Explained by Paul Scarlata:
Now the uninitiated among the readership may ask just what does this bowling pin shooting entail? It is very simple: you have a two-level steel table measuring 6x3 feet, situated twenty-five feet in front of the shooting line, upon which are bowling pins, the number varying according to the event. You begin with your loaded firearm in your hand, resting on a waist high wooden rail. On the signal (a blank is fired) you lift your gun and begin shooting. Whoever clears all their pins off the table first wins. It's that simple.
Now for the hard part-the damn pins don't want to go off the table! A bowling pin is a heavy, unstable object and can only be moved off the back of the table (the tables have side walls preventing pins from rolling off sideways) with a good solid hit. A bad or glancing hit will topple it over where it will proceed to roll around knocking over other pins, preventing hit pins from moving off the table and in general screwing everything up. A pin might fall over with its top (small end) facing you which gives you a VERY tiny, difficult target. Several might end up in a pile in the corner, known as "dead wood;" wedged together in a heap that not even a .44 Magnum or 00 buckshot can dislodge. That's why pin shooting is so much fun, especially for the spectators-it is just so damned unpredictable
Just wanna say, pin shooting is great fun. If you just want to knock them over a .22 will do it, but clearing them from a regulation table takes a pretty serious caliber.
Oh, and they stand there mocking you with their faceless expression before you shoot.
Posted by: Ronsonic | 04/20/2009 at 01:12 AM