give me some fun ideas for the shooting range.

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i found a 100 yard range thats not busy at all. rarely do we ever meet other people there. its unattended also. no one watching over our shoulder. its just a small roof with a few benches. its used by hunters to sight in their scopes, thats about it....and us.

we filmed ourselves(4 of us) unloading a couple ak47 mags each, then we all unloaded shotguns, then handguns. all at the same time. beautifully devastating.

whats the best reactive targets? can goods....give me some ideas. i need ideas to start up a friendly competition between the 4 of us. nothing serious. we all have ak47s, 9mm, 45acp, and 12 gauge shotguns. i have a 10/22 and they will get one shortly.
 
I have fun with old golf balls on golf tees (.22) Try to split the tee out from under the golf ball, then, each time you shoot the golf ball, it jumps and moves. You can start them out at about 50 yards, and with a 22, it get progressively harder as they jump and bounce down the range. We've also seen how far we could keep one moving (I.e, shoot them while they're still rolling) Best part is, they're reusable. I'm kinda interested to see what that 7.62 would do to one, though. Also, my range buddy works for a local dariy distributer, which also does fruit punches and juices in the gallon jugs. We'll go to his place of work and load up all the old gallon jugs of fruit punch (that they're gonna throw away) and take them to the range to shoot with diff. calibers and such. we had a competition one night with flashlights and .22's blowing the lids of the jugs. Not much, but it's a start at least, I'm kinda interested to see what other people come up with.

(BTW, 10 ga. shotty makes the biggest mess with the jugs of juice. .357 hydrashoks are not too far behind.) And before anyone complains, we make sure we go out and pick up all the plastic and old golf balls on the range when we're done.

Justin
 
It's a good range that you got. I'd say spent casings and junk you got laying around your house. If it's a relatively unattended range and only used by hunters PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE police your trash. Keep a good range a good range.
 
Outdoors, buddies & I like frozen containers of water, bags of potatos or onions, bowling pins, old plates from a thrift store...stuff that will shatter into may pieces :D :evil:
 
Fun stuff

Bowling pins
Clay targets
Baloons
Full Soda cans

I have this setup I call the "Carnival Shoot"

It's easy to make and easy to setup and take down.

Bought two cheap sawhorse stands and 2X4's at the Borg. Drilled holes in the side of the 2X4's that span from one sawhorse to the other for 1/2" dowels. Made the legs extra long so the targets will be up higher. Cut dowels to various lengths and glue clothespins to them. Slip them in the holes in the 2X4 and you can clamp clay targets and baloons from them. When the dowels/clothespins get shot up, just cut them off and glue on a new clothespin.

Then with cord/light rope, and eyebolt screwed into each of the following, hang bowling pins and golf balls below. Automatic reset and you can blaze away without ever having to reset targets, except for baloons and clay targets.
 
Rock teeth from excavators are tossed in the trash instead of salvage because on their own, they don't represent a reasonable fiscal return on the drive to the scrap yard. A few polite calls to a few heavy equipment companies might well net you an invite out to a site where you may obtain a set (5 teeth per bucket). Rock teeth are the best ones for targets because they're taller. Dirt teeth are more spade shaped, shorter, and in general aren't as much fun as targets. What I like about them is that they rust a brightish orange making them a self painting target. Unless they're struck at the tip with a .44 mag or above center of mass by a rifle they'll stay upright and ring with every hit. Shooting jugs of water (or whatever) is fun until you've hit them all. I consider my set of rock teeth the best targets I never had to pay for.

As someone mentioned earlier, golf balls are a lot of fun as well. I personally buy the dense foam golf balls intended for indoor practice because they don't fly as far or as violently. When using .22 handguns, it's fairly easy to chip a normal golfball farther than 100yds with a good hit, the foam ones will move a quarter of the distance and interestingly maintain their shape better than normal golf balls do. I had one such ball that was shot a grand total of 156 times before it was lost to the hinterlands. As it escaped my view I can tell you that it was still yellow like the day I bought it!
 
We have taped two card decks on a pair of big poster boards and played poker with em.

Paste the holes and keep going.
 
as a user of a public range myself I must stress CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF

I can not count the number of times I go to the public range where there is no one watching only to find some idiots have destroyed it. Not saying you would do it, but it bears saying. Esspecialy if you use reactive targets that leave a mess. Old vegtables and what not are one thing as they will break down themselves and quickly, but golf balls to empty water bottles tossed out into the range make sure you clean them up.
 
+1 Lupinus.

Another thing. If your range has a covered shooting area with benches, don't be a dumba** and shoot through the table, or shoot through the roof, or shoot up the signs, or shoot the garbage cans. We have a nice public range, but people have shot everything BUT the targets. Last time I went out there, there were ruts on the side of one of the dirt berms where some moron had decided to try his 4x4's climbing ability. It's stupid stuff that useually ends up getting places closed.

That being said;

Empty shotgun shells get more and more interesting as the distance goes up.
My range is backed by chicken wire (for hanging targets.) Put the shotgun shells hull up and slip a clothespin on one side. At 50 and 75 yards, they're fun to see how many you can hit without missing. Chances are, there are already a bunch at the range you're going to.

Get creative. just about anything can be used as a target. I saw guys shooting charcoal briquettes with 22's one time, and I saw guys trying to light a match from 50 yards. (what would be cool is shooting the match, causing it to light the briquette, then shooting the flaming briquette!) ((results could be disasterous on that one though)):evil: :what: :evil:

Justin
 
Crackers. cheap, reactive, and nature friendly, birds will eat most, the rest will dissolve into the ground with the first rain. Stand them on the ground, stick them on a strip of scotch tape, and hang from anything. Cut a slot in or prop them against a board. You wnt more challenge? Turn them partly sideways, or get the little round oyster crackers.

It sounds to me like you found a great place to shoot. Treat it like it was your yard, and enjoy.
 
My wife likes to shoot cans of V8 Juice with a 22. She tries to wing them so they'll wobble, then fall over and gush out.

I like competitive shooting trees. The kind with iron flags that swing back and forth. Set half on one side and half on the other. With two shooters, the one who clears their side first wins.

For high power rifle, I really enjoy a glass gallon jug, filled with gasoline and suspended over a lit road flare.

Liberal polital candidate signs. The big heavy outdoor ones. One of my local ranges actually uses these to construct paper target holders.
 
40 lb bag of walmart charcoal...cheap and very reactive.

That right there was some of the best advice I got from this site when asking this question awhile back...And I've gotten some damn good advice here.
 
Now keeping in mind to clean up after yourself, what might be fun is old TV's computers, monitors...etc. Or pull $20 out of an ATM and go find a few garage sales and just by cheap junk. Like it was mentioned above, almost anything can be a target.
 
charcoal briquettes

eggs

Put a small paper target up with each person's initials on it, shooters take turns, and can shoot any target they want. If a shooter hits one with your initials, you owe that shooter a dollar. Of course, when it is your turn, you can decide to try and take money from somene else, or win your own money back
 
What SKYWLKR said about playing cards. They aren't reactive, but you can play poker with them at 100 yards.

jm
 
You know, I've been thinking about taking two canned hams out to some remote area and seeing what the damage would be with some of my firearms.
I am thinking my .30-06 at 100 yards would pulverize it.
My 10mm would blow a good hole through it.
 
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