Plinking.. what do you shoot at ?

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After shooting at paper and shooting for groups sometimes it can get a little boring, so whenever I go on my parents or a friends land I enjoy plinking. I enjoy shooting snapping turtles in the pond (They eat fish) I also enjoy shooting cans off the fence. Both are great for my scoped Marlin 60.

What do you guys like to shoot with centerfire rifles ? I've heard Tannerite is fun. I enjoy shooting bricks, also shooting braches in the water is fun because they go about 20 feet in the air with peices of it blown everywhere. Also milk jugs full of water are pretty fun to shoot.

I know it probably sounds a little childish, but I like the "feedback" you get from seeing things get blown up for knocked over.
 
Clay pigeons are cheap and challenging at a few hundred yards.

Personally, I like watermelons, but they aren't as cheap as they once were.

Fruit is always fun and there's nothing to clean up - animals take care of that.
I don't like to leave garbage where I shoot, so it either has to be easy to clean up or bio-degradeable.
 
well how about both (paper and plinking) at the same time. Someone who bought my 10/22 showed me his target. Neco wafers taped to target paper. Made a nice "puff" when shot.

There's an empty field (safe backstop) that i can trek from my house for about half a mile. I brought so far: apple, orange, 1x1 piece of wood, ammo spam can, plastic water bottles, iron skillet, soda can, old computer monitor, etc and i do dispose of them properly after i'm done.
 
Things filled with water, like beer/soda cans, 1 gallon jugs, plastic bottles of any kind (NO GLASS!!!), water balloons. Cardboard with Necco wafers or Vanilla Wafers, or any kind of cheap, nasty-tasting cookies/candies glued all over it is fun, great for .22 rifles. Even empty shotgun shells lined up on a board are great .22 targets.

1-gallon water jugs are great long-range targets for centerfire rifles, they die a glorious death!

The imagination has no bounds, just shoot stuff you can clean up easily, and please do so.
 
Vegetables are a favorite of mine... hard to beat the "mist" of tomato or cucumber :)

I like old cans of pop too, they make a pretty good spray when you hit them.
 
I live in Washington, so apples are plentiful and free. Everybody knows somebody who has an apple tree in their yard and would LOVE you to haul some of them off :D

I also enjoy jugs filled with water, old electronics, and empty 1lb propane bottles.

For shooting .22 rifles I like to just stand up a bunch of 12ga hulls I find lying around the range and shoot them all down.

Here's my wife taking out my old 21" computer monitor with my shotgun using 3" 00 Buck :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMt548Ee8mI
 
orange clay targets. as far out there as you can. they get smaller every time you hit one & then it gets harder & harder
 
Any plastic bottles out of the fridge that have that 1/3 of whatever stuck to the bottom of them that no one wants. Fill the rest of the way with water, shake well, and stand 'em up for the firing squad. Army men make great targets, as their human silhouettes similating great distance as well. Golf balls jump well, and are hard to hit. Orange clay pigeons are great. One day recently I stapled a bunch of ketchup packets to a paper target. Challenging and rewarding. Full soda cans explode when hit by a .45...
 
I like ?reactionary? targets also, those steel swingers from wally world are cheap if shooting rimfire and give plenty of positive feedback when hit, golf balls are a hoot they really take of when hit solid with a centerfire round, bowling pins fall over if hit in the "head", but hit in the body with a fast moving centerfire hollow or soft point, they fly off.

I have seen the self healing plastic center fire reactionary targets sold through the catalogs and local gun shops, they come in prariedog and ground hog swingers, and in ball and cube shapes, they are supposed to take all the punishment you can hand out, but the cost kind of stops me from buying .
 
I shoot a lot of steel angled down to prevent ricochets...jugs are also fun to plink at. Suckers make good rimfire targets, used to shoot the free First Union bank suckers when I was a kid. :)
 
I got me a spot to shoot my 22 at 200 yards. my stationary targets: several head sized rocks in the water. they fragment the bullets into a million peices s richochets arent too much a concern. and they make a heck of a loud bang when hit by a 22, almost louder than the gun it's self
 
This is the absolute best time of year in my area, gardens are in full swing, so there's no shortage of fruit and veggies to dispatch. My folks have an apple tree, grandma has a peach tree, and my garden has more tomatoes than I care to haul to the range. Tomatoes are the best in my opinion... sometimes you hit them just right and they just explode! Plus, its all biodegradable, so no trash to haul away
 
For the 22 & .17 I like Necco candy wafers they disappear when hit and after a liitle rain nothing left.
Bigger stuff plastic water bottles are fun. but mainly targets.
Dimes/pennies taped to a target are fun with the 22LR & 17 HMR out to a 100yds
 
Bottles/jugs are fun, but only one or two hits and they're completely done
Clays are about the same, but at least you don't have to collect them for weeks, and then lug them downrange ... of course, the bottles are free
A tennis ball hanging on a string is a great reactive target, it lasts a long time, jumps around, is fairly small, but a highly visible color, and if you are just so awesome that a tennis ball isn't a challenging target, even after you get it swinging ... you can always try to cut it down.
 
To the OP, please make sure that nobody lives anywhere around where you shoot the turtles, I had neighbors that lived 50 feet through some trees and screening vegetation from a pond "in the middle of nowhere" and we would get people shooting into the water with the ricochets zinging right through the back yard, almost got hit in the head one time, know so because what I felt go past my ear hit the tree behind me.

Oh, I like empty pop cans, when your done you can recycle them.
 
paint balls on golf tees out in the bean field with the 17hmr.
steel plate on chains for the handguns at 25 to 50 yards and thicker plates at 300 yards for the centerfire rifles.
 
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