roysha
01-03-2016, 01:33 PM
This was a post I entered over on RFC. Thought it might be of some interest here also.
"Seeing your picture made me think of my 22 ammo box. This one was made in the late 50s in High School shop class. (Can you imagine something like that happening now?)
Our shop teacher was also our Junior Rifle Club instructor/coach. That is the reason for the rectangular pattern of holes on the right side of the box. This is the pattern for the 50 foot rifle target. Since we were only allowed to shoot iron sights in Jr. Club, unless you paid rather close attention or used some form of keeping track where you were shooting, you could get confused and double shoot a target which would cost you twice.
He also had a pattern for a box exactly like your's and another for holding 4 boxes by removing the outer box and just setting in the "trays". The neat thing about all this was the fact it could be made very cheaply using pieces of wood that were generally too short for anything else and you could make them from virtually any wood he had in the shop
For the recesses, we didn't use a router. We used a mortise attachment on the drill press.
Great memories! Thanks for bringing them up.
Oh yeah. Our club shot on Thursday nights in the basement under the bowling alley in downtown Loveland. No ear or eye protection and very basic venting. The back stops were sections of cottonwood tree trunk about 2-2 1/2 ft in diameter on their sides with a piece of sheet steel slanted against the back for when the wood was shot through. Our ammo was DCM for which we paid $.50 a box. My Mom would give me $1.25 for school lunch and I would buy 2 boxes of ammo, shoot one, rat hole the other and eat a $.05 candy bar for lunch each day, primarily Payday peanut bars. Amazingly, I'm still alive and relatively healthy at 73. Whooda thunkit! "http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9047&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1451839973 (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9047&d=1451839973)
"Seeing your picture made me think of my 22 ammo box. This one was made in the late 50s in High School shop class. (Can you imagine something like that happening now?)
Our shop teacher was also our Junior Rifle Club instructor/coach. That is the reason for the rectangular pattern of holes on the right side of the box. This is the pattern for the 50 foot rifle target. Since we were only allowed to shoot iron sights in Jr. Club, unless you paid rather close attention or used some form of keeping track where you were shooting, you could get confused and double shoot a target which would cost you twice.
He also had a pattern for a box exactly like your's and another for holding 4 boxes by removing the outer box and just setting in the "trays". The neat thing about all this was the fact it could be made very cheaply using pieces of wood that were generally too short for anything else and you could make them from virtually any wood he had in the shop
For the recesses, we didn't use a router. We used a mortise attachment on the drill press.
Great memories! Thanks for bringing them up.
Oh yeah. Our club shot on Thursday nights in the basement under the bowling alley in downtown Loveland. No ear or eye protection and very basic venting. The back stops were sections of cottonwood tree trunk about 2-2 1/2 ft in diameter on their sides with a piece of sheet steel slanted against the back for when the wood was shot through. Our ammo was DCM for which we paid $.50 a box. My Mom would give me $1.25 for school lunch and I would buy 2 boxes of ammo, shoot one, rat hole the other and eat a $.05 candy bar for lunch each day, primarily Payday peanut bars. Amazingly, I'm still alive and relatively healthy at 73. Whooda thunkit! "http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9047&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1451839973 (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9047&d=1451839973)