What non-standard "targets" have you shot at?

My daughter had a stylish clear body phone with which she ran up our phone bill in the middle of the night against my orders. I took a hammer to that bugger.

A couple of years later she obtained a pager after I had told her not to do so. I took it down to the range and used it for a target for my Ruger MK512. Took two shots at 15 yds, but I killed it dead.

This did raise some eyebrows at the range, so I guess it was very non PC to damage the symbol of the ever expanding technilogical empire.

By the way, I still have what pieces I could find and am sometimes tempted to do the equivalent of a taxidermy job on it and mount it next to my action pistol trophy plaque.

[This message has been edited by Guy B. Meredith (edited February 07, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Guy B. Meredith (edited February 07, 2000).]
 
Try some golf balls. Get the yellow kind so you can see 'em better at long range. It's pretty impressive how tough those things are and how many rounds it takes to make one unrecognizable. A .223 just zips right thru with no damage at all. A .45 on the other hand...
 
Full Freon Cans,Hello Green Peace!!!! those things would realy take off...wee, look at the hole in the ozon.
Ok, calm down, that was way back in 1971, the hole has grown shut, nothing to get worried about.
 
Most fruits & vegetables, TV's microwaves etc. The neatest color display was full to partilly full quart automotive paint cans. Shot 'em with a 44 mag., the lids would blow off and what looked like lava-lamp stuff would shoot up 10-15'.
For plinking with .22's, try golfballs, charcoal briquets or ballons filled with flour.
 
Nobody else hunts the wily Prickly Pear?

Let's see--out-of-date fruit, cookies, mesquite chunks, dirt clods, dumpyard rats, Christmas fruitcake, El Cheapo Charcoal Briquets, and ice. That's all I can think of right now...
:)

LawDog
 
Nothing exotic, just the usual - cans, shotgun shell casings (expended!)... whatever else I could find in the hills.

One thing that was a lot of fun was shooting from on top of a hill in China Camp down into a body of water about 200 yards away. There was nothing around for miles, so richochet wasn't a concern. Targets were floating driftwood. I'd use my 8mm Mauser - even if I missed, the ensuing geyser was most gratifying to my 16 year old self. :D

Cliff
 
Some years ago, I used to TP at an old clay strip mine for a brick plant. There were several old engines there from the old cars.
I used to use AP's in an Enfield .303. The bullets would frag the heads, and knock holes through one side of the block.

Also shot hole through the web section of chunks of rail. My Father worked on the BN railroad then, and brought home these pieces.

Have shot holes through car wheels with sabot slugs.

Have shot rats in an old illegal dump at the edge of town. Matter of fact, first time I did, I was 10 yo, and it was Dads old Win '97. Knocked me right on my arse.

Also shot thermite weld charges with a 243. They start one helluva fire!!!

Some of the same stuff y'all have told about.

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
Mercator,
YES!!! I have shot a snowman. Okay it was one of those plastic Christmas ornaments that some people use to decorate the front yard. Someone decided to decorate the entrance road to our hunting camp last year and poor old Frosty has been paying the price ever since. So far, he is still recognizable, but he won't hold water!

Spray cans of paint and anything left dumped on our hunting lease (I don't what it is about the sight of a road cut into Georgia red clay that makes people want to dump trash on it)

Jack
 
When I was younger, a friend and I blew up cement blocks with my Mini14, which was fun. Besides that, paint cans are fun to shoot at. :)
 
BISHOP - not good. No matter how much we may disagree with the UN's policies, that is double plus ungood.
 
Funny out of all the e-mail requests,laughs, and people telling me to repost it so they can copy it and make copies for the range, YOU are the First to make such a PC remark.
If you can't laugh at what could possibly be the future, and possibly illegal to post, then what can you laugh at?


BISHOP
 
You have no idea what I laugh at and I laugh at a lot of things. However, one thing I don't laugh about is taking a shot at a UN soldier who just might be an American.
 
Well Mal, if the day ever came when American police or soldiers were going door to door looking for "illegal" guns, what would your reccomended course of action be?
 
First, you guys do pick up all of your trash when you are done and help during the range work parties, right?

Mal H and Bishop:

I agree with Mal. I personally am offended at the posting of the UN target on the TFL. I also think it is just giving ammunition to the anti-RKBA crowd. However, you are entitled to have your fun unless the "owner" of the board indicates otherwise.

RikWriter:

I don't think the day will come when soldiers beat on my door to take my guns away. However, I know I could be wrong and I am not complacent or a "sheeple" on this issue. I also don't know any LEOs or soldiers who would be dumb enough to go around Wyoming gathering up guns. If it ever did happen, I would give up my firearms long before I would kill someone over a piece of wood and steel (or polymer). Would I give them all of my guns, well...


[This message has been edited by Ankeny (edited February 08, 2000).]
 
Ankeny, first off, the official ranges around here don't allow shooting at anything but paper targets...all my nonstandard shooting has been on private land, and was cleaned up when appropriate (the cement blocks were on a trash pile so no clean up was necessary).
As for the second issue, well if you REALLY think the issue is just some "pieces of wood and iron" I don't think we have any common ground from which to discuss the issue.
 
Good Evening Everyone-

John Holt II?

Bishop, please stop. It's not clever. To borrow a phrase, your post will not "win friends or influence people."

Regards,

~ Blue Jays ~
 
Tortillas. Corn or flour, it makes no difference. They make nice targets with a black marker, and the birds love'em!

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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
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