Sniper Kitty Beats Boyfriend at Rifle Shooting

[turbo]

We never hunted big game, so all hunting was done with shotguns.

In this neck of the woods, a lot of bird-hunting was done with gauges larger than 12 for many years. When Winchester came up with a repeating lever-action shotgun (Model 1887), they chambered it for 12 and 10 gauge. Lots of fowling guns were made in the single-digit gauges. High-quality shotguns in large gauges (8, 6, 4...) can bring huge money, especially if they are in good condition and are engraved or otherwise factory-embellished.

Lots of cheaply-made but functional large-bore shotguns were produced to supply coastal fowlers who shot birds primarily for their plumage during the feathered-hat crazes of the 1800s, and those guns were exposed to fog, mists, and salt spray, so the surviving specimens are usually ugly.

 

[Moonbear]

So, just as an update, I got my boyfriend to tell me the distance. It was 30 feet. That doesn't sound like much with all the talk around here now, but then again, I wasn't claiming to be a great shot...at least not yet. I'm just going for maximal gloating that I beat my boyfriend who has been shooting since he was a teen (at greater distance, and with a more powerful kick, or freestanding, or without a scope, etc., I'm sure he'd beat me easily, but I know when to quit while I'm ahead and to get maximal gloating in before a re-match is declared). I'll still let him claim bragging rights on the cooking any day.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So, just as an update, I got my boyfriend to tell me the distance. It was 30 feet.

You are still PF's official Annie Oakley.

This is allegedly a video of someone shooting a homemade 4-gauge.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/547250/4_gauge_home_made_gun_being_test_fired/

I also spotted a few references to a 3-gauge.

Way back in the late 40's, early 50s, or so, my dad spent a summer on a deep-sea fishing boat. At some point he saw a two-man shotgun that I believe was used on whaling boats. I've never seen an example of a gun like this... He thought it was a 2-gauge, or maybe even larger.

 

[turbo]

Way back in the late 40's, early 50s, or so, my dad spent a summer on a deep-sea fishing boat. At some point he saw a two-man shotgun that I believe was used on whaling boats. I've never seen an example of a gun like this... He thought it was a 2-gauge, or maybe even larger.

Back in the 1800s and early 1900s, very large guns were made as "punt guns". They were intended to be mounted in punts and shot by hunters operating under cloth blinds. They are quite rare these days, but the difficulty of properly displaying such monsters limit their auction values.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Hey Moonbear, tell your boyfriend that you want to see him do this without shooting himself in the...gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdkt7yIFLY

 

[Moonbear]

Hey Moonbear, tell your boyfriend that you want to see him do this without shooting himself in the...gun.

No WAY! I like his...gun.

 

[turbo]

Some trick-shots are a bit less than honest. Annie Oakley used to wow audiences that thought she was shooting bullets. In fact, she was probably often smashing thin glass balls with "rat-shot" - tiny lead shot blasted out of smooth-bore guns in .22 caliber loads.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Here is a video of a punt gun firing
http://www.maniacworld.com/biggest-shotgun.html

http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/11/01/punt-gun_18.jpg
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mage_result&resnum=2&ct=image&ved=0CAoQ9QEwAQ

 

[Danger]

That punt gun video reminded me of one of my favourite shooting scenerios. The Solothurn SS18. Nice little semi-auto rifle. The targets were 1" thick steel plates at about 500 metres. The rounds ploughed straight through as if the plates weren't even there.
One can never have too many 20mm anti-tank guns in one's inventory.