Hi Toni.

Some gunnies like to use watermelons for target practice, because when they hit them they explode just like a human head! Such fun ah Issy, I bet you have had a shot at the odd watermelon or three.

Here I was minding my own business plotting the revolution, and along came a member of the Shooters and Hooters Party,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSOnbxocEI

I tell ya a blokes never safe from those gunnies!

Paul,

Yes, I fired a few shots on Sunday, our monthly .22 Bench Rest shoot; my lowest score was a 92, open sights at 50 metres.
I don't use a scope sight as my eyesight hasn't deteriorated enough to justify the added expense.

Never shot a watermelon in my life and human heads don't explode the way that watermelons do.

Toni,

"It's a compound of water & melon, on account of them being melons that contain a lot of water."

Now who wooda thunk!!

Hi Issy, I hope 92 was a good score, its not like golf is it, where with luck. a few folk one day get a score better than their age.
I don't really see a lot of harm in target shooting, I think you certainly enjoy it, so go for it.

Haven't you ever heard of some nincompoop being described as a melon head, or a two legged sheep (another thread).

Hi Toni, your assertion that a watermelon is a compound of water and melon, has that been scientifically proven? Where is your evidence, provide a link! Just to bring some rational debate into this, and to expand the topic further, can I ask; Do you like fried eggs?

Paul,

Possible score is 100 (with 10 shots in the X ring, so 100,10X is the highest), so 92 isn't all that bad, occasionally I shoot 98 and once, recently, I shot 99,7X, which is the best that I've ever managed on the SSAA 50 metre targets, I have cracked 100 a few times on slightly bigger targets.
Next Saturday is the Service pistol monthly shoot.

I like fried eggs, firm whites and runny yolks.

Hi Issy,

I have cracked 100 a few times on slightly bigger targets. Were they watermelons? LOL

Glad you mentioned eggs. The best fried eggs are, wait for it.... DUCK EGGS. big yolks. Nan always used the duck eggs in her cakes. When I was a kid on the farm, as well as a 'million' chooks running around the place, we also had ducks, and a few turkeys. Turkeys lay a round shaped egg. not bad eating. Old Pop was one of your mob, used to shoot wild ducks on the dam, not that good eating, not much on them, yet we had ducks at home, ate them now and then, Xmas etc.