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farky-aka said:while we are on this topic, I found a 50 cent sized 'coin' with a picture of a frontiersman in coon skin hat holding a long rifle and the motto-'The Man with the Gunne-Grand Rapids' ? will try to post photo been buggin' me fer years what this about-
EdwinC said:When i was going thru training at Fort Lewis Wa. in 1970, they had a class where they taught us how to do what they called "quick kill". Basically like skeet shooting but with a rifle not a shotgun. We used bb guns to learn on. They would start out with a metal disk about the size of a silver dollar and toss it into the air. Once you could hit it 3 or 4 times they would go down in size and repeat it. Eventually it got down to where they would throw a bb into the air and you would try to hit it. Surprising how many guys could do it.
LOL!GoodyGuy said:EdwinC said:When i was going thru training at Fort Lewis Wa. in 1970, they had a class where they taught us how to do what they called "quick kill". Basically like skeet shooting but with a rifle not a shotgun. We used bb guns to learn on. They would start out with a metal disk about the size of a silver dollar and toss it into the air. Once you could hit it 3 or 4 times they would go down in size and repeat it. Eventually it got down to where they would throw a bb into the air and you would try to hit it. Surprising how many guys could do it.
I used to be able to kill flies with a pellet rifle, course I was only trying to wing em'
I saw that on Beverly Hillbillies where Jed and Jeffro were shooting the wings of of flies on the front wall from quite a distance..GoodyGuy said:I used to be able to kill flies with a pellet rifle, course I was only trying to wing em'
bigcypresshunter said:I saw that on Beverly Hillbillies where Jed and Jeffro were shooting the wings of of flies on the front wall from quite a distance..GoodyGuy said:I used to be able to kill flies with a pellet rifle, course I was only trying to wing em'
It might be a little easier if you wait until they land.GoodyGuy said:bigcypresshunter said:I saw that on Beverly Hillbillies where Jed and Jeffro were shooting the wings of of flies on the front wall from quite a distance..GoodyGuy said:I used to be able to kill flies with a pellet rifle, course I was only trying to wing em'
Me too that's where I got the idea. It's a lot harder than they made it look.
Woodland Detectors 4-H said:I believe that is a Winchester slogan. Remington UMC shows no reference to that slogan.
That coin could be valuable. I see Winchester badges and pins going for over a hundred bucks.
phs3194 said:Rather than Annie Oakley, I would think it a souvenir of Ad and Plinky Topperwein or Herb Parson. They toured the country in the first half of the last century.
bigcypresshunter said:Harder to shoot too. Here are the same Remington discs shot with something with less power.
It seems to say "SHOT WITH A KLEANBORE REMINGTON CARTRIDGE" on one side, and "SHOT WITH A REMINGTON RIFLE" on the other.
You know more about it than I do and maybe Im wrong but I assumed the first discs I posted were tossed in the air and shot with a high powered rifle. Maybe they were shot as a stationary target.