Could someone please explain to me what "PLINKING" is?
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UtahShooter
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Originally Posted By: getfoxyI think youre reading into it too much.
take any 22 rifle, set up popcans, bottles, clays, and blowem away for cheap. thats plinking. Ya dont have to have a tack driver just something that will shoot MOSB
Minute of Soda Bottle
I think perhaps all of my posts are not being read.
Ok. When plinking do you hit what you are aiming at?
take any 22 rifle, set up popcans, bottles, clays, and blowem away for cheap. thats plinking. Ya dont have to have a tack driver just something that will shoot MOSB
Minute of Soda Bottle
I think perhaps all of my posts are not being read.
Ok. When plinking do you hit what you are aiming at?
You try to. but if you miss no biggie.
Take a 22 taht sighted in of course and shoot at small inaminate targets. Pop cans, bottles, clays, hulls. Just whaever you can find laying around.
Yes you try to hit these targets.
otherwise it would just be shooting your gun into the dirt...watch my video link
Take a 22 taht sighted in of course and shoot at small inaminate targets. Pop cans, bottles, clays, hulls. Just whaever you can find laying around.
Yes you try to hit these targets.
otherwise it would just be shooting your gun into the dirt...watch my video link
UtahShooter
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I watched it. He is still plinking and hitting what he is aiming at for the most part.
Plinking=shooting your gun into the dirt?
Or
Plinking=shooting your gun at inanimate objects and hitting them for the most part and a bunch of fun?
Again. Originally Posted By: UtahShooter He is using the term plinking for them being inaccurate.
Plinking=shooting your gun into the dirt?
Or
Plinking=shooting your gun at inanimate objects and hitting them for the most part and a bunch of fun?
Again. Originally Posted By: UtahShooter He is using the term plinking for them being inaccurate.
Shooting,(for me) in any capacity means hitting where you aim. Plinking is simply taking more cost effective means to get there and to do it in large volumes. If someone else defined it as inaccurate shooting, I can't agree with that. Plinking MAY BE less accurate, but still within acceptable tolerances.
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UtahShooter
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Originally Posted By: pahntr760Shooting,(for me) in any capacity means hitting where you aim. Plinking is simply taking more cost effective means to get there and to do it in large volumes. If someone else defined it as inaccurate shoot, I can't agree with that. Plinking MAY BE less accurate, but still within acceptable tolerances.
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NM Leon
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Quote:Shooting,(for me) in any capacity means hitting where you aim. Plinking is simply taking more cost effective means to get there and to do it in large volumes. If someone else defined it as inaccurate shoot, I can't agree with that. Plinking MAY BE less accurate, but still within acceptable tolerances.
Well said.
Well said.
OldTurtle
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To me, "Plinking" is what I used to do at a carnival booth with a shot out .22 pump rifle, trying to hit those little metal targets (moving and not) to win my favorite girl at the time, a cheap stuffed animal...
That equates to: Not the best equipment, with not the best ammo, but the best expectations...
That equates to: Not the best equipment, with not the best ammo, but the best expectations...
NM Leon
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Now THAT brings back memories OT.
How many times have any of you guys been banned from one of those carnival "plinking" booths?
It usually took me a couple of tries to figure out that a particular rifle shot 2" left and 1" low at 15' (or whatever) and then to win the biggest stuffed animal for my gal (and then to be asked to not come back). The cleverest carnies would move the sights when they took the rifle from you (no fair, lol).
I loved carnivals as a kid.
How many times have any of you guys been banned from one of those carnival "plinking" booths?
It usually took me a couple of tries to figure out that a particular rifle shot 2" left and 1" low at 15' (or whatever) and then to win the biggest stuffed animal for my gal (and then to be asked to not come back). The cleverest carnies would move the sights when they took the rifle from you (no fair, lol).
I loved carnivals as a kid.
muskrat30
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I agree, just cuz one is 'plinking', doesn't mean the ammo is considered less accurate. To me it's more so a lower cost, mid-powered all around load. I do what I consider plinking at our rural camp property, usually a handgun of any chambering or a 22 rifle. This is usually done while walking around checking out stuff, food plots,animal sign, plugged culverts, etc.
I have really gotten away from shooting glass bottles. My dog is with often & I have dealt with cut paws before & like to avoid it. There is also the potential of someone or the dog taking a dip in the river. If a tree becomes a target I usually put the slugs into a dead or dying tree that has a low likelihood of becoming firewood. Yes, I did cut into a slug a few years ago while cutting wood.
I have really gotten away from shooting glass bottles. My dog is with often & I have dealt with cut paws before & like to avoid it. There is also the potential of someone or the dog taking a dip in the river. If a tree becomes a target I usually put the slugs into a dead or dying tree that has a low likelihood of becoming firewood. Yes, I did cut into a slug a few years ago while cutting wood.
BigKev
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OK...after reading all the extra complicated answers on this thread I will see if I can answer this for you in a simple way.
By way of a field trip.
Grab your .22LR (doesnt matter if its a rifle or a pistol)
Grab a box of ammo for it.
Grab a large selection of random targets (tin cans are fun...not coke cans or soda cans but real tin ones).
Head down to your shooting spot.
Shoot said cans.
Listen to the noise they make when they are hit...
Come back on the forum and tell us what noise it is.
You will have your answer.
By way of a field trip.
Grab your .22LR (doesnt matter if its a rifle or a pistol)
Grab a box of ammo for it.
Grab a large selection of random targets (tin cans are fun...not coke cans or soda cans but real tin ones).
Head down to your shooting spot.
Shoot said cans.
Listen to the noise they make when they are hit...
Come back on the forum and tell us what noise it is.
You will have your answer.
doggin coyotes
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Originally Posted By: UtahShooter
Originally Posted By: pahntr760Um...I love you too?...
Is this our first match made here on Predator Masters?
(I wonder what was in the deleted one
)
Plinking = A pure fun event. Even if ya don't hit what you're aiming at now and then on the first shot. Heck, there's always the second, third or fourth.
As mentioned, just for the sound factor alone, tin cans, although getting very hard to come by, way fun. Tin cans filled with water, way more fun. Aluminum water filled cans, apples, cookies, oranges, pennies, paint balls, water filled plastic bottles, tomatoes, potatoes are one of my favs, water filled ballons, shotgun hulls, 44 or other brass cases, tootsie pops. Whatever is available. Just FUN. That's plinking to me. Don't care if I miss now and then. It ain't about being to serious on a plinking outing. I got other days for that.
Originally Posted By: pahntr760Um...I love you too?...
Is this our first match made here on Predator Masters?
(I wonder what was in the deleted one
Plinking = A pure fun event. Even if ya don't hit what you're aiming at now and then on the first shot. Heck, there's always the second, third or fourth.
As mentioned, just for the sound factor alone, tin cans, although getting very hard to come by, way fun. Tin cans filled with water, way more fun. Aluminum water filled cans, apples, cookies, oranges, pennies, paint balls, water filled plastic bottles, tomatoes, potatoes are one of my favs, water filled ballons, shotgun hulls, 44 or other brass cases, tootsie pops. Whatever is available. Just FUN. That's plinking to me. Don't care if I miss now and then. It ain't about being to serious on a plinking outing. I got other days for that.
22-250ohio
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Dont get me wrong now that i am getting older and can afford to do so my plinking ammo shoots one hole groups at fifty and costs 8 a box but it is 22 lr and i didnt have to spend hours of exacting work on the loading bench working loads. I just grab some off the shelf and go work on trigger pull and breathing and follow through but i am still plinking around and yes i get peaved when i blow a pretty group but i am still having fun and improving my shooting skills at the same time
2muchgun
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Originally Posted By: OldTurtleTo me, "Plinking" is what I used to do at a carnival booth with a shot out .22 pump rifle, trying to hit those little metal targets (moving and not) to win my favorite girl at the time, a cheap stuffed animal...
That equates to: Not the best equipment, with not the best ammo, but the best expectations...
I thought of that also.......
That equates to: Not the best equipment, with not the best ammo, but the best expectations...
I thought of that also.......