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For targets that is. Paper is ok, but sometimes i need a change. I like to set up bowling pins at several different distances. Clay targets are fun, just set a bunch up on a hill side and fire away. The top out of a big can of coffee works good. I tack it to a stake 1 or 2 feet off the ground.
Muley stalker was telling me about shooting steel targets. That sounds like big fun! Might have to look into makeing some of those.

Delbert

Delbert......

That is interesting.....Some unusual targets that you shoot at.....Especially the Bowling Pins....I would like to try that one.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Normally, around here we just shoot at some paper targets that we buy at the store, or just get some paper plates and put the bullseye on them....

Good Ideas!!!!!!!

BTW.......Where do you get the bowling pins at?????

Please don't say the Bowling alley..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

One of my favorites is gallon milk jugs filled with water. They explode pretty good <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />!

I do the bowling pin thing as well as Muley's milk jugs (not his, I aquire my own), like charchol briquets for the .22's and when availabe free, musk, honey dew and watermelons. The critters clean up the range after that particular fun fest.

One gallon plastic jugs are my favorite practice target. There is no doubt when you hit them! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Steel targets are a lot of fun, but I'd have to say milk jugs and glass bottles are my favorites. I also enjoy clay targets. Some off the wall stuff that has been fun was when I cleaned out a bunch of left over student ceramic projects left from the teacher I replaced. I've killed two television sets and if you haven't done it, they blow up real good. I've killed one washing machine and I have a boombox waiting in my gun room that has an appointment to blown to pieces as soon as it warms up. Also have a cheap set of wine glasses that need destroying. Oh and one last favorite of mine. Buy cheap beer or pop, shake up the cans, stand back and blown them to bits. The only downside to all this is the clean up, but the fun factor makes it worth it. Flinch sent me a video where they were shooting chicken eggs, haven't tried that yet, but it's on my to-do list.

I once attended a 4th of July celebration in which shooting was the foremost competition. A tire with a target in the middle was rolled down a hill with the contestant shooting at the bouncing target. I missed the target, tire, and probably the hill backstop.
Other entertainment was a greased flagpole and a greased pig. This was country fun to its best.

Can't believe I forgot this. My absolute favorite targets of ALL times...

Parents, I have to imagine that you can all relate. That squeaky, tune playing, talking or otherwise incredibly OBNOXIOUS toy that your kids just won't stop playing! Or the one that goes off by itself in the middle of the night. You know, the ones that you swear take years off your life!

Here is one:


Bus measures approx. 2" x 4"
250 yards.
.30-06
165 grain partitions
2 shots, 2 hits!
Level of gratification? Priceless! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

At the risk of wrecking my "politicaly correct" reputation...

A buddy of mine brought a .44 magnum a while back. "What are you gonna shoot with that cannon?" I asked. "Cans!" "What for cans?"
"Afri-CANS, Mexi-CANS, Puerto Ri-CANS!" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I stick to paper, milk jugs and clay pidgiens. Now and then some left-over fruit from the local market.
7mm

In the winter when it is cold and not raining I take a bunch of ice cubes i made with colored water, food coloring added to water in ice cube trays, to the range. place them out allover the place and bang away. NO CLEAN UP. the cubes explode in a mist and provide plenty of targets for cheap. i used to use ceramic tile I got it by the case for free but it leaves quite the mess.

Bullwnkl.

7mm,

Your "CAN" joke doesn't make any sense, are you going to be shooting ameriCANS too???

All I admit to is that 100 yards is not enough distance if you happen to find a dump full of gallon cans of GI paint, if you take those cans and prop them up and start shooting them with various 30 caliber sorts of rifles.

You might even miss the fine gray mist that goes everywhere. And if you have enough cans, enough ammo and enough time you may not even notice that the mist has completely covered your father's truck... but I guarantee he will! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
art

Sitka, you're killin' me!

Muley Stalker
Those paint can lids went so high in the air it was amazing! I still find an occasional gray paint speckle from that debacle. I had to clean a full-sized P/U with a tooth brush and elbow grease... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
art

I pirated a target off my best hunting buddy a while back, works great for dialing in new loads. You can get a 24" x 36" sheet of vellum paper from any drafting/survey supply shop. Make a 2" lined grid pattern all across the thing with a marker. Then make 5-2" x 2" solid squares on the thing, evenly spaced, I put one dead center then one towards each corner. Now remember, DON'T SHOOT HOLES IN THIS ONE. You can make blueprints off it, should be dirt cheap at that same supply shop, and shoot those blueprints mounted on wood or corkboard all day long. You get five targets for the effort of setting up one. I find, when setting up a scope, to aim at the 6 o'clock point on one of the 2x2 squares, and it's easy to see where you're hitting at 100 yds. I use 2.5" high for both my .270 and .300. You can always make a tighter grid, more filled squares, whatever, you get the idea. If you really want to strive for geekdom you could draft one of these up in CAD, too. But the hand-drawn lines/squares look the same as the 'puter plotted ones downrange. Or so I've heard... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Other than that rocks, milk jugs, and prairie dogs. MS, I think the season just opened on my kid's threadbare Elmo, not too sure where I'll find evidence of sex though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Partial to 2 liter soda jugs myself if the mood strikes me to make some water fly. Once found a big can of juice drink that got left behind over the winter at camp and had puffed up some but never split. Set it out on the wood pile and drilled it with something (forget now, either a 44 Mag or 22-250).
Turned it into a delightful pink mist and the lid went about a hundred feet like a thin, tin frisbee.
I generally use freezer paper and target dots at the range. Shot a toilet bowl once that my pap insisted was leaking, when I couldn't convince him it was just condensation from the cold well water that caused the floor to be wet.
Emptied a cylinder's worth of 125gr SJHP's from a M686 into her until she gave up. That was after I'd replaced it with another toilet though. Dad never would've held for blastin' it indoors, 'specially if it was still full of water.
Gun club I belong to won't allow anything but paper targets, so hafta do all the jug and can shooting up at camp.

Paper plates, 100 for $.98, 1" orange dots from office supply 1000 for $198. Stick dot in center of plate, staple or thum tack plates to cardboard box or sheet. Cheap targets, easy clean up, just burn. -- no

At $198 a thousand I am going to start raising dots for a living.

BCR

you know those big cube-shaped batteries, with the spring-coil terminals?
give that a try. looks like a grenade going off.

Delbert,

I shoot paper quite a bit especially sighting in scopes and looking for groups.

But I also shoot clay pidgeons with pistol, rifle and milk jugs with the 12 bore.