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I brought my 392 out to the new place I bought. I've been moving things over the last few weeks. I built shelves in the barn and slowly brought things out. Today I brought the last major piece to the barn. Rain set in and a strong breeze. The pellet gun was meant as a form of relaxation on my one day off this weekend. Everytime I set the empty water bottles up and turned around, they blew over. I weighted them with small stones and put them on a piece of roughcut lumber. Finally, they stayed up long enough to be knocked over. Then they got shot laying down. Ten minutes of therapy was good for the soul. The distance was about ten yards. I shot from inside the barn, uphill.








It was fun and relaxing. I enjoyed being able to shoot in my own back yard. I can shoot firearms here too, but for now, pellet guns are just right.

Glad you got out Dave. You better stop and smell the roses a little more often.

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Good for you. If you think about it far enough in advance, fill a few with water, freeze them, then cut away the plastic. Take them with you in a cooler. Shoot the ice "bottles," then the shards of ice bottles. Mr. Sun does your cleanup.

The kids used to love shooting the ice targets and seeing them explode. Big ice cubes work, dixie cups work as molds as well.

I can't wait to heal up, build my berm, and do some shooting.

BrokenolMarine wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:52 pm

Good for you. If you think about it far enough in advance, fill a few with water, freeze them, then cut away the plastic. Take them with you in a cooler. Shoot the ice "bottles," then the shards of ice bottles. Mr. Sun does your cleanup.

The kids used to love shooting the ice targets and seeing them explode. Big ice cubes work, dixie cups work as molds as well.

That's a neat idea, will have to try it at my range up the road. Bet they really explode when shot with 9mm.

Wow, that’s some pretty green grass. Not bad for upstate NY in mid April I would assume.

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Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:08 pm

BrokenolMarine wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:52 pm

Good for you. If you think about it far enough in advance, fill a few with water, freeze them, then cut away the plastic. Take them with you in a cooler. Shoot the ice "bottles," then the shards of ice bottles. Mr. Sun does your cleanup.

The kids used to love shooting the ice targets and seeing them explode. Big ice cubes work, dixie cups work as molds as well.

That's a neat idea, will have to try it at my range up the road. Bet they really explode when shot with 9mm.

Kids used to see people on tv or in movies shooting glass bottles.
I explained it wasn't safe, and if you weren't injured shooting, you could get cut during the cleanup. The ice trick was the next best thing. Go all out, tint the water.

Love it, Dave. I'm a big fan of those 397/392s. I've been so wrapped up with the new PCPs and springers this spring that I've been neglecting out 397s and that's a shame, because they are really such solid guns. Our 397s also do very well with the Crosman Premiers, which helps to keep the price down on pellets. For backyard work, I usually call it good with 4 pumps. If it ever stops raining, here, I'll take one of the 397s out and have some fun with it.

That's a nice piece of wood on yours. I see you have it set up with the Crosman scope mounts, too. Thanks for sharing.

Hatchdog wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:09 pm

Wow, that’s some pretty green grass. Not bad for upstate NY in mid April I would assume.

It got green three weeks ago so I ordered the new John Deere then. Waiting on the call as it's green and growing now.

Sounds fun Dave. Those Premiers are a popular ammo and bet they carry a thud in 22. Interesting you can shoot firearms but choose to shoot pellets.

Gene, we've chosen to do limit our backyard shooting to mostly airguns, even though it's perfectly legal to shoot cartridge guns in our neighborhood of acreages. For sure, some of our neighbors do a LOT of shooting with big cal rifles and handguns. We voluntarily chose to limit our backyard shooting to mostly airguns, though. One reason is safety. We have neighbor kids that like a lot of kids like to wander out in the woods at times and we also worry about ricochets with bullets traveling great distances. We also keep it to air guns out of consideration to our neighbors as far as the noise thing. It's no great sacrifice, though, given how well our airguns shoot.

Once a month or so I hear a neighbor a couple of houses away shooting in their backyard. It’s legal here if done safely. My property isn’t positioned where I could do it safely

I have a place just up the road where I can safely shoot into a sandy hillside. Do get an occasional complaint when shooting my AR which isn't very often, not so much with pistols or my .357 Henry. If the cops do show up they just check that we are shooting safely. Don't shoot that often and the few times cops have shown up they say that's part of life in the county where shooting is legal if done safely.

The nearby Cherry Cannons are more of an annoyance but just something that has to be put up with for a few weeks each year.

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Great to hear Ya had some relaxing/fun Dave!
Like NCG mentioned, I usually put some food coloring in the water.

I'll try try the frozen water. I plan to put in a 30 yd and 50 yd. air gun range. It gets windy at the new place. I will also put in firearms targets too.

Gene, to answer your question, I enjoy relaxing with air guns. Relaxing being the operative word. They are more for plinking and shooting at a downed or overturned bottle or can to me. I had ten minutes to relax and it made me do just that. Then it was back to enjoyable work. I enjoy shooting firearms too, but I'm always a bit more on with them. Plus I need to scout my backgroud areas a lot more for rocks etc. I'm in no hurry.

daytime dave wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:15 pm

I'll try try the frozen water. I plan to put in a 30 yd and 50 yd. air gun range. It gets windy at the new place. I will also put in firearms targets too.

Gene, to answer your question, I enjoy relaxing with air guns. Relaxing being the operative word. They are more for plinking and shooting at a downed or overturned bottle or can to me. I had ten minutes to relax and it made me do just that. Then it was back to enjoyable work. I enjoy shooting firearms too, but I'm always a bit more on with them. Plus I need to scout my backgroud areas a lot more for rocks etc. I'm in no hurry.

Those ten minute shooting breaks makes my days. Especially when I can get three or four in one day. I just came inside after cleaning in the garage all day with several shooting breaks.

Same here. Nothing like being able to open our deck door and shoot an air gun at one of the targets in the yard. Can't beat the ammo cost, either.

I just stepped outside in my pajamas and took a dozen plinks while my coffee was brewing. Maybe I should bring the coffee pot inside.

The weight rack made a good ad-hoc rifle rack. I took the H9a out. It's a .22 pump pistol with nice factory wood furniture. It hit those water bottles with a thump. The CMP Daisy was right on and fun.