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Thread: Bowling Pins—SASS

  1. 05-19-2020, 04:29 PM #1
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    Bowling Pins—SASS

    There was a thread about a bowling pin shoot, and it brings to mind an experience I had at St. Augustine last year.

    It was at a SASS match and just to keep it interesting one stage we had some bowling pins to shoot. Don’t exactly know why at a SASS match but it is what it is.

    Seems after about an hour the range owner came up, breathlessly, that there was a rain of pistol bullets hitting another range, must have been at least 1/4 mile away!

    Lesson is that bowling pins don’t stop bollets very well.
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  2. 05-19-2020, 04:46 PM #2
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    Surprised that the SASS mouse fart loads would clear a table. Revolvers or Wild Bunch 1911's?
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  3. 05-20-2020, 11:07 AM #3
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    If u shoot very carefully, Cowboy loads are ok. They work. But u also get ricochets!
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  4. 05-22-2020, 01:30 AM #4
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    I'm not sure I would feel comfortable shooting in the direction of something only 400-500 yards away unless I had a mighty big backstop.
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  5. 05-22-2020, 05:33 AM #5
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    The problem with SASS loads and bowling pins is the loads are weak and will cause bounce backs and deflections. I also suspect something else was happening there like maybe the berms are a bit low for this type of target.
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