Recycling outdated beer with a Savage .17HMR

I shoot cheap cans of soda alot with my 223. It is great fun to watch the cans explode. Try cans of red spray paint.
 
My friends and I were messing around with live targets and .17's a few months back.

Take a section of 2x3, drill many evenly spaces 1/4" holes down the length. Insert golf tees and top with your favorite color paint ball.

Set the thing up at 100 yards and keep score. Loser buys the beer after range-time.

Very challenging and makes a great, colorful mess. :)
 
Shooting at them is not how I recycle outdated cans of beer - my recycling turns beer into yellow water. :p

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Most domesticate beers can be vastly improved with a trip to the target line. Even a 22 LR from a pistol can make a full beer can dance and explode most satisfactorily at the 25 yard line.

You avoid the bad taste and the resultant deleterious effects on your corporeal body and it is a lot of fun as Johnny can attest to.
 
This beer was left in a cooler for over a year... not sure if you could call it beer anymore...
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Didn't the video say it was Keystone Light? That wasn't even beer to begin with. (as Old Grump pointed out) ;)

Personally, I think shooting at paint cans is irresponsible, if only mildly so. Why not just use empty plastic bottles of water with a bit of food coloring in them? Waters the grass and doesn't hurt anything.

Heck, even soda bottles and cans are better, if it hurts the vegetation, at least it feeds the bugs.
 
When shooting non-paper targets farrr toooo maaannnyy shooters leave all kind of crap on the range for someone else to clean up.

Bowling pin shooters very often.
 
Some of us shoot at targets like that all the time, we also show up on the range with a yard litter size trash bag to pick up the debris. I always take more off the range then I ever bring on the range. Some people just can't get the idea that picking up after themselves is an adult thing to do and their wife or mama isn't going to follow them around forever.

The can doesn't even have to be unopened, a drained can refilled with water will blow up just as satisfactorily as an unopened can. I started throwing away the lids to the plastic pop bottles I use for target because the caps were often hard to find and it didn't make a lick of difference when you shot them. the hydrostatic pressure opposite of the bullet entry hole way out matched the little bit that flew out the top.

It tickles my little giggle bone to compare the large slow bullets with the high velocity bullets and the FMJ with the HP vs FP vs SP vs LSWC. Entertaining and educational. Some say I have to much time on my hands, I say there aren't enough hours for the shooting range, I need longer days and more ammo.
 
I really enjoy shooting anything that gives me instant feedback. Shooting at the cans makes a cloud of beer that makes me almost as happy as drinking it and whether I am drinking it or shooting it I always pick up the cans afterward. :)
 
The real question is why was this beer allowed to stay in the cooler for so long? That's like forgetting to feed your cat then shooting it out of pity.
 
That reminded me that my mother-in-law used to buy cheap beer called "Bullseye" for parties (she didn't drink, so is excused).

I suppose you could have relabeled your can "Bullseye" and served it to folks you don't like, but the "mercy killing" was probably the best solution.
 
The cooler was dumped into a shower drain we don't use and it sat for about a year and a half... there is about six more on death row... just waiting for a day with a little less wind to shoot a better video...
 
I had to put our very ill cat down. Not a fun thing, I assure you.

Many years before, my brother and friend tried putting another sick cat down in a gravel pit, using a Walther P38. It ran off pretty fast for a sick cat! The cat came home with a scratch a few days later, and it lived for many years after.

Anyway, I didn't take any chances. It walked slowly away and my 20 gauge at 5 yards made sure it didn't have any pain.

Today, it might be illegal to kill sick pets with a gun in many states. I can understand why, and though I knew it was the most humane thing I could do for my cat at the time, the memory is still painfully clear, after some 50 years.
 
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