Shooting Pepsi?

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Anyone here share the joy of shooting Pepsi with a 12 gauge? Diet seems to be less sticky when picking up the cans.

Do you have favorite reactive targets for plinking?

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Take a gallon paint can with just a little in it....fill it with water and hammer the lid down tight....place it, lid side down at 100 yards and hit it with a 7mag.....watch it explode about 50 feet in the air
 
We use shotgun targets in some Cowboy Action Matches that throw either a clay bird or can of pop in the air when knocked down. It makes for a fast second shot and when the cans are only hit with a few pellets, they make good pinwheels.

They used one of those targets at Winter Range, the National Championships, this past February at the Ben Avery Range north of Phoenix, AZ. Over 600 shooters got to shoot at the flying cans of pop, but they used the little short cans.

Fred
 
I've shot miller lowlife tall boys that we found, date said 1yr old... Now that was impressive!!!
 
usually, on the rare occasion that i do this, i use the cheapest diet soda cans i can get my hands on. which usually means either sams club, or faygo. but it is a cool thing to do!
 
Quality Practice Drill.

-You have a shotgun that fits.
-You have patterned the shotgun, and know what your gun does with various loads.
-You have the correct basic fundamentals and have continued quality practice of these.
i.e. a minimum of 25 repetitions of correctly mounting shotgun to face each day.
-You have built upon the foundation of correct basic fundamentals and taken a class, received quality private instruction, etc.

Safety Rules apply for the following.

I want you have a Pepsi, Coca-Cola, RC, Dr.Pepper, Seven-Up in one hand.
In the other, I want you to have your shotgun.

There will NOT be a Pact Timer Start.
You will NOT know exactly when the Start will be, only you will know, without a doubt, when to start.

Instead, the start will be a gunshot, (either recording/ or live fire), you being hit or something near you, with something to replicate being shot, or ricochet. Something as simple as someone tossing a small ball at you.
Often times I and mine combined live gunfire, being hit with something, and hearing screams, crying...etc.

The objective, is to make an effective, before that soda can you drop, hits the ground.

Targets I and mine used, were 3D, NOT face on, instead angled, and often times moving.
Add, Hostage targets for some advanced levels of this.

Variation:
IF you have a single shot shotgun, have someone spot, still see if can shoot one, reload, shoot again making an effective hit, before the ejected hull hits the ground.

Have fun!
 
silly string and a .22 no one can have more fun
if you have a dollar store near you they may have the silly string mine does so its somewhat cheap
 
We use shotgun targets in some Cowboy Action Matches that throw either a clay bird or can of pop in the air when knocked down. It makes for a fast second shot and when the cans are only hit with a few pellets, they make good pinwheels.
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Shot them like that also ---- a steel Popper target , when hit , trips a lever that launches a pop/beer can in to the air --- have shot stages where there are two such "launchers" ---- I first shoot both steel Poppers and then , with a little luck , both cans in the air.

I find that my 24" side by side makes this eaiser then my 97 pump.
 
I'm too cheap to use "live" reactive targets like full sodas, but my grandson and I will "recycle" the empty cans and plastic bottles all day long by filling them with water and splattering them! To make it a challenge, I'll try to shoot the bottle caps off first. We can entertain ourselves all day with our .22's and a buncha cans. 1 gallon jugs at 100+ yards are for the M1.

Gotta pick up the trash though, fellers.
 
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