kd7nqb
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I am now on the bowling pin kick but you already mentioned that. I found old silverware kinda fun especially when jabbed into something else like fruits or pumpkins.
Best plinking targets
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One of my favorites are bowling balls. Their hard to get, but they last a long time. My Mosin will go right through it with large chunks flying off. Don't stand to close, sharp pieces fly 30-40 feet. It's a durable target; I once shot one with a Derringer type .22 WMR (1 inch barrel, or so) from about 25 feet. The .22 hit the ball and ricocheted and hit me in the leg (picked up a flat bullet at my feet!). Pistol rounds will not go through one (expect on the edges).
Every time you go out, always check the cupboards for expired dates on canned food. Canned beets explode in a most outstanding fashion.
Liquid laundry detergent comes in big solid plastic containers. Fill with water and shoot. Only powerful rounds will blow those up!
Cans of Silly String are fun.
CDs hanging on strings are also fun.
Once a year, the new phone books come out. I collect lots of them, duct tape them together and try to stop bullets. It took 12 phone books to stop a steel cored 7.62x54r, but i recovered the bullets in great condition.
Old hard drives have only one final sentence. Firing squad. They'll usually stop a .22LR and sometimes a .22WMR.
Every time you go out, always check the cupboards for expired dates on canned food. Canned beets explode in a most outstanding fashion.
Liquid laundry detergent comes in big solid plastic containers. Fill with water and shoot. Only powerful rounds will blow those up!
Cans of Silly String are fun.
CDs hanging on strings are also fun.
Once a year, the new phone books come out. I collect lots of them, duct tape them together and try to stop bullets. It took 12 phone books to stop a steel cored 7.62x54r, but i recovered the bullets in great condition.
Old hard drives have only one final sentence. Firing squad. They'll usually stop a .22LR and sometimes a .22WMR.
stubbicatt
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I like shooting at clay pigeons. They are brightly colored, and you can set them at varying distances. At 300 yards they become quite the challenge!
General Geoff
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Hard drives make amazing targets.
.22lr from a rifle will put a decent dent in them. Most centerfire pistol calibers will make huge dents in them, and sometimes blow them apart. Rifle rounds will go right through them like a hot knife through butter.
.22lr from a rifle will put a decent dent in them. Most centerfire pistol calibers will make huge dents in them, and sometimes blow them apart. Rifle rounds will go right through them like a hot knife through butter.
jpwilly
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CD's or DVD's - AOL provides these for free alomost every month!
2 Liter Soda Bottles filled with water.
Yogurt Containers filled with dust.
Steel Cans from corn or peas etc.
Most any old electronics or fruit etc.
Prarie Dogs!
2 Liter Soda Bottles filled with water.
Yogurt Containers filled with dust.
Steel Cans from corn or peas etc.
Most any old electronics or fruit etc.
Prarie Dogs!
Seancass
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http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=198701
you might find some good ideas inside this thread somewhere.
you might find some good ideas inside this thread somewhere.
doc2rn
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Didn't I see that on the movie SWAT?
Didn't I see that on the movie SWAT?
Franco2shoot
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Here's a report on the Toilet paper soaked for a Ballistic gel substitute... dismal failure when hit with the .308...
First off the 12 pack wrapper did not retain the water, and secondly the back rolls were still dry after two gallons of water. The bullet went clean through. I'm thinking maybe a bag of playbox sand from Home Depot.
As for the Golf ball... when I finally hit it we could not find it. It just disappeared.. Next my Marksman son hit a golf ball at 70 yards with his 22LR and we did find that ball. The round went straight through. Oddly enough, the hole in the front was the size of a Bic refil pen, and the hole out the back was smaller. Its like the wrapper Self healed..
My next idea is to collect used plastic oil bottles put them in a cardboard case, refilling each with water. Three cases placed in a row might have a shot at stopping the 308 especially if I put the phone book at the end of the row.
I'm open to other ideas.
KKKKFL
First off the 12 pack wrapper did not retain the water, and secondly the back rolls were still dry after two gallons of water. The bullet went clean through. I'm thinking maybe a bag of playbox sand from Home Depot.
As for the Golf ball... when I finally hit it we could not find it. It just disappeared.. Next my Marksman son hit a golf ball at 70 yards with his 22LR and we did find that ball. The round went straight through. Oddly enough, the hole in the front was the size of a Bic refil pen, and the hole out the back was smaller. Its like the wrapper Self healed..
My next idea is to collect used plastic oil bottles put them in a cardboard case, refilling each with water. Three cases placed in a row might have a shot at stopping the 308 especially if I put the phone book at the end of the row.
I'm open to other ideas.
KKKKFL
trickyasafox
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i'll tell ya what will make your life easier- put a tarp under anything that needs clean up. you'll thank yourself after! i too like golf balls for a good time. honestly though if you have access to welding equipment a good homemade swinging steel plate will provide a good bit of entertainment. one of my friends made one- but i don't know enough about metal to tell you what he used. i know it was hardened steel.
Funderb
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motor oil bottles, dont do it.
Unless you want to have that one day where
you are having a bad luck run and get nailed by the epa.
For whatever reason.
just use fruit juice bottles and don't take the chance.
More importantly:
It is a minimal amount of oil, but it's still
messy to clean up when everythig you've shot at is covered in a film
of oil. No fun.
Unless you want to have that one day where
you are having a bad luck run and get nailed by the epa.
For whatever reason.
just use fruit juice bottles and don't take the chance.
More importantly:
It is a minimal amount of oil, but it's still
messy to clean up when everythig you've shot at is covered in a film
of oil. No fun.
Quoheleth
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When I was a kid, we would save light bulbs for months and then go to our "dump" and shoot light bulbs - both regular screw-ins and long flourescent - we tossed into the brush-end of the dump. The game was longest run w/out a miss; at a miss, you had to switch gun to new shooter.
We would save .22 empties and shoot them with our BB guns at 10-15 feet. Now THAT'S tough!!!
For bullet stoppage, take 6" of newspaper and tie loosly - as though you had 10" high stacks. Place into a pan of water (like a dishpan) overnight. The paper should swell until it pretty well fills up the string. While the papers are soaking, make a box out of 1x10s just big enough that you can stand the papers in it on-edge. Tomorrow, stand the soaked papers on end. Make the stack as deep as needed. That'll stop bullets. This was in SHOOTING TIMES a couple years ago.
For completely biodegradable but explosive targets, find a field that was recently disked up and is full of dirt clods. They explode in nice puffs of dirt, and there's absolutely zero cleanup.
No joke...we LOVED shooting cowpies (after the cows moved elsewhere). YOu get a nice, satisfying "whop!" when it hit, a little spray, and the satisfaction that we were helping the process of bio-degradation. And it gave new meaning to "when the SHTF" <GRIN>
Necco candy wafers are great at short range (they're about the size of a quarter); a roll is about fifty cents at the dollar store.
Milk jug lids are challenging...and free if you buy milk!
Have fun...be creative...be safe!!!
Q
We would save .22 empties and shoot them with our BB guns at 10-15 feet. Now THAT'S tough!!!
For bullet stoppage, take 6" of newspaper and tie loosly - as though you had 10" high stacks. Place into a pan of water (like a dishpan) overnight. The paper should swell until it pretty well fills up the string. While the papers are soaking, make a box out of 1x10s just big enough that you can stand the papers in it on-edge. Tomorrow, stand the soaked papers on end. Make the stack as deep as needed. That'll stop bullets. This was in SHOOTING TIMES a couple years ago.
For completely biodegradable but explosive targets, find a field that was recently disked up and is full of dirt clods. They explode in nice puffs of dirt, and there's absolutely zero cleanup.
No joke...we LOVED shooting cowpies (after the cows moved elsewhere). YOu get a nice, satisfying "whop!" when it hit, a little spray, and the satisfaction that we were helping the process of bio-degradation. And it gave new meaning to "when the SHTF" <GRIN>
Necco candy wafers are great at short range (they're about the size of a quarter); a roll is about fifty cents at the dollar store.
Milk jug lids are challenging...and free if you buy milk!
Have fun...be creative...be safe!!!
Q
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