MossRoad
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Since we were talking about .22s in the other thread, and shooting wires at 50', it got me thinking about a few shots I've taken over the years and the ones that stuck with me as the most memorable.
When I was a kid I lived by a lake. All the neighborhood kids would go fishing, swimming, stalk wildlife, etc... as often as possible. I was about 14 or so and a bunch of us guys were down by the lake. One of the kids had a new BB gun and was shooting cans, bottles and whatever else we could find and toss out in the lake to sink. I was fishing as usual and was catching bluegills. The kid with the BB gun would not let any of us shoot it. However, he was my best friend and I would let him use my fishing pole. He made a horrible cast and snagged an overhanging branch about 25-30 feet out from shore. The hook caught the branch about 2' over the water. Try as we might, we could not get it off. It was my last bobber and those days, bobbers were a big deal. I noticed that hanging on the line about 8" down from the branch was my sinker. A BB sized sinker. Hmmmm. I told my friend to shoot the sinker to snap the line off the hook. He looked at me like I was nuts. The other guys started razzing him to take the shot. Not wanting to put him on the spot, I asked him to let me try. No one ever got to shoot his BB gun, but in order to save face, he handed me the gun. I'd never shot it before, but had spent some time on the .22 range at Boy Scout camp that summer. So I got down on a log, took a long time sighting it in, squeezed off a shot and BAM hit that BB sinker with a BB at 25'! It jolted the hook off the log and I got all my tackle back. We reeled it in and there was a round dent in the sinker! I was the king of the block that day and will remember that shot forever! :thumbsup:
So, how about some memorable shots from you folks? Anything stick out in your mind? Anything from BB guns to trophy big game? Let's hear them.
When I was a kid I lived by a lake. All the neighborhood kids would go fishing, swimming, stalk wildlife, etc... as often as possible. I was about 14 or so and a bunch of us guys were down by the lake. One of the kids had a new BB gun and was shooting cans, bottles and whatever else we could find and toss out in the lake to sink. I was fishing as usual and was catching bluegills. The kid with the BB gun would not let any of us shoot it. However, he was my best friend and I would let him use my fishing pole. He made a horrible cast and snagged an overhanging branch about 25-30 feet out from shore. The hook caught the branch about 2' over the water. Try as we might, we could not get it off. It was my last bobber and those days, bobbers were a big deal. I noticed that hanging on the line about 8" down from the branch was my sinker. A BB sized sinker. Hmmmm. I told my friend to shoot the sinker to snap the line off the hook. He looked at me like I was nuts. The other guys started razzing him to take the shot. Not wanting to put him on the spot, I asked him to let me try. No one ever got to shoot his BB gun, but in order to save face, he handed me the gun. I'd never shot it before, but had spent some time on the .22 range at Boy Scout camp that summer. So I got down on a log, took a long time sighting it in, squeezed off a shot and BAM hit that BB sinker with a BB at 25'! It jolted the hook off the log and I got all my tackle back. We reeled it in and there was a round dent in the sinker! I was the king of the block that day and will remember that shot forever! :thumbsup:
So, how about some memorable shots from you folks? Anything stick out in your mind? Anything from BB guns to trophy big game? Let's hear them.