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

[NOOk]

Our range has a big pile of 8" long 4x4 pieces laying around we set on top of the target frames. Every month or so another pickup truck load shows up. They are fun to hit and they splinter apart nicely when hit.

 

[ditch_dgr]

I buy 12 packs of cheap diet soda, shake the cans up and tie them to the target frames, they explode nicely when hit. A can of shaving cream can make it look like it is snowing.

 

[sacp81170a]

Many, many more things than paper, some of them alive and some of those shooting back... The same can probably be said for a lot of the service members, prior service and LEO's here, so I ain't nothin' special.

 

[Neckshot5seven]

The target that gave me the most pleasure to shoot was a ex-girlfriends Ford Tempo that I did a head gasket on and she left it for years at my fathers house, we drove it into the woods and it became 7.62x39mm bait. Christi, All I can say is that I got my time and $40 of head gasket money back and then some after it took a 1440 round truckload of Russian FMJ. The scrap yard even gave me $75 bucks and towed it off. I was suprised to see that besides the shots into the engine or transmission they went through both sides of the car and into trees behind the car. Hollywood lies!! never take cover behind a door!!!

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Some of you guys saying deer and whatnot- we have a strict rule at the range - NO HUNTING - period. Wish we didn't have that rule, because there's deer out there, and if it happens to be rifle season and one were to coincidentally walk right in front of the berm, then hey why not? But the rules are the rules.

 

[BADUNAME37]

Old Station Wagon.

This wasn't at a range. I remember an old shooting buddy telling me once about shooting a 1970's station wagon (big old car) lengthwise with a Ruger Mini 14 (.223 FMJ).

He said the back door window was down. He shot the back door - aiming straight through the car.

The bullet went through the outside back door metal, through the back window (that was down), through the inside door metal, through the back seat, through the front seat, completely destroyed the radio, through the (metal) firewall, hit the engine block and ricocheted vertically up through the hood! Who knows how much power that bullet had - even after all of that!

All that with a 5.56 NATO approved FMJ cartridge!

You ARE NOT safe inside a vehicle unless it has been bulletproofed!

 

[TexasShooter59]

Growing up, it was normal to take a .22 when fishing in stock ponds, so that if the fish weren't biting, you could shoot at snapping turtles. I can remember one outing with some friends where we were going just to shoot water moccasins. And, we did.

Just last weekend: 2" Christmas ornaments hung on a barb wire fence, and cow piles.

But, probably more than 90% of the time, it is just plain ole paper.