Less serious - what kind of shooting do you find the most fun?

[oldfool]

22 plinking, action targets like hard foam practice golf balls, anywhere from 20 yards to 100 yards... or hung as swingers at 25 yards for pistol (threaded onto spiderwise fishin' line tied to a keyring on pvc pipe)

plastic bottles for rapid fire DA , 22 rimfire or 38sp, ~15 yards

itty-bitty targets on paper and/or the occassional grasshopper at 100 yards (but don't tell the PETA people ) with 17HMR

 

[Boxhead]

Longer distance (100 and 200 yards) steel gong whacking with my 475 and 500 Linebaugh's is about as fun as it gets for me.

 

[Beelzy]

Shooting this:

 

[Blackrock]

For just good old fun I like Trap shgooting with a bunch of people I know. We have a nice NRA grant built range at the city shooting sports complex and shoot every other weekend. A lot of fun just hanging out and BS'ing between rounds. Swap and sell guns and stuff, show off our latest toy and laugh at each other a lot.

My daughter call it her recoil therapy time, after working as a substitute teacher she feels the need to blow the sh*t outa something.

 

[Karl Hungus]

Longer range steel.

 

[oneounceload]

As one of a few who mentioned clay targets, I find the most fun to be Sporting Clays and FITASC. If I had a much bigger budget, box pigeons would reign supreme

 

[Ryder]

High capacity large caliber carbine fired fast gives me the warm fuzzies these days.

 

[One-Time]

Good old fashioned plinking, regardless of rifle.

Unfortunately here at most ranges its totally impossible

 

[Fatelvis]

Another vote for rats.....

 

[grimjaw]

Competing with a friend of mine using rimfire rifles, or shooting rifles at gongs at 300 yards and up. I haven't had time to do more serious competition or trap shooting, but that also looks fun.

 

[Jonah71]

I'm beginning to hate going to the local range with my handguns. You have to fire from a minimum of 75 ft., sitting position only. The only time I really enjoy shooting is on a friend or family members property. I like practicing with my own distances and targets, especially when trying out guns that are new to me. I can go through a lot of ammo on private property.

 

[jbrown50]

Causing water filled jugs to explode with rifled slugs from my Benelli M2.

 

[Aren't we all]

Death to XBox!

 

[Nushif]

Death to XBox!

Sheer Epic!

 

[ccsniper]

I enjoy shooting skeet. I like using singles, pumps, and auto's for it. 410's 20's and 12's don't matter I like it all.

 

[essayons21]

Its a tie right now between IDPA-style pistol shooting, especially with steel, and shooting steel out to 600 yds with my bolt-action rifle. Combine the two on one range day and its a mix of adrenaline and patience, very relaxing.

Recently got a .22LR conversion for my AR, that is a load of fun shooting clays, steel, cans, really anything available.

 

[Cosmoline]

I like all kinds, but far and away the MOST FUN would be flintlocks with real black powder. Something about the crack of the stone, the flash, and the thunder. In other kinds of shooting, I only really have fun if my loads are working well or whatnot. With flintlocks I have fun even if I totally miss the target.

 

[MrIzhevsk]

Anybody ever get one of those heinken mini kegs? When you're done with it drill a small hole in the top, fill it with water, then seal the hole back up. It won't be "pressurized" but if you hit it with a .308 or something else high powered you get a good result. Especially if you manage to hit the charcoal filter in the middle it makes for a small plume of black smoke and the twisted aftermath of the keg brings a smile to my face.

 

[Justin]

For me, it's 3Gun and USPSA competition. Navigating a course of fire while under timed pressure, and trying to do it better and faster is one of the rare joys of life.

3Gun, especially, is fun because no matter how good you get in one area, there are always other skills to learn, and even once you think you've got all the gun handling and marksmanship skills down, some sadistic stage designer will throw you a curve ball, like hanging you from a parachute harness and telling you to engage targets that way.

I'm fairly certain that 3Gun is only slightly less addictive than crack.

Practical rifle competitions held on outdoor field courses and engaging steel targets to 1000 yards also hold a lot of appeal, and I hope to get into that game sometime in the intermediate future.

 

[Claude Clay]

seasonally adjusted.......

i'm getting on & no longer shoot for fame or fortune

the colder the outside is the more i am inside doing bullseye/ IDPA/
my reactive metal [shooting trees & plates--both rim fire & center]
and SD instructing.

warmer, and when the range aint flooded, gets a lot more long range pistol activities/ SASS/black powder, more pins & plates. rifle of all sorts
i load for 27 calibers and working up a new load or maintaing stock is near as much fun for me as throwing the finished product away.

arthritis has me to down-load to 20 gauge and i rather shy away from
light weight high recoil hand guns. of late i am finding class lll 'interesting'

always something new----bring it on

 

[Opoche]

Any cheap shooting I can do with reactive targets. Doesn't matter what they are, lollipops, water jugs, clays etc..... Especially since I got a 7.62x25 insert for a 60 dollar mosin. Milsurp ammo for that is running about 6 bucks per 50. Easy on the shoulder and easy on the wallet.

 

[Kwanger]

For me, it's 3Gun and USPSA competition. Navigating a course of fire while under timed pressure, and trying to do it better and faster is one of the rare joys of life.

3Gun, especially, is fun because no matter how good you get in one area, there are always other skills to learn, and even once you think you've got all the gun handling and marksmanship skills down, some sadistic stage designer will throw you a curve ball, like hanging you from a parachute harness and telling you to engage targets that way.

I'm fairly certain that 3Gun is only slightly less addictive than crack.

Practical rifle competitions held on outdoor field courses and engaging steel targets to 1000 yards also hold a lot of appeal, and I hope to get into that game sometime in the intermediate future.

+1 - practical shooting is a constant challenge, and makes you think on your feet.

 

[Lee Roder]

Shooting on public lands. Arizona is SO AWESOME! I don't hunt or kill for sport, but shooting "real stuff", like milk jugs filled with water, to see penetration, or not, is something I was never able to do in all my years of range shooting. Now I can see for myself and not have to blindly accept some other's claims - no offense

 

[M2 Carbine]

I recently came up with a fun target.
I tack 8.5x11 inch targets to cardboard and hang 5-6, each from a single string.
The targets twist, turn and bounce independently and give you a random number of targets turning at random speeds. Sometimes you have 2-3 seconds to shoot, sometimes a lot less. With just a little wind it becomes a real challenge to hit several targets as they spin.
Definitely some fun shooting.

This was funny.
My friend's boy was shooting the spinning targets with a Browning Buckmark.
His daughter and friend were shooting at paper targets with 38 S&W J Frames. I was taking pictures.


I walked up behind my friend's daughter. She said, "I shot (her brother's) turning targets a couple times but he didn't notice".
I said, "Shoot the string. He will notice that"

The next shot, she shot the string and dropped the target.

The daughter and I were cracking up as the boy was telling his Dad, "I don't know what happened!! I wasn't even shooting at that target.


We called the girl's single shot string hit, "The shot of the day".




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[skidooman]

Anything .22.
Especially something that jumps when you shoot it.(ex; empty shotshells)