what are some fun things to shoot at

Wanna have even more fun with those AOL (And other `free offer?' CDs.) disks? Try the little `game' we've recently been `playing'. Take and tape them to a fairly heavy piece of cardboard such that one of those small bright orange `stick-on' target spots is visible and centered in the hole. The `object' is to *not* hit the CD but to hit the target spot instead. (We've been known to set them up out to 200yds away at times! {BSE GRIN!}) So far, fortunately or unfortunately depending upon *how* one `views' it the `score?' is AOL disks 20 and shooters only 10. But we are getting better with every AOL disk that shows up. {CHORTLE!} (Some how it seems that there is *still* the urge just to shoot up the disks themselves, but we are getting better at resisting it the more we have around to shoot. {GRIN!})


Also... I don't know who it was who suggested them... Golf balls are great! If you can get a bunch of those bright orange or red ones so much the better. We usually put them up at 100yds but have recently been contemplating 200yds since the ones at 100yds are starting to get too easy. {WICKED GRIN!} (*If* you've got a `warped?' sense of humor it can *really* help one let off *quite a bit* of `steam'! [Something about `liberal population control' comes to mind? The `electric blue' ones are `best?'! {EVIL CHORTLE!}])


And since it is dad-gummed cold right now... I think the next `day at the range' here on the farm is going to include some one else's suggestion. Frozen milk jugs with assorted colours of food dye mixed in. Thanks!
 
Hmmm...come to think of it, a big can of Spaghetti-Os should make a fun target. There are no rockchucks where I live, unfortunately, so I could shoot the Spaghetti-Os, walk up to it and look at it, and pretend that the remains were once a rockchuck.

:barf:
 
We actually set up a few pennies and nickels (stuck them onto paper plates with chewing gum) for the kids to take a pop at last week. My nephew and my 6 year old scored a couple of each at about 25 yards (with a scope) on the .22 - that's a lot of fun for young ones who get to keep their tokens of achievement . We are always looking for squirrels and cats (did I say that -oops!). :cool:

In my younger (and more foolish years) we used to set up still loaded shotgun shells (#8 shot) in chicken wire at about 100 yrds. First one to hit the primer wins, while everybody else is hiding behind the truck :eek:

We've tried the 2-liter and 1-gallon jugs with water, gasoline, jello, and various other liquifiable materials. They are all fun when used responsibly and very carefully :D

Try clays (stationary) with something small like a .22 and try to shoot the center out without it shattering. Great fun for kids of all ages. My first experience was with pine cones - still in the tree - with a 12 gauge. My great grandpa could make them disappear one-by-one without fail. We did used to set up already shot 12 and 20 gauge shells on fenceposts, abandoned care hoods, fallen logs, and miscellaneous other items ;) to see who could shoot them off the fastest with .22s and shotguns. It gets really fun when there are about 50 shells up there and you get to see who can take out the most with 1 shot from a favorite bird gun.

ERRainman
 
Try shooting a .22LR with A .22. Makes alitle pop noise. Hard to hit and chalanging. Sparows are always fun but they learn fast. They are small and hard enough to hit that it is interesting. I have a near infanite suply on my farm. Runing cyotes are fun too.
 
Charcoal briquettes - put several on a piece of string, or wire

Orange traffic cones - your tax dollars at work

Orange traffic barrels - exercise discretion and thought

Ice of all varieties and shapes

Wood chips painted bright colors

Fish - yes, fish

Those metal 'For sale' or "Vote Kennedy" signs - NOT WHILE IN THE LAWN!
 
a piece of tin

a chunk of clay

spent shotgun shells

twist-off bottle caps

a sapling about as big around as your arm

for martial artists/shooters--the boards you break . . . use the halves as shooting targets and double up on your training

a lightered stump--I had much fun shooting one today just to see the splinters flying

armadillos
 
My partner made some swinging targets out of 1/2 inch steel plate. He use a paint can lid for a modle to cut out the plate. He painted them bright yellow.It is protable and we can change their distance.We shoot at it with rifles and pistols. Shooting of the bench, we put the target at 300ys. We have a larger steel target fixed at 300yds we shoot at standing. It is about "8x10". We think it is good pratice to shoot at these targets under hunting circumstances. Using steel there is no mess. A hit is easly seen/heard and some bets are won and lost. We are trying to think how to rig a moveing target. Any suggestions?...Mike
 
I like to use my 22 on cat tails, the plant kind. They "explode" with a puff of cat tail fluff. They make a good target on a windy day. :) SamC
 
We use the 2 liter coke bottles. Cut the top 3" off, fill with water, add purple food dye, freeze and Presto! Purple mist when hit with .223 Nosler Ballistic Tips at 300yd +.
After they freeze, we turn em upside down and shake the block out. Nothing to clean up.

Bakeries will sometimes give away stale loaves of bread, hit them with a ballistic tip! Instant bread dust!
 
Most of the time I stick to paper targets and the occasional bowling pin at the outdoor range. Mainly because it really irritates me having to pick up all the little pieces of plastic, old pop cans and cardboard boxes that some people leave laying down range. I realize most people pick up there trash but there are always the few that don't. So this in mind I have chosen in the past not to shot anything out of the ordinary.

I have to admit though. there was this phone that I really had a lot of trouble with. It was a Lucent cordless phone and it truely was a piece of crap. So I saved it for that one special day at the range. I took my Remington 700 VS in .308 to the range with me that day. I set the phone up at the 100 yard marker and settled in at the bench. While I looked through my 3.5x10 Leupold scope and placed those crosshairs on the number 5 button of the handset this calm came over me. Knowing in only a few seconds all my frustration for the last few years over this phone would soon be over. As I squeezed the trigger I expected to see it explode as the 168 grain hollow point found its mark. To my suprise it seemed like nothing happened. I walked down to inspect the phone and sure enough my bullet found its mark. The number 5 button was gone. in its place was a nice little hole both front and back. It seems that for a piece of crap phone it was constructed pretty well. Not to be denied my vengence on this source of frustration I unloaded 15 more rounds into it before it was finally reduced to little pieces of plastic.

Now I don't know if I will ever do that again, but I have to admit. It really was a lot of fun.

I wonder when my micro wave is going to go on the fritz.
 
My air rifle loves aluminum cans!

I fill them with water and watch them EXPLODE with a well placed hollow point. It splits them from top to bottom, spalying the sides out 2"! Yes, that's almost as wide as the cans themselves.

In case you are wondering, its an RWS 48 (1100 fps). And yes, its very effective on squirrels, completely penetrating with the same hollowpoints. Only the base penetrates, the front is blown off leaving an effective cone-shaped projectile to go through.

It also did a number on a few opossum, braining them with eye-popping explosiveness.
 
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