Non metal reactive targets?

[PNW_Steve]

Hey Everyone,

As usual, my timing is stellar. I was about to hit the "order" button on a selection of steel targets to carry out to the range with me when I got an email from the gun club telling me that use of steel targets is restricted due to fire danger.

Has anyone found non-metallic reactive targets that will stand up to 9mm pistol at 25' and .223 at 100+ yards?

I have tinkered with the "self healing" rimfire targets and they are ok but definitely not up to center fire.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

S.

[Neverhome]

I don't have anything useful to say but does a copper jacketed bullet spark? I wouldn't think so but I don't know. Steel jackets certainly might spark!
Probably easier to outlaw the steel targets than to check everyone's ammo, I guess.

[725]

Never used any, but, places like Wal-Mart sell rubber targets that you shoot right through. Might solve your problem.

[mazo kid]

Reactive, yes. Reusable, no. Shotgun clay birds, about as inexpensive as you can get.

[Winger Ed.]

We used to take out and shoot those rubber dog toys when the dogs quit playing with them.

If ya want something cheap to bounce around when ya hit it-- use blocks of scrap wood.
And,,,, they're bio-degradable.

[BigAlofPa.]

I walk out on the shotgun range . And gather unbroken clays. Then shoot at them.

[PNW_Steve]

Reactive, yes. Reusable, no. Shotgun clay birds, about as inexpensive as you can get.

I tried that. It was a pain to clean up and still required me to go downrange periodically to set up more.

I have trouble seeing a lead, or copper jacketed lead, making a spark that could start a fire but that is the rule.

The advantage for me using steel or some facsimile is that I can set them up in the morning and shoot all day without having to call a cease fire.

[PNW_Steve]

Never used any, but, places like Wal-Mart sell rubber targets that you shoot right through. Might solve your problem.

I tried one and as far as "reactive" goes it was great..... For one shot :) I was expecting failure and my expectations were met in a fairly spectacular manner :) One shot with .223 and it was done.

[Bazoo]

What about those rubber balls you shoot at and they jump all over. Hanging them keeps them from going all over. My experience is a 45 acp doesn't destroy them, though I don't know the brand it was. It was at a friends.

[Burnt Fingers]

https://www.newboldtargets.com/index.php?route=common/home

These work quite well.

[Conditor22]

I walk out on the shotgun range . And gather unbroken clays. Then shoot at them.

Where's the fun in that? shoot at the pieces more challenging

[BigAlofPa.]

Lol i do shoot at the pieces as they bust.

[Papercidal]

I built a plate rack from these and they work pretty well.

https://www.newboldtargets.com/KnockDown-Targets

[JRD]

Do you have any left over baseballs from when your kids may have played little league? I've got a bucket of them and found a baseball will absorb a surprising amount of 22's and makes a fun target that will bounce around when hit. Centerfire rifles were kind of hard on the baseballs though.

[dale2242]

A comment about bullets staring fire when shooting at steel.
I have seen it happen twice this summer at the same place.
Steel targets were hung above rotten logs.
I mean really rotten logs.
They were almost to the powder stage.
I am assuming bullet fragments deflected down and started the fires.
I have no way of knowing if the bullets were steel jacked or not.
I had a friend tell me that he had a cast bullet start a fire in rotten wood.
He was shooting at steel silhouette targets at the time.

[MostlyLeverGuns]

I have a few of those rubber/plastic/polymer balls and squares made for shooting that I leave on my range. I can just bounce them across the ground with whatever I am shooting. I have had them for several years, I leave them out, move them when I mow or when they get too far away. Too far depends on the gun I am shooting. Seem to be holding up well.

[dangitgriff]

Stray/feral cats leashed & staked work well, too. Just got to dig a hole for ‘em when your done. [emoji43][emoji1783]

[uscra112]

Probably not easy to find unless you're in mining country, but surplus mine conveyor belting works great. Hung on a hinge like your steel targets, even 9mm won't hurt it. We use it for backstops around here.

[sureYnot]

I walk out on the shotgun range . And gather unbroken clays. Then shoot at them.My son picks those and really enjoys smashing them... And then the broken pieces too, until they're finally too small to hit.


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[sureYnot]

I have a few of those rubber/plastic/polymer balls and squares made for shooting that I leave on my range. I can just bounce them across the ground with whatever I am shooting. I have had them for several years, I leave them out, move them when I mow or when they get too far away. Too far depends on the gun I am shooting. Seem to be holding up well.I have brass balls. No squares though.

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[onelight]

I walk out on the shotgun range . And gather unbroken clays. Then shoot at them.

Hey I want my clay targets back ! I know those are mine they aren't broken. :-|

[farmbif]

I was thinking of hanging a couple big truck mud flaps

[RU shooter]

Bowling pins

[SODAPOPMG]

reactive targets their is only one will do TANNERITE