MossRoad
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- Aug 31, 2001
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- South Bend, Indiana (near)
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- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
We shot 50' indoors. Bullseye was .22" as I recall.Our Boy Scout leader was a National Guardsman. In the basement of the armory they had a rifle range. I got good enough that at 100’ I could usually put 9 of 10 in the 1” bull with iron sights. Always got 1 flyer never hit 10.
5 shots per target.
So highest score would be 50.
I honestly can't recall the number of perfect 50s I and everyone else shot on the team. It was commonplace.
So commonplace that if we got a 49, we'd blame the ammo.
Best shot I ever made was with a BB gun. Friends and I were down by our neighborhood lake fishing. A kid casted out and got his hook hung on a branch of a half-sunken tree. So the hook is on the branch, his splitshot is hanging about 6" below the branch, then his bobber hanging below that. He's trying to pull it off but is worried the line will break and he'll lose the bobber. He lamented it was his last bobber. It was about 25-30 feet out as I recall.
An older kid had a BB gun. I'd never shot it before. I told him to give me the BB gun and I'd shoot the sinker to break the line. They all laughed at me. The older kid took a few shots and missed. Said it was impossible. I said give me that thing! I lined it up, took the shot and wham! Not only did it hit the sinker, but the sinker popped up higher than the hook and that caused the line to pull the hook up instead of towards us. It all fell off the branch and he got the hook, line and sinker (and bobber) back.
He reeled it in and we all looked at the sinker and it had a little dent in it. It was the stuff of legends in our neighborhood for years.