fun shoot target ideas

[wills]

Tie a washer on a string, glue a piece of paper over the hole. Put the boolit through the paper. Or toss the washer up, shoot through the hole.

[725]

I run a kids summer black powder range and when the paper gets boring, I hang a water filled jug off the target frame. They always perk up because it's different.

[unclebill]

weve never done this at a fun shoot but my buddies and i have tied a helium balloon to a cheapo remote controlled car.
one guy drives while the other tries to hit the balloon.
then we switch.
this is REALLY hard to do because your buddy is driving as erratically as possible and the balloon is bouncing all over the place on it's string.

make sure you have a good backdrop!

p.s.
i use my yugo sks!

[TexRebel]

Here is a fun one to try, skeet with a 22 cal SAA, when you get real good, switch to draw and shoot

[Crash_Corrigan]

Ya take your baloon and put in some chalk dust and staple it to a 2 x 4 plank.

Suspend the plank between two cinder blocks and at 200 yrds have at it.

You can put a dozen or so balloon onto the plank and have a reactive target on the cheap.

If you want to get fancy fill them with helium and chalk dust and tie them to different lengths of string to the 2 x 4 at whatever range you want.

[RL550B]

One of my best old school favorites is Christmas tree ornaments. You can find used one's dirt cheap at yard sales and thrift stores (and even eBay). Hang them all over trees, cactus. Suspend them from string stretched between trees. They are ideal for any distance or light level.......They make a hell of a mess though.

[Calamity Jake]

Clay pedgons on a string, old bowling pins for man on man, 2 kids with 22's and 5 pins each, first one with all 5 down wins.
2X2X4ft stake vertical in the ground, distance from shooter 5-7 yards, on the side tape a close pin, in the cloths pin a playing card so the shooter see the edge now cut the card in half.

Team shoot, as many shooters as you want but 5 is good with 10 rounds per shooter, from 7-10 yards a 4 ft circle drawn on the ground with powdered chalk in the center 25-35 golf balls, fastest team to empty the circle of GB's is winner, or the most empted when all ammo is expended
Change up # of shooters, round count and ball count as needed

[JeffinNZ]

Beer can rise.

Two empty beer/soda cans. Fill one with water. Set the other on top of it. Two man team; one rifle, one shotgun. Have the rifle shooter with a decent caliber and load shoot the water filled can. This launches the empty can into the air for a shotgun shooter.

Obviously the punchier the rifle/pistol load is the higher the empty can goes.

[Triggerhappy]

Do be careful when shooting bowling pins, especially with .22s. I've seen a .22 go in the pin, around the inside of the jacket and back out the hole it went in. Strange things happen with pins.

[Triggerhappy]

Someone told me recently that he shoots pool chalk. You can get it cheap, in different colors and it throws a colored cloud when hit. He uses them at 100 yards and says it's obvious when someone hits one. They're 7/8" square so it's a challenge.

[GS1458]

TestHop & CarpetMan: How about we put your ### in a cage with a few Tigers and let them chase you both around a bit: Comments like that give gun people a BAD name GROW UP !!!!

[lunicy]

That plaster statue was fun. It was old and on the curb. My kids broken toys are fun too.

Pennies at 75yds (iron sight w/ .22) are fun. Pretty cheap too. (Paint stuff orange so you can see it)

Junk tools suspended are fun. (cheap rounded or cracked wrenches, cracked pry bars, etc...)

Cats don't stay still long enough to shoot

A can of spray foam was fun

[carpetman]

GS1458---You are correct, using cats as a target gives gun people a bad name. But cat owners have a good name. In my town last year animal control picked up over 12,000 cats and was able to adopt out about 360 of them. The rest they euthanized. In my neighborhood several ferral type cats roam. I do trap some and have hauled off by animal control (part of stats given above).How horrible the thought of using a gun to shoot one. I should have said dont use them as a target--just euthanize them with a gun. To make it more sporting maybe launch them with helium balloons and shoot the balloons. It would take a larger balloon to launch a tiger.

[Red River Rick]

GS1458---You are correct, using cats as a target gives gun people a bad name. To make it more sporting maybe launch them with helium balloons and shoot the balloons. It would take a larger balloon to launch a tiger.

Carpetman:

Do you think this would work for Moose? Well actually................the decoys..........they're to heavy to carry around and I'm thinking I could float them around with the balloons.

[carpetman]

Red River Rick----There was a picture on the internet of a moose that got caught in a power line as it was being installed--the moose was hanging of a powerline pole. There is another picture of a whitetail buck humping someones decoy. I'd be careful carrying around a load of moose decoys--watch your backside.

[Red River Rick]

Red River Rick----There was a picture on the internet of a moose that got caught in a power line as it was being installed--the moose was hanging of a powerline pole.

I saw that pic........................what happened? Did his balloons break and he fell on the power lines? That was probably a big OWIEEEE! How did the hunter retrieve his moose?

Maybe this BALLOON hunting isn't for me!

[wiljen]

Take a 2x4 and a router and cut a 1/4" deep slot 1/4" wide along the middle of the 4" surface lengthwise and then place El Cheapo Antacid tablets in it about every 4 inches. Makes a great 22 target for the kids as they disappear in a puff of smoke when hit and the things cost about $1.50 for a bottle of 100 when on sale.

You can drill a hole at either end and stake it into the ground if you dont want a hit to move the whole board.

[sundog]

has anyone mentioned dirt clods? what can be cheaper than dirt? and enviro-neutral, too. a good hit gets a nice puff of dust.

[markinalpine]

I save up my almost empty shaving foam cans. You know, when you push the nozzle and soupy foam comes out.

Whatever you use, please pick up after yourself.

[carpetman]

dried cowpatties on water(where there is no riccochet hazzard) splatter pretty good and you get smaller targets the chunks.