yzguy87
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I usually take a dozen or so plastic bottles, anywhere from 20oz. to gallon jugs, filled with water. It's a little bit to clean up but it only takes 5 minutes or less to pick up the bottles. Rim fire golf is fun too!
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Schwing
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A .22 might not cut it for this but I found a new spin on soda cans. I bought a 12 pack of really crappy diet soda to take out (to drink) while shooting. I had put it in the freezer to cool it down and forgot about it for about an hour and a half. I cracked one open and it was almost frozen but not quite. It tasted horrible and had to be shot.
I had my Mosin Nagant and man do those cans cease to exist! The combination of almost frozen soda and a 7.62x54 round is pretty fun.
I had my Mosin Nagant and man do those cans cease to exist! The combination of almost frozen soda and a 7.62x54 round is pretty fun.
aarondhgraham
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There is a Goodwill store on the way to my range,,,
There is a Goodwill store on the way to my range,,,
Quite often I'll stop and rummage through their 25-cent toy bin.
It's not uncommon to see me at the range,,,
Blasting away at various trucks and action figures.
If I'm shooting a .22 rifle that day,,,
A 99-cent pack of plastic dinosaurs might get "hunted".
After Easter I bought about 100 plastic Easter eggs real cheap,,,
Toss a few of these on the berm (filled with sand) and they make a fun target.
Pretty much anything is more fun than punching holes in paper.
I filled some 1-gallon paint buckets with Quikrete,,,
Then stuck a length 1.5" PVC pipe in them,,,
Then I bolted plywood circles on top.
I made five of them and now have some nice pseudo Rimfire Steel Challenge targets,,,
Take the time to affix a balloon on each target and have even more fun.
If I'm being lazy that day,,,
I just stick a few DuraSeal spinners in the berm,,,
Like I mentioned before,,,
Anything is more fun than plain paper.
Aarond
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There is a Goodwill store on the way to my range,,,
Quite often I'll stop and rummage through their 25-cent toy bin.
It's not uncommon to see me at the range,,,
Blasting away at various trucks and action figures.
If I'm shooting a .22 rifle that day,,,
A 99-cent pack of plastic dinosaurs might get "hunted".
After Easter I bought about 100 plastic Easter eggs real cheap,,,
Toss a few of these on the berm (filled with sand) and they make a fun target.
Pretty much anything is more fun than punching holes in paper.
I filled some 1-gallon paint buckets with Quikrete,,,
Then stuck a length 1.5" PVC pipe in them,,,
Then I bolted plywood circles on top.
I made five of them and now have some nice pseudo Rimfire Steel Challenge targets,,,
Take the time to affix a balloon on each target and have even more fun.
If I'm being lazy that day,,,
I just stick a few DuraSeal spinners in the berm,,,
Like I mentioned before,,,
Anything is more fun than plain paper.
Aarond
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RedBowTies88
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Old propane tanks of the 20lb variety make a very good noise when you hit them with pistol rounds
Of course it's probably a good idea to be sure they're empty first
Of course it's probably a good idea to be sure they're empty first
WoodchuckAssassin
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My dad and I used to take those "Free AOL" CD's and hang a bunch of them in the woods. We'd walk along the deer trails and blast away with 22's or even 20 and 12 gauges. It makes for a little bit of cleanup, but well worth it!
rugerman
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Around this time of the year I thin the fruit on my pear trees, the small unripe fruit goes in a bucket and gets taken to the woods to act as targets for 22 plinking. When we break up the fields to get ready to plant deer plots I go to sight in my hunting rifles and after i get them dialed in I switch to the fist size rocks at various distances off hand to get more practice, and it reduces the size of the rocks in the field. Plastic 2 liter bottles full of water make fun targets for long range target practice and clean up is easy. If the fields is a bit damp when we bust it up there will be lots of dirt clods, the original clay targets (watch the wind direction). Sweet gum balls (kid killer balls from my barefoot days) make great targets to.
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1KPerDay
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cheap diet soda in cans (not sticky like the high fructose corn syrup stuff)... water in plastic bottles. Just remember to police up your mess and recycle it.
I mostly shoot steel plates, though. Satisfying and instant feedback.
I mostly shoot steel plates, though. Satisfying and instant feedback.
dirtykid
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Our local recycling-center/hazardous waste disposal facility lets anybody come and pick-thru the 1-gallon cans of paint that people drop off for free.
there are a lot of hideous colors that people have bought and dropped there, I take the brightest-LATEX paint I can find (because it is water-solouble and washes off the next rainfall) and take the lids off and fill them slowly with some sand mixed 3-1 with some quikrete,, the sand keeps the quikrete from setting up real solid,making it just thick enough to keep the paint from spilling out after the first shot, and keeps bullet from passing thru can completely ( I use these for my 300+ yard range for my rifles)
I have also tacked some scrap metal square to the outside of an old bicycle wheel, and stuck it in the ground horizontally,, you can shoot the squares and see how fast the wheel gets spinning
Everything, of course has to be recycled after use,, but its better than paper !!
there are a lot of hideous colors that people have bought and dropped there, I take the brightest-LATEX paint I can find (because it is water-solouble and washes off the next rainfall) and take the lids off and fill them slowly with some sand mixed 3-1 with some quikrete,, the sand keeps the quikrete from setting up real solid,making it just thick enough to keep the paint from spilling out after the first shot, and keeps bullet from passing thru can completely ( I use these for my 300+ yard range for my rifles)
I have also tacked some scrap metal square to the outside of an old bicycle wheel, and stuck it in the ground horizontally,, you can shoot the squares and see how fast the wheel gets spinning
Everything, of course has to be recycled after use,, but its better than paper !!
doc2rn
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I work in a lab so mine is fairly easy, use liquid nitrogen on rotten fruit. Makes for great biodegradable reactive targets.
Some people like tannerite.
Some people like tannerite.
X-JaVeN-X
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I make frozen things of various sizes (typically for .22 practice I fill and freeze empty shotgun shells) and then I also save any bottles that have screw caps. When I'm ready to shoot them, I fill them up with carbonated water made with my sodastream and then take them out...shake them up and have at them.
We've shot a lot of toy army men, and have finally moved to toy dinosaurs, cowboys and pirates as they tend to be brighter colors and easier to find later after the shooting is done.
For Cub Scouts, I supply Ritz crackers and balloons. Kids have a ball with those.
For Cub Scouts, I supply Ritz crackers and balloons. Kids have a ball with those.
ZeSpectre
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Some of my favorites...
-Paintball balls hot-glued to cardboard. Nice SPLAT when you hit 'em
-Nilla wafers
-Golf balls
-Leftover shotgun hulls (I line 'em up and try to hit 'em one after the other)
-Charcoal briquettes (painted w/flourescent orange paint
-Paintball balls hot-glued to cardboard. Nice SPLAT when you hit 'em
-Nilla wafers
-Golf balls
-Leftover shotgun hulls (I line 'em up and try to hit 'em one after the other)
-Charcoal briquettes (painted w/flourescent orange paint
MtnCreek
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Inspection plate from a dozer. It's oval and about the same size of a man from head to crotch. Mild steel, so no rifles, but holds up great to .38, 9mm, .40 and .45. I scored a bunch of pumpkins from a road-side seller a few days after Halloween last year. Not as impressive as I had hoped for. Luckily I had a shotgun with me to 'finish them off'.
Newest season of Top Shot is on right now.
Half of my garden is devoted to growing large vegetables to shoot at. Also, we have been buying baby boomer .22 reactive targets and filling skoal cans with them and rapping them with duct tape. We shoot them with 9mm or higher pistols and it makes one heck of an explosion. The little containers that come with the baby boomers just make a little pop.
bigfatdave
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I use old crappy pots&pans from Goodwill, there's generally a few of those rattling around in my trunk.
You have to fill pumpkins with something, MtnCreek - shredded paper soaked with water should do the job nicely, shove the paper in with the innards of the pumpkin, dump in water and let it soak for a bit. Sawdust or lawn waste would probably work about the same.
I really like the paint cans full of sand idea, I might set that up on the club's outdoor range after the Fudds destroy everything "sighting in" their deer guns this fall as a durable all-winter setup.
You have to fill pumpkins with something, MtnCreek - shredded paper soaked with water should do the job nicely, shove the paper in with the innards of the pumpkin, dump in water and let it soak for a bit. Sawdust or lawn waste would probably work about the same.
I really like the paint cans full of sand idea, I might set that up on the club's outdoor range after the Fudds destroy everything "sighting in" their deer guns this fall as a durable all-winter setup.
funny...after posting this, I googled it..and figured that out...then last night I watched the first 2 episodes on demand. I still like it. I think I like the history lessons about the firearms as much as I like seeing what the courses are like......I don't really care who wins...but I am so jealous of those competitors
Barry the Bear
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PavePusher
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Disregard....
rcmodel
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A bag of cheap charcoal briquettes makes a great day of fun plinking targets with a .22.
The charcoal bits are biodegradable so you don't have anything left to clean up.
rc
The charcoal bits are biodegradable so you don't have anything left to clean up.
rc
morcey2
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Exploding targets are illegal around here.
My favorite targets are the more-than-likely-deaf jackrabbits that occasionally wander onto the range while we're shooting. Removal from the gene pool should help with the survival of the species.
A block of ice is a great target, especially when you want to show a bunch of call-of-duty-know-it-all's that have never picked up a real gun what a high-powered rifle will do. I first saw it in a video w/ John Wayne in it. When a big block of ice turns into a shower of little tiny crystals, it usually gets the point across.
Matt
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Found the video. It's a little dated, but it still applies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjdFG9_BfCc
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