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quepasakimosabe

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What do you all do when targets and gongs get boring?

I like the old can on the fence post thing but even that has it limits walking back and forth.

I recently have been exploring terminal balistics, no to sound crazy, but what will x round go through, at x range, out of x gun, ect.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.
 
I have fruit trees that produce more fruit than we can possibley eat, so shooting the ones that fall on the ground is fun. They explode with a shotgun.

For me when rifles and pistols get boring, I pick up a shotgun and hand throw clays like tom knapp. That never gets old because it is always challanging.
 
We just started developing a range at my neighbor's house out to a little over 500 yds. Building metal targets and placing them out at various distances. Haven't yet lost the thrill of hitting a 6"x8" target out at 4-500yds with the M1A and open sights. Today I found out what a .223 SS109 will do to 1/2" steel plate at around 400yds. Always something to try. If you get bored just make your targets smaller.
 
Cans filled with water explode nicely.
I get bored shooting paper very quick, I much prefer to shoot living things.
We have some very pesky annoying birds I like to remove the feathers from with my 223, thats my favourite target.
 
Got land?

Fill a deer feeder with chicken feed and cheap bird seed, set it to drop a small amount every day or so, and spend your time slamming starlings into the ground. Coyotes, feral cats, and blowflies need to eat too, you know.

Smacking down a grackle at 100 yards with a hollow point is a challenge.

Even bigger challenge? Set up white paper behind the thing, and go after the flies.

As long as vermin will come to bait, there is no need for shooting to become boring.

Of course, check your game laws...
 
We save old monitors, computers, dead vacuums, cd players, printers, microwave ovens, tv's, radios, and more. Over a years time we also accumulate surplus ammo such as a good variety of slugs, BB shot, hoards of rimfire and quite a lot of handgun / pistol ammo. Then out at the farm we have our "Appliance Shoot".
 
Load up a bunch of ammo and go varmint hunting. There in SoCal, you have lots of ground squirrels. Go find some.
 
great ideas i have a varmint hunt planned for the 10th of nov with my AR that will be fun, coyotes are abundant here and i go quail hunting every weekend in 29 palms, if i dont come home with bag limit i was off that day. those damn jack rabbits are fun to shoot too, damn i wish you could use cenerfire/rimfire to take em, my AR would get hell of a workout. I knew I wouldnt be deer hunting much here cause SOCAL deer suck and arent worth my slugs. You did give me some motivatioin to sit out all day and rid the desert of some crows and pigeons with my 12 ga.
 
Re Load

Re loading and striving for the holy grail of a 5 shot bug hole at 300 yards ads a whole new realm to shooting sports for me. Varmint are a lot of fun because you never know when they will come out or at what range. I recommend taking a good telephoto camera because you never know what you will see while you are sitting there.
 
I don't shoot anywhere near enough for it to get boring, but there's a bunch of ways to keep it interesting. Golf balls with a .22lr is a blast, other fun targets are spent shotgun shells and .22 casings. For centerfire, I'd imagine baseballs would work as well as a golf ball although might not bounce around as much, clay targets on the berm are always good also. Varmint hunting can be a blast if you have an area with a lot of varmints. Here it would be woodchucks, horse farms are the perfect place for this, the farmers love getting rid of the little hole makers. Alas horse farms are getting fewer and farther between around here. Coyote hunting can be a lot of fun too if there's a lot of them around and you can call them in (I've never really had any luck calling them here) or know someone that can.

Stu
 
I play a safe form of Russian roulette. I load my GP100 with 1 round and spin the cylinder. Then my sholying buddies and I pass it around and take a shot at the target. It keeps things entertaining and also helps you recognize flinching problems.

BB
 
with pistols i've recently tried out IDPA.

with rifles i dont know, im in the same boat you are. im thinking about reloading, i took an appleseed, i'd like to take a carbine course or some s uch in the future


but for a random saturday afternoon, i bought a box of clays and tossed em on the berm at 100 yards behind my paper targets. let me tell you, watching those explode when i hit them with my m1 is way more gratifying than walking up and seeing a decent group (i dont have a good spotting scope)

reactive targets for the win!
 
fruits, veggies, pop cans, pop bottles, water jugs, I change up targets quite a bit moving between deer, bad guys and bullseyes. once my brother got a couple boxes of crush tomato soup cans the the grocery store couldn't sell and we had a fun time painting the gun range red...range owners didn't like that much lol. one thing you could try is a coffee can on a fencpost but drive a large nail or screw through the bottom of the can and use that to secure the can to the top of the fencepost so that you dont constantly have to go reset it.
 
29 Stumps

So we have a member in the Stumps. Been there done that. Don't go to the monument and shoot prickly pear cactus. Almost got into trouble for that. The deputy agreed the boundary was not well marked so my AR-15 was returned and he suggested we go a bit farther out away from town. Once you get tired because there's not much to shoot, get yourself a Cocker Spaniel and take her out to climb the big rocks. Take her to Rattlesnake Canyon, let her get a cactus needle in her paw then take it out. She'll love you forever. Take her to Lucky Park if it's still there.
 
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