[Mike1234567]

Come on, folks. Admit it. You like to blow stuff into itsy-bitsy bits, don't you? So what's your favorite fruit, vegetable, or melon to blow the crap out of? What caliber and bullet type?

Me? I like huge over-ripe tomatoes and cantaloupes. Cantaloupe are pricey though... unless you can find someone throwing old ones away.:) I use the cheapest HP ammo I can find in .45 ACP. I don't hunt but I like killing those pesky rotten smelly fruits and watching their guts spray every!!

Mods: If this is inappropriate I'll have no hard feelings if you delete or close the thread. Just trying to have a little fun.:D

[mljdeckard]

I have a pumpkin festival first weekend after every Halloween. They react well to pretty much everything.

[Mike1234567]

Okay, so we have a punkin punker. Nice one!! Any gory dead punkin pics?

[Frozen North]

I forgot a case of beer in the trunk of my black car in July..... I am not ever going to drink skunky beer, but they made FANTASTIC reactive targets.

The can spit like an overcooked polish sausage and the foam went everywhere. We were shooting at them with a .22WMR at 150 yards, so 24 cans kept us entertained for a whole afternoon.

Whoever said that beer and guns don't mix obviously never shot the guns AT the beer... :)

[FROGO207]

Well carving the watermelon with a 500S&W is a great way to start the festivities on the 4th of July.:D After the frost gets the garden, the unusable stuff will fall victim to the .22 with hollow points.

[Craigman]

Overgrown Zucchini are in season right now.:D My .243 with V-Max bullets thows pieces of them 40feet in all directions. and since they are oblong, some chunks are big and you can watch them fly all over. Then you shoot up the broken pieces more:evil:

Tomatoes, peaches, other "juicy' types turn into MIST with V-max at 3400fps. Good times!!!!!

[grubbylabs]

I have to admit that I love pumpkins as well. They do explode nicely.

[Mike1234567]

Okay so we've added murderous acts toward old beer, watermelon and overgrown zucchini. I don't follow the waste of the beer regardless of skunkiness but... I'm a cheapskate and beer lover. Watermelon? Old hat, my friend.:D Zucchini is a new one.

Where are the pics/videos?!? Okay, I'm being hypocritical. I've no demonstrative visuals either. But come on!! Where's all the veggie/fruit/melon bloody gore??

[Dr.Rob]

Colorado Cantalope is going to be popular 8)

[olafhardtB]

The absolute best I have ever seen was a watermelon and a 243. once at an impromptue range we found a box of half rotten tomatoes. The 30-06, 357, 22 &45LC just made little splatters. A 12 ga load of 6's tore a swath.

[56hawk]

Well, I like shooting grapefruit, but that's just because I don't like to eat them and I have a tree in the back yard.

I even have a video: http://youtu.be/qB8P4-R3L-Y

[Mike1234567]

Oh, goodie, a fellow grapefruit hater. Let's kill lots o' them sons o' bit... little guys!! And a video to boot. I love it!:D

[Nushif]

The best ever has definitely been a jug of water. Simple as that. It was a shot from about seven meters ... And the jug quite literally tore in half ... One side went left, the other side went right. Not a fruit, but oh so satisfying.

[Mike1234567]

The best ever has definitely been a jug of water. Simple as that. It was a shot from about seven meters ... And the jug quite literally tore in half ... One side went left, the other side went right. Not a fruit, but oh so satisfying.

Of course, you used veggie-gut-colored water right?;)

[chris in va]

Surprisingly, the biggest splatter I got from a fruit was tangerines shot with some sort of 50 caliber rifle a guy brought to the range. Not BMG, might have been Beowulf or similar. We're talking yards of dispersion.

Or, the time I put a 1/2# bottle of Tannerite in a large pumpkin. Pie everywhere.

I would like to try the pumpkin thing again, except Tannerite is banned from ranges now, so I thought about hollowing one out and filling with water and hitting with my Garand or maybe a 12ga slug.

[Mike1234567]

NO!! Not tangerines. I LOVE tangerines!! What were you THINKING, Chris?? Those poor sweet little fake oranges.:eek:

[doc2rn]

Cantalope is my favorite target after nitrogen dipped.

[Mike1234567]

Ooh... shooting nitrogen-dipped fruit. Now that's just cold, doc, very cold indeed.

[mljdeckard]

I have saved jugs to fill with water. I have also been known to buy a caseof bud or keystone light with the silver cans, set then out 2-300 yards to zap with the 22-250. Very reactive targets. :) (I know, it's alcohol abuse.)

[brickeyee]

A pumpkin that has been filled with water through a small hole in the top.

[Jeff F]

We have a pumkin shoot at one of the local ranges. Lots of pumkins, some stuffed full of Tannerite, full autos and beltfeds. Its a good time.

[AK_Maine_iac]

Does tomato count? If it is in a gal. jugs in ketchup form? :cool:

It is a big splash with the AR15 with V-Max loads. 223 varmint grenades.

[mljdeckard]

Fix-a-flat is hilarious.

[dagger dog]

Carrots, start out with the big end, then as your skill increases shoot at the pointed end :D

[Jason_W]

Apples and potatoes seem to explode nicely. Pumpkins and squash have too much air space inside and all that happens is chunks get knocked out of them.

[tarosean]

I have also been known to buy a caseof bud or keystone light with the silver cans, set then out 2-300 yards to zap with the 22-250. Very reactive targets. (I know, it's alcohol abuse.)

Not at all... Neither Bud nor Keystone are fit for consumption IMO.


pumpkins and melons, etc. are great when I shoot on my own property as there is no cleanup the deer generally eat it...

[tarosean]

----double post

[tarosean]

---*** triple post

[Sav .250]

If your going to "play" then try a .....grape. Nothing like a challenge to top off the great play date. :)

[preachnhunt]

We have chickens and an over abundance of eggs. A friend and I save up the slightly damaged or otherwise unusable eggs and scramble 'em with pistols. It's best to wait until rain is coming to help clean up the mess.

[oneounceload]

Eggs always make a nice splat as do tomatoes

[Mike1234567]

There goes my grocery budget!!

[erkman]

small watermelons blow up pretty good when shot with centerfire rifles

[Mike1234567]

^^^ Oh, yeah, you mean the little ones they sell as "individuals"?

[rugerman]

In the early summer when I thin my pear trees I take the small pears and shoot them with 22 pistols, wildlife clean up the mess. Around halloween lots of people leave pumpkins for trash pick up, lots are whole, I save a couple for punkin pie the rest get a small hole cut in the top and filled with water and placed at various distances from 50 to 300 yards to check my 270's sightin for deer season (gun season starts here the weekend b4 thanksgiving).

[Tommygunn]

Artichokes.
I have no idea if they explode or whatever---I just happen to really, really, despise these things!:barf::barf::barf:

[Mike1234567]

Artichokes: So we have another hated fruit... or vegetable... or... whatever they are. Kill those artichokes and grapefruits!! Do you prefer to hunt fresh/raw artichokes or canned ones? BTW, expensive game ain't it?:D

We need more pics and vids of fruit, veggie, melon, and gourd splattered guts!!

[HGUNHNTR]

As a kid I attached 3" decking screws to a wire and tied off on a tree branch. Just push potatoes onto the screws and blast away.

Potatoes definitely provide some reaction, even with rimfires.

I couldn't bring myself to shoot delicious artichokes, or any good veggies...non veg starchy potatoes I can blast with a clean concience. :)

Not at all... Neither Bud nor Keystone are fit for consumption IMO.


^No kidding, most of the mass marketed beers, Miller, coors, Bud...ugh, they need to be shot for attempting to impersonate a real beer. Any consumable that needs that amount of marketing to sell it is probably crap.

[Aussie bloke!]

G'day everyone,....


I have a slab of beer from 20 yrs ago,...
Now your all just giveing me ideas!

I'm thinking 1000mtr range!??
;)


Aussie.

[pazz]

Best Fruit, Melon, or Vegetable to Blow to Bits!!

Bowling pins with my .45 acp :D

[we are not amused]

Okay so we've added murderous acts toward old beer, watermelon and overgrown zucchini. I don't follow the waste of the beer regardless of skunkiness but... I'm a cheapskate and beer lover. Watermelon? Old hat, my friend.:D Zucchini is a new one.

Where are the pics/videos?!? Okay, I'm being hypocritical. I've no demonstrative visuals either. But come on!! Where's all the veggie/fruit/melon bloody gore??

I shoot skunked beer precisely because I am a beer lover! But I have a couple of brothers that agree with you.

If I can't preserve my supply of skunked beer from my brothers, I sometimes shoot generic cans of soda. They are cheap and pretty fizzy too. I like to shoot pumpkins, Osage Orange hedge balls, and cucumbers.
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Sorry, no pictures of shot up fruit, having too much fun shooting it with a gun, than to shoot it with a camera.:evil:

[Mike1234567]

^^^ What is that ugly green weird thingy?:confused:

[Lunie]

^^^ What is that ugly green weird thingy?:confused:
The fruit from an Osage Orange tree.

We call 'em "hedge apples".

[we are not amused]

^^^ What is that ugly green weird thingy?:confused:
A hedge ball from an Osage Orange tree. Sorry I forgot to label it.

Good for chucking at little brothers,:evil: absolutely inedible except to squirrels horses and cattle with a strong stomach. Also for target practice, depending on what you shoot it with, it can make a really good mess.:D

[230RN]

Hedge apples ae reputed to be good for repelling spiders. Our local bodega sells them for that purpose and I am trying them out this year.

Prolly like chicken soup for a cold... can't do any harm, might do some good.

I limited my fragmenting targets to gallon jugs of water. (Depression baby, can't stand to see food wasted.)

G'day yourself, Aussie bloke! !

I have a slab of beer from 20 yrs ago,...
Now your all just giveing me ideas!

I'm thinking 1000mtr range!??



What's a "slab" of beer?

And 1000 meters seems a looooong shot. Couldn't even see the reaction to the bullet impact.

???

Terry, 230RN

[oneounceload]

While not food, taking gallon paint cans filled with water and sealed tightly, then placed upside down will launch when hit with my 7mm@ 100 yards. As Oddball said in Kelly's Heroes, it makes "pretty pictures"

[we are not amused]

Hedge apples ae reputed to be good for repelling spiders. Our local bodega sells them for that purpose and I am trying them out this year.

Prolly like chicken soup for a cold... can't do any harm, might do some good.
I don't think they work on spiders, but work on a lot of other household bugs, but as you say, can't hurt to try.


What's a "slab" of beer?

And 1000 meters seems a looooong shot. Couldn't even see the reaction to the bullet impact.


I think a "slab" refers to a pallet, and while a 1000 meters (1km) may seem a long shot, well aged Aussie beer is potent stuff. He may merely be exercising proper caution.:D

[1chemist]

Peeectures? You want peeectures?
Okay, how about five hunnert'n forty frangible foot-pounds from a forty five:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYe99xV2hY
The watermelon was seriously overripe, as you might have guessed by the Winter snows on the ground. Besides, it had accepted its fate and went without a whimper.

[Mike1234567]

1chemist... How do you know that watermelon wasn't quietly whimpering? Were you there for its execution?

[Aussie bloke!]

G'day everyone,....


A 'slab' of beer you might call a pallet.

Down here its usualy 24 375ml cans secured around the neck by plastic ties.

And you should be able to see any hits through your scope well enough.

Unless you can get your hands on a few 'Kegs!"
(maybe with a little Tanerite?)
:evil:

But this was about fruit and Veg,....



Aussie.

[preachnhunt]

I think we would call that a "case" of beer.
Anyone who wants to shoot hedge apples can come here and shoot to your heart's content(as long as you agree to cut down the hedge trees which are VICIOUS!)

[Mike1234567]

(partial quote) But this was about fruit and Veg,....

Beer is okay too... and sodas or anything else you want to add as long as it makes a big wet or gooey mess when you blow it apart. It's not like this thread has any real value.:D

Let's keep critters out though. I like critters.

[rori]

Any closed container filled with water. No sense in wasting food when all kinds of containers are available. Just pick em up and burn or dispose of them when done with the fun.Frank

[1chemist]

Not that I'm fluent in Watermelon, but I thought I could make out its last word: "Freedom!!!"

[Mike1234567]

Not that I'm fluent in Watermelon, but I thought I could make out its last word: "Freedom!!!"
That's after you blew its guts out but before you chopped off the stem?

[we are not amused]

I think we would call that a "case" of beer.
Anyone who wants to shoot hedge apples can come here and shoot to your heart's content(as long as you agree to cut down the hedge trees which are VICIOUS!)

Where I live, we also have a tree called the "thorny" Honey Locust. They make the Osage Orange hedge trees look warm and friendly by contrast.

If a bear was chasing me and I had a choice between climbing a thorny Locust or the bear, I would choose the bear.

The only problem with shooting hedge balls (or apples), is that you might have new hedge trees growing where you shoot. Be prepared to weed the area.

[we are not amused]

Let's keep critters out though. I like critters.

Depends upon the critter, but I agree, just for shooting for the fun of it, I stick to inanimate objects.

Varmint control is a different subject.

I really do like Hedge balls (apples). They are plentiful, (where I live) and respond well to high power hollow points.

If I get a chance this weekend, I might take some before and after shots and post them. Supposed to rain, (at last) so no promises.

[jbkebert]

Another hedge apple hunter here. We have three large hedge trees at the base of the pond dam. This happens to be 276 yards from my back deck. Wait for a nice cross wind. Makes for very very good pasture poodle like practice with my .22-250. By the way my wife really doesn't shoot much but she will clean out those trees. She won't even share sometimes :(

[Ky Larry]

I truly hate cucumbers and green peppers. A 240gr LSWC from my S&W Model-29 at 30 yrds will remove them from the food chain. Egg plant makes a pretty good mess,too.

[Ignition Override]

A floating lemon for the .22 and floating grapefruits for the SKS etc.

Grapefruits are known to fly up to at least 25 feet with a decent SKS or Enfield hit.
Maybe their thrust/weight ratio with 'burner is better than 0/1?

[wgaynor]

While it's not a fruit or vegetable, eggs are pretty awesome to shoot.

[230RN]

Non-veggies:

Shot a full 8 gram cylinder of CO2 (Crosman pellet gun propellant) once with a .22. glancing hit, small cloud of vapor, rocket-reaction from the groove cut in its side made it spin and fly off pretty good.

Pretty unspectacular. I'd rather have used it for its intended purpose.

And the usual: 12 ga shotgun shell hit in the primer with a .22. Just sort of a pop and the shot scattered around a little. Not much of the powder seemed to ignite. Once again, I'd rather have used it in the shotgun than as a target.

Distances? Oh, twenty-thirty yards maybe.

I seem to recall one of my sons showing me some kind of small aluminum empty oxygen bottle fragments whick exploded spectactularly from the remaining O2 in it. Apparently when the bullet hit, it exposed pure aluminum to the oxygen and they combined instantly in a big fireball. My memory's kind of vague on that one, but I'll ask him about it next time we talk. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Terry, 230RN

[vellocet]

Hey, how about those poison 'lopes that have killed two persons so far? What is it called, listferia or something? Should be lots of free 'lopes,thousands, just shoot them, don't eat them. Jeez.

[sniper5]

A long long time ago when I helped a friend who was teaching hunter safety we shot a restaurant size of stewed tomatoes with a 264 Win Mag. Layed down some plastic first to ease the cleanup. Made a mess and an impression!

[Lunie]

Oranges make great 100 yard "deer rifle" targets. :) If anyone ever bought grapefruit, I'd be more than happy to turn them to mist as well.

Other than that, cantaloupe with the ole' 30-30 was always a favorite.

Expired cans of veggies, skunked beer cans, and cheap cans of pop make nice targets too.

[boatme99]

My favorite-corn. Not fresh though, love corn on the cob. Canned creamed corn! It's the best. Get it by the case cheap anywhere. It isn't fit for human consumption, so you might as well shoot it.
After half a case, your yard looks like you hosted a frat party with free kegs, and the deer will come clean it up for you. :cool:

[56hawk]

Well, this is only fruit if you count orange soda. :) Shot this yesterday and I like this picture so much I felt I should share, there is also a video link at the bottom.

This is four 2 1/2 liter bottles being shot with a 460 Weatherby.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/297726_285519951476145_100000544265620_1133548_2097802186_n.jpg

http://youtu.be/ycEmhen0HNk?hd=1

[captain awesome]

My favorites are gords with my 500 s&w and water bottles/ jugs the bigger the better with any centerfire rifle or pistol hollow point

[claiborne]

Lots of orange and grapefruit trees around here. You have to pick and shoot them when they are ripe though because they do not explode too well when they harden up. Another favorite is five buck cases of soda from china mart and my all time favorite: chicken eggs shot at with my 19 badger. The eggs just evaporate with a 32 grain hollow point going 3750 fps!
I show up early, about 6 am and drink coffee while setting rows of oranges, eggs and soda on the hill side from 25-250 yards. 5 case of soda, 20 dozen eggs and a couple large milk crates of oranges. Takes an hour or two to set up the range and 5-6 hours of plinking with a few different rifles and handguns! GREAT FUN. I like it as much as I used to like blasting squirrels.

[KodiakBeer]

Frozen pumpkins? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCCpcxPfUrc

[Dnaltrop]

Durian with a 460/500 anyone?

Just make it the last shot of the day. ;)

[Tinpig]

My parents and grandparents lived through the Depression and WWII. We were brought up to believe that it was a wicked thing to waste food. You ate everything put before you. If you had extra you put it up or gave it to those not as fortunate. If it was gone-by you fed it to the chickens and pigs. If it was really rotten you put it in the compost heap for next year's garden. Nothing was wasted.
Those lessons stay with you for life.

I'm not trying to be a downer...just can't wrap my head around shooting at food for fun. I guess it's a generational thing.

Tinpig

[Mike1234567]

^^^ Yeah... but I HATES me some grapefruits 'cuz they're cuisinal poison. :evil:

[788Ham]

YEAH, and shoot them zuccinis with the shot gun, good for pig food!

[Mr.454]

Cabbage with my .44.

[tag160]

We like to go to the desert on a hot day and let 2-liter soda bottles heat up in the sun. Give them an hour to sit there while you do other shooting. Then they really explode nice.

We know the thread is about fruit, etc., but we could not resist.

Here's a YouTube video of one of our last trips to the desert blowing up 2-liter soda bottles: http://youtu.be/gir_RBveJXA

Have fun.

[MD_Willington]

Pumpkins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3zu-33KWIc)

[eye5600]

Going through the thread, I was thinking about the Osage orange "hedge apples." When I was a kid, my Boy Scout troop had a rifle campout, and someone brought a basket full of Osage oranges (as we called them). Someone demonstrated blowing them up with a rifle of some sort (don't remember what) and then we all started shooting them with our .22s. Not the same thing. The bullets when straight through, the oranges got oozy, but they didn't fly apart. They didn't even roll off the post. I was very disappointed.

If you want to blow up a hedge apple, I suggest something centerfire.

[CharlesT]

Little watermelon shot by these guys...
http://www.silencerresearch.com/aquila.jpg

Link to slow motion video of Watermelon shot by Aguilla SSS (http://youtu.be/puiv8ptLxNA?hd=1)

[LibShooter]

I found a forgotten 6-pack of pudding cups in the back of the fridge a couple of weeks ago. They were more fun when shot through the plastic cup rather than the foil lid.

There are some expired cans of chili that have a date with destiny in the next week or two. I don't know what they will do.

And here's anther vote for Grapefruit.

[Powerglide]

taters are nice.

[Mike1234567]

taters are nice.

Baked, boiled, or raw? Rotted or fresh? Pics or it didn't happen!! :evil:

[The-Reaver]

Anyone grow their own watermelons.
Well the runts that don't turn out to well, are AWESOME.

[Bobson]

Fix-a-flat is hilarious.
Cans of shaving cream, too.

[vellocet]

Should be a pretty good supply of Cant-a-lopes these days, seeing how they've been poisoning folks and all. Just watch out for the spray when they explode from a 7.62x54r.

[b0gEy87]

Potatoes can be very entertaining with smaller calibers. I shot one with a .22 from about 10ft. I endes up coverd in little pieces of potato. With larger calibers, they become a white mist.