When I go to the range to shoot I like to hone my skills, but, after shooting targets I get a little bored. I like to shoot the steel targets, too. I find the diversion is helpful. What do you like to shoot at?
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When I go to the range to shoot I like to hone my skills, but, after shooting targets I get a little bored. I like to shoot the steel targets, too. I find the diversion is helpful. What do you like to shoot at?
I go to the dollar store and get the packs of kids sidewalk chalk. The sticks are about an inch in diameter and four inches long. I break them in half and set them up as targets. They make such pretty colored poofs when hit.
Cutting 2x4's in half is fun. Bowling pins can be a lot of fun also. both done with handguns.
clay pigeons.
pumpkins, steel targets, potoatoes, and I have a couple of the orange self sealing targets that roll on the ground.
Attachment 188702 i like to shoot my steel knock overs at a 100 yards with my 22 rifle
Bullets. Lead and the other type. But generally, I shoot bullets.
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Guns of course!:lovebooli
Golf balls are fun with 22RF or 22 center fire with cast. Set at 65 yards on my range when hit dead center they really take off. I will find them later with the mower.
My favorites are gallon milk jugs full of water. They leave no doubt about hits. In winter I add a little bit of kool aid or food color then freeze them outside. That way you will see them against the snow. The frozen block jug will take many hits from a 30-06.
Well I shoot USPSA, 3-Gun, and some IDPA. I really, really enjoy USPSA and 3-Gun and the IDPA is just additional trigger time. We obviously shoot lots of paper targets but the arrays of various steel is the most fun. Really like the authoritative ring when a round smacks steel! Some are a real challenge to hit fast and accurately like spinners, Texas stars, polish plate racks, etc.
Not for competition but at the home range, the .22 sensitive tannerite, couple table spoons worth dropped into aluminum foil and squeezed into a tight ball is a lot of fun! The .22 stuff is much more powerful and makes a tremendous boom with small amounts which gives you more bangs for your buck. As a plus the aluminum foil is somewhat combusted in the detonation and can produce a very bright flash! Give it a try!
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I like to shoot empty shotgun shells with 22rf. Either put them on tree limbs, or the tops of tall weed stalks, Or, shoot them on the ground. Because they balance off center, there is no telling where they might go when hit on the ground.
I also like the traditional tin can. And sometimes, wood blocks or cubes 1.5x1.5
we play the little kid games.
battleship, or the race car game, etc.
if you have 2-4 people it adds a lot of fun, and the BS talking increases by 500%.
you can buy the targets at many gun stores and maybe walmart or midway.
they are good for training kids too because it places the focus on one shot one target.
Steel swingers. Can't use most of the fun stuff at most of the ranges I belong to :(
Years ago I use to shoot in bowling pin matches , and won a few with a mod 29 smith, went in one of our LGS a couple of weeks ago and they had a chit load of pins , so I had to but a big box of them so now im in to that again , going to try and organize a match or two here this spring and see if we can get that going again. It was a lot of fun back in the day.
A dueling tree is fun and does not need resetting. I bought one for my home range.
Growing up I killed a lot of beer bottles. First you get to drink em, then you get to shoot em.
A dozen bottles and a few rounds of .22lr will make even the worst day better.
Nowdays I accept that killing bottles is messy. Better to recycle them and shoot some paper or steel.
Two days ago I hung a coin the size and shape of one of our nickels on my airgun target.
One shot broke the string and turned that thing from flat to cone shape. And that was an airgun.
Made a wonderful ringing tinging sound as it bounced around my bullet catch.
Might have to do that again.
Usually just my confidence.
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My latest is balloons..... Bought the daughter (9) a 10/22 for Christmas, and I've found balloons to be the best ever for building confidence. The more she hits....the smaller I blow them up. She LOVES it!!
When I am shooting out on the farm I like 4 inch long pieces of 2X4 lumber. 4x4x4 is good also.
The pieces jump around well on the ground and when they break up make good smaller targets. When tossed into a stock tank they can be blown up into the air and all the pieces float making secondary targets. The wood is biodegradable. If you want to pick it up you can toss it into a fire leaving no mess.
Thats where these came from our Alley closed and I guess the gun shop bought them all
Dead appliances. I have a washing machine and an upright freezer a quarter mile away in the corner of the field. We hit them with 22-250, 6mm Dasher, 6.5 Creedmore, and 25-06 yesterday. Best, Thomas.
WE have made a board to hold the neco candy wafers they make a great target for kids and adults both. A 1X4 X 8-12" long with 2 rows of holes drilled just deeper than the thickness of the wafers and the same dia for a slip fit works well. Turn to dust when hit. Asprin tablets are the same only a more demanding target. A pice of paper with a little honey or mollassas and shoot the flies that it attracks. Golf balls can be a lot of fun chasing them around the yard.
Shot a few animal crackers with my daughter this weekend. Also a piece of anthracite. That was cool but I would rather waster animal crackers than my coal.
I like the ideas on here. Im going to try necco wafers next along with the sidewalk chalk. That should keep her smiling.
The horrible tasting little barrel shaped bottles of dollar store koolaid. My wife and I have alot of fun with those. Makes a nice little splash, and she hits them more often than I do.
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In the summer I like to put a little bit of honey on an 8" plate at about 100yds. Then I wait for a fly to land on it.
Then I shoot it's wings off.
One at a time.
There is a place for shooting paper targets to hone your shooting skills ! a reaction type target is # 1 for fun !
When I go to the range I usually start out shooting at least 50 rounds of 22 lr with precision then move up to the big bores with 25 rounds of precision and then I shoot fast with precision with handguns , hardly shoot rifles but my favorite is a Marlin LA in 357 mag with a aimpoint shooting off hand.
In the cooler months in PA I shoot 50" indoor pistol bullseye and in the warmer months I shoot outdoor handgun speed steel plates almost every Tuesday throught the year, not counting my almost every sunday shooting sessions with my shootn bud , indoor or outdoor.
i like shooting my ZATNIKTEL ....first shot stuns, 2nd shot kills and 3rd shot disintegrates!:D
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I like shooting my repro 1842 springfield .69 cal smoothbore. at 50 yds, I can hit a pie pan, and 75 yards, somewhere on a silo target.. maybe shoulder, maybee hip.. maybe chest... just somewhere. :)
I like shooting milk jugs with hollow points falling steel plates and bowling pins