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Vanilla wafers. You don't have to clean up after and they make a very satisfying target.
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That one I'll have to do. They're easier to lug around than my next favorite, clay birds, and if you don't use them up at the range, you can always eat them :) (yeah, hon, I hit'em all at the range...brrrp).

Of course, if you're in a ticked off mood (politically speaking), you can always take a shot at one of the blue state quarters. :D My favorite is New Jersey, as it is my former state and I'm very familiar with its awful gun laws. Someday maybe I'll even send ex-guv Flim-Flam Florio a quarter with a 5.56 mm hole in it. :evil:
 
I bought a target stand with a paper holder and swinging targets form these folks http://www.ballistictec.com/ off of www.gunbroker.com a couple of years ago . It is easy to set up and I don't trash out where I am shooting , if you can't/don't wont clean it up you're a slob and are the #1 reason why it is getting harder and harder to find somewhere we can shoot .
 
Small pieces of wood such as dead tree limbs.

However, I am questioning this:
I like glass bottles, if you're at a range where you can get away with that. Also might visit some yard sales and pick up some dirt cheap pottery or vases, that's fun too.
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I have to ask inquire as to how do you clean it up when it's all broken up?
 
The absolute bestest thing to shoot at (and hit!) is Tannerite. 3lbs will satisfy even the most hardcore explosion junkie.

For the ecologically minded.....a nice tight head of cabbage soaked for a while in a bucket of water will explode quite spectacularly when hit with large rifle calibers. And, it rains cole slaw for an amazingly long time. Makes us all laugh every time! And, the little critters have lunch.
 
Here's two games

I take my eight year old to my club every Saturday and we play "Chase the can". He shoots the tin can with a .22, and then I have to shoot before it stops moving. The object is to see how long we can keep the can moving.

The other game is Shells & Blocks. We stack fired 12ga shotshells on top of sawn 2X4 blocks at 50 yards. I shoot the shotshells and then he shoots the blocks.

Lately he's been shooting at the shells and hitting them too.

Cheap soda cans are fun too !
 
Boiled eggs (peeled).
Ice cubes.
Paintballs.
Mouldy cheese.
Rotting fruit.
Large fresh fruit (pumpkings, watermelons, etc.)
Balloons.
Saltines.

Or... take a cookie sheet and spray no-stick oil on the bottom. Sprinkle (don't spread) sugar over the entire sheet until it reaches up to the brim. Heat oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit and allow the sugar to melt. Remove pan and let it cool for a day.

Viola! :D Destroyable "glass" panes that dissolve when wet--ants like 'em too! :)
 
go to HEB and ask if they have any roten fruit and veggies or when they will have some. you can figure out the rest:evil:
 
For blowing off college steam:

Textbooks

Also try Vanilla waffers and/or Crackers. Big advantage is not having to pick up the leftovers as woodland creatures will eat up the left overs for you.
 
oh yes, the textbooks will die. except the ones i can sell back. i think i will make a swinging/flipper target when i get home tonight. it kinda sucks because we have tons of wood so i can make wood targets all day. but no metal. so i have to keep remaking wood targets. i might work on making a waffer/cracker holding rail so we can shoot a whole line of em.
 
Clay pigeons laying on the backstop and balloons stapled to the target stands. Other than that I will shoot at just about anything that looks like it could stand to be shot.
 
Shooting buddy had a piece of 2"x4", with 2 grooves "routered" into the wide side. Those grooves were just the right size to hold those "Necco" candy wafers.

We would stagger the wafers between the grooves, with a tiny bit of edge overlap. Idea was to break one wafer, without breaking the next one...you really had to center your hits on the Neccos.
 
Zen21Tao said:
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One of my favorites. College professors always get "dealer samples" from the publishers. Then there are the "buy back" people who hit campuses and buy back the ones you don't adopt. They won't take the out of print editions (which are usually the ones the publishers sent you) so I end of with STACKS of old useless texts. Anyone need any?
 
I like using apples and melons. It's a little expensive, but not much clean up, animals will eat everything with-in 24 hrs!
 
"Someday maybe I'll even send ex-guv Flim-Flam Florio a quarter with a 5.56 mm hole in it."

"That would probably be seen as a theat."

Well, first off I'd never theaten, (or even threaten ;) ) anyone. I just don't work that way, and making somebody crap in their shorts is not worth a jail term and the loss of my job and gun rights. I no longer live there, and I'm not subject to NJ laws. Also, we tossed his butt out of office after 1 term - that's all the satisfaction I need. Second, let's just say that IF I ever do that, no one will ever figure out who sent it. It'll be an anonymous and very clean quarter with a hole in it, shipped in an envelope with no prints from a mailbox no where near my home or office.

More than likely, I'll never do this - but I will frame a collection of holed quarters from anti-gun shiiteholes like NJ. Maybe I'll even do on for the Philly and one for the Denver series...hey, now that's an idea that could make money on Ebay....
 
RecoilRob
For the ecologically minded.....a nice tight head of cabbage soaked for a while in a bucket of water will explode quite spectacularly when hit with large rifle calibers. And, it rains cole slaw for an amazingly long time. Makes us all laugh every time! And, the little critters have lunch.
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How long do you soak the cabbage?

Colt.45
go to HEB and ask if they have any roten fruit and veggies or when they will have some. you can figure out the rest
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The teenage son of a friend of mine had to do a project for a high school film class, and asked if we could do something at the range (smart kid :) ). Of course I was happy to help, so he got a high-speed camera from the school and brought it to the range with some *rotten fruit from HEB*. Let's just say that he should've stood more than 10 feet from the rotten papaya that I nailed with the 12 gauge rifled slug, and that his mom had some interesting laundry to do that night.:evil: :D

Dionysusigma

Why peel the boiled eggs?
 
it rolled out of the bag and into the room.

There was no more harassment. :evil: Dude, you rock!:evil:

Melons are good fun.
So are generic cans of tomato juice.

We used to go to a flooded stripmine pit. Toss in a can of soda and shoot justunder/in front of it. flies pretty nice. rinse and repeat as needed.


A friend of mine who was an animator needed an exploding planet bit for one of his films. We took a large juice can with the top off filled it with gasoline and lit the top, which burned nicely. Cameras rolling, shoot the can with my 7x57, made a very nice fireball. (we added mothballs for planetary chunks.) That film got him an interview with George Lucas.

zastros
 
Sam,

Cabbage in the bucket for a couple of hours will do the trick. Might not actually take that long but that is what we had. Keep it upright so the water doesn't drain out. Enjoy!

Oh, I've got to second the 'Busting Rocks' targets too. Around here, we have LOTS of rocks and pulverizing them with rifle fire IS fun!

The King of Rock Busting is the 50 BMG....it will break big rocks that just shrugged off a barrage of .308's with only little chips flaking off the surface. Throw in the Blue Tip Incindiary lightshow and you have a good time.
 
I like to break out the chain saw and drill. Take a 2in. tree limb and cut as many discs as you can. Drill small holes in them and hang them with wire or what ever works for you. You can paint them orange to help with visibility. Great fun for the whole family.
 
Tannerite....Boom! Don't use the sissy 1/2 pound charges. Dump 4 to 6 into a 2L bottle... BOOOOOOM!:evil:

Bowling pins rock. I set up ten or so and reinact the St Valentines day massacre with my SP-01. Damn that's an accurate pistol....

When my buddies and I camp out, we ante $5 or $10 in and see who can cut a 2X4 in half with our .22's

Last but not least, Railroad plates hung from a stand give a satisfying PING when hit.. -Ian
 
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