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Old 01-26-2015, 02:47 PM
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Hey guys.

Finally found a range that will let you shoot something other than paper. Last time we went, after blasting through the targets, we probably had more fun making two old cans jump around.

What kinds of things do you guys like to bring to the range to shoot? We'll be running all sorts of revolvers and some 20 gauge shotguns. Should we bring a watermelon? Clay pots? What is fun to shoot.
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Anything that is easy to clean up and or bio degradable. Cans, blocks of wood, steel targets.

I prefer reactive targets as it,s hard to see the holes in the paper while shooting.
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I think my favorite targets are plastic soda bottles full of water. With the rifle it's a kick too. Be sure to clean up your mess. What you take in, take out.
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The club range where I shoot won't allow metal plates or vegetables but pop cans, plastic bottles, golf balls, etc. are ok if you clean up afterwards. The vegetables are too messy to clean up and stink and the metal plates are dangerous because of ricochets. Keith 44 posted one time about putting a big knot on a couple of feet of rope and shoot the head off the snake. At home in the summer I get away from the house so the mess doesn't matter and shoot excess vegetables. Tomatoes are my favorite. Larry
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This will be frowned on here because drinking and shooting don't mix. But one weekend me and a buddy were out drinking bottled beer. The used beer (it's only rented you know) had to go somewhere so we refilled the empty bottles which then became targets. I have a Browning 1885 Hi Wall in .45-70 that is deadly accurate on PBTs (Pee Bottle Targets).
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If I had to shoot at a public range, I think I would take an 8" metal plate and an outdoor style pot hanger, along with some empty coke cans. Most anything else would call for more cleanup than I would want to do. On my home private range, we shoot cheap carbonated drinks, both cans and one and two liter bottles. We shoot cull produce out of the garden; squash, maters, cukes, watermelons, etc. along with the steel plates, of course. Frankly, I think the steel plates are the bomb. If I have 30 minutes of daylight left, I don't have to spend ten minutes stapling targets. Just start rangin' them plates.
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I go to garage sales and buy old stuffed animals for a quarter. They come in all sizes. It's surprising how many rounds they can take and still hold together (certainly hundreds, perhaps thousands). Stake them to the ground with a old tent stake so they don't topple over on the first hit.

Sometimes I use a funnel to pour a mixture of corn starch and general purpose flour into the body. It mixes with the stuffing an makes an interesting matrix. When they take a hit a little puff of "smoke" comes out.

It's pretty cool, nice visual reaction with every hit. It makes them kinda messy in storage, though, so I will kept the "smokey" ones in a large zip lock bag.
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I like shooting at any kind of reactive targets, especially steels.

I've got several .22 steel reactives, 1 reactive steel body shot for an AR plus an 18" steel gong.

I've got an enclosed .22 steel trap for paper target shooting in my basement. 30 yards.
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I buy cases of 8oz bottled water when i find it on sale. It usually costs 4-5 bucks per 48ct. Challenging targets at any range.
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Gallon milk jugs are a hoot. We have 3-4 a week the way my grandson goes through it so there's always some to fill with water and shoot.
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Old 01-26-2015, 04:53 PM
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I bought a couple of those 3 sided reactive steel targets. My grandson loves them. When he hits them they flip over and then he hits them again. He's getting pretty good.
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Orange clay birds for skeet work well and break down in the weather.
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I'll second the clay birds but,the pitch in them is poisonous to pigs.If you have domestic pigs that can be bad but, if you,like many these days, are plagued by wild hogs they sort of do "double duty" and that can be good if your wildlife regulations permit poisoning. Nick
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Ice, in any form is fun. Requires a cooler of course, but no clean up and usually spectacular hits.
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When I was a kid, I used to carry a pocket full of empty shotgun shells out and stand them up along the ground at the edge of the field (with a good dirt hill backstop, of course). With about 10 or 20 of them in a row, it was fun to pick off every other one, or every third one, etc. That was with a .22. Challenging, but fun and they flipped around good when you hit 'em. Easy cleanup, too.
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We use the rubber cubes, disks and balls made for shooting. They hop all over and no cleanup required.
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Used to take a bag of charcoal when I went shooting. They definitely react when you hit them and you don't have to pick anything up afterwards. Only down side is they are dirty. We used those cheap jersey gloves when we went to toss them out or line them up on a plank.

Good ideas here.
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I was going to include a picture but it seems photobucket and I aren't getting along at the moment.
I hang golf balls and tennis balls on a cross member on my target post. Just drill a hole and run a string through. I usually shoot them at 50 yds with a 22 lr.

Used to shoot clay pigeons but people started shooting all kinds of **** and didn't clean up after themselves so they put an end to that.
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If I'm out back I shoot various thicknesses of laminated and tempered glass, polycarbonates and acrylics. Also, cans and plastic bottles, veggies that the varmints or bugs have gotten to, etc.....

At the range, a lot of clay birds the occasional plastic bottle or steel targets.
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One of my favorite targets is scrap pieces of 4x4. Cut them so you get a 3.5"x 3.5" cube.
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Saltine crackers are cheap and birds and squirrels will clean up the left-overs.
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I bring a bottle of aspirin tablets. Set them out and mow them down at 100 yards with my 2" M340PD.
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Just remember that whatever mess you make to CLEAN IT UP before leaving the range. Leave a good impression of members of the shooting sports.
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That is a great idea, but how do you place them so that they stay upright?

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...I hang golf balls and tennis balls on a cross member on my target post ...
I was hoping I wouldn't see mention of shooting golf balls, especially with a .22. I almost got nailed in the head by a .22LR that bounced off a golf ball and came straight back after I shot it, missing me by at most a couple of feet. Judging by the sound of the hiss, it was moving pretty darn fast. Please, no golf balls.
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Sir, That is a great idea, but how do you place them so that they stay upright? Andy
2'x6' board about 3' long with two grooves routed into it, with metal real estate sign frames attached to each end so it can be stepped on and pushed into the ground.
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Black walnuts make inexpensive targets. And are plentiful where I shoot.
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Guess I'm best buds with photobucket again. This is what I shoot at. This one happens to have a bottle tied on in place of a golf ball. Bottles hanging don't react very well when hit. I tried painting the golf balls different colors to make them easier to see down range. Gave up and shot them in the color they came in.

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That is so cool, I was just about to suggest the same.
When I turned thirteen I got a Daisy 883. I'd stick a bamboo stake in my back yard, stick a half a black walnut shell on top, pace off about 30 feet,
and knock 'em off with my BB gun.
When I graduated to a .22, I'd shoot walnuts off of rocks in the woods when I went squirrel hunting.
The surviving squirrels would then make off with the bits.
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When I stay at my friends Hunting Cabin he has two Sour Apple Trees about 200 feet from his back porch. In the fall we shoot the apples off with 22 rifles and when that becomes too easy, we then try to do it by hitting the stem with 22's. Lots of fun and the Deer love the fact that we've gotten the apples already peeled.
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2 tennis balls tied together. They are easy to see and they bounce around when hit. Tying them together keeps them in the shooting area. And they are easy to clean up!
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Kids toys. Let the kids pick 'em. They'll love it. We go to yard sales in summer to buy them. Plastic dinosaurs are popular.
Bottle caps.
Balloons.
Toss a little sugary soda on the ground and shoot wasps.
Golf balls. We shoot lots and and lots of golf balls. Take a 4X4 about 1.5 meters long, drill holes just big enough for a golf tee. Put a tee in each hole and a golf ball on top, spread about 10cm apart. Put the 4X4 across saw horses.
Bowling pins. Ask at a bowling alley for them.
Aspirins.
Fired .22LR shells. Larger calibers when no longer reloadable, or that are aluminum and steel. Set them on the 4X4. The effect of hits on the 4X4 can be instructive.
Expended shotgun shells.
Clay birds. A case of them is cheap.
Pictures from magazines.
Billiard balls.
Ping Pong balls.
Tennis balls.
Buttons. For things that won't stand by themselves, such as buttons, have some putty to make small blobs on the 4X4.
Old shoes.
Non-glass Christmas ornaments.
Drink bottles filled with water. For .22's, small pill bottles is about the biggest that will still explode. Use hollow points.
For larger calibers, larger bottles.
Poker chips, checkers, chess pieces.
Coins. We have a bag full of now-worthless coins from around the world, ranging from smaller than a dime to the size of a 50-cent piece.
Small boxes such as a four-pack of AA batteries, or the cardboard slip cover on a box of cartridges. Don't shoot the plastic separators inside because they leave sharp pieces that are difficult to find and pick up.
Small, soft plastic medicine bottles, such as aspirin come in.
The cardboard tube from inside toilet paper rolls.
Non sugary soda bottles and cans. Shake them up well before shooting.
Wood book ends, small wood or plastic statues.

We also bought a small motorized gallery that operates off a battery. Very challenging.
Pendant targets that swing when hit.
Dueling trees.
For .22's, there is a delightful unit with five swinging pendants. When well hit each flies up and comes to rest on a bar. Then, it is necessary to hit a vertical pad which releases the other five and you start over. It also makes a great dueling target.
Fill small containers with colored chalk powder for an additional visual effect.

The final challenge, for who buys the drinks or the ice cream: a playing card set on edge. Stand them up with putty.

Scrupulously clean up the area after. Use work gloves to protect you hands.
Do NOT shoot glass, ceramics, batteries, or bottles and cans of sugary drinks. Music and computer compact discs are not terribly satisfying and can delaminate, complicating clean-up. Do not shoot food unless you are prepared to clean it ALL up.
Forget styrofoam items. Most unsatisfying.
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I've always liked shootin tin cans and old laundry soap containers. Gun to see if you can hit it before it stops from the last hit.
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I used to go pretty far out in the desert to shoot. Here in Texas there's usually a good supply of empty beer cans alongside the road. I'd plink at those with everything from 22s to 45s. What's left of the cans goes into recycle.
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They are all over the world. All you have to do is stop and put them in your car. Larry
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you just missed the 2014 elections, but 2016 is just around the corner.

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The vegetables are too messy to clean up and stink and the metal plates are dangerous because of ricochets. Keith 44 posted one time about putting a big knot on a couple of feet of rope and shoot the head off the snake.

Hitchcok45s range must stink to high heaven. He's always shooting pumpkins that sneak up on him.
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I take an old 2-3' piece 2x4 and drill a series of holes in it and place golf tees in them. Place paintballs on the tees. Place a light colored piece of paper or cloth behind it and shoot away. Makes a nice little Plinkasso for the man cave.
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I go to garage sales and buy old stuffed animals for a quarter. They come in all sizes. It's surprising how many rounds they can take and still hold together (certainly hundreds, perhaps thousands). Stake them to the ground with a old tent stake so they don't topple over on the first hit.

Sometimes I use a funnel to pour a mixture of corn starch and general purpose flour into the body. It mixes with the stuffing an makes an interesting matrix. When they take a hit a little puff of "smoke" comes out.

It's pretty cool, nice visual reaction with every hit. It makes them kinda messy in storage, though, so I will kept the "smokey" ones in a large zip lock bag.

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Lowes, Home Depot, Ace Hardware
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Living in the country and having a private dump nearby makes it nice for reactive type targets. The preferred around here are glass bottles of various size. G-kids love them.
Of course, binary explosives are for special occasions and family get togethers.
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I also believed the guy in the shop the other day who
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with a 205 grain bullet. Sure I did.
Did he say why he is loading it so slow ?
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Teddy bears???? That is just soooo wrong!
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