How many of you have shot something more than a paper target at the range.

Have you shot more than just paper targets?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 285 95.0%

  • No.

    Votes: 15 5.0%
  • Total voters
    300
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My old man was telling me that a 357 mag when fired at mason jars full of peach preserves will blow syrup and peach chunks 15 yards in every direction.
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Sounds tasty. A little of everything.. I love bowling pins!!
 
Ive shot almost everything you find in a house....tv screens to gas bottles etc etc.
One time we cut down an old fat pine with a friend of mine using .44 and .357. I was suprised how many rounds it took to make it fall. There must be an easier way to make firewood for winter.....:))
 
Sgt. Dusk...
If you think that took a long time, try a .22lr... Musta took 200 rounds to bring a 4inch diameter tree down...
 
reduced produce from the local food store is great. Cantalopes for .50 ea sometimes. The first generation of WWF adtion figures are self sealing plastic. Great for .22's
 
I have never used a pay range, and rarely shoot paper targets unless sighting in.
I enjoy more reactionary targets, many have been listed here.

Blocks of ice are great, you don't release toxic chemicals like shooting pcs or monitors, and you have no clean up whatsoever.
 
there is something so satisfying about throwing a soda can in the water and blasting it with a .44magnum and seeing nothing but little aluminum pieces float in the air.:D
 
Clays and empty shotgun hulls at the range.

Squirrels, Rabbits, woodchucks, and various small birds in the field.
 
At the pay range its paper only. So it's off to the woods...

Phone books bundled with duct tape. (Did you know that a 7.62x54R can go through 10,000 pages?)
Golf balls, baseballs, softballs, bowling balls.
Plastic medicine bottles, canned food, soda cans, milk jugs (quart, half, and gallon), water and Gatorade bottles, detergent containers, and gas cans (water filled).
CDs, many hard drives, some computers, a vacuum cleaner, fire extinguisher, paper shedder, alarm clocks, tape deck.
Leaf spring, a ten inch section of railroad, brake rotor, pots and pans.
All kinds of aerosol cans (full), especially silly string.

I think it's time to go to the cheapest junk (thrift) store and pick up some more manufactured amusement!!
 
Shot anything I could find.

Dumps make the list too long to post.

Washing machines, tvs, cans, bottles.....
And you don't even have to pick it up.... it's already thrown away for you.

I need to run up there with my cz now....
 
I shot a honeydew melon with my .454 casull 300grn hrdy/xtp . that vaporized then I shot a pressure treated 4x4 from the end with the same bullet from about 25 ft . the bullet penetrated 18 1/2 inches !
 
We shot a kite at the trap club once. That was interesting. This kid had and people were paying a dollar a shot at it and whoever knocked it down without taking out the string kept half the money and the kid kept the other half. He made about $20.
 
I shot a honeydew melon with my .454 casull 300grn hrdy/xtp . that vaporized then I shot a pressure treated 4x4 from the end with the same bullet from about 25 ft . the bullet penetrated 18 1/2 inches !
 
Reactive targets

On another forum, people were talking about home-made reactive targets similar to Tannerite, but with far more explosive energy and concussion effect.

What I read is that you can take a coffee grinder, and a bag of regular garden variety prilled ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and grind up the prills with the grinder into a powder. Then use fine aluminum powder, 400 mesh, and mix it 90:10 AN/AL by weight. Put it in a tight zip-loc, mixed well, and shoot from 100 yards.

It was mentioned that it will not detonate with a light impact, it requires a hit from a heavy bullet with a lot of impact pressure. 300 Win was stated to work. I have never been able to find the fertilizer around here, but it sounds like an interesting reactive target for 1/10 the price of Tannerite.
 
humans, twice.

first time with a .357 mag the second with a .40cal.

do not count on one shot stop stats.
 
but it sounds like an interesting reactive target for 1/10 the price of Tannerite.
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Sounds like a fine way to get on the ATF watch list buying the aluminum powder in quantity.

And also a fine way to blow yourself up messing with it!

We had a local idiot that made his own M-80's using aluminum powder.

He ended up blowing up his trailer house with him in it a few years ago.

rcmodel
 
One of my favorites among non-paper targets is the dual-balloon setup.

Put one balloon inside another. Blow up the inner to about 4 inches. Blow up the outer to about 8 inches. Hang at about 6 feet @ 7 to 10 yards or closer if need be. Take an aimed shot to hit only the outer balloon, then try to hit the inner balloon before it hits the ground. Sometimes it falls straight down, sometimes it jumps left or right before falling.
 
Ratshooter, they were my ex-mother-in-law and ex-sister-in-law.
 
Let's see:
computers
steel plating
phonebooks
water jugs
pumpkins
2-liter coke bottles
cans full of beans
soccer balls
etc etc etc

Shooting various objects with high-powered rifles and slugs or buckshot is a good time to be had by all. Immature? I don't care.

I took a 7.62x54R heavy ball round to a can of beans and to a stuffed animal this evening. Both are being kept as "trophies".
 
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