Unofficial AGN Monthly Shooting Challenge - April 2025

SkeeterHawk · Apr 1, 2025

Another month brings another shooting challenge, so here you go...

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As always, the link to the printable PDF is below.

April 7th is National Beer Day

, so that is the theme for the paper target!!

For the "actual target" challenge, there is a whole lot to choose from this month, so be creative!! So, you can shoot some chocolate bunnies for Easter, or blow up some recycled cardboard to celebrate Earth Day. Here are some other days that are observed this month to give you some ideas:

April 1
- April Fools Day
- National Fun Day
- National One Cent Day (Shoot a penny?)
April 2
- National Ferret Day
- National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day
April 3
- National Burrito Day
- National Chocolate Mousse Day
April 4
- International Carrot Day
- National Cordon Bleu Day
April 5
- National Caramel Day (This could be fun)
- National Dandelion Day
- National Peeps Day (NOW We're talking!!)
April 6
- Fresh Tomato Day
- National Caramel Popcorn Day
- National Twinkie Day
April 7
- National Beer Day!!! Woo Hoo, beer!!
- National Coffee Cake Day
April 8
- National Empanada Day
- Pygmy Hippo Day (Now THAT's weird, but has potential!)
April 10
- International Safety Pin Day (THIS one could be fun!!...and challenging)
April 11
- National Cheese Fondue Day (This could be messy)
- National Eight-Track Tape Day (Do any of us still have any of these??)
April 12
- National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
- National Licorice Day
April 13
- National Peach Cobbler Day
- National Scrabble Day
April 14
- National Pecan Day (These would be challenging at 100 yards!!)
April 15
- National Rubber Eraser Day (You are one bad MoFo if you can blow the eraser off a pencil at just about any distance!!)
April 16
- National Mushroom Day
- National Banana Day (Or combine them and shoot mushrooms AND bananas
April 18
- National Animal Cracker Day (This would certainly be entertaining!)
- World Marbles Day
April 19
- National Garlic Day
April 20
- Easter Sunday
- Lima Bean Day
- National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day (Not sure how to "celebrate" this one)
April 21
- National Chickpea Day
- National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day (Didn't have a clue this existed, but would be fun to shoot)
April 22
- Earth Day
- National JellyBean Day
April 23
- National Cherry Cheesecake Day (I think I'd rather eat the cheesecake than shoot it, but to each their own)
- National English Muffin Day (This would be a good use for these!)
April 25
- World Penguin Day
April 26
- International Macaroni Day (This could certainly be challenging)
April 27
- Babe Ruth Day (Shoot a snack size perhaps?)
April 28
- National Blueberry Pie Day (This could be messy, but interesting. Pro-Tip! Walmart sells mini blueberry pies for less than a buck)
April 30
- National Oatmeal Cookie Day
- National Raisin Day
- National Tie Dye Day

As always, for the actual target challenge, please Vote Up your favorite entry by clicking the arrow

to the right

of the post. The entry with the most votes 10 days after the end of the month will be declared the winner, and that shooter gets the associated bragging rights from now until forever!!

I hope we see more participation this month. If something is lacking in this contest, let me know and we'll make some changes. Good luck, shooters!!!

Here is the bragging rights list from last month:

View attachment Unofficial-AGN_MonthlyShootingChallenge_Paper-Challenge_2025-April.pdf

SkeeterHawk · Apr 9, 2025

Hello once again, Shooters!! I got out to try both of these challenges on a windy a$s day. Here is a link to the video:

I scored 13 points on the paper target, so here is a picture of my final target:

I put the camera on an anemometer with a wind flag behind it so you can see the crazy wind we have today. They said on the news to expect gusts up to 35mph.

So, I plan to do another entry for the actual target challenge, but am still trying to figure out how to do it. Regardless, if you liked my little entry for the actual target challenge, please

consider "thumping" the little up arrow

to the right

of my post to say that you liked it. Thanks so much!!

SkeeterHawk · Apr 10, 2025

I forgot to mention in the video that I wore my "Beer Season" shirt for the occasion since I was blowing up pictures of beer bottles, and an actual beer bottle. Seemed appropriate...

Kgphotos · Apr 18, 2025

This is my first post ever in the “Unofficial Challenges”. I hope I scored it correctly. I shot this at 25 yards off of sandbags. I used my Walther LG400 and H&N Finale Match Heavy pellets. The very last shot stung me. I was using two wind flags and watching them closely. I think I must have shot right before the flag began to move. The wind was mild but with a ten meter rifle shooting wadcutters at 25 yards it didn’t take much. Anyway, I had fun and will try to participate again next match. Thanks for hosting.
Kenny

Charles Shanaberger · Apr 20, 2025

I shot this today, been meaning to do it. FX DRS Tactical .22 cal 600mm, Element Helix Scope. MDT Ground pod up front Caldwell rabbit ear bag in back.

Kgphotos · Monday at 10:43 AM

Charles Shanaberger said:
I shot this today, been meaning to do it. FX DRS Tactical .22 cal 600mm, Element Helix Scope. MDT Ground pod up front Caldwell rabbit ear bag in back.

Hi Charles,
How are you liking your DRS Tactical? When it was announced I was very tempted. I’d had the $$ saved up for my Walther LG400 for a long time but it was out of stock every place in the world it seemed. Then the DRS Tactical caught my eye. Fortunately I resisted and just a couple weeks later I got the email that the Walther was back at Krales.
Kenny

Charles Shanaberger · Monday at 11:46 AM

Kgphotos said:
Hi Charles,
How are you liking your DRS Tactical? When it was announced I was very tempted. I’d had the $$ saved up for my Walther LG400 for a long time but it was out of stock every place in the world it seemed. Then the DRS Tactical caught my eye. Fortunately I resisted and just a couple weeks later I got the email that the Walther was back at Krales.
Kenny

I have been really impressed with it, both in accuracy and efficiency, it's light weight but solidly built, stock DRS magazines are horrid, I bought 3 Orion magazines much easier to load.
This is my 6th FX rifle, and it has been the most impressive out of the box as far as performance. But FX quality control is still having issues I think, out of the box mine was missing the front trigger guard bolt. I have tried 5 different 18 grain pellets and am getting sub half inch groups at 50 yds with all of them in perfect conditions or inside. The H &N 18's aren't as consistent though as the other brands in my DRS. All are shooting between 880 and 905 depending on temperature.

Kgphotos · Monday at 1:36 PM

Charles Shanaberger said:
I have been really impressed with it, both in accuracy and efficiency, it's light weight but solidly built, stock DRS magazines are horrid, I bought 3 Orion magazines much easier to load.
This is my 6th FX rifle, and it has been the most impressive out of the box as far as performance. But FX quality control is still having issues I think, out of the box mine was missing the front trigger guard bolt. I have tried 5 different 18 grain pellets and am getting sub half inch groups at 50 yds with all of them in perfect conditions or inside. The H &N 18's aren't as consistent though as the other brands in my DRS. All are shooting between 880 and 905 depending on temperature.

Very nice tune and excellent accuracy. 48 shots with an SD of 2.3 is really great. You speed is perfect for that weight pellet in my experience.
Kenny

TheAirgunnero · Monday at 10:28 PM

2 Cards

FX Panthera 700mm .22 cal, JSB 25.39gr unsorted, windy condition and target distance from firing line to target stand is 55.33 yards.

I don’t know if I scored them correctly

Video proof: