What are some fun targets to use for target practice?

[Motodeficient]

Looking for ideas on some fun (but safe) ideas for targets to shoot at. Obviously some items are more fun for a certain caliber than another.. I have been shooting old cans of food with my 10/22 and leftover 6" pumpkins with my 9mm and shotgun. What are some other inexpensive yet fun targets to shoot at?

I was thinking that paintballs would be a fun target challenge for a .22?

 

[NMGonzo]

Dueling trees.

 

[wyohome]

Milk jugs full of ice make a pretty dramatic exit with a centerfire rifle.

 

[Vicious-Peanut]

Potatoes and onions are fun.

 

[Deut6:5]

Toilets. Ok, we only did this once... and probably shouldn't have. But it was pretty funny. Fruit and Veggies in general are good. Those little plinking spinning target things you can buy are actually pretty fun in my opinion. They can be quite economical. Clay pigeons are another- small, visible, and you can tell when you hit em. Oh yeah, phone books and other reading material is fun for comparing penetration and/or recovering deformed bullets.

 

[rcmodel]

Charcoal briquette's & vanilla wafers are cheap, and biodegradable.
They make fun .22 targets and don't leave a mess you have to pick up.

rc

 

[Motodeficient]

Cool ideas, keep them coming

 

[highorder]

eggs, balloons, tannerite, cookies, mannequins, steel plates, shotgun hulls...

remember to clean up after yourself.

 

[41magsnub]

Half gallon milk jug with jello in it (I was bored). Shot it with a hunting rifle of one flavor or another and caught some splatter in the face from 100' away.

Ask a produce guy at your grocery store if they have any left over pumpkins they want to sell cheap.

 

[hso]

generic crackers

generic tortilla chips (about the best bang for the buck)

 

[Motodeficient]

Yep I got about 100 6" pumpkins for free right after halloween. We had quite a time shooting those! Ak47, .308, 12g, 9mm, 40 S&W, .22, .22 magnum, 30-30, fun time!

 

[Shadow 7D]

crackers, Just not stale crackers, I went shooting with my brother (his wife HATES guns, so he don't go out much) and I was disappointed with the crackers, I was blasting them with birdshot, hit them with the .22, and it took at least 9mm to knock them off, otherwise great.

 

[Rat Robb]

Some friends of mine and I have fun shooting golf ball sized rocks on the 100yd range we go to, they make a nice powdery poof.

-Robb

 

[glockmon]

spent .22 shells at 100 yards.

 

[1911fan]

I used to work for a vending company and we always had expired soda around. While cans are fun, exploding when first hit, 20 oz soda bottles die nice and dramatic. When hit, they jump up in the air, soda shooting everywhere, then they lay there, bleeding soda in gushes. This is a great training aid for new shooters, usually the first word they have to say is, "Wow..." After they're empty, you can still use them, they jump around visibly when hit.

At Sheel's, I bought some V-shaped goodies with a small stake coming out the bottom. These are for clay birds, and work quite well. We'll be getting more...we're running low on expired soda.

ed

 

[chris in va]

Tannerite in a large pumpkin!

Tangerines and oranges make a surprising splash with a centerfire rifle round.

Old steel scuba tanks...PING!!

 

[cz85cmbt]

They make yellow foam practice golf balls that will take a ton of hits and you can put them half way up a burm and prop it up from rolling and after the first hit it'll get knocked off and start rolling, making a moving target.

 

[Rawb77]

Zombies. Nuff said.

 

[HarleyFixer]

spent .22 shells at 100 yards

You must be one WHALE of a shot. What are you shooting?

 

[Motodeficient]

I can shoot 410 shells or .45 casings at 50 yards, but a .22 casing at 100 yards is impressive

 

[kingdomassassin]

Bro...bowling pins. Your local alley should give their retired ones to you for free. Find a cross beam and screw an eyelet into the head of the pin, then suspend the pin from the crossbeam so that it's hanging. It's pretty sweet. Takes 9mm UZI and AR15-9mm well. Haven't tried with a pistol, but I'm sure it's just as rewarding. 5.56 hits hard too and I've blow a couple to bits with just a couple of shots.

 

[One of Many]

The plastic lids from oatmeal boxes and coffee cans. Nice size for handgun targets at twenty five yards and closer, or rifle targets at hunting ranges. If you decide to keep the ones that have good groups for bragging, they don't get torn up like paper targets do.

 

[John Wayne]

Paintballs, and paint-filled balloons

5 gallon buckets filled with water and frozen solid

milk jugs, filled with water and capped

 

[ArmedBear]

I like plain inflated balloons for long range field practice.

Military training grenades are neat, if you can find them.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Cookies and fruit shatter or explode and either biodegrade or get eaten by birds. Curiously, I shot a saltine cracker with my .22 and thought I had missed it, but when I walked up to the target there was a .22 hole punched in the center of it. If I hit the edges it would break off chunks.

Also note that these kind of targets are best left for "informal" ranges.