.50 cal – Shooting w/ friends

.50 cal – Shooting w/ friends 04-04-2011

A few weekends back a friend of a friend let us borrow a .50 cal rifle for a day. Took a few friends out w/ my wife and I and had a damn good time. We only shot it about 15 to 20 times collectively, the bullets were roughly 3 to 4 dollars a piece. We kind of rushed thru sighting it for that reason, but we did alright. Had some fun targets to shoot at… brought a sapi 8x8x6mm ballistics plate and some rows of computer hard drives.



getting everything ready down range



crystal up front and jared in the background digging a hole for the stand



getting ready to setup the rifle

we decided to shoot out of the back of the truck, not really much of a choice. the range has rolling small hills and prevents

shooting from prone position



glamour shots



jared, some borrowed ear gear…



kind of a shitty picture, but i still like it…

supposed to show the scale of the .50cal bullet



setup shot of pat



timed a couple shots of pat pretty well

took this one right when he fired

i’m thinking the radial blur is from the reverberation of the shot, not really sure though



took this one right after he fired, in the bottom of the shot you can see all the stuff flying to the back of the truck

all three items were sitting near the tailgate when he fired



I shot at the ballistics plate first

aimed center, but clipped bottom left



i was hoping the stand would withstand a couple shots, but it didn’t even last thru one



one of the boxes of computer hard drives

plan was to shoot thru all of them, but we completely forgot about a stand for the hdd’s

tried shoothing them stacked on the ground



setup shot of crystal



taken right after she fired



and one of jared



random



a shot of the plate after crystal hit it lower right and pat hit it center right

it just bent it like butter



started to get ready to put the rifle away and of course everyone had to get a hold shot



after we put up the .50 we pulled out some other rifles to shoot



random of everyone walking to check the targets



found the steel core of one of the .50 cals in the ground behind the hard drive box

it passed thru 6 hdds and then went into the ground under the box



found another ricochet .50 cal stuck in a board



a shot of the damage