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[dex]

Originally Posted by lthrnckpa

Martha, you can fix this. Start by taking the dog out with you while you use an air pistol. Progress to .22's at about 100 yards or so while the other of you is playing with the dog. When the dog doesn't stop playing if the .22 cracks then use a slightly larger caliber every3rd or 4th shot. When he doesn't jump at the larger caliber you can progress to all shots from that gun. Then start sitting down with the dog at 75 yards, then 50 yards, then 25 yards, and finally just behind the shooting line. The dog lays next to you and is getting stroked continuously while shooting takes place. Pay lots of attention to the dog. He learns that you aren't going to let anything happen to him and becomes comfortable with the sound of the rifles. Anytime you increase caliber, or say you go to a shotgun, back off the distance again and work your way in. Shooting weekly this would take less than two months to acclimate your friend to the noise.

I saw one guy bring his dog to an outside gun range.
Doesn't the loudness of the gunshots hurt the dog's ears?

[LeatherneckPA]

Originally Posted by thefed

but lately, i enjoy pellet guns the most! i can shoot them in my backyard, and within 45 yards, im deadly! theyre quiet, reallllllly cheap ammo, and the guns are cheap too. I bought a competition-grade rifle for 250 or so.

Now there's an idea I hadn't considered lately! Although I do have an old Crossman pump pellet pistol. I even own a set of the pellet gun silhouettes from IHMSA. Those can be QUITE challenging. Used to set them up on sawhorses in the backyard for DD to shoot at. She became quite good.

[MikeD]

I do not kill things with my guns. I like shooting for the same reason I like fireworks: Wreckin' Stuff. I think it's a juvenile thing. I went with it.

I have a few machine guns that I used to take to organized machine gun shoots down south. I especially like shooting dynamite duct-taped to cars.

I don't do it so much any more.

The first picture is of me in Arkansas standing next to a pile of evidence of a good time. The second is what my wife and I did to an old K-car at a shoot.

All my hobbies are legal and often involve FBI investigations and ATF approvals.

Mike D.

[Martha]

Originally Posted by lthrnckpa

Martha, you can fix this. Start by taking the dog out with you while you use an air pistol. Progress to .22's at about 100 yards or so while the other of you is playing with the dog. When the dog doesn't stop playing if the .22 cracks then use a slightly larger caliber every3rd or 4th shot. When he doesn't jump at the larger caliber you can progress to all shots from that gun. Then start sitting down with the dog at 75 yards, then 50 yards, then 25 yards, and finally just behind the shooting line. The dog lays next to you and is getting stroked continuously while shooting takes place. Pay lots of attention to the dog. He learns that you aren't going to let anything happen to him and becomes comfortable with the sound of the rifles. Anytime you increase caliber, or say you go to a shotgun, back off the distance again and work your way in. Shooting weekly this would take less than two months to acclimate your friend to the noise.

Well, she is an old bitch now, so I don't know if it will work. Funny thing, the problem started when Greg killed a nuisance squirrel with a pellet gun in front of the dog. Ever since she witnessed the event she has been really frightened of gun shots of any sort. Firecrackers too.

[Nords]

Originally Posted by Martha

Funny thing, the problem started when Greg killed a nuisance squirrel with a pellet gun in front of the dog. Ever since she witnessed the event she has been really frightened of gun shots of any sort. Firecrackers too.

Cause, effect. Smart dog!

[brewer12345]

Originally Posted by thefed

but lately, i enjoy pellet guns the most! i can shoot them in my backyard, and within 45 yards, im deadly! theyre quiet, reallllllly cheap ammo, and the guns are cheap too. I bought a competition-grade rifle for 250 or so.

I'd love to shoot pellet guns again. But I live in a state that basically regulates them as firearms, I've nowhere to shoot, I have small children in the house and a gun-shy wife... Some day.

[packrat44]

Originally Posted by MikeD

I do not kill things with my guns. I like shooting for the same reason I like fireworks: Wreckin' Stuff. I think it's a juvenile thing. I went with it.

I have a few machine guns that I used to take to organized machine gun shoots down south. I especially like shooting dynamite duct-taped to cars.

I don't do it so much any more.

The first picture is of me in Arkansas standing next to a pile of evidence of a good time. The second is what my wife and I did to an old K-car at a shoot.

All my hobbies are legal and often involve FBI investigations and ATF approvals.

Mike D.

Hey Mike, with a little Bondo she will be just like new.

They used to have shoots close by in the Idaho panhandle where the single shot 50 cal guys used to place dynamite at long range. It took the guess work out and eliminated the BS whether you did or did not bring your round on target. Great fun for spectators too.

[FinanceGeek]

A few years ago a friend brought me to an organized "machine gun shoot". Quite entertaining. I wasn't aware of anybody shooting at dynamite, at the shoot I went to they were shooting at blocks of a substance called "tannerite", which produced a nice flash and loud report when struck by bullets.

All I'd say is, enjoy your hobby while its still legal. I suspect that the next election cycle won't yield good news for those in the shooting sports.

[LeatherneckPA]

FinanceGeek, they offer smaller exploding targets on the internet. I have shot the ones with 1" dot and they are great fun for the unsuspecting.

[lazygood4nothinbum]

oh this isn't at all what i thought it would be

[dex]

Thanks - It make me feel happy.