The guy taking the nap on the couch is one of my grandchildren.

Afterwards--time to get started..
150 yards--I had the targets up and spent most af my time going back and forth putting up new ones:
I snapped this from 75 yards away after getting the 1st set of targets up..


Where we began shooting-150 yards.

the guys got started early.



My brother's black powder pistol 51 cal I think--he put 2 balls on target from 100 yards.


The girls wanted to shoot long guns from 100 Yds before we moved up for their pistol work.




My twin's wife with her .243


Some shot skeet, and thankfully they picked up all the broken clay-the cows don't need it in their rumens.
(That's my youngest son operating the machine and my grandson shooting--he is good.)


At one time, I counted laid out and/or being used..
4 12 ga shotguns
1 20 ga shotgun
1 sks
1 Weatherby .270
1 Win .270
1 Winchester 30.06
2 Weatherby 300 magnum
1 Winchester lever action 32-40
1 Taurus semiautomatic .380
1 Colt 1911
1 black powder pistol
2 Weatherby .243
1 Ruger .243
1 Ruger 9mm
1 Remington .22

I was busy with 'supervising' the pistol work and didn't get any pics, but the girls did a lot better this time, proudly took their targets home with them and are eager to come back and do it again once I get a better backstop up.

Hardest shooting weapon was my niece's husband's 30.06--I don't know what round he brought but it kicked like a mule, and the rounds were penetrating the cross ties and impacting the berm behind them.

The Tannerite, was a hoot. We only blew 2 of them, one with a .270 round and one with the 30-06. A third one, the round went low, sliced the bottom of the container and spilled the contents but no detonation.

I don't know how many rounds were shot--I and they shot over 100 rounds of 7.62x39, lots of .270, about 3 bricks of .22, and plenty of 30.06. The girls each went thru 5 magazines of semiautomatic pistol ammo. I didn't keep track of the shotgun use, but they shot up about a case of clays.

Hmm .... you need an adopted relative?


Would have been good weather for that here this year, was dry and in the 50's, if any of us still had the land for it.

Where did you coral all the deer that were eating your grass (feed), ... for their safety, ?
Looks like y'all enjoyed a great get together (insides and out) and had a Merry Christmas.

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quote Originally posted by cliffw: Where did you coral all the deer that were eating your grass

What do you think was on the table?

The phrase " a splendid time is guaranteed for all " comes to mind.

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There's two of you ... ?

Nice, what did you do with the cattle when you were shooting, seems to me it might spook them?

Just a suggestion but when we go out target shooting I lay a large peace of mill cloth, paper machine belt on the ground under us, something like 24 X 24 under us, makes policing the brass a lot quicker and easier but I bet a large thick tarp would work just as well and it would make cleanup a lot quicker and easier. I want to have a better backstop as soon as the snow melts next year and mud season is over, I hate mud season, I want to have some screened sand delivered and just dumped in one big pile. That should stop anything we shoot and more.

Had fun I bet didn't you, other than clean up.

Steve

Everyone policed up their own brass--that was one of the rules before we start. We fired from 3 different distances, so it would have been more trouble than worth to be moving tarps around. I just moved the cows into a different part of the pastures--it's fenced, crossfenced, and cross fenced again. There are 27 different gates on this property. (includes 3 yard gates, one garden gate, 3 perimeter gates and all the rest are between different paddocks.)

And what shows up right in our shooting alley a couple days ago? 5. (one is right below top right corner of backhoe rops)

Meh, they DO seem to have a sense about when the guns and bows are out of the case, dont they ?