CurlyQ.Howard
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Old washing machines - they are tough.
Unusual Targets
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Half full ones sound like more fun *•*•
Manbearpig
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I had an old bag of charcoal briquettes. I never use them because I have a gas grill now. To be honest I don't know why I kept them. I took them out shooting one day and set them up on spent shotgun shells like golf balls on tees. I set them up all over the place and it was great. They turn into black wisps of smoke when you hit them and they are cheap.
Nekko wafers, a cheap, coin-shaped candy is great for target practice, they are @ one inch diameter.
Clay pigeons ( shotgun targets ) set on edge at 100 yards are interesting. Hits in the center go right through, more often than not. Hits around the edge though will usually break them.
Fresh, gooey "Peeps", the marshmallow candies sold around Easter are interesting to shoot at 100 yards.
I used to wonder why there were empty shotgun hulls all over the place at the pistol range - until I was shooting my .22 pistol one day.
When I was a kid with a BB-gun, plastic "Army Men" were a favorite target.
Clay pigeons ( shotgun targets ) set on edge at 100 yards are interesting. Hits in the center go right through, more often than not. Hits around the edge though will usually break them.
Fresh, gooey "Peeps", the marshmallow candies sold around Easter are interesting to shoot at 100 yards.
I used to wonder why there were empty shotgun hulls all over the place at the pistol range - until I was shooting my .22 pistol one day.
When I was a kid with a BB-gun, plastic "Army Men" were a favorite target.
RedBowTies88
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If you microwave them first they're easier to hit
scrubcedar
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Hmmmm....
Lets see,
Skeet thrower
+peeps
I'm beginning to see possibilities here.
Yikes! Maybe not!!!!
Lets see,
Skeet thrower
+peeps
I'm beginning to see possibilities here.
Yikes! Maybe not!!!!
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Willie Lowman
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Old computer monitors.
Old appliances.
Old cars.
Old appliances.
Old cars.
Hedge apples, though they don't explode like I had hoped.
While visiting a friend in CO, we made and shot snowballs, individually or in mini-snowman format.
Another friend had a poster printer. He would print posters of a full 54 card poker deck, and we would shoot competing poker hands. Other times he would print out dartboards, and we would shoot Cricket or 301.
While visiting a friend in CO, we made and shot snowballs, individually or in mini-snowman format.
Another friend had a poster printer. He would print posters of a full 54 card poker deck, and we would shoot competing poker hands. Other times he would print out dartboards, and we would shoot Cricket or 301.
SPEMack618
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Several of my Fraternity Brothers and I have taken to engaging the little plastic army men, tan ones only of course, at 100 yards with .22 rifles.
Quite the challenge.
Points awarded for making hits on important targets first.
Quite the challenge.
Points awarded for making hits on important targets first.
stephen426
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Shotgun shells, as already mentioned, are a lot of fun. I tossed one into a indoor range and soon everyone had their .22s out chasing those things all the way to the back!
You can really make pinecone's dance, that are thrown up against a dirt backstop. Trick is: shoot just below the pinecone, so as to propell it in mid-air, and have you or your partner shoot it while it is still aerial.
Dremill drill the NECCO wafers, and hang buy a small wire.
Don't drill thru the old rubber band core golfballs or you'll jam the drill bit. Use a long-enough string to keep the golf ball in motion after a hit.
Pierce a tennis ball with a fishing hook with a leader attached to it, and hang with a long string.
Super glue paint balls to a string or target, or pierce one with a stand-up toothpick; stuck in cardboard.
Use stand-up 1.5 foot long thin steel flagwires you can buy at Home Depot. Loop one end of the wire to snugly fit a shotgun shell, and stand-up the wire on the backstop.
Dremill drill the NECCO wafers, and hang buy a small wire.
Don't drill thru the old rubber band core golfballs or you'll jam the drill bit. Use a long-enough string to keep the golf ball in motion after a hit.
Pierce a tennis ball with a fishing hook with a leader attached to it, and hang with a long string.
Super glue paint balls to a string or target, or pierce one with a stand-up toothpick; stuck in cardboard.
Use stand-up 1.5 foot long thin steel flagwires you can buy at Home Depot. Loop one end of the wire to snugly fit a shotgun shell, and stand-up the wire on the backstop.
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g.willikers
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You did wait until your mother-in-law was through using it, didn't you?
It would be the gentleman thing to do.
It would be the gentleman thing to do.
MarkDozier
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Taters, for you city boys wasting good candy like Necco wafers that would bee Potatoes.
Beretta686
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I like to dump a full 20-round drum of 12 gauge from my Saiga-12 into a clump of cactus. It's awesome to watch the cactus explode and literally get cut down by the volume of fire. It's best right after it rains when they're full of water.