Bad time to not be able to buy ammo.

[okrattler]

Today I had to sight in a rifle and it was way off target. I didn't want to keep fiddling around with trying to figure out where I was hitting so I shot a big rock. To my surprise it made a loud "thwack" like I had just hit an animal. Who doesn't like that sound? I do so I adjusted my scope to where it needed to be based off of where I saw the bullet hit. I thought "Ok now put one back on the target.......actually no shoot that rock again" I'm not one to waste ammo but I shot that rock 5 more times before I had to tell myself to quit wasting ammo. Those v-max was blowing chunks of rock everywhere. If you've never shot a rock maybe give it a try someday. I promise it's fun.

I've seen metal targets that let you know when a bullet connects. Rocks are way better.

[okrattler]

If only you could make cutouts of critters out of rock. It would be as realistic as you could get while target practicing. They just wouldn't hold up like metal will.

[TX03RUBI]

Buy it when times are good. Stack it deep. Keep shooting when times are crap.

Rocks are absolutely fun to shoot though. I wouldn’t replace steel with them for simple longevity sake, but I thoroughly enjoy shooting them.

[kcmarullo]

My brother in law and I shoot rocks in Oklahoma when I go up there it's a lot of fun !

[RifleBowPistol]

I did that by accident many years ago. I was on one hill, there was a doe on another hill. I grew up in south Texas hunting flat ground. I was good at judging range down there. But once I started hunting places where there were hills and mountains. I figured out, my one foot ball field, two foot ball field, ECT. was not worth a crap on hilly terrain. I had it bite me a few times. The worst time was when I tried to shoot that doe that was on another hill. I thought she was about 800 yards away. I knew my hold over with my 7mm Mag. well out to around 1000 yards.

So I guessed 800 yards, held over, squeezed off. The round hit about 20 yards short of the doe. Down hill. I don't have a clue how far off that doe really was. But the bullet hit a basket ball sized rock. The rock blew up into a bunch of small pieces. There was rock raining down all over the place. Multiple pieces went past the doe and some landed around the doe. It scared the crap out of the doe. She ran made a loop and stopped. Left me with a second shot. But I was laughing so hard, there was no way I could take a second shot. I generally knew what my hold over after the first shot, but there was no way I could get off a steady shot because I kept laughing. So I just watched the doe walking around on the hill, looking at the spot where the rock used to be, trying to figure out what happened.

On the same ranch, another occasion, we were shooting baseball to softball sized rocks out around 80 to 100 yards with a buddy's Glock 20, that he had just had the trigger worked over. I was shocked we were able to do that good with a Glock. We were blowing those rocks to pieces with 180 gr or 200 gr. bullets, don't remember. Bought one after that, could not shoot that gun for crap, with a stock trigger, so it went away quickly.

[okrattler]

Yeah it's a lot of fun. I was shooting river rock so it comes apart fairly easily. I don't know if y'all know what I'm talking about but that's what we call it up here. It's like in layers and it's grey. Makes a cool sound and comes apart easy when you hit it.