Cause I got the noodles!!! I dropped and bucked these rounds last fall but never got a chance to pull them out of the woods until yesterday. For the sake of my back I noodled them in the woods before attempting to get them in my little wagon. These actually aren't for firewood but will be used as backstops for my shooting range. The smooth face is perfect for tacking up paper targets and 4 of them last me about a year when using .22's and handgun rounds.
Nice job and great idea. Could you post some pictures after you set them up. I cleared a 100 yd range out back this winter built a nice shooting bench. And now need my back stop. I have lots of 40"+ pine rounds I may try.
My firewood partner, Lefty, was using some "on the edge" oak rounds for backstops for a guy that is doing concealed carry classes. Some of the rounds were going right through the wood. He needs to come up with something better. At least he has a good dirt backstop behind them.
Here's some old pics. I use the noodled rounds to shoot into and is roughly 4' wide by 4' tall. Behind that is 2 more rows of stacked longs on their ends that's probably about 36" deep total and 5' wide by 5' tall. Then behind that is 3 rows of firewood stacks, so there's another 8' or so of wood to go through. This only works for .22's and handguns though. I shot my AR at my house once and after one mag I discovered they had made it through the back of a 12" log. I figure after a few hundred rounds my backstop wound have been swiss cheese. The difference in power between the tiny 5.56 and even a .357 mag is amazing.
I've debated burning them just to collect the lead! Those logs sure get a lot heavier over the course of a year.
My shooting club uses culled power poles to frame in sand for backstop material sometimes... I'd love to see what came out if any of them were ever burned! Seeing what melts out of the snowbanks is always interesting.
Velocity is an amazing thing isn't it? 1/2" AR500 (free swinging) vs 30-06 M2 (AP) on the left. 1/2" Mild steel vs 30-06 M2 on right. While I don't have pics, 5.56/.223 M193 (Standard ball) will do similar to 3/8" mild steel. Oh, to keep in the spirit of the thread, I like pasta! Also, until about a month ago when I joined, I had absolutely no idea what noodling was when it was used in the context of firewood.
The little mower looks bad a$$ with the plow chains and trailer! Could be a good way to save/scrounge lead. I've got similar random peices loaded with lead and wondered how to salvage. I've burned chunks of wood with things in it, usually a ginormus fire. I don't know if lead would survive. Metal and glass doesn't. You could wait for it to rot and punk up.
