Good idea, Don. Only thing that concerns me is that I use a steel plate, not paper. 10 yards is kinda close to be shooting a plate. I've always wondered about ricochets at that close a range. Your thoughts?
SRH
Stan I'm so glad you finally' got a grease shooting plate.
I been shooting one for years.
My gun club has 4000 members with that many members you're going to run into more than a few ding dongs...years back I saw a guy walk up to our steel grease plate at 5 or 6 yds maybe closer and empty his .410 pistola loaded with buckshot...I thought boy this guy has a head on his shoulders.
Thanks to idiots like him we now have signs clearly marked "no shot bigger than 7.5 lead shot only".
Before the signs I patterned my turkey guns on it with lead #4 with nare a mark on the plate. I never shot a #4 shot closer than 25 yds.
About a week ago I went down there with a young man to see where his trap gun was shooting. We walked down to roll it out and it looked like .38 craters in the plate...found 3 empty OO buck hulls at 25 yards...so big lead shot will dent a heavy steel plate.
At an angle you might get a ricochet...I've shot a greased plate a lot straight on at 14 yds.and never felt anything come back with 7.5 lead shot.
There has been put forth the idea that spreader loads are more dangerous to bird dogs, because of the unreliable nature of "flyer shot", those shot that just go, crazily, out of the pattern and could hit a dog.
SRH
As far as a stray pellet from
a shotgun hitting a pointing dog...sounds kinda silly to me. I'll even go so far as to say made up liberal crap.
Shooting over pointers for quail I'm usually standing almost over the dog at the shot...
I'd say the chance of a pellet hitting the dog is about eQual to hitting yourself in the foot with a pellet.
Better chance that new found' grease plate of yours falling off and chopping your foot off while you're rolling it out.
I'm curious about this
SRH
Stan you hear what happened to the kAt?
