About the most fun you can have with a weapon

[Phaseolus]

I spent many days in the late spring bowhunting carp in the reservoirs of eastern Colorado as a kid. Cut off jeans, high top keds, and my Wing Nighthawk recurve. That and shooting prairie dogs with my .22

 

[Beendare]

My cheap Barra air rifle is fairly accurate....and pretty quiet. I'm 2 for 2 on the Squirrels that are terrorizing my dog....just sitting up above him in a tree and chirping at him.

Now I'm thinking I need a good one......any ideas?

 

[h2so4]

Rapid fire shooting my ARs.

Only if I’m shooting old water heaters

 

[Jimmy]

A friend of my dad used to put the carcasses/guts in a 55 gallon barrel all summer. He then used the goop that it turned into for fertilizer the next spring. I swear you could smell his place down wind from a mile away.

just reading this and remembering old buckets of fish guts in the summer about made me puke

 

[joshdidthis]

My cheap Barra air rifle is fairly accurate....and pretty quiet. I'm 2 for 2 on the Squirrels that are terrorizing my dog....just sitting up above him in a tree and chirping at him.

Now I'm thinking I need a good one......any ideas?

Not as cheap but a suppressed 22 with subsonics is quieter than most pellet guns and more accurate

 

[SonnyDay]

Bowfishing carp is fun as hell. Went out on Barr Lake a few years back.

I'm no archer, but it was pretty much shooting fish in a barrel.

And the meat is really close to (mercury-free) tuna if you can it right.

 

[Thinkingman]

USPSA is my favorite. Running around shooting as fast as you can, reloading on the move, I love it. IDPA is also fun but has less targets and more rules. Three gun is pretty awesome, I've only shot it a few times. Any of the falling steel shoots are fun. I shot TAC a few years ago, that was pretty cool too. We did a lot of 3D archery shoots when I was a kid. Now it's only once in a while.

I love shooting just about anything. It's one of the only times I've experienced that flow state where you aren't thinking about anything and it feels like you are on auto pilot.

Action pistol matches are a hoot.
You learn a lot about yourself during a stage.
Sporting clays and skeet rank right up there....More social and less stressful.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

just reading this and remembering old buckets of fish guts in the summer about made me puke

I'll tell you a couple things though, he had the most unbelievable garden and his roses were the most spectacular I have ever seen. All from decayed carp.

 

[Rokbar]

Crow hunting used to be big around here.

 

[weekender7]

Stalking feral hogs with archery gear.

 

[Fatcamp]

USPSA is my favorite. Running around shooting as fast as you can, reloading on the move, I love it. IDPA is also fun but has less targets and more rules. Three gun is pretty awesome, I've only shot it a few times. Any of the falling steel shoots are fun. I shot TAC a few years ago, that was pretty cool too. We did a lot of 3D archery shoots when I was a kid. Now it's only once in a while.

I love shooting just about anything. It's one of the only times I've experienced that flow state where you aren't thinking about anything and it feels like you are on auto pilot.

Ya, USPSA for me, too. Especially if I'm in practice.

Just finished up converting my gear from Production to Carry Optics. Need to spend time with it before the season is over.

 

[North of 60]

Glassing and stalking elk is probably #1 for me.

Hunting skittish southern whitetails on the ground is fun and challenging. Dispensing of venomous snakes with a 9mm race gun or wild pigs with anything is quite fun. And bow-hunting anything!

 

[Capt.Gene]

Spearfishing(underwater) for walleyes where legal. Its like fishing/hunting all in one. I dont use scuba, just freediving. Great way to build up the lung capacity for hunts out west

I am a refugee from spear fishing on scuba in the Gulf of America. 35 years compering in tournaments and shooting commercially.
If God is a fish I am royally screwed.

 

[Blake_08]

Like any other hobby, bowfishing can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. Here's my bowfishing rig. Me and the kids have a blast all summer shooting fish and making memories. I agree, it's about the most fun you can have in the outdoors, in my opinion.

 

[Capt.Gene]

Bow fishing would be high on my list.
I put a spin casting reel on a spear gun once. Spooled it with 50’ of 80# fluoro then I started worrying about the line cutting my hand off.

 

[Fatcamp]

My wife absolutely loves bow fishing. She'd spend every night covering my boat in slime.

 

[Capt.Gene]

February snow goose shooting in Jonesboro Arkansas was non stop shooting out of a lay down blind hunting over decoys with a great young dog fetching downed birds.
No limits on bird kills, no plugs in tubes and thousands of birds overhead.