Shooting moving targets with a rifle

[Guest JohnGalway]

Morning all,

 

Since there are now cattle on my rabbit permission and it's dark too late for me to bother with the foxes I need to throw money away some other way. Last night I was on an American forum, and I saw a post asking how people learned to shoot targets that were on the run. I have a lot of permission that would be very safe for this Wilderness with backdrops all over the shop. Now, they Yanks were talking about rolling tyres down a hill and shooting through them and putting paper targets on rails and sending them off downhill as well. This is well and good if there are a few people doing at it, but billy no mates here will be doing it on his lonesome. Besides the fact I won't shoot at a feckin tyre and how would I know it passed through the middle anyway!

 

So, I Googled. I saw one great looking automatic set up, an unfortunately man shaped target on a moveable clothes line type affair. Two problems, I don't shoot at or want to shoot at people and it cost well in excess of $1,000. No thanks. Second thing I saw was an air rifle set up made by Gamo. It's a target on rails type doohicky (technical term). Four speeds I think and targets like rabbit, squirrel and deer. The deer and rabbit idea I believe are ment to simulate centrefire rifle shooting at distance with an air rifle as the targets are small. Problem number one, I don't got an air rifle.

 

I may end up getting the Gamo one anyway and using my .22lr. Again and to be boringly repetitive it will only be done in safe areas of which there are many here, the walkers don't even get to where I go in a lot of places. But, if anyone here knows of any other gizmo, thing-a-ma-bob, contraption or technique to become better at this type of shooting then please let me know

 

I can already do it with shotguns before anyone suggests that

 

All the best,

 

John

[danny boi 0]

what bout somethin like a remote control car?

 

bolt a length of wood to the roof with a target attached?

 

dan

[SEAN3513 7]

are you looking for somthing permanent or portable??

 

a solution would be to get your hands on an old petrol mower or generator engine or the like.

attach a pully.

 

then set a pully up, opposite ( at a distance your happy with).

 

connect the two pullys with a rope........under reasonable tension.

 

attach targets to the outer edge of the rope (stiff plastic/plywood).............start it up and away you go............targets moving left and right!!! and you can have them moving fast or slow.

 

sounds easy.............but i'm sure you could waste hours of valuable time fine tuning.

 

and it wouldn't be that portable.

 

yours sincerely

 

proffesor potts.......eccentric inventor

[alimac 882]

the hill keepers up the river from us do a inter estate rifle comp every year, they have a moving target at 150 yards , give me a couple of days and il ask about to see what they use..