fun things to shoot?

[Lupinus]

eggs, small zip locks of flour, clay pigions, fruit, milk jugs filled with soapy water, cartons of orange juice, floam http://www.buyfloam.com/?cid=132025, jugs of chocolate syrup, cans of hormel chili, cans of dinty more, cans of bushs baked beans, cans of beer, bottles of beer, bottles of ketchup, old computers, old cars, playdough, troll dolls and beani babies, and my two newest things containers of sour cream and cottage cheese.

Yes, I have way to much time on my hands

 

[xMetal]

While probably not the smartest thing in the world, shooting old batteries is quite entertaining. D batts hit with a .45 are pretty cool. The outer cases tend to split and fly off and the innards pop nicely.

There is that issue with the left over acid though...

 

[jlbraun]

Some people are suggesting shooting milk jugs filled with water. I say go one better - and FREEZE the jug of water before shooting it. 1 frozen milk jug + 1 3" magnum slug at 20 yards = shards of ice spraying in a 40 yard circle.

I also plink with a .22 pistol on 12ga casings and expended brass. Hit a 12ga casing in the metal base and it will fly about 15 yards. Good fun.

 

[Lupinus]

jl-
try a 30-30 into a tub of sour cream

 

[lance22]

Lightly saturated toilet paper

Saturated toilet paper almost behaves like a clay medium when hit. Take a roll of toilet paper, let sit ovenight in a sixtheenth inch of water. Water will absorb evenly. NOTE: pouring water over the top will ruin the roll. You want the roll satutured, not dripping wet.

Shoot with your favorite defensive ammo, will not explode but will have very interesting cone shaped exit wound. If the roll has the proper, light saturation level the exit will look as you would expect shooting a brick of clay with a protruding lip surrounding the exit cavity. Very interesting and worth your time. Also works great with .22s.

 

[Justin]

Once upon a time a friend and I saved up a bunch of gallon milk jugs, filled them up with water, lined them up end-to-end and shot various hollowpoint rounds through them.

It was pretty cool recovering the expanded rounds, as well as seeing how many jugs a 9mm would go through.

 

[rangerruck]

take shotgunshells, and staple them vertically so the brass part is pointing straight up, and use a couple of staples , so that is really secure in your toprail.
usually , if you hit it with a fast 22 or fmj, the bullet will pass right through the plastic part, if you have it secured well to the top rail. It almost guarantees that you have to hit the top brass part only, to get it to flip out of it's staple hold. If you can hit the brass of a 410 at 50 or 100 yds, you got a pretty tight rifle there.

 

[mindwip]

Shooting a ballon (the ones that have weights attached to there strings) that is flying away(but not up) from you in the wind with a .22 is hard and fun.

Spent .22lr cases of ammo, those plastic boxs are fun to shoot.

Shooting a 1inch wide stick in 30 plus wind is fun,

 

[BergaminoCAV]

Pumpkins, Watermelons, bottles with water in them, cans, any thing that is able to make a mess!

Back when we were young and stupid in high school me, my brother, my cousin (who lives in the beginning of a 160 acre wooded lot), and a few buddys use to get a few 30 packs and go camping for the weekend, one weekend my buddy (who was killed in Iraq almost 2 years ago) found an old rusty truck in the the woods, that was fun to shoot at but probably wasnt safe! Now when we go hunting we pass and laugh at the old rusty beat up chevy with bullet holes, and after we are done and begin our journey back to my cousins house we all take a shot at the truck for our fallen brother. haha Its kind of stupid but it helps us remember the good times!

 

[Clipper]

I used to have a Browning BL-22 with a 4x scope that was death on spent 22 shell casings on the pistol range fence at 25 yards. When my wife would start knocking them down (and she very rarely missed), the guys with their target rifles would get a complex and leave...

 

[C-grunt]

A guy next to me at the range a few months ago had little green armymen taped to his target. He used a .22 and would shoot them at 25 yards. He called it his "Sniper practice."

 

[EvisceratorSrB]

Man I can't believe you guys havent thought of this. A 20 mph RC car is loads of fun at 100 yards. I used to be addicted to RC cars when I was a little kid, so I have about 5 of them. Unfortunately, the 3 we've tried are trashed How bout a nice "Bop-It", footballs (I hate the game), plastic containers filled with those red monkeys that you link up. Can of marbles. Paint is good. Although expensive, I just found some large containers of it.

 

[American By Blood]

I can't really be the first person to chime in with...

TANNERITE

 

[Riz]

Garage Sales!!!

I keep my eyes open for garage sales that have stuffed animals. I got my hands on a Barney doll once!!! That was very satisfying. I felt bad once when a little girl said "Mommy, why does that man want all my old stuffed animals?"
My 1/2 cents
Riz

 

[jrou111]

I just came back from the dump...

Shot some expired eggs and sealed cup of ranch dressing.

Took out some more computer equipment.







Here is a small video clip of me shooting a 1 gallon water jug with 12ga slugs in my Benelli

http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b124/jrou111/shooting 8-22-06/?action=view&current=PICT0236.flv

 

[SomeKid]

I once found out in the woods some tresspassing SOB had left one of those little propane cans. a .22 made a small hole, and the remaining gasses made it shoot around like a jet.

Yah, reckless, but fun.

 

[Eightball]

Shot a car. At Knob Creek Range. Made it explode. Quite fun.

Nothing like an Mosin piercing the engine block.

Just about anything 3D is fun to shoot at.

 

[MrTwigg]

Sometimes I'd rather not shoot.

But evil computers still need killin' !

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That's why I like bayonet's !

 

[boilingleadbath]

.22LR vs. chunks of ice cast in yogurt containers is fun, although I acctualy tend to use a bunch of 2" pipe segments more often - they are faster to use than those yogurt containers.

Random water containers and ground-fallen fruit are pretty good too.

 

[Legionnaire]

Any tin or steel can inverted and placed on top of a steel stake or fence post stuck in the ground. Great reactive target for .22s and air rifles, as they rattle around nicely, and you don't have to go set them up again. Good for kids, as different size cans at varying distances make for different levels of challenge. Fun and satisfying to empty a 10/20 magazine into a can, keeping it rattling.

Any type of spinner target. Steel gongs. An old cast iron frying pan works. But my preference, especially with kids, is reactive targets that jump/ring/rattle nicely ... that you DON'T have to set up again every time you hit it.

 

[EddieCoyle]

Bowling balls. Trust me, you gotta try it, but don't stand too close.

 

[beardownwildcat]

no mannequins??

so i had a brief stint working at dillards and they were throwing away old mannequin tops, like the full size, 3d male mannequins without legs...i still have them sitting in my garage. i am thinking if you shoot them since they are hollow, they will shatter b/c they are kinda brittle on the outside. but if i buy some of that expanding insulation foam and fill them, i can blast away at those things for hours! nice for defensive drills i bet, and places sell those types of things for quite a bit. also, the night before you go shooting, have a get together of your buddies and buy a 30 pack (for me thats like me and two guys and its gone) and then you just save them all, in case you don't usually separate cans for recycling. yeah you may go shooting with a hangover, but you have all those targets

 

[10-Ring]

I like picking up a bag of onions or potatos. Also, filling up a 2 liter bottle w/ water & freezing makes for good times too. I like cheap and inexpensive

 

[moewadle]

I have not done this but a nephew and his friends occasionally freeze milk jugs and cartons full of water and say they make a great target for centerfire shooting. Again, like charcoal briquets, no harm to the environment by the ice. Moe

 

[History Prof]

I'm sure I mentioned this the last time this subject popped up but: TEXTBOOKS.

College professors get inundated with sample text books that publishers hope you will adopt. Then book buyers come around buying back the ones you don't need, but they won't buy the older editions. I can't use them (academically), the publishers and book buyers won't take them, students can't use them, the library doesn't want them and the used bookstores laugh at you if you try to trade them in. What else are they good for?