Reactive targets for larger calibers?

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capflyboy05

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I posted a similar thread a long time ago.
It was about fun and or challenging targets for a .22.

Now I have a Mosin Nagant, as some of you know.
I'm going to the range with her tomorrow.
What are some cool targets that I can make or are literally 2-3 bucks.
I'm living on my graduation money right now. haha.
I GRADUATE IN 10 DAYS!! :D (off topic, I just had to say it!) lol
Anything that goes poof or boom, or is just fun to shoot at. :)
 
how about some balloons with baby powder? That's about as cheap as you can get I think.. or some hot, freshly shaken pop cans.
 
fill some old cans or water bottles with water and blast em. sometimes when i go to walmart we pick up a few heads of cabbage for a few bucks and have fun seeing em blow apart at 100 yards with iron sights (with my mosin, actually)


can you stack some clays? you can usually buy those at wally world for on the cheap too

enjoy the mosin, its my only 'big' caliber rifle and nailing the bull with those old irons while my buddies shoot their scoped rifles makes me smile :)
 
Almost any closeable plastic container of less than 3-gallons reacts very nicely to the Mosin!!!:):):)

Two-liter soda bottles and 1 gallon milk or juice jugs are the ones we use most often.

:eek:Of course the cleanup is a challenge -- but we call it a two-step recyling process.:cool: The shredded plastic compacts better!:)
 
Cinderblocks (be careful with them), containers of water, dirt clods, discarded toilets. If you had a shotgun I'd suggest a block of styrofoam.
 
I'm working on getting a shotgun right now actually.
I just filled up a bunch of bottles of water. (20 to be exact.)
I'll fill some more tomorrow before I leave.
I like the cinder block idea too. :D
 
The cheapest soda at walmart makes a nice fizzy pop, gallon milk jugs, and if you set a large rock inside a cardboard box to weigh it down if you hit the rack every now and then it will blow all of the targets off of the box.

Always pick up your trash, especially if you are on public or BLM land.
 
Expand beyond the range!

Ground-hogs, prarie-dogs, muskrats all make wonderful poofs and are very reactive and don't cost anything. Don't forget Coyotes... Setup a call, back off 200 yards and most areas of the country now you will be guaranteed a shot.

Seriously, do your game a favor and talk to farmers in your area...each will have a species they don't want on their property and make nice with them, pick up trash on their property. One you demonstrate you aren't a POS, most will love you and offer to let you eradicate varmints whenever you want a nice poof :)!

I've lined up shooting even at the local golf courses under their nuisance permits.... Go out there on days when the course is closed and they let me take a cart on go on "patrol"! Nasty Gopher's!

No better practice than shooting at a target that you have to guess if they are going to move or not as you pull the trigger and predict it.
 
Tannerite exploding targets are a blast, but not that cheap.
A sack of pototatos is also pretty fun.....
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we recently bought 50 LBS of that stuff and it is very awesome.

For target shooting we started putting about a spoonful inside of ping pong balls. They are not as impressive as shooting several pounds like on YOUTUBE but you can still tell when you hit them.

The problem is that we did not have any luck setting it off with a 22 but my 17HMR worked about 90% of the time. I don't think the 22 has the speed to start Tannerite like a 17HMR does. I don't know how fast the bullet has to move but I would guess its some where between the 22 and the 17 in speed.
 
If you can weld, make two-plate targets with a simple hinge...just like they use on several gun shows.

Or make some swiniging plates, like you see at SASS events :D
 
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