I quit shooting 4 years ago, but I'm getting the urge again ...

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  • dogtag
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 14985

    #1

    I quit shooting 4 years ago, but I'm getting the urge again ...

    I only quit because two other clubs got closed down because they didn't
    clean the lead out of their berms (California needs only a small excuse).
    Their shooters invaded my club making it tough to find an empty bench,
    plus they were a motley looking lot. I bought myself a Ruger 22 air rifle,
    but it doesn't quite make it. I guess I'm addicted.
    Now I can't decide what I want to shoot - cap n ball, 22, Martini Henry ?
    Decisions, decisions.
  • barretcreek
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2013
    • 6065

    #2
    Cleaning the lead and selling it would seem a no brainer. Trap and skeet clubs do it on a regular basis.

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    • lyman
      Administrator - OFC
      • Aug 2009
      • 11268

      #3
      start with the 22 to get back into the fundamentals,

      the shoot it all

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      • dogtag
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 14985

        #4
        Yeah, my club did that.
        I and a friend a few times collected lead from the 25 yard berm -
        on a thursday when the club was closed. As members we had keys.
        I now have a lot of range lead I'll never be able to use up.

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        • one shot
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2021
          • 534

          #5
          How about a pump up BB gun and you might have to recycle the BBs .

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          • Art
            Senior Member, Deceased
            • Dec 2009
            • 9256

            #6
            Originally posted by one shot
            How about a pump up BB gun and you might have to recycle the BBs .
            Hey man, I actually used to do that when I was a kid.

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            • tmark
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2009
              • 1900

              #7
              I was shooting my 357 Magnum at an indoor range when suddenly the indoor range shot back at me hitting me in the shoulder with a chunk of lead!

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              • lyman
                Administrator - OFC
                • Aug 2009
                • 11268

                #8
                knew a guy, regular customer of my father's, that decided to see what AP would do,

                so he shot an engine block with some AP thru a garand,

                the jacket peeled off and ricocheted back at him, slicing him across the wrist and forearm,

                he was bloody mess when he got to the hospital,

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                • one shot
                  Senior Member
                  • Jul 2021
                  • 534

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Art
                  Hey man, I actually used to do that when I was a kid.
                  Crosman 760 still have it brother had a daisy red rider with peep sights and you could change the front sight with inserts .

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                  • dryheat
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2009
                    • 10587

                    #10
                    Originally posted by lyman
                    knew a guy, regular customer of my father's, that decided to see what AP would do,

                    so he shot an engine block with some AP thru a garand,

                    the jacket peeled off and ricocheted back at him, slicing him across the wrist and forearm,

                    he was bloody mess when he got to the hospital,
                    That hardly ever happens. But I did "shoot myself" years ago when some .22 lead came back while doing something silly. Picked the piece out with my pocket knife. Not real serious.
                    If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.

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                    • lyman
                      Administrator - OFC
                      • Aug 2009
                      • 11268

                      #11
                      Originally posted by one shot
                      Crosman 760 still have it brother had a daisy red rider with peep sights and you could change the front sight with inserts .
                      I still have my Crosman 760 as well,

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