best beer to use as a rifle target

[mainecoon]

What is the best brand of beer to use as a target? Will light beer produce better spray than regular beer?

 

[Schwing]

the best spray I ever had was from my own carbonated water. Just put about 3 cups of sugar into a 2 liter bottle full of water with about 1 tsp of yeast. Put it in a warm dark place for about 3 days and blow it up.

Yes... It gets boring in Utah during the winter.

 

[matrem]

Aren't you supposed to drink that stuff after shooting at targets?

You don't also use a screwdriver as a hammer or a knife for a screwdriver, do ya?

Budweiser or natty light empty cans work well, and filled with water, produce quite a spray.

 

[JO JO]

shooting an unopened unarmed beer what is this madness you speak of

 

[oneounceload]

Take a gallon paint can with just a touch of paint, fill it with water and hammer that lid down tight. Shake well, place lid side down, hit at 100 yards with 7mag or similar and like Sutherland's Oddball character in Kelly's Heroes, "Paint pretty pictures" as you watch the can go about 100 feet in the air..........

 

[CapnMac]

Before this gets closed, let me assert something.

Some of our Irish friends will tell of "Irish purgatory," that being a great pit into which all the alcohol one has spilt, wasted, or abandoned is placed. And, it's straight to Perdition if you drown.

So, I've never found a beer I'd care to use for a target lest we both wind up in that Pit.
(And, beyond the being witty, I try to follow the adage of never mixing shooting and drink--even in appearance.)

Store brand soda, particularly the highly colored varieties is readily available at reasonable cost. (Just remember to leave the range cleaner than when you arrived.)

 

[DeepSouth]

An empty one.

 

[WestKentucky]

If one must waste beer, it should be beer not fit for drinking, I'm looking at anything "ice" or natty...not natty light tho, its good when I'm thirsty for something resembling sharp cheddar.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Anything with "lite" on the label...

 

[Exibar]

Coors lite, bud lite, bud, old Milwaukee... piels....

basically anything that you drank as a 17 year old when you didn't know any better, should be target fodder now

 

[Arkansas Paul]

That's alcohol abuse and you should be ashamed.
Better not try and shoot a can of my PBR.

Okay, it may be acceptable to shoot a can of Coors Light.

 

[clearcut]

The card board in a Natty thirty pack is all white and makes a good target with a 3/4" piece of electrical tape for a aim point. Shave cream from the dollar store is fun to blast.Save the beer for it's intended use!!!
CC

 

[matrem]

+1

I've saved a lot of other targets by liking that "sharp cheddar" as evidently some think of it??? flavor.

 

[cat_IT_guy]

Even cheap beer is too expensive (and useful) to waste as a target IMO. Empty cans full of water and food coloring hit with a varmint bullet are plenty of fun for me, or as someone else mentioned, chain-store-branded sodas are cheaper and carbonated.

 

[rszwieg]

Hamms, Grain Belt, Steel Reserve, Falstaff...

Have I missed anything?

 

[Fremmer]

Keystone light will do the trick too.

 

[dvdcrr]

Michelob

 

[Swampman]

Isn't this why God gave us Tannerite?

 

[jerkface11]

anything that says IPA on the label.

 

[cfullgraf]

Any emptied aluminum drink can, or plastic drink bottle for that matter, filled with water and a high speed varmint bullet works fine for me.

No sense wasting the original contents watering the lawn.

 

[Sam1911]

Not only is this stupid, but someone just insulted iPAs. So it's either close the thread or get out the ban hammer...!