What are some fun targets to use for target practice?

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Won't lie about it. I travel out to a family members chicken farm a few times a year for deer hunting. A lot of light bulbs go out in those houses. So you can guess where they end up. :eek:

Just choose a smart place to shoot that sort of stuff at.
 
make ice blocks using a butter tub as an ice tray...u can even food color for better visibility in the snow...22 brass make challenging air rifle targets or a couple helium balloons tied to an rc car are fun to shoot at as well
 
I was thinking that paintballs would be a fun target challenge for a .22?
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Good thinking, that's one of my favs. Also, clay pigeons, apples, crackers, and ice cubes. They're all biodegreable, too!
 
I still have a few pennies and nickles I shot with a .22 when I was a kid in the 60's. I would lean them up against a wooden post and stand back about 30 feet. More often than not I would send them flying. Sure wish my aim was that good now.
 
From this thread:

The tennis ball idea was a blast over this last holiday. Hung 4 or 5 from the trees in our shooting spot. Good fun at 50 yards :D

-TK
 
make ice blocks using a butter tub as an ice tray...u can even food color for better visibility in the snow
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Second this. The chunks get smaller, harder to hit. And when they melt, that's it, they're gone. Not even a mess for the next guy before the birds and squirrels can make off with the fruit and cracker bits.
 
Necco wafers are fun. A dab of hot glue and tack them to a piece of cardboard.

Pennies glued to the cardboard are tough to hit (use white cardboard for this). Center one with a .22 slug, and it punches a penny-size hole through the cardboard.

Back in the day, I loved lightbulbs in the dump. Spray cans were a treat. Now, of course, the official party line is "no" to both.

Q
 
oh man ive shot tons of wierd stuff lets see here

shaving cream whippedcream or silly string is always fun
carved a punkin with the 22 this year for halloween
5 gallon water jug with a 12 gauge slug is SPECTACULAR
plastic army men at 50 yards (head shots are tough)
spent brass and shotgun hulls
old blueprint copier
old microwave (placed a jar of water inside to see if i could hit it through the front glass)
old safe just to see what would go through it
golf balls on strings
made a few swinging targets for 22
thinking of making a pachinco (plinko for the price is right fans) machine for clays
alot of playing cards
old disk brake rotors
stuffed animals (shotguns are best)
a few gun locks
lollipops
ALOT of clays in various ways
an old guitar (trying for the strings first)
a 2x4 just to see how many rounds a 22 would take to cut it in half
tic tacs are really TOUGH
a whole case of skunked beer
bowling pins
cheap two liters of soda shook up
lit candle (trying to put it out)
thumb tacs (just wanted to see if my rifle was a tack driver HA)
pencils
CDs and DVDs
alot of junky nick nacks from the dollar store
easter eggs (plastic and hard boiled)
any electronic equpiment that fails (and therefor ticks me off) goes down range
baseballs
plaster of paris (wife does crafts so any spillage becomes a target)
i once shot a birthday cake
VHS and cassette tapes (stupid 80's)
a bass amplifier
sunshine bear from the care bears (he was too happy for my liking)
a honda civic hood
a refrigerator door
cigarette butts
flys (animal fat on a paper plate in the summer)
old dishes
cans
can lids
toy sailboats (the range flooded had to take advantage)
old shell boxes
almost anything i can get my hands on that i deem shootable

i guess im lucky i have my own range but clean up is a priority constantly
 
plastic coke bottles filled with water and a couple drops of food coloring and capped tightly make great reactive targets. a couple drops of dish soap add to the fun.
 
I shoot a lot of pieces of paper printed with circles and numbers.
Shoot at the paper 20 times and add up the numbers.
See if you get higher totals as you practice.
Go out where there are a lot of people shooting at paper with numbers and whoever gets the biggest total wins a trophy.
 
When I was a child, my dad and I would shoot at our own private range at our hunting camp in woods.

One day we took two 22 rifles, NO Scopes, and a box of ammo. BUT we forgot targets.
bummer.

My mom thinks up this great idea.

Take a board lay it down on the ground. TAKE a plastic cap off of the milk container and stand it up on it's edge, on the board.

Shoot very carefully at the edge of the cap to make it roll left and right.
I would shoot, it rolls right, my dad shoots it rolls left.

Kept us busy for hours. TONS of fun and a great way to improve accuracy and spend it with dad.

Thanks mom.
 
Glad you asked....

I saw this yesterday and about died laughing.

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Had a friend that was shooting at a golf ball with a 22. He was standing in front of his truck and his wife was leaning against the grill. He shot and 1/2 a second later there was a thwack as the bullet "ricocheted" BACKWARDS and hit the truck less then a foot from where his wife was. BE CAREFUL
If you want a good conversation piece shoot up the box of your truck. 5 357 holes look impressive (better than those stupid stickers.) Had many strangers at the gas pump ask who was mad at me :)
 
Nasty, rabid, feral cats.
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Tried that once -- got fined $100 from Animal Control. At least there is one less cat in the world...

I enjoy shooting bottle caps/lids. On Sunday I took my son's CZ 452 American to the range and popped some bottle caps at 100 yds.
 
Helium baloons on about 3-4' of string tied to a weight are fun. You can control the size for varying ranges and they bob around in the wind.

Bottle caps are also good. a bar I frequent has a trashcan right under their bottle opener just to catch the caps. i just go in on saturday morning and they give me the bag from friday night.
 
Eggs

I have a dozen hens in the coop, and more eggs than we can eat or give away. I got 6 "emergency road cones" at a discount store. Balance an egg on top. easy to see, and makes a satisfying splash. I shoot from 75 yard with the 10/22. makes for a challenging, cheap, and biodegradable afternoon.
 
Lots of good ideas out there.

I go to a local truck farmer that grows lots of squash and cucumbers every year. Everything gets picked by two or three waves of migrant workers at about 10 day intervals. Only the ripe ones get picked each time. When they leave for the year, I ask if I can have some and he alway's says, "Fill up your pickup bed if ya want. They won't get picked anymore."

I shoot the cukes for the 1st 2-4 weeks until they're rotten then I still have the squash for the next 6 months!


They blow good with H.P. 223's out of an AR at 100-150 yds.
 
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