Trying my hand at speed shooting @.@

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So hopefully this works, this video is of me shooting my Rem. 870 taken by my cousin on my Blackberry, so it's not perfect quality but it works. I'm thinking I can go faster, but I'm not sure... I've watched this video over and over and over and I don't know, so, if anyone has any suggestions give'r go ^.^b


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hopefully that works @.@;

WOOT! IT WORKS!!
 
bah ... I can shoot faster than that with my singleshot cooey.

amateur.


jk. I can shoot faster than that but not very accurate, you lose coordination when you shoot too many rounds, try practicing with just 3 ... once you get the hang of knowing where the trigger engages then you're golden lol. but I can shoot at about the speed you were and hit what I'm aiming at with all shots.... light loads too lol. Providing it ain't flying at 50 mph lol.
 
First you get good then you get fast. Now if your shooting slugs at say 25 + yards and putting them all in the X of a sillouete target with that speed then your doing respectable.

If your just racking the gun to see how fast you can waste five shells what's the point?
 
Well if my target was the back drop then yes I hit it all five times :D and yes it was just to see if I could, and as to the question "what's the point?" my response is why not? I reamed off three rounds at a duck last season and my brother in law swore that I was shooting a semi until I handed him my 870. That sparked the question of "can I do that with a full magazine?" I do agree that I definitely need to work on hitting the target a lot. My cousin out shot me @ clays that day, and with my own gun @.@ very embarrassing. So I have some work set for me @.@ I was just shooting cheapo Winchester field/target loads from wally world. Slugs I might try next time... Funds permitting
 
"...Slugs I might try next time..." Don't. Slugs have too much range to be screwing around with.
"...flying at..." Shotguns aren't just for winged targets.
"...my response is why not?..." You're practicing for 3 gun shoots, bowling pins and plates. Pins and plates are great fun. No shot under #2's for plates or pins. Smaller shot will bounce back a long way. A lot farther than you'd think. Had a pellet drop on me, 30 yards from the line. No damage, of course. To this day, I don't know how it got under the tent, but it did.
Dry fire practice will get your speed up too. And lean into it.
 
sunray said:
Smaller shot will bounce back a long way. A lot farther than you'd think. Had a pellet drop on me, 30 yards from the line. No damage, of course. To this day, I don't know how it got under the tent, but it did.
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I've never heard that smaller shot will ricochet farther than bigger shot, I would think the bigger shot carries better and retains energy better. Yes, shot can ricochet quite well, I was hit 4-5 times while shooting trap as a teenager. Once in the shooting glasses and once on the cheek hard enough to leave a mark along with several in the body.

Look for IPSC shotgun on youtube, there are some great videos showing how fast and accurate it is possible to be with a pump action. Some of the top guys are amazing to watch.

Mark
 
3 gun eh? Now, when you say "plates" you're talking steel plates eh? How big are they? I can probably pick up some of those since I work in a fabrication shop and operate the Plasma Cutting Table (for now, application for the Canadian Forces is with the file managers right now ^.^b) so I can probably pick up a few scrap discs for next to nothing if not nothing... don't know where to get bowling pins @.@

I've always wondered what IPSC is... I'll have to look into that @.@ hmmmm... this could be the start of an even more expensive hobby... don't tell my wife eh? :p
 
A friend of mine can throw 6 clay pigeons in the air and hit them all with a pump.

It's pretty fast shooting to see.
He started with two and then worked his way up.
 
theoneofthechuck said:
3 gun eh? Now, when you say "plates" you're talking steel plates eh? How big are they? I can probably pick up some of those since I work in a fabrication shop and operate the Plasma Cutting Table (for now, application for the Canadian Forces is with the file managers right now ^.^b) so I can probably pick up a few scrap discs for next to nothing if not nothing... don't know where to get bowling pins @.@

I've always wondered what IPSC is... I'll have to look into that @.@ hmmmm... this could be the start of an even more expensive hobby... don't tell my wife eh? :p
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In Cowboy shooting we shoot at some smaller steel falling targets from 10 yards away. They are sized and set such that much of the core of the pattern has to hit the plate to make it fall strongly. I'd assume that IPSC shotgun would use something along the same line since using the same cardboard targets as pistol would be useless.

The fallers are fun but they obviously require that yoiu go out and set them back up. For just fun shooting a self resetting type target would be more fun. For example a variation of the .22 and air rifle type 5 target setup where the shot flips each of the first 4 down and locks them flat. The fifth target unlatches the first 4 so they pop back down or back up to be shot at all over again.

Another one I've seen for pistol competitions is a flipping steel target. It's a vertical post of something hardy in order to protect the two hinges welded on the back. Hung on these hinges is two arms with armor discs on the ends that are about 18 inches long. When you hit the disc with a bullet or the more energy packed core of a shot pattern the energy is enough to flip the arm and disc over to the other side. The vertical post is angled forward to the shooter about 10 degrees so as to both deflect any hits down into the ground as well as to have the target arms swivelled forward onto the travel stops. This sort of target seems to be fairly common at ranges that have steel targets incorporated into their shooting events. At least I've seen examples of them out of the 3 ranges I've been to so far. Making the stands and arms from reinforcing bar that is commonly used in concrete seems to work decently
 
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