And just how long do you have to boil the "clay birds " to soften them up a bit ?
Or do you just make soup with them and then throw out the hard bits ?
Them skeet birds are fast … ;- )
I always used to really enjoy the NRA Black powder cartridge Steel Silhouettes , even a hit in the ankle of the steel ram at 500 meters , with a 45-70 500 grain bullet would topple the steel ram and wait …there it is , the clang !
Aboard USS Vincennes, we had a hand thrown skeet set up. On “Rope Yarn Sundays” some of us would bug the Gunner until he would break out some shotguns from the armory, along with some skeet and the skeet sling shot, and we would all traipse back the the hanger deck to set up shop, all under the heading of “training,” you understand.
My first time ever with a shotgun against the skeet, I went 10 for 10. I thought I was amazin’ For the rest of the cruise, I couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from the inside with that d*mn shotgun. Got too full of m’self, I guess.
Just got word that USS Vincennes (CG-49) has been stricken from the records and will be shortly towed to the ship breakers to be reduced to scrap. Sniff.