Varieties of reactive targets

[mrmeval]

I have some ideas for reactive targets I cannot test.

1) Flour in a glad bag
2) Jello in a glad bag
3) A target backed with a thin coat of plaster of idiots.
4) Small cheap dollar store figurings made from mystery ceramic not resin.

Those are not glass or metal and shouldn't be too trashy. If anyone has some post them. If you've tried them can you post pictures? And if someone tries those I'd like to know the fun factor.

 

[DMK]

Biodegradable targets

Cheap lolipops. Stick them in the ground and pop their little heads off with a 22.

Old Fruit.

Old cookies

Fill plastic containers with water and freeze them. Cut off the plastic, discard and shoot the ice.

 

[Dacoda]

haha the ice one sounds good... only, it wouldn't work here in Texas.

The sun would melt the ice before you could even chamber the first round.

 

[Car Knocker]

Small cheap dollar store figurings made from mystery ceramic not resin.

Fired-pottery shards could easily survive for hundreds of years.

 

[the naked prophet]

Future archaeologists would think that there was an assault upon a ceramic figurine factory, thousands of years ago...

Seriously though, shotgun clays work great. They are cheap. They are biodegradable. They break and shatter and are easy to see. Heck, go to a skeet range when nobody is there and pick up the unbroken ones off the ground where they land - they're probably cracked and too brittle to put back into the launcher. You can probably find 50-100 that haven't been biodegraded yet, depending on how active the skeet range is and how bad the shooters are.

 

[mrmeval]

Those dollar store pottery figures won't leave sharp shards and should break down to sand reasonably quick. I think they would be more energetic than sporting clays. If not they are white and can be picked up and disposed of reasonably easy.

 

[motorep]

My daughters' favorite to shoot with an AR- those goofy looking troll dolls. You can get a jillion of them cheap at garage sales and you can bounce them around like a tin can.

 

[Lupinus]

old shotgun hulls are fun targets for a .22

so is a milk jug filled with warm water and dish soap, shot one with a 170 grain silvertip out of a 30-30 once.....was hilarious, I was giggling even (ok, so I'm easily amused )

 

[cropcirclewalker]

Watermelons.

Eat their heart out.

 

[lawson]

jack o lanterns after halloween were a favorite of mine, you're gonna throw them out anyway.

my cousin used to be a butcher at a grocery store, and once we tested hollowpoint expansion on a bunch of expired country hams with various old shirts covering them. that was a lot of fun, and the yotes ate good that night.

 

[STW]

Those ubiquitous 1 pt. water bottles are quite nice refilled. I collected a dozen and used them yesterday. They seem to vaporize when hit with something large going fast. Most satisfying. My visiting nephew's final shot was a .357 JHP into one from about 10 yards. Poof!

Of course I then handed him a garbage bag to fill while I put the firearms away.