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What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

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What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by jstanfield103 » Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:23 pm

Guy's / Gal's

I have several 22 lr. Lever rifles. I really enjoy shooting these rifles. My home range I have been working on. Right now it is a 25 yard range where it is, I have more land but there is no hills on the rest of the land that I can make a longer range on. I will have to build something up as a stop for a 50 and 100 yard range.

But right now I am very happy with my 25 yard range. It is still a work in progress, as I get the money (when not buying guns) I put a little more into it. First picture is a closer look and the second is from 25 Yards away. Where I shoot from.

This range goes from 1" , 10", 8", 6" 4", 3", 1". Rack on left side has a 2", and 2 6" plates. Forget what size my Bear and Coyote is on the right hand rack.

Close up of the range

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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by Les » Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:43 pm

That looks like a great setup! I really do miss having the space to be able to make a home range. ;)
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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by Mags » Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:47 pm

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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by Mags » Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:49 pm

jstanfield103 wrote:... This range goes from 1" , 10", 8", 6" 4", 3", 1". Rack on left side has a 2", and 2 6" plates...
Looks like a lot of great pinging fun!
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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by RetiredSeabee » Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:17 pm

Great backyard range Sir.
I am stuck with shooting at a 25 yard indoor range with bad lighting and worse air circulation.
Can I come over and shoot with you? :D
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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by Ratchet » Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:01 pm

Very nice! Steel is so much more fun than shooting paper.
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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by jstanfield103 » Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:16 pm

Mags,
That was great, had me a good laugh. Guy's if you were close by we could have some great fun. Thanks for all the compliments.
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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by henry22 » Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:18 pm

jstanfield103, I couldn't resist. I've been on this potato shooting kick for about a year now. I sometimes shoot them at 100 yards with a .17 hmr, and a Henry 22 mag, but more often at 50 yards, — less walking, more shooting.

I cut toothpicks in half with wire cutters — (the ones speared at both ends) I put a whack of them into an empty toothpick container, and bring them to the range with my paper targets, a bag of small potatoes, a knife, and a stapler.

I walk up to the target board with a pocket full of half toothpicks, and tap the pointed end of the toothpicks into the top edge of the target board with the square back part of the stapler. The speared end is usually pointy enough to tap into dry chip board, about 1/4 of an inch or more deep. https://www.lowes.com/images/LCI/Planni ... BG_osb.jpg

Once the toothpicks are tapped in (about 8-10), I spike the potatoes onto the toothpicks:
https://s14.postimg.cc/u0t9dx6jl/Potato_Targets_1.jpg Then, I shoot them, after I get bored with paper targets. It's quite fun to see a 1" or smaller potato explode when a 22 mag bullet impacts it.

It's a cheap date, tons of fun, and organic. The benefit with the toothpicks, is that they usually stay in place, or get only slightly slanted. You just have to push them upright again, and put new potatoes on. If you want to be really economical, you can cut larger potatoes into quarters, skin side facing you when you aim. For some reason, the skinned side explodes better than the fleshy side.

If I had your range, it would look like a potato shooting paradise. I'd have those wood skids standing up all over the place, with holes drilled into the top edges, with MANY potatoes - rows and rows of them.

Cheap organic fun.
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Post by Henry88 » Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:19 pm

An old restaurant kitchen cart, solid as a rock.
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Re: What are you Shooting you're Lever Action 22's on ?

Post by Redthies » Mon Sep 03, 2018 10:12 pm

Mags wrote:.
Nutria River Rat

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Invasion planning session

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I hear those are tough to kill, but then I’ve also seen guys going at them with 10/22s so can’t be that tough? What’s the real skinny Mags?
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