pdowg881
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What do you guys do with a .22 when u get tired of target shooting? Other than animals, what others things do you shoot at o what else can u do fo fun with them? I know I'm gonna need ideas soon.
What can I do for fun with my .22
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I like to make sure I have a safe background and then shoot balloons I let blow in the breeze. I also like shooting golf balls and old tennis balls. Move further back from your targets. Shoot at small bottle caps and move back to 50 yards or more. Shoot necco wafers or hard candy. It doesn't get boring if you make it more of a challange, and that's how you get to be a better shot.
Clean up your range when you're done.
Clean up your range when you're done.
I have not done any the things I am going to relate because I just read them recently and cannot shoot very well. However, I have seen people tie apples (or whatever) to a cross mount with string and get them swinging a bit and then shoot at the moving target. I have recently seen a suggestion to trap shoot with your .22 if you want a challenge try to hit the clay pigeons with a one 40 grain pellet of lead. In addition of flat candies one enviromentally friendly suggestion was to use charcoal briquets for targets and animal crackers are fun for the younger set to shatter as targets.
Dave Markowitz
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I really like clay pidgeons as a plinking target. Also, one time at a friend's place we shot at overripe vegetables that he got from a farmer's market. If you want to see instant red mist, shoot a red pepper with a 12 gauge slug. 
You'd better have a clear mile + behind any flying targets you take on with solid bullets. Other possibilities are steel silhouettes (scaled down from the highpower silhouettes and readily available), tightly sealed water-filled plastic containers, old hard drives, wasps moving around on your target, and self-resetting steel targets.
You can also shoot designs into sheet metal when you get good, and decorate your gun room with the results. Making old 12 ga hulls hop at increasing distances is a challenge, better if you have a friend trying to shoot your targets before you do. Just resist the impulse to shoot rocks, glass and combustible stuff, and leave the place the way you found it. It's like time travel--2 hours will be gone before you know it, and you'll have better, more diversified skills.
You can also shoot designs into sheet metal when you get good, and decorate your gun room with the results. Making old 12 ga hulls hop at increasing distances is a challenge, better if you have a friend trying to shoot your targets before you do. Just resist the impulse to shoot rocks, glass and combustible stuff, and leave the place the way you found it. It's like time travel--2 hours will be gone before you know it, and you'll have better, more diversified skills.
Furncliff
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We've noticed that alum. pop cans don't make great targets for .22 since the bullet can zip right thru the alum. So today we filled a couple dozen coke cans with expanding foam, I think it will give the cans just enough resistance to the bullet to make them a fun target. One of the targets my daughter likes the best is just hunks of scrap 2x4 or 2x6 cut about 6" long painted w/ cheap yellow paint. They just seem to fall off the board they're set up on in a satisfying way. I like the painted ones better than plain. I also have a moving target on our home range. Basically a length or rope strung between two trees at a downward angle. The target hangs from a wheel that fits over the rope. At the high side of the set-up is a block of 2x4 with a wire and clothes pin attached. Knock the two x four off its perch w/ your first shot, it falls and takes the clothespin with it releasing the moving target. As you get better make the target go faster, and make the target smaller.
Spiggy
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ketchup packets, lots of them.
They include pink mist without the need to harm animals or people
They include pink mist without the need to harm animals or people
Selfdfenz
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Necos, paint balls and at distance the blaze organge (Daisey TM I believe) clay targets used for pellet/BB rifles. They are biodegradable
If you poke around on the net there are numerous downloadable targets free for the copying, some of which are dang challenging (one with outlines of horse flies comes to mind that is a wonderful PITA for a challenge target with another shooter)
I came up with a target that is either a 1/4 scale ground hog or perhaps approx 1:1 prarie dog. I haven't done it yet but one of these days I'm going to set up my own 22 cal. Kenyathalon (or how the heck ever they spelled it) out in the woods with those targets with few 1:1 ground hog targets thrown in.
Alas, we are still a couple on months away from the Paco Kelly modifieds and the "garden reject vegatables of summer".
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If you poke around on the net there are numerous downloadable targets free for the copying, some of which are dang challenging (one with outlines of horse flies comes to mind that is a wonderful PITA for a challenge target with another shooter)
I came up with a target that is either a 1/4 scale ground hog or perhaps approx 1:1 prarie dog. I haven't done it yet but one of these days I'm going to set up my own 22 cal. Kenyathalon (or how the heck ever they spelled it) out in the woods with those targets with few 1:1 ground hog targets thrown in.
Alas, we are still a couple on months away from the Paco Kelly modifieds and the "garden reject vegatables of summer".
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in shop class we have tons of scrap steel laying around. i like to take quarter inch steel and cut it into 5"x5" sections for 100 yard rapid fire. paint em bright orange, shoot em like 20 times each, go down range and re paint em and by the time you get back its dry and ready to go.
film canisters filled with flour is kinda fun. if you can get some tracers and put some gas in the canisters it makes a pretty good fire ball
i know this isnt good for .22 but i buy a bunch of baloons and fill em with water and use that for hand thrown skeet.
paper plates, baloons, water filled beverage containers, hunks of wood and steel, bowling pins, clay pidgeons, old crap like shoes and computers, be creative
film canisters filled with flour is kinda fun. if you can get some tracers and put some gas in the canisters it makes a pretty good fire ball
i know this isnt good for .22 but i buy a bunch of baloons and fill em with water and use that for hand thrown skeet.
paper plates, baloons, water filled beverage containers, hunks of wood and steel, bowling pins, clay pidgeons, old crap like shoes and computers, be creative
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.22 rimfire Black Death Challenge
(Targets at bottom of page.)
"...the real test of marksmanship, the infamous Black Death Challenge target. It is there for one reason, To Destroy You! There are 5 targets on the sheet in decreasing sizes from 1 ½ inch, 1 inch, ¾ inch, 5/8 inch, and ½ inch. You have the option to fire your shots at the larger targets and play it safe for less points or get crazy and go for a win, attempting to put 5 bullets in a half inch White circle without cutting the Black sides. Only three people in the world have done it at 25 yards and only one at 50 yards. We expect others but it ain’t likely. You must be absolutely dead center or DIE. You can lose all 50 points if you attempt a perfect score and are slightly off. “Do You Feel Lucky?” It is indeed the ultimate pressure match. But those who shoot Black Death and like it prefer nothing else. No one can really show you how to shoot the Black Death target, as strategy must be employed, therefore it is a match for the thinker. Bob Baldwin needed points on his last championship match, he put 4 shots on the 10 point circle, as the coach I advised him to shoot the next largest target for a clean 47 points which he did and won TOP GUN. Sometimes it is wise to play it safe...Each competitor may choose to observe, or ignore (at his option) Clint Eastwood’s Rule #1 of Self-Knowledge... as spoken by Dirty Harry, "You've got to know your limitations."
~ John Simeone, creator of the Black Death Challenge
The original Black Death target
John Simeone's rules
1. Only 5 shots anywhere on the score target... Unlimited shots on the sighting in target.
2. This target will be used for benchrest 25 yard "Squirrel Rifle" Class, .22 rifles,... 50 yard "BR-50" Class .22 rifles,...and Centerfire "Varmint" Class rifles at 100 yards.
3. You have fifteen minutes to fire your sighters and to fire your record fire. (For TOP GUN Challenge 2001 you only have 15 minutes to Zero, shoot the Bull’s Eye and the Black Death Target)
4. Any shot judged to touch anywhere on the Black area of a target, voids all shots on that target (other targets on the paper are unaffected).
DETAILS
The 5 scoring shots can be fired one at each target, or all 5 at one target, or any desired combination...But only 5 shots total on the score target.
Shooter will lose his highest scoring shot for each extra shot found on his scoring target.
Each of five targets is marked with the value of each hit in the white area.
Center rings in each target are tie breaking "X" scores. In the case of "X" ties, the best "X" wins.
Maximum score is 50-5X, minimum score is 0-OX.
Target sizes are: 1 1/2 inches, 1 inch, 3/4 inch, 5/8 inch, and 1/2 inch.
(Targets at bottom of page.)
"...the real test of marksmanship, the infamous Black Death Challenge target. It is there for one reason, To Destroy You! There are 5 targets on the sheet in decreasing sizes from 1 ½ inch, 1 inch, ¾ inch, 5/8 inch, and ½ inch. You have the option to fire your shots at the larger targets and play it safe for less points or get crazy and go for a win, attempting to put 5 bullets in a half inch White circle without cutting the Black sides. Only three people in the world have done it at 25 yards and only one at 50 yards. We expect others but it ain’t likely. You must be absolutely dead center or DIE. You can lose all 50 points if you attempt a perfect score and are slightly off. “Do You Feel Lucky?” It is indeed the ultimate pressure match. But those who shoot Black Death and like it prefer nothing else. No one can really show you how to shoot the Black Death target, as strategy must be employed, therefore it is a match for the thinker. Bob Baldwin needed points on his last championship match, he put 4 shots on the 10 point circle, as the coach I advised him to shoot the next largest target for a clean 47 points which he did and won TOP GUN. Sometimes it is wise to play it safe...Each competitor may choose to observe, or ignore (at his option) Clint Eastwood’s Rule #1 of Self-Knowledge... as spoken by Dirty Harry, "You've got to know your limitations."
~ John Simeone, creator of the Black Death Challenge
The original Black Death target
John Simeone's rules
1. Only 5 shots anywhere on the score target... Unlimited shots on the sighting in target.
2. This target will be used for benchrest 25 yard "Squirrel Rifle" Class, .22 rifles,... 50 yard "BR-50" Class .22 rifles,...and Centerfire "Varmint" Class rifles at 100 yards.
3. You have fifteen minutes to fire your sighters and to fire your record fire. (For TOP GUN Challenge 2001 you only have 15 minutes to Zero, shoot the Bull’s Eye and the Black Death Target)
4. Any shot judged to touch anywhere on the Black area of a target, voids all shots on that target (other targets on the paper are unaffected).
DETAILS
The 5 scoring shots can be fired one at each target, or all 5 at one target, or any desired combination...But only 5 shots total on the score target.
Shooter will lose his highest scoring shot for each extra shot found on his scoring target.
Each of five targets is marked with the value of each hit in the white area.
Center rings in each target are tie breaking "X" scores. In the case of "X" ties, the best "X" wins.
Maximum score is 50-5X, minimum score is 0-OX.
Target sizes are: 1 1/2 inches, 1 inch, 3/4 inch, 5/8 inch, and 1/2 inch.
Ivy Mike
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a couple friends and I just buy a few golf balls and try to hit em before the other guy can.
Tons of fun.
Tons of fun.
22-rimfire
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Black Death Target: Now that looks like a challenge. That 1/2" circle looks tough as you are not just shooting for a group but you have to place them inside the target area. May have to give those a try. I doubt if I'm good enough for anything smaller than the 5/8" on a good day at 25 yds.
Plinking targets: You all have listed most that I use or would use. Sometimes use beer cans (full) and soft drink cans shook up. Usually this is stale beer that has been lying around the garage and I forgot about it. Always clean up afterwards.
Plinking targets: You all have listed most that I use or would use. Sometimes use beer cans (full) and soft drink cans shook up. Usually this is stale beer that has been lying around the garage and I forgot about it. Always clean up afterwards.
Rats,
Good if you have a barn nearby. Try the cb caps for indoor work. Basically the same velocity as a good .22 pellet rifle with a bullet twice as heavy.
Set up some bait where you have a good backstop.
Look at ratkill.com for more than you ever wanted to know about rat shooting.
Good if you have a barn nearby. Try the cb caps for indoor work. Basically the same velocity as a good .22 pellet rifle with a bullet twice as heavy.
Set up some bait where you have a good backstop.
Look at ratkill.com for more than you ever wanted to know about rat shooting.
belton-deer-hunter
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dont limit your self to "normal" targets you can use anything form skeet, cans, golf balls, base balls,any kinda ball, steel targets are fun, paper targets,animals, old shells, rocks, glass. (DO the last two at your own risk)
but cans are really fun when they are full try to shake up soda and beer cans and hit them. if you are feeling really gutsy try a full can of shaving cream.
but cans are really fun when they are full try to shake up soda and beer cans and hit them. if you are feeling really gutsy try a full can of shaving cream.
30-06 lover
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Paints Balls, Plastic Army Men, Shotgun Hulls
Sistema1927
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Put the right sized groove in the top of a piece of 2x4 so as to hold Neco wafers. They can be a challenging target, and leave ecologically friendly debris.
danurve
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pdowg881; I have a suggestion you might get alot of enjoyment with the .22 - know the expression on a childs or new shooters face, thats right 22's are excellent learning rifles. So are 17's or 22mags. No recoil, low report etc. Invite someone to the range!
Kramer Krazy
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I haven't done it, yet, but I keep wanting to play tic-tac-toe or possibly Hangman. Missashot and I could play tic-tac-toe pretty easily, but I haven't come up with an idea for a letter board or rules for Hangman, yet. I keep thinking the alphabet written on a board and you have to shoot the letter to be able to use it (maybe have the letter in a colored circle). I was also thinking that a miss results in another limb added, just like an unused letter tha was chosen. A large copy of the old electronic game "Operation" may be cool. You can create cards for the type of "sugury" you need to perform, and then you have to shoot within the lines of the area that needs surgury.....I have a bunch of ideas, just haven't put any of them to use, yet.
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