Keep shooting fun?

I've been trying out shooting different objects (golf ball, baseball, and eggs or plastic ones is next) at different distances. Reactive targets (gongs, steel silhouettes, and clays) are instant gratification. Change up shooting stances or go iron sights vs scope.

And one other thing that keeps shooting fun, bring someone along and teach them. It's amazing to see their eyes light up when they shoot for the first time.:)
 
I've gone to the grocery store for the packages of old fruit and veggies before. Try hitting a grapefruit at 100 yds. with a .44 Mag and iron sights. If you get close it will move but a direct hit is a thing of beauty...
 
I'm lucky enough that I can just grab a rifle and walk into the back pasture and hunt coyotes and pigs. I've never gotten bored with that. And..with a pistol I just love bouncing cans around. Then I make more bullets.
 
I shoot off brand soda cans that you can buy at wall-Mart for $2.50 for a 24 pack... they explode.

I all so shoot golf balls.

My favorite thing to shoot is Tannerite http://www.tannerite.com/ but its a bit expensive and it needs to be a fast round that shoots it. from experience a 17HMR will set it off but a 44mag wont.

I all have played around with http://www.glowammo.com/ It makes shooting in the evening very fun!

then there is the old stand by Watermelons and Pumpkins not to mention ground squirrels.
 
Big fan of plastic army guys from the dollar store. We set up groups of different colored troops and "fight it out".
With scoped .22s they are challenging at 25 yards.
 
When shooting gongs gets boring, it's time to move them farther away and bet your friends that you can hit them more often than they can.

Really, nothing keeps shooting interesting like trying to do it better than someone else. That's why I love competition.
 
Needed some handgun time yesterday so 50 rounds each out of my .357 revolver and 9MM pistol at water filled liter bottles and gallon jugs. I watered my grass and had a hell of a pile of plastic for recycling. Not fancy but it's always interesting to see how a gallon of water can stop a 115 gr hardball 9MM bullet after flattening it out but the .357 blows the dickens out of it. :D
 
Something fun to do with any rimfire handgun or rifle is a variation on the standard NRA Rimfire Silhouette matches. You know these are small steel targets and you knock them down at different distances. To keep it simple and fun for all, I made scale drawings of each animal. Mass copied them at Staples. I have 8 target stands. We set up these paper targets at agreed upon distances for different guns. Such as: red dot autoloader pistols, open sight pistols, scoped rifles, open sight rifles. Example distances may be 10, 15, 20, 25 yards. Or 20, 30, 40, 50 yards. Number of holes in each animal is your score. Max possible is 40 points. We use a nice score sheet created with Microsoft Excel, printed small size and stacked on a small clipboard. Here is a photo sample of the targets
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What do you all do when targets and gongs get boring?
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Shoot prairie dogs, or hunt coyotes, pigs, deer, pronghorn, elk and bear. To me range time is just rifle prep work for the real fun of hunting.
 
Come first snow, me and my buddies are headed out with about 40 wine and gatorade bottles full of water and different food colorings to try to tie dye the ground from a few hundred yards away. If you've got people to shoot with you can always find new competitive things to do.
 
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