Luger Shooting

[John Sabato]

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!