Luger Shooting
 

Shot my luger with my son today. Used little ketchup packets stapled to some white cardboard as targets. They make a very satisfying "splat" when you hit them. Just rolled up the cardboard to clean up when we finished. Going to have to try this with rifles too.
Marc

looks like there were some hot sauce packets from taco bell, too.

good idea. had not thought it this.

I think that Lugers should be shot with one hand only, and with targets put at a distance of at least 50 meters!

Last time I shot a Luger was around 15 years ago. Never got another chance after that. A few Lugers passed through my hands since then, but they were either too beautiful to shoot, or too scarce to shoot, or simply because I could not find ammo. If possible, I will find a shootable one in future.

If that is the only way that I could shoot my Lugers, it would be a complete waste of time and ammo........or the target would have to be a large barn. I enjoy shooting my lugers the same way I shoot all of my handguns....two handed.

Talking about single handed shooting reminded me of this fast draw footage from the 1970's I saw awhile back. Enjoy!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wl7MgbLXUBE

Marc

Nice Shootin There Tex!!!! I'm still a luger virgin!!!~~~Eric

great idea with the ketchup packets!

Funny video, but does not belong to the LUGER world.

Thats why I posted in the "off topic and other firearms" thread.
Marc

For fun targets I sometimes use a piece of 2x4 with 1/4" grooves cut lengthwise into each surface. This is just the target holder...

The targets are standard 2" x 2" saltine crackers. They explode when you hit them so you can even tell from a distance whether or not you miss... when you are done, put the target holder 2x4 back in your trunk...

...and the local birds will clean up the cracker mess when you leave... a very green solution eh?:cheers:

I like the Ketchup packets idea, but they are a little messy. One advantage to the ketchup packets are that if you take your lunch break, when you come back, the backboard will be covered in flies... and you can pick them off with your scoped .22 rifle!:thumbup:

That's a great idea! I wish I had seen this before I just threw out a bunch of old ketchup and sauce packets.

Ha improvised shoot n see targets. I also took my son out this past weekend shooting he is still really young so he was training with His .22 the weather was perfect, and best of all no flash flood monsoon weather.

Another idea using a wood base similar to John's idea is to drill various diameter shallow holes into a 2X4 and stick spent shell casings into them. You can even simulate distance by using smaller cases to represent targets farther away. The spent brass is usually already there and available.

One of my greatest target shooting experiences was about 20 years ago. I found a very large wasp nest had been built on the side of my house. My driveway was wider than the house so I pulled up my car and sat with the window rolled down holding a daisy power line BB gun that I had mounted a .22 scope. The backstop were the heavy trees behind my house. The distance to the wasp hive was about 25 to 30 feet. Absolutely perfect.

The wasps always had a sentry posted at the entrance. If something "happened" to the posted sentry it was replaced in just a second or two. Just enough time to give the rifle a couple of pumps.

I spent more than a couple of hours sipping iced tea in that car and picking off the sentries one at a time. The BB was such a large projectile compared to the wasps that it usually just cut the front off of them and the rest would just fall to the ground making room for their replacement.

I got the idea from watching an old re-run of the Beverly hillbillies where Jed Clampett and his nephew Jethro smeared jelly on the far exterior wall of the Clampett estate and took their target practice shooting the flies from their patio a couple hundred feet away with their squirrel rifles. Of course those good ole boys were using iron sights!
:eek:

We also shoot flies with a scoped .22 but we nail a fish to a board.

My first and only was a 1939 model Daisy carbine. I somehow lost the trigger. After the war they had adjustable sights!~~~Eric

I wonder if Daisy would repair it if you sent it in?

As an aside to the subject...

I met Bob Munden back in the late '90s. He's wound up like a cheap watch pretty much all of the time. His Wife keeps him under control, like a Mother controls a hyperactive child. She constantly tells him to slow down and calm down.

Scientific tests were conducted on him to determine why he is so fast. They discovered that the neurons in the part of his brain that control hand-eye coordination, and motor function fire something like, 8 to 10 times faster than the average person's, giving him a form of Super Human abilities.

WOW Look what I just found in my desk drawer!!!!!!

You should be able to fix it yourself, Eric! These old ones had the trigger spring in a recess in the wood stock, if I recall. A substitute sprind and maybe the bar the trigger pivots on is all that is needed.
It is also nice that the older rifles can be taken apart via screws. The later rifles were completely riveted together.

I'll give it a shot!!! As Always TKS!

Some wood issues also! Any suggestions on wood glue!

Elmer's and a vice should do very nicely in this case.

I'm sure it was on every boys' Christmas list!

Just make sure the area to be joined is as clean and dry as you can make it... before you glue! Then clamp the items as tight as you can and wait at least twice as long as the glue recommends before you release the clamps.