What's the coolest target you ever shot?

Small ketchup packages. Stapled to target backboard and shot with pistol. We did this at a cowboy match at about 5-6 yards. At first we weren't sure any of us would hit targets that small. But all were shot except two. Great ketchup splatter.
 
I love new ideas coming at me so quick. I've tried the exploding targets, but never the pumpkin, although I've considered it. I did have fun picking of coconuts at 100yds with my 7MM Mag. Debris went everywhere. My nephew was spotting for me and his basic words were, "It disappeared, wait, it's still coming down!" Love it!
 
Blue Jays & fastforty,

I’ll third that on the bats. In my younger days, I was HE double L on varmints of all types, dispatching them with swift efficiency. Bats at dusk certainly pose a difficult target to hit, but I would think they are probably more of a benefit then a liability.

Skyhawk
 
Ned, great idea. Now I know what to do with those handfuls of sauces they always dump into my take-out bags!

Just to inject a woman's point of view - The funnest thing I ever shot was an old stuffed Barney the Dinosaur. After being subjected to hours and hours of the Barney Show (which can cause a diabetic coma when watched too long), it was nice to see that purple devil's spawn explode into a puff of fluff. :D

I always say, take out your frustrations on your targets. On really bad days, name your targets. You'll feel better when your done :D
 
Heavy steel plates at dusk are a blast, when you get sparks splattering.

Try old (sealed) cans of some vegetable you don't like. .223 actually makes them splatter towarad the shooter, when hit within 100 yards. Something about the way the pressure builds up and shoots out the holes.
At $.25 to $.30 per can, that's not too bad a price.
 
Old computers. Lots of old computers. I'm a geek, security analyst and systems administrator by trade, so computers frustrate me every day of my life. Nothing like blowing holes in old hardware with a 1911. My brother in law got in on the fun with his .30 rifle and a muzzleloader. I've gotta say, seeing a crashed hard drive literally pop from being hit with a black powder load is an interesting experience.

/Sciri/
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WETSU:
Sorry, no prior service or active duty folks punishing us civilians with stories of TOWs, Dragons, M203s, etc. No fair[/quote]
Sorry, couldn't help myself but ...
1. Training exercise in Panama
I was firing at tanks and huts with a M60 Maching Gun while flying on a Huey.
2. M203's at tanks are always cool.
3. Nightfire (tracers used) at Chemlights. Watching the tracers out of the M16's is cool enough but seeing the chemlights splatter is awesome.
Many other targets but not cool coz they were alive.




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The neatest thing I ever seen was a plastic pop bottle with about 1/4 inch of soda left in the bottom and the lid screwed on tight. by the time we ran it down range and stuck it upside down in the loose dirt in the old gravel pit we shoot at, it was good and pressureized.

Using a Colt AR-15 with a thirty round clip, a lucky shot right in the screw cap in the dirt sent that baby a least fifty feet stright up in the air. It was one of the coolest things I ever seen, the thought of blasting in the air did go through my mind, but just watching that thing blast off had me standing grinning like an idiot.

I am sure it was a one in a million shot, but it sure was cool!
 
I have shot a lot of different stuff but the neatest thing to watch after shooting was a 125# LPG tank hanging from chains. Lit a railroad flare which was placed near the tank, back about 100 yards and popped the tank with a .30 tracer near the bottom, the LPG lit up and the tank was jetting all over while hanging. We had to use a 250 round belt out of a A4 Browning along with several magazines out of various rifles to get enough holes in it to stop the gyrations.

BTW, tracer alone will not set off gasline LPG or other flammables.

Kids, don't try this at home!

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Ne Conjuge Nobiscum
"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
As a kid in the 50's we never had much money for ammo or store-bought targets (seriously, think Walton's Mtn./Charlottesville, Va.) But one time my father let me shoot a can of creamed corn off the top of a fence post with a .22 -- what a mess! I was 5 or 6 and can't tell you whether it was a short or a l.r., but it was the same day he first let me fire his 20 ga. Winchester Model 12. He supported and caught the shotgun and let me sit down in the dirt road. :) That cured me for some time. By age 9 or 10 my cousin and I would camp out at his grandfather's farm and use battery powered plastic ship models on the farm ponds for .22 practice. Glue the rudder to one side and let 'em go in circles while you try to pick off one piece at a time. We tried building balsa boats with .049 gas engines, but darn those things were fast. The only two we built went straight across the pond, up the bank and into the woods until stopped by a tree. Never did get a shot off. John
 
Will only divulge because statute of limitations has certainly expired.

A.......LINEUP........of........
.....windowpanes.......all stacked in a row.

Long time ago. Probably belonged to a present anti-gun activist.

.45 colt. 15 windowpanes.

Ohhhhhhhh it was bad. I am sorry but it took 35 years for sorry to overcome neato.
 
Blueyedog, Shame on you! I'll have you know after 15 seconds of watching the things dance and listening to the stupid song, I dang near REALLY shot my monitor. ;)

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Ne Conjuge Nobiscum
"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
2 Tanks & 1 APC. (With Dragons and AT-4s)
1 A-7 Corsair. (It was long dead already)
1 AH-64 Apache. (With Miles Gear)
1 Two Star General's HumVee (I was so Dead Meat)


:D
 
Jim,

Wasn't it fun to blow the little critters up since they were so irritating? Prolonged exposure to that song could be dangerous to your computer for exactly the reason you stated. Have you see the commercial that features HampsterDance? It shows a computer with HampsterDance playing over and over in an empty cubical. The announcer says something like: "Computers...they have changed the way we work, the way we play, the way we drive our co-workers crazy in the next cubical."

George,

The general's humvee?!?! :eek:
 
Most fun I had was a 4 on 4 stake shoot.

If you never done one, try it.

Choose up two teams of 2,3,or 4.

Set two , 4 or 5 foot lengths of 2x4 or 4x4 (larger teams) into the ground and mark of a 1 foot length in the middle of each board. Stand back 10yds or so. The goal is to shoot through the board and break it in the 1 foot zone before the other team shoots through their board. Eight guys blasting away as fast as they can is a kick. Load all your mags and pick team memebers with lots of hicaps.

Strategy Tip. Assign one guy (usually someone with a 45 to start shooting the top of the board after its been whittled down to a sliver that is hard to hit. He can use the leverage of the big slugs passage to help break it down.
 
I shot a one pound sealed can of FFF black powder at 50 yds...we all felt the heat blast, and a HUGE black mushroom choud went up!
 
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