Anyone here find shooting at paper targets boring?

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Machineguntony

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So yesterday a friend and I went shooting on another friends farm.

We brought out some of his NFA machine guns and a 50 bmg.

It's so much more fun when you can see stuff being destroyed or blown up.

We shot up a number of water filled milk jugs, water balloons, old watermelons, a half eaten cantelope, a half eaten roasted chicken dangling by its drumstick, some corn cobbs, an old cabinet drawer, an old TV, a broken iPad, some old cell phones, one old phone books (which nicely retained some mushroomed bullets), a big block of thickly made gelatin, a normal and unshaken coca cola two liter (awesome results), a well shaken two liter bottle of coca cola (warning, be far away), and a very old kitchen sink.
 
I had access to a color plotter, and some of the images we printed to shoot at, I wouldn't want to say on here, but we were trying to put a hole in a hole.
 
Steel targets that tip over, swing, fall, etc., are always more interesting/fun than paper targets. They also make less mess and damage to the environment than many of the traditional (bottles, etc.) plinking targets of years gone by.
 
Very boring... to the point I wont waste ammo on it except for ccw practice on a paper plate.

Although I have been kicking around getting a nice .17hmr for pure accuracy "excitement" :p
 
Paper is fun for me to start the day of shooting. I usually shoot for accuracy through a couple mags and then begin plinking on bottles/cans and/or steel and I train for speed when I do that. That said, shooting "stuff" is more fun but I always feel guilty if I don't put some groups up first. I guess I just need to know how precise I am.
 
Yes, that's why I chose action pistol events like pin matches and steel matches to compete in over bullseye matches.

The only time I shoot paper be it handgun or rifle is to test new loads and the accuracy potential of the gun itself.

Out in Western Colorado there was a rifle match put on by the local volunteer fire department where they shot at dynamite place on a mountain at various unknown yardages
I always thought that would be a hoot to shoot but I never did make it out there.

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Ya paper is boring.Here in Dayton,Oh. theres no place to shoot the fun stuff.I don't have access to private land.
 
I shoot at paper targets supplied by IDPA and NRA.
The guy with the timer and scorecard prevents boredom.
Well, I do shoot at steel, too, but they are still regulation targets and score is kept.

I remember when breaking and blowing up stuff was getting dull. If I had not been introduced to competitive shooting with those boring old paper targets, I would probably be playing golf by now.
 
I just change the face printed on the targets and it gets interesting all over again. In all honesty I shoot for extreme accuracy so dumping mags or lots of rounds at one time does nothing for me. Now, hitting a gallon jug at 500 yards gets me excited. :cool:
 
We do paper and steel targets and I just got three bowling pins.

I used to shoot other stuff, bottles, glass and things like that but I got tired of being the one to have to clean up after everyone else left. That is another reason I do not go to public ranges, because of the mess people leave behind.

I remember one guy saying he put all his "smashable/breakable" targets on a tarp and then just rolls it up and dumps the stuff. I might try that sometime in the future.
 
I like it because I can see exactly where my bullets are going. I'm still in the new stages of learning though. I did have some fun shooting some sporting clays that were laying on the backstop of the range at 50 yards.
 
Boring?

No. But it is not as fun as shooting targets that explode (milk jugs full of water with a high powered rifle are my favorite) or fall over (steel plates and bowling pins).
 
I shoot paper with rifles mostly just for load workup and zeroing. Then I move to fun targets.

Revolvers, I don't really care to shoot at paper.

I shoot more paper than anything with semi-auto handguns though.
 
I like frozen or thawed jugs of water when I shoot. I put food coloring in them sometimes but its as fun without it. A couple friends have brought their kids out with balloons full of liquid or confetti and said they had a blast.
 
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