Cool Targets
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MD_Willington
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Went to the "Dollar Tree" they had 4 paper Halloween decorations in a bag, 1 skull face, one witch, 1 pumpkin and 1 Frankenstein head... 4 targets for a buck + tax...
I also have a target stand made from a recycled satellite dish attached to an old handle off a dead lawn mower...
Also - foam tombstones are a buck + tax..
I also have a target stand made from a recycled satellite dish attached to an old handle off a dead lawn mower...
Also - foam tombstones are a buck + tax..
Shadow 7D
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balloons, if they let you tie some helium balloons to a RC car and practice for deer season.
Legionnaire
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Kids especially like reactive targets. Things I've used:
Shaken cans of the cheapest soda I can find (Sam's club, etc.).
12 oz water bottles refilled with tap water and caps screwed on tight.
Ritz crackers, set up in a grooved length of 2x4.
Balloons.
Ice cubes.
Spent shotgun shells.
Tin cans upside down over a stake (use a wood stake, not steel); can rattles nicely, and you don't have to go set them up again.
Clay birds set at various distances.
As others have said, pick up your trash.
Shaken cans of the cheapest soda I can find (Sam's club, etc.).
12 oz water bottles refilled with tap water and caps screwed on tight.
Ritz crackers, set up in a grooved length of 2x4.
Balloons.
Ice cubes.
Spent shotgun shells.
Tin cans upside down over a stake (use a wood stake, not steel); can rattles nicely, and you don't have to go set them up again.
Clay birds set at various distances.
As others have said, pick up your trash.
billybobjoe
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I had pushed a couple of cedar trees into our bean field and had them burning. I had been shooting down at the ash from a hill two hundred yards away and stiring up the fire. Then I was in my barn and happened to notice a propane torch cylinder that I had been retriving from the burn barrel periodically. It wouldn't run a torch, but it was full of propane. I meant to shoot it with a 22 sometime (to get rid of it), but I didn't want to be near it when I did. SOOO!!! I put it down in front of that big fire and shot it with my 30-06. OMG!!!! BOOM! All the ash ended up in the air like a mushroom cloud. It cleared out the whole fire. I found the propane cylinder fifty yards from me and I was about two fifty away. It's scary how much power is actually contained in one of those. Good thing I live in the country with no near by neighbors. I put my rifles away anyway--never know?
billybobjoe
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The cylinder had a little hole in one side and the whole back side was blown out. It flew a couple hundred yards.
Mt Shooter
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dum dum's
quarters
playing cards, try it on edge
quarters
playing cards, try it on edge
deadeyedog270
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I love pumpkins i grow my own so the kids carve what they want I get to shoot the rest
cucumbers are fun put them the long way shoot down the middle 30-30's tend to realy distroy them.
Put a target out any target put a old cd a few feet in front hit the target throught the hole
cucumbers are fun put them the long way shoot down the middle 30-30's tend to realy distroy them.
Put a target out any target put a old cd a few feet in front hit the target throught the hole
rgs1975
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I'm quite fond of using watermelons. Every now and then I'll film it. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6eBgV55tw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6eBgV55tw
Animal Crackers are about the PERFECT targets to teach a youngster how to handle a BB gun.
Tomahawk674
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Dead computer/computer components.
M2 Carbine
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One of my favorite pistol targets is a 2x2 foot square steel plate with a 18 inch silhouette painted on it.
I shoot it from 52 yards, standing.
I'll set goals for myself, like 50 consecutive rounds from a 2 inch S&W 38 with no misses. The last time I missed numbers 41 and 42.
I recently bought a Micro Desert Eagle. I also missed two rounds out of 19 shots.
Now the IAI 40 S&W Desert Eagle is a shooter. No misses shooting two hands, right hand and left hand.
I also have some steel targets in the back yard.
I shoot it from 52 yards, standing.
I'll set goals for myself, like 50 consecutive rounds from a 2 inch S&W 38 with no misses. The last time I missed numbers 41 and 42.
I recently bought a Micro Desert Eagle. I also missed two rounds out of 19 shots.
Now the IAI 40 S&W Desert Eagle is a shooter. No misses shooting two hands, right hand and left hand.
I also have some steel targets in the back yard.
Gungle George
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The day after an election I go pick up a few of those plastic election signs that are everywhere. They make great target holders, you can shoot the daylights out of them and they stay together.
Cheers,
George
Cheers,
George
M2 Carbine
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Take the magnets out of the hard drives. They are handy for hanging up tools, guns, etc.
(The magnets are very strong. The Duct tape over the magnets is just to avoid possibly scratching the guns)
y.old.ndn
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We shoot at deja blue water cans, don't ask me where we got 'em. Freeze them, then peel the can off (very carefully)...then it's like ice fireworks! Also, shooting appliances is interesting. Ours looks like 100 grenades went off inside that thing! Old empty freon bottles work good for self defense practice, its the size of a human torso...plus it makes a ding whin you shoot it!
Bought a triple swinging target from letargets.com. It has two 5" circles and one 8" circle. It has held up well to 2000+ rounds of .308 and atleast that many .223 rouns from 100-300 yards.
Sharpened the ends of the poles with a grinder so I could push it in the ground by standing on them. Spray paint it occasionally and use those little stick on orange bullseyes for a better aim point. Tried making something like this using T1 steel and the rifles would bore right through it from 100 yards. Gave up and bought one.
Also shoot rocks. Typically shoot at a gravel pit and most 2-3" rocks vaporize and there are endless targets.
Sharpened the ends of the poles with a grinder so I could push it in the ground by standing on them. Spray paint it occasionally and use those little stick on orange bullseyes for a better aim point. Tried making something like this using T1 steel and the rifles would bore right through it from 100 yards. Gave up and bought one.
Also shoot rocks. Typically shoot at a gravel pit and most 2-3" rocks vaporize and there are endless targets.
bigalexe
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I made a thread sometime back involving the idea of shooting up RC Cars, the decided cleanest idea was to attach an old t-shirt onto a pole on top the car.
You could however shoot the car itself but that would become expensive, and also its not very environmentally conscious to drop electronics and plastic parts all over a range. For this reason please do NOT shoot RC Airplanes, there's too many safety and environmental factors against doing it.
You could however shoot the car itself but that would become expensive, and also its not very environmentally conscious to drop electronics and plastic parts all over a range. For this reason please do NOT shoot RC Airplanes, there's too many safety and environmental factors against doing it.
I whittles what I see
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A playstation 2 and 3 college text books
Pine Knob
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An egg on a golf tee makes a good target. A bag of golf tees is cheap at ChinaMart and last a long time.
Woodstock45678
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My usual go-to is 20 oz. old soda bottles. My friend works at a place where they have to 'dispose' of bottles past the sell-by date. He has about 15 flats sitting in his office...
Other targets regularly on the menu:
-Old vegetables
-Bad textbooks
-Tannerite
-milk jugs
-fire extinguisher
-clays
-shotshell hulls for .22
-and the old stand-by paper targets
Other targets regularly on the menu:
-Old vegetables
-Bad textbooks
-Tannerite
-milk jugs
-fire extinguisher
-clays
-shotshell hulls for .22
-and the old stand-by paper targets
last to know
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I like to tape sweet-tart candy to strings hanging from an old realestate sign frame. the candy is about the size of a nickel and if there is a breeze it makes hitting them all the more difficult.
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