I once cut down a pine sapling with a .22. It took a while.
In Scouting, we do what’s called a ‘Stake Break’.
You have teams of shooters, usually Patrols. You’ve got a crew of six to nine people loading.
You use black powder rifles to shoot through two by fours standing upright and nailed in place about 15 to 20 feet away, depending on the ability level and age of the shooters.
You draw a line across the width of the flat side of the two by four so they have a place to aim.
The teams get in lines behind their shooter, and they step up and shoot. First team to shoot their two by four in half wins.
The more loaders and rifles you have, the faster the lines move, obviously.
Kids love it. They think this .50 cal rifle is going to blow them back on their butts, and then they actually see for themselves how easy the recoil is. They light up. We let them examine the shot and we show them how to load it.
Cleaning those guns is actually a lot of fun too. There is so much peace in cleaning a gun after the range is shut down. Once the kids really learn how to clean the guns, I almost always just volunteer to clean them all and let them go.
You put a baseball game on the radio, some mosquito repellant on, and go to town. Out of baseball season it’s country music. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline . . .
Makes you want to go shootin’, doesn’t it?