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Lots of great answers to this morning's Wordless Wednesday question (and some hilarious answers, too!). Several of you guessed "shooting guns." Yes, that's right! But Nick nailed it correctly with his answer "trap shooting."
Congratulations, Nick! And thank you, everyone, for playing along.
~Deb
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Trapshooting is so much fun! When I was a child we would go to a farm in the WV mountains to trapshoot. We had to be very careful not to let any of the clay pigeons pieces fall into the pastures because they contained lead and poisons. (We kept one area contaminated.) Hopefully they are more environmentally friendly nowadays. Thanks for the fun post!
Posted by: Kathie | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 08:46 PM
I'm not doing to well on these Girotti tests. Good thing we're not being graded.:)
Looks like everyone had fun.
Victoria
Posted by: victoria | Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 01:22 PM
The "clue" was that the two gents plugging their ears were both concentrating very hard and focused on something in particular, which seemed to be up in the air, so as to watch the results..... yet seemed to be in stances that allowed body movement to follow the action. Not quite what one would do watching target shooting of a static piece of paper.... so I guessed whatever it was was moving.... something like clay pidgeons.
I've an uncle, quite a gun enthusiast and marksman, who used to delight himself by taking others trap shooting.... he'd have his .22 rifle along, and, particularly with the learners, he'd wait till they'd missed their two shots on each clay, then take his .22 and hit the thing on the fly.... waaaay out there, cause he had to wait to give the shotgunner his chance. He was amazing......
As to contaminating the pasture... today's clays are free of anything harmful, even the paint is "clean", and you can now buy steel shot, shich does not contaminate the ground with lead. In fact, The Great Republic of California has banned lead in all projectiles.... steel shot tears up the bore pretty badly, but hey, that's the price one pays..... the steel just sits and rusts, like old nails or chain left lying about. Harmless.
Posted by: Nick Jesch | Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 01:41 PM