Golf balls are tough!

[Thumbcocker]

Shot one with a 160 grain boolit over 30 of 4198 in the .30-06. Other one with a 300 grain .44 over 19.0 of 296. Couldn't believe how they held up.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220317/7af3ff0fdaaf46f8243ee2c3d6da9c5b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220317/028e4ff1560fe11096f53af3af4a56b5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220317/dad559e494c51ed040997b7c50839ef3.jpg

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[Smoke4320]

Not all (but most) are rubber wound with a liquid core . There are some brands that are a solid core and will split like a rock

[imashooter2]

I don’t know if you can even buy a wound ball these days. Most are multi layer solid cores. A jacketed .223 will zip right through and barely show a mark.

[G W Wade]

Lucky they didn't shoot back GW

[Froogal]

Best use for golf balls I've seen yet.

[Mk42gunner]

You think they are tough now, wait till you try to cook it and get it tender...

Robert

[Winger Ed.]

Good kill.

Be aware-- they've been known to booby trap the dead, and drag off their wounded.
They'll patch 'em up to return and stalk you another day.

[robg]

we use golf balls on strings at our range as fun targets on our range for 22lr at 50yards .it gets new shooters to concentrate and enjoy watching them spin round the rails they hang from.

[Smoke4320]

Like everything seems golf ball tech has moved on :)
when I was 12 to 13 years old I used to fish golf balls out of the 2 ponds and creeks and sell them back to the golfers.
The course owner came to me one day and said I was crimping his golf ball sales and I needed to stop and offered me a job as golf cart stager, charger boy and light maintenance
worked for him on 2 courses for 5 years. Within a year of working there they started giving me lesions. Every afternoon after school I hit the course By the time I left for college I was a scratch golfer. Sold my clubs and never picked up a club again. a few years into marriage the wife asked why I did not start playing again. Told her I could not afford or have the time to play everyday and that was the only way I could have stayed that good and anything less would be very frustrating and NOT fun.

[Sasquatch-1]

We shoot the golf balls with muzzle loaders. A .54 round ball leaves a hole about the size of a .17 calibre.

[jlm223]

I always keep a few in the range bag!

[Outpost75]

If you have 40mm empties from the M203 drill through the fired booster and countersink to take a 209 shotshell primer then load one Chock Full-O Nuts coffee scoop of single Fg black, drive the golf ball in flush to the case mouth, then smear grease around the ball. Trajectory is close to the grenade, good practice round. Hell on car doors.

[Finster101]

if you have 40mm empties from the m203 drill through the fired booster and countersink to take a 209 shotshell primer then load one chock full-o nuts coffee scoop of single fg black, drive the golf ball in flush to the case mouth, then smear grease around the ball. Trajectory is close to the grenade, good practice round. Hell on car doors.


trouble maker !

[Mal Paso]

The 12 ga shell was a friendly competition at 25 yards, the hole was my 2nd shot after grazing the first. S&W 629-6 H&G 503 and 2400. If you don't nail them the first time they are further away the next shot. Gotta get back to shooting every week.

[Kenstone]

My best use of golf balls so far, file handles:
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[Outpost75]

trouble maker !

At the time I did this it was legal for the intended agency purpose and was a great savings compared to the cost of blue-tipped training rounds. Once we got the drill down we collected fired cases, produced a drilling and repriming fixture and even a carbide profile crimp die and produced them in the multiple hundreds.

[imashooter2]

If you have 40mm empties from the M203 drill through the fired booster and countersink to take a 209 shotshell primer then load one Chock Full-O Nuts coffee scoop of single Fg black, drive the golf ball in flush to the case mouth, then smear grease around the ball. Trajectory is close to the grenade, good practice round. Hell on car doors.

Be careful shooting a golf ball against any solid object. It will come back at just about the velocity it went in.


https://youtu.be/ZHPK5vvtnf4

[scattershot]

Mine are, just because I whack them so many times to get where I’m going.

[1hole]

Shot one with a 160 grain boolit over 30 of 4198 in the .30-06. Other one with a 300 grain .44 over 19.0 of 296.

Yea, them hard balls are tuff but every one of them is d e a d!

Goolf balls can be useful, they make excellent file handles. I can get them nearly new from a local thrift shop for $1 a dozen; that seems about right to me.

[Outpost75]

Be careful shooting a golf ball against any solid object. It will come back at just about the velocity it went in.


https://youtu.be/ZHPK5vvtnf4

At over 500 fps that isn't a problem. Might bounce around a bit inside the car and harass the occupants, but we never had any come back to us.

[Three44s]

I do not like to play golf, but they make superb reactionary targets for handgun practice!

Three44s

[Winger Ed.]

I do not like to play golf, but they make superb reactionary targets

I always thought it would be a good sporting event to combine golf with skeet.

[kevin c]

Don’t they take off when hit? Might be like finding a ball in the rough if it decides to leave the immediate down range vicinity.

[Armorer77]

All I ever did was shoot them out of cannons .

[imashooter2]

Don’t they take off when hit? Might be like finding a ball in the rough if it decides to leave the immediate down range vicinity.


With small caliber high velocity ammo they actually move more from a near miss throwing them up than a hit that just zips on through. I would imagine that changes considerably with the fat and slow stuff.

[todd9.3x57]

my use of golf balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IaxJ34I44

[kenton]

A quick bodge to get my mill running that i actually like better than the factory handle.
297777

They make great 22 targets too, as was mentioned. I chuck them into my lathe and drill the pilot hole with the tailstock to put a screw into to hang them from.

[warren5421]

Try using them for a .45-70 Sharps target, the golfer really gets mad when they are inches from the hole and a 535 gr RN helps it to the next green.

[Three44s]

Don’t they take off when hit? Might be like finding a ball in the rough if it decides to leave the immediate down range vicinity.

Just like “golf”! You hit them head on with a larger bore handgun and they fly! With small caliber stuff they get tore up. High powered rifle and they get shredded pretty fast.

I tend to leave some golf balls laying around my “lead bank” and I tend to find some of the several hundred yards away. It turns out crows and ravens think they are eggs and take off to a suitable altitude, drop then in hopes of breaking them and eating a snack!

Three44s

[Three44s]

my use of golf balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IaxJ34I44

That should work on coyotes as well!

Three44s

[Rapier]

Golf balls can be made into all manner of targets with survey string and eye screws. They make good handles for files, rasps and chisels. Where you are pushing the tool with the palm of your hand.
They are tough on a smaller cutter head sand dredge, when golfers ask you to dredge around their dock after years of flogging balls into the water.

[gwpercle]

If you think they are tough after shooting them ... skin and gut a couple of them ...
Gives you a whole new perspective on tough .
P.S. Use a sharp knife and don't be in no hurry .
Gary

[MaryB]

When my niece and nephews were learning to shoot we used them fora game with the 22lr, a hit is 1 point and if you pop it in the air and hit it while off the ground it was 5 more points. That flying follow up shot is tough! Started at 25 yards and as they bounce down range it got harder and harder to score!

[todd9.3x57]

That should work on coyotes as well!

Three44s

a small rock can werk, but when you need them, they disappear!!!!

[bedbugbilly]

Yea . .. they're tough . . . but hit one the wrong way with and iron and toy cab sure out a slice/divet in the covering! Don't ask me how I know . . . that's why I gave up golf years ago. :-)

[Plate plinker]

Like everything seems golf ball tech has moved on :)
when I was 12 to 13 years old I used to fish golf balls out of the 2 ponds and creeks and sell them back to the golfers.
The course owner came to me one day and said I was crimping his golf ball sales and I needed to stop and offered me a job as golf cart stager, charger boy and light maintenance
worked for him on 2 courses for 5 years. Within a year of working there they started giving me lesions. Every afternoon after school I hit the course By the time I left for college I was a scratch golfer. Sold my clubs and never picked up a club again. a few years into marriage the wife asked why I did not start playing again. Told her I could not afford or have the time to play everyday and that was the only way I could have stayed that good and anything less would be very frustrating and NOT fun.

Exactly! I once played daily and was doing well then SOMEBODY showed me this gun thing. Needless to say no more golf.

[Rapier]

Oh, yeah, shooting them is far less aggravating than hitting them with a golf club on a golf course. Besides, you actually get to shoot them….

[Hodagtrapper]

Made the mistake once of shooting a golf ball at 30' with my scoped .22 springer pellet rifle. While aiming, I kept my non dominate eye closed and drilled the ball dead center only to have the pellet return and hit my closed eyelid dead center. Bruised my eyeball and I saw stars for awhile but thankfully the pellet lost a lot of energy before it returned! Lesson learned.

Chris

[Gator 45/70]

If you think they are tough after shooting them ... skin and gut a couple of them ...
Gives you a whole new perspective on tough .
P.S. Use a sharp knife and don't be in no hurry .
Gary

How you cook dat?
Onions and a roux?

[Three44s]

Made the mistake once of shooting a golf ball at 30' with my scoped .22 springer pellet rifle. While aiming, I kept my non dominate eye closed and drilled the ball dead center only to have the pellet return and hit my closed eyelid dead center. Bruised my eyeball and I saw stars for awhile but thankfully the pellet lost a lot of energy before it returned! Lesson learned.

Chris

Glad you recovered!

That had to hurt bad!

Three44s

[Thumbcocker]

I'm squinting just reading about it.

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[GregLaROCHE]

Best use for golf balls I've seen yet.

They work great on a piece of brass rod to make a ramrod too.

[gwpercle]

How you cook dat?
Onions and a roux?

Even Onions , Bell Pepper , Celery , a Dark Roux and 4 hours of cooking ... they was still tough ...
Like trying to eat old rubber bands ... There is something in the middle ... it must be the golf seed ... maybe you plant it and another grows from it ?
Gary

[elmacgyver0]

They are great to replace the handles on drill presses and other machine tools.

[1hole]

my use of golf balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IaxJ34I44

Bravo! Every big game hunter should see that.

I first used the ball, rope and truck method of deer skinning from the head back with a golf ball size rock in 1969, shortly after I moved to western North Carolina.

The morning I killed my first mountain deer a kind old local guy gently pushed a younger, dumber me aside when I started trying to hoist my deer by the hind leg tendons; you know, the "right way" like it's always been done.

He first used a cheep hacksaw to cut through the knee joints. Then, with a common Walmart box cutter razor blade "utility" knife, he cut a neck ring in the hide just behind the skull. He pulled up a skin flap over the spine and secured a rock in it with a 1/2" rope he tied to my truck.

We lifted the deer (head up enough for the legs to clear the ground) with a second rope tossed over a sturdy limb and tied it off. Slowly backing the truck away pulled that hide completely off like a fuzzy sweatshirt in about 30 seconds! In fact, about 15 minutes after starting I had a cleanly skinned deer swinging in the air with no hair or dirt on the meat! Minutes after that, the lungs, guts and lower legs were in a Lowes' heavy duty plastic trash bag (contractor grade) and gone.

It was easy to then remove the front quarters, brisket, hams and loins and store them in an ice cooler until I could get it home to age and package.

When I was ready, I boned it out with my Fiskars fish fillet knife, then cut it up and Zip-Lock bagged and froze it exactly the way my wife wanted it done. That's the way I've done deer ever since.

(I thank God for a good woman dumm enough to love me, keeps a good home, cooks great and enjoys going hiking, camping, scuba diving, hunting and fishing with me too!)

For me, skinning deer the smart way started some 55 years ago with a wise old mountain man, an imitation golf ball, a tree, a rope and a truck. I watched and learned from that now dead old man so I've not messy skinned with a knife or gutted a deer butt-up since. And I will NEVER again pay a butcher to cut up and package my venison!

All that meaning there really is a GREAT way for deer hunters to use otherwise useless objects like goolf balls (or, okay, you can use similar size rocks just as well if you really need to save the money) in a deer camp.

[Herb in Pa]

If you think golf balls are tough try a bowling ball..............

[country gent]

Golf balls are light just sitting they move easily meaning its hard to dump a lot of energy into them, the small size also allows most of the energy to be dumped back into the backstop behind it.

[gwpercle]

If you think golf balls are tough try a bowling ball..............

Shooting it or skinning and gutting it ? ... I hear they is thick skinned !
Gary

[Scrounge]

My best use of golf balls so far, file handles:
297768
:idea:

+1 on that!

[Herb in Pa]

Shooting it or skinning and gutting it ? ... I hear they is thick skinned !
Gary

Amazing the abuse they will take even from centerfire rifle slugs...................