Target vs. Plinking

[Wedge]

Which do you do more of and which do you think is more important?

I generally do more plinking than paper punching - it is more fun, you have positive feedback when you get a hit, and you can pick your target size to represent pretty much whatever you want.

I went out shooting on Saturday (it got all the way up to 35) and shot at a gallon jug for a little while. Much more enjoyable to make the jug roll around than setting up paper and counting my (low) score...

 

[Standing Wolf]

I started out shooting tin cans. It didn't become addictive until I began to shoot paper.

 

[Majic]

I'm a plinker thru and thru. Paper is fine for testing and adjusting, but it's just to static for me. I like to move around and pick my targets.

 

[Ala Dan]

Target shooting/paper punching for me~ cuz
our local PD range won't allow you to shoot at
anything other than paper, or steel plates.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[Black Majik]

All target shooting. My pistol range is an indoor range and all we have to shoot at is paper.

Although we dont have to hang the target upside down like other ranges and we have political sillhouette targets to shoot at like Osama B.L. and S. Hussein.

 

[Renegade]

I enjoy plinking and target shooting. Watching a tin can fly into the air is pretty cool, don't see to many paper targets flying into the air after being shot. But at the same time you can shoot realistic paper targets. SO, I think both are equally important.


Later,

Dave

 

[P95Carry]

Comes out pretty much 50/50.

Paper yields the results when setting up ... it further helps with group testing and handloads. Plus the actual ''bullseye'' element, whether competing against self or others.

Plinking is immensely enjoyable but also sharpens the target aquisition skills when said target moves each time hit.

 

[Old Dude]

Paper...

I also shoot at an indoor range. I live in the middle of a city, and my opportunities for plinking are limited, to say the least. I tend to get a different type of target each time I go to the range in order to vary what I'm shooting at. Last time, it was NRA 25 yard pistol targets. (I was shooting mostly at 7 yards.) The time before, it was silhouette targets. I haven't yet felt like shooting at Saddam Hussein or Osama targets, though the range does offer them.

 

[GraniteState]

Target or plinking...
It's all target right now. The ranges in the area don't allowing plinking and I haven't found an area where shooting is allowed by the community or the property owner.

I think that both offer different exercises of skill so both are important. And because I haven't gone plinking I can only imagine the fun. But being able to move out of the lane and re-sight the moved target sure would break up the monotony. Heck, even being able to use metal plates and hear the hit and see the target spin would be fun.

 

[Flashpoint]

I enjoy the reactive target of plinking, but I honestly did more paper puching because I was always tring to achieve tighter groups.

 

[BerettaNut92]

I found that one day of a quality training course from a competent instructor equalled months of punching holes in paper on my own. Not that punching paper or tennis balls isn't fun.

 

[TallPine]

Plinking - I seem to be much better at hitting 3 dimensional targets.

Except for sighting in a rifle, which I don't have to do very often.

 

[OH25shooter]

Mostly paper and some steel discs (I have set up in the woods). One can however, shoot tin discs or pop cans hanging from a string at the local indoor range.

 

[VictorLouis]

I bench most everything to see what it can do.

I do it again after I make a mod, such as trigger work, or adding a scope. Once a gun is dialed-in(are they really EVER?), for the most part I just plink away.

 

[Chuck Jennings]

These newbold targets seem like they would be great for plinking at ranges that dont allow cans, jugs, etc.


http://newboldtargets.com/nbweb/

Thinking of getting some . . .

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

Paper just gets you sighted-in for plinking.


There is a lot of state land you can shoot on----just make sure to pick up your mess before you leave. That includes spent .22 brass.

 

[Jarrod Hartsfield]

Both are fun, but targets are better training for real life situations.

 

[standingbear]

I dunno..I guess I like both.I like the recreational plinkin at rodents and clumps of dirt and hitting poker chips on a string to fine tune my accuracy once in awhile.

 

[gbran]

Paper a must

I handgun hunt everthing from small to large game. I also CCW. You got to punch paper before you can do anything else. Plinking or hunting, which is real fun, tells you your paper practice paid off.

 

[TallPine]

You got to punch paper before you can do anything else.

Tell that to Wild Bill ...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66975

 

[R.H. Lee]

I like to use a paper silhouette @ 7-10 yards for Mozambique drills.
However, golf balls are my favorite plinking targets. They are very reactive
when hit with ANY caliber, and they can be used over and over again. (you'll find that you don't hit them dead on very often).

 

[christophera]

I shoot clay pigeons or tators. If I can hit a target that's six inches or less in diameter at varying hieghts and distances, it's good enough to hit center of mass. Besides, it's fun to whatch tators explode.

 

[BluesBear]

Since I joined an indoor range I shoot paper targets a lot more often than I used to. I stop in once ot twice a week and burn up a box or two.

But when I get out to the "pit" and plink I shoot more ammo from more guns and have a lot more fun.

In fact I now save all of the aluminum cans and plastic 16 & 20 oz soda bottles I can find. My brother gave me some of those small helium tanks from the baloon kits that have defective valves.
They ring like a bell when you hit them.

 

[Dave R]

Punching paper is for sighting in, or seeing what a new rifle/load can do.

Plinking is for finding out what YOU can do.

I think plinking is a lot more fun. Not that punching paper isn't fun...

 

[blades67]

I use the Practical Pistol bays at Rio to set up steel. A rack of plates offers target practice with plinking fun.