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Rocketman2021
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Saltwater target
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May 26, 2021, 11:34:20 PM »
I was wanting to make a Saltwater target as I live overlooked a saltwater bay ( which is tidal )
Thinking making a tripod float arrangement with an LED light on it ( controlled by daylight cell )
anyone made anything along this line ?
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 27, 2021, 12:05:28 AM »
That sounds interesting. The rocking back and forth would make for a very challenging target.
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Rocketman2021
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 27, 2021, 01:38:27 AM »
yes , especially at night ( moving target ) hours of fun
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Rocketman2021
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 27, 2021, 01:47:06 AM »
If it anchor say 100 yards out with 30 yards of line ( that's 60 metres of movement)
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Rocketman2021
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 29, 2021, 08:53:38 PM »
The beauty of this I can shoot out straight from my house as I over look the complete bay
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 29, 2021, 10:31:32 PM »
How about some partially inflated balloons with a length of fishing line and a sinker on it? If the balloon is thin enough you could bust a glow stick inside of it for night time fun.
Heck, you could probably cast them out with a fishing pole and reel in the busted balloon to be eco friendly and humane.
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Rocketman2021
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 31, 2021, 12:18:22 AM »
yea that would work but I was wanting something that I don't have to reset
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 31, 2021, 10:00:57 AM »
I just have to check: the LED is for illumination, correct? Wouldn't make much sense to shoot your LED, but just checking
Perhaps a bell project would do? Maybe like this one:
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=466.0
If so, I would be thinking about a cheap "backstop" behind it a bit so as to reflect sound back to shore. It might not be needed, but leave some space on your buoy/float/raft/barge to install one, just in case.
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 31, 2021, 10:51:19 AM »
That made me think...
How about a tripod (pyramid might be easier) out of PVC Pipe, wrap the base with pool noodles to make it buoyant.
Then hang a cow bell without the clapper from the peak for the target?
Hope you can imagine what I am trying to describe.
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 31, 2021, 11:36:33 AM »
I remembered after posting that I had made a "cow bell" of my own. I had a coupling for 4" conduit laying around. I drilled a couple of holes and hung it on a bent wire threaded through another hole in a "post" (1/2" rebar). In the photo below it looks yellow, but that was an fluorescent orange marking paint. I wouldn't buy a coupling just to do this to it ($25 or more around here, but certainly heavy duty!), but you get the idea. This one was born out of a smaller one I did with a scrap of 2" pipe.
I called it my 100 yard bell because it was that was the required group size for the NUAH target.
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Re: Saltwater target
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May 31, 2021, 08:51:43 PM »
Look good , I think I'll add the LED light to the Top of the pipe ( flashing LED )
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Re: Saltwater target
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June 01, 2021, 04:38:43 PM »
Might be a good idea to shoot lead free pellets due to where they will end up.
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Rocketman2021
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Re: Saltwater target
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June 01, 2021, 07:02:29 PM »
I'm aware of that and shoot lead free pellets only . Should worry about the amount of fishing sinkers that are fired out there .
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Rocketman2021
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Re: Saltwater target
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June 07, 2021, 10:56:29 PM »
OK , figured out I need to make PVC fishing bobbers with LED mounted in the top with Mecury switch ( this will switch ON when only in the vertical position - meaning it's floating in the water )
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