What is your favorite thing to shoot at the range?

[SODAPOPMG]

junk cars with my M2HB .50 cal machinegun using api ammo

[Drm50]

When I was a teenager I was delivery boy for IGA store. One of the perks of the job was your own key to the gate at the city dump. Fun city, rats , crows, bottles jars and cans. The last several years for my grandkids I stop at a Dollar Store and buy cheap cookies. They are like miniature clay pigeons and “Green Friendly” to boot. It’s best to keep custody of “targets” or you might run out by default. Kids will eat up the targets while you are helping another one to aim.

[panhed65]

I second the junk cars, place I lived in when I first got married, 1971, there was an old saab in one of the stone rows behind my house. we shot it so much that mostly the engine and frame were all that was left. lot of fun.
Barry

[Cast_outlaw]

I've been getting into a bit of steel shooting as of late. Ar400 1/4" for close up pistol/rimfire and ar500 1/2" and 3/8" at longer rifle distance. What is the best way to hang? I'm having trouble with broken chains/bolts. I'm also having issues with shot up wooden support racks.....but what ya gonna do when the family does it? Lol

Weld the chain lugs to the back of the plate large ones and run 7/8“ or 1” round bar through it bend into a frame. The gong will hang and deflect downward and protects the bar from damage round bar will also better deflect stray impacts

[fiberoptik]

junk cars with my M2HB .50 cal machinegun using api ammo

Trashed Amtracks with the M60 was fun, but we never got to play with the big .50.
Did play with the 81mm mortar though.

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[Atonic]

Spring loaded clothes pins.

[sharps4590]

For most of my adult life we've owned our own land so the preponderance of my shooting has been at home. After whatever firearm is sighted I like to shoot steel of some variety. I've had railroad tie plates and old water heater tanks, odd shaped and sized pieces of steel from the Vo-Ag shop. About 30 years ago when I started shooting my Sharps at long range I went to a junk yard and the owner let me cut the web out of the middle of a 36 in. X 3/4 in. I-beam. I took it home and sketched out a buffalo. I am not an artist but it is recognizable as such. My neighbor built fence out of sucker rod and he let me pick through his junk for enough pieces to build frames for the two buffalo I got from the I-beam. I also welded enough sucker rod on the backs of the buffalo to re-enforce them from bending and two uprights with a crosspiece to make swingers out of them. The buffalo are about 2 ft. long by 18 inches at the hump and weight about 65 lbs. The frame probably weighs 30-35 lbs. Hit with even a 520 gr. bullet they don't swing a lot at 500 yards...or 100 yards, nor do they ring. They just make sort of a dead "thwonk" when hit. As they are mild steel they get cast bullets only though a nitwit guy who was supposed to be my friend did shoot one with a 7 Mag. at 200 yards. Cratered it pretty good too. We sold the farm in 2000 so now instead of 500 and 600 yards they're set up at 50 and 100 yards....that's all I can get here in the woods and hills. As big as they are the 50 yard target sees handguns only and the 100 yard target gets shot a lot offhand. 30+ years of being shot and swinging in the elements and they look as if they will take another 500 years of cast bullets.

[ebb]

Fire extinguishers, I was shooting a 600yd match and was doing pretty good and the shooting went down the line and it had been a long time since I had shot. I decided if i didn't shoot soon my next shot would be like a cold bore shot. So down lower than the steel target and about 20yds to the right I see something round and dull silver. i am thinking beer can. I decide to shoot so the gun isn't ice cold when they get back to me. So I hit it dead center and a huge cloud of white dust envelops the whole area and they have to call the match for about 30 seconds. The match director is jumping up and down screaming "who fired that shot?" I didn't say a word. When it comes to me to shoot I am right on target.

[Three44s]

Golf balls out on the green. I even yell “four” before tagging them with a big bore revolver, but no one wants keep playing!

I would like to see just once: what makes the best “driver”? My 44 or whatever golfers use for driving?

Three44s

[kenton]

I planted pumpkins and gourds on my berm a few years ago by shooting pumpkins and gourds on my berm after the holidays. they have been growing back ever since. Usually set some of the nicer looking ones on the front step for awhile and shoot the uglier and extra gourds. Then throw them on the back and sides of the berm for next year.

I also have shot the liquid nondairy creamer cups. If you set them label side down and hit them with a .22 the cup sometimes pops up into the air. Of course you end up with a sticky mess.

[Ozark mike]

I planted pumpkins and gourds on my berm a few years ago by shooting pumpkins and gourds on my berm after the holidays. they have been growing back ever since. Usually set some of the nicer looking ones on the front step for awhile and shoot the uglier and extra gourds. Then throw them on the back and sides of the berm for next year.

I also have shot the liquid nondairy creamer cups. If you set them label side down and hit them with a .22 the cup sometimes pops up into the air. Of course you end up with a sticky mess.

We used to grow those gourds and make bird houses out of em

[Drm50]

Back in Army got lots of trigger time on Quad M2s and Dual 40mm Bofors. Random targets day and night.

[flint45]

Water jugs and big chunks of wood or small logs and make fire wood out of them of course I take out the lead.😁

[samari46]

There have been times when I get to the range and after shooting for a short while spent the rest of the day BS'sing with my friends. had a good buddy who lived a short distance from me. He'd call and ask if I was going to the range. Set a time and there we were. Spent a lot of quality time with him. Sadly cancer claimed him a few years back. Every time I pass his house I always think of him. Frank

[Hutch556]

Paper targets, dots, Steel targets, water jugs, soda cans and bottles, Shaving cream cans are fun and clay pigeons just to name a few.

[17nut]

Cartridges!

[nwfdub]

Pictures of my ex-wife

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[derek45]

steel

[fiberoptik]

In the Marines we once had a deer cross the machine gun range. He didn’t make it....
Another time we were shooting at cans... two Mexicans tried circumventing the border patrol stop on I-5 by walking across our range. A few strafing shots put them behind a huge boulder. Called in MP’s. Were they ever happy to be arrested! Bet they shared that story back home! Never cross Marine bases!!!!


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[Texas by God]

Horse apples.

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