Any Ideas for plinking targets?

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Michael Moore DVDs.

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[Yooper]

Plastic milk containers full of water will often make the desired impression on a child or new shooter when learning gun safety. They're fun for experienced shooters, too.

 

[Hardtarget]

One good target is a plastic 35mm film container. Fill with flour. Hang several from a string and "race" your shooting buddy. The puff of white is a pretty good visual.
Mark.

 

[Little Loudmouth]

Charcoal briquets and paintballs make quite satisfying explosions when hit. Clays, eggs, fruit and veggies are fun too.

 

[George S.]

Ice cubes with some food coloring in them. You can even put something like popsicle sticks in them to hold them up. Or fill up some paper milk carton jugs with water and freeze them for bigger targets. Any sort of bidegradable target as mentioned works fine and even provides snacks for the local critters. Or if you miss any of them, snacks for you

A long time ago, a friend of mine and I went shooting out in the sticks. We took a open 1lb coffee can and filled it with gasoline and tossed a match on the top to light the gas. We backed off about 100 yard and shot the can with a .22mag rifle. The fireball was a good 30 feet across and the column of black smoke rose about 100 feet. We left the area quickly....

 

[Owen]

What's a hedge apple?

For bowling pins, just go to your local alley and ask. I got about 300 that way. The milsurps eat em up pretty quick.

Owen

 

[rugerman]

Each year when I thin the fruit on my pear trees I shoot the ones that I take off with me to the range and let everyone have a ball shooting at them. The best target stands that I've found are political signs ( the corragated plastic ones ) with wire holders (I really like the democratic party ones the best). 2 liter bottles full of water (remove the labels first for easier cleanup) if the bottles are clear add some food color or I use miracle grow in the water (when deer season is over we use that trick to fertilize our small woods plots-and its fun too). Ritz crackers or their generic cousins are ok for begginers but us old timers shoot at the little oyster crackers. Neco wafers are ok but they draw ants. As a treat we sometimes shoot full cans of shaving cream with a varmit round. We had a small area that we wanted to burn but couldn't get it to burn so we filled 2 liter bottles with gas, tied them up it several small trees and threw in a lit road flare, backed off several yards and shot them with my 270, burned real good and lots of fun to. Dirt clods in plowed fields were the first clay targets (get the wind right if shooting them on the fly). Sweet gum balls-the kind from sweet gum trees, sycamore balls, pine cones, acorns, small rocks etc. make good targets with little cleanup. Hope this helps. rugerman

 

[Dees]

I've heard these things are fun --> http://www.ballistictec.com/

 

[denfoote]

I prefer warm unopened well shaken beer cans!!!
The cheaper the better!!

 

[Hellgate]

Shaken up cheap soda pop cans are great for exploding targets. Best to get diet/sugarless variety so as to not attract yellowjackets & bees and so you don't have a sticky mess to pack out. Yes, take home the blown cans but forget about getting the deposit back. Stomp them & put in the metal recycling bin.

 

[reagansquad]

Go pick up a couple of cases of cheap-o brand pop at the grocery store. We get safeway select here for like $3/12 pack... Makes good shooting and gives you some thing to wash the dust out of your mouth with.

 

[jobu07]

I got a lot of fun recently shooting mil-surps and EBR's at some old worn out warped brake rotors after changing out my brakes. Just hung them up on my normal target stand and had at it. Rather thand estroy good sillohettes with rifles, just shoot this junk. I did discover though, that the pieces of rotor that flew backwards really made a mess of my target backboard... I figured after I was done that I had stumbled across a cheap way to make "vented" disk rotors for your car!

 

[Satch]

Targets?

I use 1/2 and gallon milk jugs (empty) hung on a frame at the range.And if there is a little wind blowing it makes more of a challange to pop them. And you can shoot at them all day because it takes lot of hits to chew them up to the point that a hit won't be seen. And there easy to clean up the range after.