[philmont] Using a hat as a target

hats are cheep
hats are light weight
take two
shoot both if you get the chance

kirk maes

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Donald S. Roberts <donald@hummellawfirm.com>
wrote:

> *From:* Shane Hoffman
> Love to shoot the hat. That gives it character.
> Just do not shoot it with the .30/06 rifles at Sawmill when it is sitting
> on a metal target… see this photo for the results -
> http://troop445.org/cpg/albums/userpics/10062/June_20%2C_2002_-_Day_9_030.jpg
>
>
> On our last trek, one of our boys shot up his hat at sawmill. It wasn't
> placed on one of the metal targets, but
> it flew up into the air several times as it got blasted.
>
> Four years later, he still occasionally pulls out the hat and wears it.
> His mom was pretty understanding, even though it was actually her hat that
> he had borrowed for the trek.
>
> I placed a philmont map bandanna on the range at sawmill with the intent
> to shoot through sawmill on the map. Man was that a small target! Missed
> sawmill (I think, it's kind of hard to tell where it just shredded and where
> I actually struck it) by about one inch, which I think was pretty good
> shooting.
>
> These things make for great souviners. Advisors poo-pooing this sort of
> thing seem to be forgetting who we are there for.
>
> Regards
> Don Roberts
> Fullerton, CA
>
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