Your favorite targets at the range?

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Ice.

I started out filling plastic tubs the size of cream cheese containers.

After several years of intensive and exhaustive study I decided they were too big and easy to hit with anything other than a handgun, even though the "explosion" is very satisfying. So now I'm freezing water in those little tubs that Jello comes in. At 50 yards and out, they make a good target with a .22 rifle (or handgun, if your not a shaky old goober like me). And still a satisfying "explosion." Also have the advantage of getting more targets in the cooler.:D


Note: My daughter and I conducted extensive testing using various shapes. Our considered opinion is that the round shape caused a much more satisfying "explosion". YMMV:cool:

Note: Very green, no cleanup required (or maybe... possible?).
 
range indoor-http://www.zombietargets.net/
my land
pumpkins
any large fruit
jugs filled with died water
clay
old computer parts
hot dogs
soylent green
full bricks of coffee smells great
 
bricks and cinderblocks are fun to hit and split open/obliterate, depending on what I am shooting. Still wanna shoot a cinderblock with my 91/30

Other than that, paper plates work well too, but I do most of my shooting at an indoor range that mandates that you use their targets (sight-in targets for rifles, body silhouettes for handguns)
 
Back in the day when I was doing the IPSC thing we would take some of the white cardboard "hostage" targets and cut them out into the shape of a poodle. We would put them way back (40 yds.) behind a match stage and tell all the competitors shooting minor class that these were an option target and a hit would deduct 1 second from their stage time. But you could only use this option if you shot a 9mm, which we referred to as "poodle shooters". It kinda pissed some of them off but it also taught them that accuracy counts as much as speed. Yes folks, we shoot poodles here.
 
3x5 Index cards stapled to a piece of plywood
Inedible big orange/lemon things (shoot these with a shotgun)
Paper plates
Shotshell hulls
2x4 and 2x6 cutoffs
Oil Barrels I can hear a .45 hardball going through both sides don't shoot with 22
water bottles
 
I like plain old fashioned tin/steel cans. I save my dog food cans, soup cans, etc. Not aluminum cans, which often perforate without hardly moving.

Also, any plastic beverage container filled with water. Orange juice bottles, milk jugs, and like that. Filled with water they're fun, and they are easy to clean up since they don't go to a million pieces when hit.

Saltine crackers go to bits when you hit 'em, and you don't have to clean up afterward.
 
I mostly use paper targets and spinners. A 10 meter air rifle target at 25 meters is fun. (Although the scores won't be so good! :eek:)
 
Over-ripe cucumbers were great. I just bought some of those clay pigeon holders that dangle from a rope. They should be fun 'cause they're interactive and fairly cheap.
 
Stuffed animals bought at Goodwill for cheap. Hang em from a rope and the stuffing flys out the back when you hit em. Then tape some tannerite to a big stuffed barney and let the fur fly.

With the custom 10/22, it is fun to pop eggs and charcol briquetts at 100 yards. The charcol is fun in the snow. Fruit with a pit explode.

If you have not shot Tannerrite, you need to try it. It will make you smile. :D
 
We used to see those free AOL CD's everywhere. They were free, so, I took all I could. You could hang them from trees, throw them like frisbees, set them up in a line on the ground, etc. Shoot just to break them, or try to put one through the hole in the middle without breaking it. Lots of fun.
Old paint cans are fun too, if they have old paint in them. The owner of a local hardware store tossed out some old cans that were in his attic. At 50 yards, shooting a Mosin Nagant, we caused a gusher of white paint that had to have been 15 feet high when the bullet hit that old can!
 
shaving cream is a ton of fun especially with ballistics tipped high velocity rounds, but my favorite targets are old computer parts and printers!
 
Rosie O'Donuts targets are a lot of fun. I also like shooting bowling balls at 150 yrds with my .45-70. Live rats at the dump are a blast with a .22 pistol.
 
In no particular order:

Balloons
Clay pigeons at 400 and 500 yards
Steel gongs at 500 and 600 yards
Water jugs
 
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