Things people bring to the range to shoot at.

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It takes a bit of work to set up, but take an old gas cylinder, and cut the bottom off. It will ring like a bell. For safety, build a house around it out of landscape timbers or used RR ties, then hang the cylinder from the top. The timbers will protect from ricochets. Don't shoot it with high powered jacketed bullets, just use cast lead and it will last a long time. You can cut several at different lengths, and get different tones for each one.
 
I usually "recycle" most of our plastic at the plinking range. Gallon milk jugs, sports drink bottles ect all water filled. When hit with 22lr the gallon water jugs usually just leak. But when hit with 223 or 30-06 they really splatter. I love to sit with the garand splattering jugs as fast as I can acquire a new target. With 3 kids shooting, my dad and a friend or 2 along you have to shoot fast or all you got left is the orange clay pigons on the backstop.

I have a couple of old TVs I plan to shoot some time. (isn't TV the root of all evil?)I plan to take some painters plastic to lay under them so I can clean up by picking up the plastic keeping all the glass shards with the TV to dispose of.

I often take 50-60 gallons of water when we go to the plinking range:what:. We take large black trash bags to pick up all our torn up stuff. It dosn't take 5 min with each of the kids having their own bag to fill. On one of the trips an older member of the range stopped me and said it was the first time he saw anyone cleaning up after plinking. I was proud of my children for cleaning up without complaining, but it's kind of sad it was the first time this guy saw anyone cleaning up.

The talcum powder in a balloon: I have to try that next time.
 


That used to be a stuffed cartman doll. It was very densly packed, so there was a little spray of fluff every time we hit him. Fun fun fun.
 
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Being a PC tech by day my favorite targets are...

15" CRTs

eMachines towers


Clean up afterwards is not optional. Though some schmuck hauled a fridge up there and it's just about been whittled down to the point we can crush it up into a ball in a truck bed.
 
I wish I could do some stuff like that, don't know of any places that I can do more then just shooting paper, which gets very boring after a while.
 
Our club is run by volunteers....clean up, mowing, and maintenace. When mowing or doing work I'm always amazed at what some dorks will bring to the range for targets. I'm embarrassed to say I've seen everything from toasters, computer monitors, and even stuffed toys. Wonder what Sigmund Freud's anaylsis would be of these people?
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"Embarrassed?"

You've never plinked ?

You shoot only paper ?

I don't understand your indignance...accept maybe at their inability to clean up after themselves.

Why is it a Freudian hang up to shoot at these items ?

:rolleyes::confused:
 
the only time I've shot at a target other than paper was at summer camp when I was a kid.

I forget how it worked, but sometimes there would be a contest to see who could get the most .22lr shots through a tennis ball that was on the ground about 20 feet out.

Sounds stupid, but I was 12 or so at the time so I thought it was fun.

Heck... rifelry and tennis were all I was good at..... and I had never shot a rifle until then.... and wouldn't shoot another one until a decade later.
 
Just took some newbies out Friday. Cheap suckers and eggs were a hit with the shooters, and biodegradable. Those people who hall non-biodegradable junk out to blast but do not clean up after themselves are slobs. I might try some of the other ideas presented here. I think I will be taking another newby couple out soon, and the last thing I want is for them to be bored. That would be a waste for all of us.
 
I did some shooting last saturday, and I had enough squash and zuchinni to cover the bed of a Tacoma. I tell ya, a 150 gr. 54R softpoint does a number on a round yellow squash about half a foot wide :evil:. i also save all my plastic bottles for shooting. i do 99% of my shooting on my own property, so i dont clean up to often. but since my range is in flood plain, i do have to clean up once in a while.
 
Trash Shooting Can Hurt Our Cause

At the public range in my hometown people bring all kinds of trash to shoot. Computer monitors, microwaves, television, etc. Most of the time they make almost no attempt to clean up the mess they make. When they do clean up they never get all of the pieces. Ever see how many pieces of debris are created when a cathode ray tube is shot? Hundreds if not thousands of fragments are created. There is almost no way to clean up such a mess completely. These trash shooters are what will cause this range to be shut down as this has been brought up in City Council meetings. They give the public the impression that shooters are a bunch of slobs, apparently a great deal of them are.
 
Clean up your own mess, and have fun shooting whatever makes you happy.

I like to shoot toys with the kids: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=68687

And destroy United States currency:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=76674

And vegetables (well, wouldn't you rather shoot your broccoli than eat it?)
http://www.corneredcat.com/Kids/momkids.aspx

We've shot water balloons (a hoot!), air-filled balloons, balloons with flour in them, toys, coins, golf balls (no visible holes btw, they self-heal with a .22 at any rate), milk jugs, pop cans both full and empty, and upon one memorable occasion, a TV.

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When we shot the TV, I put a huge tarp down around it. After the splat, we just grabbed the corners of the tarp, pulled them together, and properly disposed of the whole mess, leaving no glass behind at all.

Lots of fun to be had at the range with reactive targets, if you just know how.

Clean up after yourself!

pax
 

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If I knew of a piece of shooting land that was being trashed enough to possibly have it shut down, I would try to buy that piece of land for my self.

You won't help clean the range? It's mine now.
 
armoredman, sounds like ya've been out to the old shooting spot off Avra valley rd and Silverbell where folks been shooting for decades, it was in the news recently cause of all the trash that accumulated over just a couple years.... we always kept it clean then in the last 2 years folks found out about the spot who could care less, several Cactuses shot down a bunch of Paloverde trees shot to saw dust and it took a super 16 dump truck to haul out all the trash from computer monitors, appliances a couple the old steel desks, filing cabinets etc.... it was a real mess..... and I was just out there last week and its starting all over again with soda cans stuck on tree branches etc... these slobs are gonna push the state into closing it down which they can do as its on state trust land etc....
 
I really like charcoal for a cheap reactive target. You get a huge back for $5.00

I also made a holder for them with some 2 x4's about 3 feet wide and 5 feet high with a couple of shelves with the center routed out of the top of them.
 
I've had the windscreen out of Citation X sitting around for about 3 years, just been waiting to find a good place to experiment on it with various weapons.
 
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