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Plinking - The love of simple things.

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Yep. Sure do. we actually EAT chickens. Hard to believe, right? And we liked them better dead and cooked rather than alive and raw.

I also liked shooting rat's down at the dump. When I was working as a welder, down by the river, a couple of us would go after work to the dump next door and plink at the rats. We didn't eat them, though. But it was great fun.

Then we'd go get a couple drinks at our favorite bar. We would often shoot them, too. But in a different way. Those were good times.

So in your view, setting up live chickens on a range...then shooting them would be "plinking"

But not rats, because you don't eat rats ?
 
Different people hold different opinions on what plinking is. What’s the point in arguing with someone you know will just keep moving goal posts instead of accepting plinking can mean different things to different people.

But "plinking" seems to be shooting at stationary, inanimate objects - not live animals.
 
So in your view, setting up live chickens on a range...then shooting them would be "plinking"

But not rats, because you don't eat rats ?

Unsurprisingly, that doesn't seem to have been his view at all.
 
But "plinking" seems to be shooting at stationary, inanimate objects - not live animals.

What targets do you usually plink?

Oh...thats right...sorry.
 
plink

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verb

gerund or present participle: plinking
emit a short, sharp, metallic or ringing sound.
"the sounds echoed and plinked like bells"
play a musical instrument in such a way as to produce short, sharp, ringing sounds.
"a daughter dutifully plinks through her piano lesson"

NORTH AMERICAN
shoot at (a can, bottle, or similar target).
"we enjoyed idyllic family afternoons plinking cans with a revolver"



Since when was a rabbit or a chicken "similar" to a can or a bottle ?


Those that say the plinking does include live animal shooting are just rabbit holing and moving the goal posts.
 
plink

Learn to pronounce
verb

gerund or present participle: plinking
emit a short, sharp, metallic or ringing sound.
"the sounds echoed and plinked like bells"
play a musical instrument in such a way as to produce short, sharp, ringing sounds.
"a daughter dutifully plinks through her piano lesson"

NORTH AMERICAN
shoot at (a can, bottle, or similar target).
"we enjoyed idyllic family afternoons plinking cans with a revolver"

Since when was a rabbit or a chicken "similar" to a can or a bottle ?


Those that say the plinking does include live animal shooting are just rabbit holing and moving the goal posts.

Rich2018 being Rich2018.....

Cries about people who use definition...

While trying to use definitions
 
Those that say the plinking does include live animal shooting are just rabbit holing and moving the goal posts.

Honestly, I think it's hypocritical of them

And moving the goal posts as the rabbit hole.



No definition of "plinking" mentions shooting at live animals.
 
Honestly, I think it's hypocritical of them

And moving the goal posts as the rabbit hole.

No definition of "plinking" mentions shooting at live animals.

Rich2018 being Rich2018....

Asks questions. Ignores answers.

Cries about dictionary definitions. Then posts a dictionary definition.

Cries about "Rabbit Holing" that wasn't. While constantly rabbit holing.

Rather than respond to others he quotes himself....
 
Noun. plinking (countable and uncountable, plural plinkings) A noise that plinks. (firearms) informal target shooting done at non-traditional targets such as tin cans, glass bottles and wood blocks.


It's called "plinking" to resemble the sound a bullet might make when striking an inanimate object like a bottle or can...animals don't go "plink" when you shoot them


But of course some posters want the score little points so the go rabbit holing and move the goal posts to include animals.
 
Noun. plinking (countable and uncountable, plural plinkings) A noise that plinks. (firearms) informal target shooting done at non-traditional targets such as tin cans, glass bottles and wood blocks.


It's called "plinking" to resemble the sound a bullet might make when striking an inanimate object like a bottle or can...animals don't go "plink" when you shoot them


But of course some posters want the score little points so the go rabbit holing and move the goal posts to include animals.

Rich2018 being Rich2018....

Asks questions. Ignores answers.

Cries about dictionary definitions. Then posts a dictionary definition.

Cries about "Rabbit Holing" that wasn't. While constantly rabbit holing.

Rather than respond to others he quotes himself....
 
Rabbit holing

Animals don't do "plink" when you shoot them.

You posted a link that referred to plinking marshmallows. Lol!
 
So in your view, setting up live chickens on a range...then shooting them would be "plinking"

But not rats, because you don't eat rats ?

You can't set up live chickens on any "range", silly. You must be unfamiliar with chicken behavior. You just shoot at them where they are; but they just won't hold still; which makes it great plinking. We always aimed for the head because grandma didn't like the meat all shredded up, which bullets tend to do.

Eating rats? Well, you might do that, but not me. They were just fun to shoot at. Darted around enough to make it very sporty.

Plinking has little to do with what you're shooting at; it's an attitude while you're shooting. It's very informal, and done mostly for amusement. That you don't understand plinking, which is familiar to most all shooters, tells me you not very experienced with guns. That you think a range needs to be set up for plinking speaks volumes about your ignorance.
 
Rich2018 being Rich2018....

Asks questions. Ignores answers.

Cries about dictionary definitions. Then posts a dictionary definition.

Cries about "Rabbit Holing" that wasn't. While constantly rabbit holing.

Rather than respond to others he quotes himself....

But see, that's his value here. he provides us with an easy, informal forum target that we can't miss when we aim our verbal barbs at him. In other words, responding to him is a form of verbal plinking. We do it for our amusement, and because it's all too easy. It's not like he's a hard intellectual target to hit, where we would have to put some thought into it. Plinking down the rabbit hole can be an amusing diversion once you get the rabbit cornered.
 
Plinking has little to do with what you're shooting at; it's an attitude while you're shooting. It's very informal, and done mostly for amusement. That you don't understand plinking, which is familiar to most all shooters, tells me you not very experienced with guns. That you think a range needs to be set up for plinking speaks volumes about your ignorance.

Really, so "plinking" didn't get it's name exactly from the sound that the type of targets that are used make, when shot ?

I mean you do know what plinking means don't you ?


Plink.
 
Really, so "plinking" didn't get it's name exactly from the sound that the type of targets that are used make, when shot ?

I mean you do know what plinking means don't you ?


Plink.

It probably did get it's name from the sound of bullets hitting glass and metal, but it wasn't LIMITED to those targets. It is used universally to describe a type of informal shooting done just for the fun of it. Man, you really don't know much about shooting, do you? have you ever even seen a gun?

BTW; plinking is what I'm doing right now.
 
Really, so "plinking" didn't get it's name exactly from the sound that the type of targets that are used make, when shot ?

I mean you do know what plinking means don't you ?


Plink.

Strange that you earlier defined plinking as shooting at marshmallows....
 
But "plinking" seems to be shooting at stationary, inanimate objects - not live animals.

Ok if that is what it SEEMS to be to you I'm not going to try and change your mind. Others may hold a different view.
 
Ok if that is what it SEEMS to be to you I'm not going to try and change your mind. Others may hold a different view.

They might do, but that wouldn't be "plinking" if it didn't give off it's characteristic sound would it ?
 
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