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

[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.

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.

 

[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://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.

 

[788Ham]

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

 

[Mr.454]

Cabbage with my .44.