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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Target Shooting: Casual, Fun and Competition » Fun exercises to teach shooting techniques.    View previous topic :: View next topic  Fun exercises to teach shooting techniques.   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:27 am shawn706 Member Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 95 Location: Madison County Georgia I like to hear any excercises that I could use durring my youth practices. A few that we've used in the past are cutting playing cards. Cut a slit in the cardboard target holder and stick the corner of a card in. NPA and alignment have to be perfect to cut the card in one shot, Its hard even them but it can be done, and kids love trying. Another is lighting strike anywhere matches. Kids realy like that one.   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:51 am Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA For me the hard part is not aiming the gun at the playing card. It's aiming the card at the shooting position. You also pretty much need wadcutter pellets - the domed ones just glance off. Get a whole bunch of same-sized empty plastic soda bottles. Stack them in a pyramid, bases facing the shooter. Then play Jenga with the rifle. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:36 pm Alstone Moderator & Site Supporter Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 4139 Location: Linconshire, ENGLAND When I was a kid I used to make pocket money splitting playing cards at the local fair ground, I was with a .22 LR round. The trick is that you only have to sight one way left or right the up and down doesn’t matter. And as Slavia says you have to line yourself up to the card. For fun I shoot blackboard chalk just chop it off in 6mm bits, they explode quite well. Al _________________   Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:02 am shawn706 Member Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 95 Location: Madison County Georgia Alstone wrote: When I was a kid I used to make pocket money splitting playing cards at the local fair ground, I was with a .22 LR round. The trick is that you only have to sight one way left or right the up and down doesn’t matter. And as Slavia says you have to line yourself up to the card. For fun I shoot blackboard chalk just chop it off in 6mm bits, they explode quite well. Al We've done something similar with Saccharin tablets. Slavia, far as the soda bottle Jenga, wouldn't they all fall on the first hit?   Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:04 pm toadmyster223 Senior Member Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 501 Location: Fayette Nam, PA Where in the hell have you found strike-any-where matches that actually work in the last 35 years?!   Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:58 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Quote: Slavia, far as the soda bottle Jenga, wouldn't they all fall on the first hit? Laying on their sides, bases to the shooter, supported at the base on the left and right. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:47 am shawn706 Member Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 95 Location: Madison County Georgia toadmyster223 wrote: Where in the hell have you found strike-any-where matches that actually work in the last 35 years?! We have a feed store that has some that are pretty good.   Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:29 pm Alstone Moderator & Site Supporter Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 4139 Location: Linconshire, ENGLAND Cap rolls for kiddies cap pistols work well, you need to stick then to a piece of steel bar or something similar. Al _________________   Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:37 pm shawn706 Member Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 95 Location: Madison County Georgia Steel bar might work for air rifle, but there'd be alot of ducking in BB. You don't think they'd work if you taped them to cardboard? We've shot the throw on the ground snappy pop things. They were underwelming.   Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:23 pm Alstone Moderator & Site Supporter Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 4139 Location: Linconshire, ENGLAND I agree BBs could be rather iffy. 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