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Know what Im making for the 4th, Carolina snowballs!

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Saturday Im bringing my standard, some choice german brauts and wursts from a local German deli. Oh yeah, and beers.

But I just came across this, and its happening. :cool:


Gonna try it with a few different fruits this week, and see how a brown sugar/molasses butter sauce comes out. Just need to find some suitable fabric.
 
Nice. I'm filling small balloons with oxygen and acetylene and shooting them with 22 tracers. We set them out at a good distance (200 yards or as close as we can get to that) and take turns at it. The balloons are different colors, the spotter calls which one to hit next. You shoot until you miss, then it's the next guy's turn.
 
tech30528 said:
Nice. I'm filling small balloons with oxygen and acetylene and shooting them with 22 tracers. We set them out at a good distance (200 yards or as close as we can get to that) and take turns at it. The balloons are different colors, the spotter calls which one to hit next. You shoot until you miss, then it's the next guy's turn.
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Outstanding idea. Wish we could have tracers here. As of now the plan is to take my swiss guns and my 22's to a local shooting spot. After the BBQ, its time for some fireworks (tame, its california) and Im gonna crank up a guitar amp for the star spangled banner.

Gonna try the snowballs with dried cranberries and raisins as well.
 
US Conservative said:
Outstanding idea. Wish we could have tracers here. As of now the plan is to take my swiss guns and my 22's to a local shooting spot. After the BBQ, its time for some fireworks (tame, its california) and Im gonna crank up a guitar amp for the star spangled banner.

Gonna try the snowballs with dried cranberries and raisins as well.
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It should be fun. This particular 22 is set up for out to 400 yards, but I doubt we'll have that long a sightline and the tracers would probably burn out before that. The drop of a stardard velocity 22 round at 400 yards is 249 inches. That's almost 21 FEET. It works out to 62 MOA. I've got a cheap 24 power scope sitting on a 30MOA drop mount and can almost dial it. The tracer rounds are Piney Mountain. They have a CCI headstamp, but of course they are not target rounds. If you were able to get 2MOA with them, you would have eight inch groups at 400 yards with no wind. A 10 mph wind will push that bullet almost 7 feet at that range. That's the fun part. :mrgreen:
 
US Conservative said:
Saturday Im bringing my standard, some choice german brauts and wursts from a local German deli. Oh yeah, and beers.

But I just came across this, and its happening. :cool:


Gonna try it with a few different fruits this week, and see how a brown sugar/molasses butter sauce comes out. Just need to find some suitable fabric.
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Now that I can see the video (different computer) that recipe looks amazing.
 
I put raisins or dried cranberries in apple pies. But I soak the dried fruit in a shot of bourbon overnight first.
 
tech30528 said:
Nice. I'm filling small balloons with oxygen and acetylene and shooting them with 22 tracers. We set them out at a good distance (200 yards or as close as we can get to that) and take turns at it. The balloons are different colors, the spotter calls which one to hit next. You shoot until you miss, then it's the next guy's turn.
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you had me sold at 4th and oxy acetylene,thats a fun combination.
 
tech30528 said:
It should be fun. This particular 22 is set up for out to 400 yards, but I doubt we'll have that long a sightline and the tracers would probably burn out before that. The drop of a stardard velocity 22 round at 400 yards is 249 inches. That's almost 21 FEET. It works out to 62 MOA. I've got a cheap 24 power scope sitting on a 30MOA drop mount and can almost dial it. The tracer rounds are Piney Mountain. They have a CCI headstamp, but of course they are not target rounds. If you were able to get 2MOA with them, you would have eight inch groups at 400 yards with no wind. A 10 mph wind will push that bullet almost 7 feet at that range. That's the fun part. :mrgreen:
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Awesome. Ive shot out to 200 on paper, and probably 300 or so plinking with a 22.
 
tech30528 said:
Now that I can see the video (different computer) that recipe looks amazing.
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Absolutely, good ingredients in mean you are likely to get a good combo out. All of the stuff he makes looks great, now Im thinking about ordering some suet, apparently the real thing is best. :)
 
tech30528 said:
I put raisins or dried cranberries in apple pies. But I soak the dried fruit in a shot of bourbon overnight first.
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Not a bad idea, I wonder how it would come out after being boiled for a time. Im thinking some bourbon in the pudding sauce might be great. Maybe some cinnamon too.
 
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Awesome. Ive shot out to 200 on paper, and probably 300 or so plinking with a 22.
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Don't tell them you plink at 300 over at the FAL Files website. I mentioned that is what I enjoy doing and caught all kinds of hell for everyone there. Showing me ballistics tables saying it is impossible, and then saying I am a liar among other personal things.

However I did not get any takers when I suggested any one of them go stand at 300 yards and let me pop away at the with only five rounds.

I was only suggesting a 10/22 would be good for harassing fire at long range WITHIN 300 yards. I said this because I HAVE busted 2 liter water filled bottles at a measured 176 yards with Thunderbolts before. YES, it was a lucky shot, but I felt very confident with my particular 10/22 and it's Nikon scope with those Thunderbolts. It was about 15 degrees uphill, and I single loaded the round with no magazine, held a little high and to the left. I was as amazed as anyone else, but did not show it.

That is why I made that post. I caught so much hell from those theoretical "experts". I knew I could hit a man sized target at that distance if I did my part.

I am sure if you were to visit that website, and say what you just did about the 300 yard issue with a 22, they would say you are me and attack you with equal ferocity.

Thank you for posting that.
 
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Don't tell them you plink at 300 over at the FAL Files website. I mentioned that is what I enjoy doing and caught all kinds of hell for everyone there. Showing me ballistics tables saying it is impossible, and then saying I am a liar among other personal things.

However I did not get any takers when I suggested any one of them go stand at 300 yards and let me pop away at the with only five rounds.

I was only suggesting a 10/22 would be good for harassing fire at long range WITHIN 300 yards. I said this because I HAVE busted 2 liter water filled bottles at a measured 176 yards with Thunderbolts before. YES, it was a lucky shot, but I felt very confident with my particular 10/22 and it's Nikon scope with those Thunderbolts. It was about 15 degrees uphill, and I single loaded the round with no magazine, held a little high and to the left. I was as amazed as anyone else, but did not show it.

That is why I made that post. I caught so much hell from those theoretical "experts". I knew I could hit a man sized target at that distance if I did my part.

I am sure if you were to visit that website, and say what you just did about the 300 yard issue with a 22, they would say you are me and attack you with equal ferocity.

Thank you for posting that.
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300 for a man sized target is absolutely possible, I was aiming at coffee cans and rocks at that range and though I was rarely connecting, rounds were landing inches away.

Never mind what those fal guys say, Im all about getting every bit of capability out of my rifles.

Heres a guy shooting a stock 10/22@500. As you can hear, the whizzing of a .22 would make someone keep their head down. And it can connect as well, just not consistently. A specialty rifle with either a tang sight, a military ladder style sight, or a scope with an angled base would all work.

 
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