What's the most fun you have had plinking?

February 06, 2026, 12:48 AM

Gustofer

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Originally posted by sooma:
Suppressed .22 and gophers at all the remote dirt airfields in Montana and getting paid for it!

Pleasnat Valley/Lost Prairie is where we used to go.

An endless supply of gophers.

February 06, 2026, 12:56 AM

grumpy1

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Originally posted by M1Garandy:
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Originally posted by grumpy1:
We used to have an outdoor range fairly close to us with a plinking pond area. My young son and I would go there fairly frequently. Brought bags of marshmallows along to toss in the pond and pop them out of the water. On the far side of the pond they had a round metal targets hanging from cable between fence posts. We had a my Ruger 10/22 and Remington 541T. The Ruger shot faster but I rarely missed with the 541T.

A few years later we stopped by on beautiful summer day and to our horror it had closed for good signs posted.

I later found out that people who moved nearby the range to a newer subdivision like a couple miles or so away didn't like it and started complaining to the village that they could hear bullets whizzing by them when out in the yard with their kids and other such crap. That range had been there several decades.

Based on your location, let me guess. Fox Valley Rifle Range in Carpentersville?

Yep. Sounds like you have been there too.

February 06, 2026, 01:04 AM

sooma

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
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Originally posted by sooma:
Suppressed .22 and gophers at all the remote dirt airfields in Montana and getting paid for it!

Pleasnat Valley/Lost Prairie is where we used to go.

An endless supply of gophers.

Gopher are so fun...then the rock chucks

February 06, 2026, 01:12 AM

Gustofer

Yep. Rock chucks (at least the bigger ones) are tougher to kill with a 22 though. I get 'em around my place from time to time and it'll take a few good hits to put them down. I occasionally feel a bit bad about it as they are kind of like otters...sort of cute and playful. Then I remember how much damage they do and it's game on!

Had one last summer that was destroying everything in my garden...until he wasn't.

February 06, 2026, 02:02 AM

newtoSig765

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Originally posted by 1860ARMY:
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Browning T-Bolt .22

Do you still have that Browning, I have mine and it's the most accurate 22 I have. Beware of the salt wood issue if you have an early one.

It was stolen in about 1995 from a storage locker it was in, along with the Blaupunkt radio in an Alfa Romeo. Bought it in about 1968 at Dayton's Dept Store in Minneapolis, I think.

The detachable 5-rd box magazine was a PITA that I never got past, so I never took it hunting.

February 06, 2026, 09:36 AM

Aglifter

“Long” distance with a suppressed 22 bolt action. Trying to hit at 100 yards, with a breeze, drives me nuts, in a good way.

February 06, 2026, 09:37 AM

bendable

When I lived in AZ, I attended a few SigForum " get togethers" at the local gun ranges.

Met some nice people, shot a dozen guns that
I'd never ever get a chance to hold let alone shoot
Learned a bunch.
Enjoyed beautiful weather.

I sure miss those meet ups.
Heck

I don't even know if they are still members here.

February 06, 2026, 02:50 PM

stickman428

I used to go to Bob’s Gunshop in Norfolk VA just about every Monday when I was considering getting into competitive shooting.

I got to know the staff pretty well and as long as I had the range to myself, which back then happened often, the range officer didn’t care if I rapid fired.

Life was much more simple and I miss the spare time I used to have before kids and work took over my life.

February 06, 2026, 05:39 PM

armored

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Originally posted by grumpy1:
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Originally posted by M1Garandy:
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Originally posted by grumpy1:
We used to have an outdoor range fairly close to us with a plinking pond area. My young son and I would go there fairly frequently. Brought bags of marshmallows along to toss in the pond and pop them out of the water. On the far side of the pond they had a round metal targets hanging from cable between fence posts. We had a my Ruger 10/22 and Remington 541T. The Ruger shot faster but I rarely missed with the 541T.

A few years later we stopped by on beautiful summer day and to our horror it had closed for good signs posted.

I later found out that people who moved nearby the range to a newer subdivision like a couple miles or so away didn't like it and started complaining to the village that they could hear bullets whizzing by them when out in the yard with their kids and other such crap. That range had been there several decades.

Based on your location, let me guess. Fox Valley Rifle Range in Carpentersville?

Yep. Sounds like you have been there too.

Fox Valley, I had forgotten that range. I had many enjoyable days shooting there.
I remember that was Farm country back in the day.

February 06, 2026, 05:59 PM

Schmelby

^^^^
Same thing happened to my club in southwest Ohio, Fairfield Sportsman.
It was the largest gun club in Ohio. Been there 50 years.
The township put in a whole bunch of soccer fields way, way, way downrange and the soccer moms bitched.
Closed down the rifle range for years. I quit and joined another club.

February 06, 2026, 08:30 PM

ElToro

Finally got a suppressed bolt action rifle and shoot a lot in my backyard with mg son ( it’s legal, we just want to be good neighbors)

February 06, 2026, 09:01 PM

lyman

many moons ago, at the end of our road, was a Continental Can (a paper company that owned a shiton of land)

the fire road thru it was a bit of a dump area, not trash per say, but sometimes some contractors would dump some stuff like bricks and cinder blocks and other broke up or removed stuff,

so a buddy and I would park at the road, walk up the fireroad and set up bricks, hubcaps, steel cans etc, and then shoot them when we waled back,
mostly short range,
good backstop on both sides,

and learned that a Mini 14 is actually minute of cinderblock at up to 50yrd

and 223/5.56 will break a cinderblock if you put enough rounds in the sides of the hollow bits,

February 06, 2026, 09:27 PM

shovelhead

Memories of the summer of 1972. Northern Michigan with two friends. Shooting rats at a dump site.

Leftover pizza from the night before, cold six pack of Coca Cola and probably a brick and a half of .22 LR. We had a great time, the rats, well they probably didn’t enjoy it very much.

February 06, 2026, 11:55 PM

StorminNormin

Truly the most actual plinking fun in my life was as a kid in my backyard shooting my dad’s empty beer cans with a BB gun. I would spend forever doing that. You hand to aim at the top to knock them over otherwise the BB might just go thought them. It was funny later how many BBs were lodged in the fence pickets.

February 07, 2026, 12:19 AM

Speedbird

- Modest range (50-100 meters) with a bolt action CZ .17 HMR: Guy throws golf balls out and you try to hit them in a short period of time. (Shooting them off of golf tees was more satisfying, but requires a bit of walking back and forth)

- Back in the early 90's when the dinosaurs ruled the earth and boys could be boys

Walked out to the local construction site (Rifle slung and no-one cared or freaked. Light up a flare at ~75 meters and a few feet in front of it a bottle full of gas. This was with my grandfathers .22 bolt action. There was no doubt when you got a hit. These days, that would probably end up with arrest and charges against the parents to boot.