thuds
You will be amazed the next time you see it.
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Hi, my name is Gene and I'm a Henryholic from Wisconsin.
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Re: Range Report: Backyard Red Ryder
Actually, I don't think the sights on those are much worse than the H001
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