fun things to shoot with a .22 pistol
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Vanilla Gorilla
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A tin can floating in a pond can provide much entertainment, though it may cause environmentalists heart attacks.
MORSNO
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Charcoal briquette's:
- Big bags are cheap
- They explode when hit, so it's exciting
- They don't leave a mess like paper, can's, clay pigeons, etc
- They promote accuracy due to their size
- The left overs can be used for lunch!
- Big bags are cheap
- They explode when hit, so it's exciting
- They don't leave a mess like paper, can's, clay pigeons, etc
- They promote accuracy due to their size
- The left overs can be used for lunch!
DeathGrip
US Veteran
Don't use them for lunch.
Add some orange landscapers paint.
This way the young gunslingers don't out shoot you.
35Rem
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Colored ice cubes. Explode and no clean up. Take a cooler to the range with them in it.
DeathGrip
US Veteran
If you want to teach them proper use paper targets. They will learn to see progress that way.
THEN, Let 'em blow away some more creative targets.
But that would be proper learning and I my self learned by my Dad on cans at the rock pit.
THEN, Let 'em blow away some more creative targets.
But that would be proper learning and I my self learned by my Dad on cans at the rock pit.
ColbyBruce
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I always enjoyed shooting rats. When I was a teenager I had a friend with a small farm that had a horse barn overrun with rats, squirrels, and feral cats. When the women in the family took the horses out the barn became a target rich environment.
pineappleshooter
US Veteran
22's are always fun to take to the dump - cans, bottles, picture tubes (not so much anymore), etc. oh, and rats, lots and lots of rats!
GyMac
US Veteran
+1 on rats! I used to shoot a box of .22's at targets out of my Colt New Frontier and then go in search of rats with another box.
Dmaxboy08
Member
I like steel swinging targets. you know when you hit them, they come in different sizes, you dont have to reset them or place tape over them. More time shooting and less time reseting targets
Larry
Clean Break
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Start with the classic paper plate - but let the kids either stick a bright orange targ-dot on it or color the middle section with a sharpie pen. Eggs work great. Spent shotgun shells provide a nice challenge. Ritz or saltine crackers. Tin cans are way better than aluminum pop cans. Ice cubes work. Clay pigeons against a dirt bank. I like metal plates swinging on a chain between two trees too. When we lived in CA you could get "old" or damaged fruit from a fruitstand for free.... a grapefruit, cantelope or honeydew melon atop of a fence post makes a great & graphic .44 or shotgun target. Clean Break
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
I used to shoot those old necco colored candy waffers. Dont know if they still make them or not.
Still make em. Those and those Pinkies candies are great. I also enjoy saltines. Hold em up on a string with clothes pins and shoot them.
Used up 12g shells are wonderful as well. Perched up on a 2x4 or the like they fall nicely. Can also drill out a little spot with a spade bit to keep them from falling off if there is a bit of wind. If the rugrats start shooting better than you just let them try and hit empty .410 shells.
I picked up one of those Champion/Do all self sealing orange targets for my. 223. At 100 yards it bounces nicely around.
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I shoot at empy beer cans. In this part of Texas, here's no dearth of them along the roadside. After I've shot them out to as far as I can hit them, I pick up the shredded remains and put them in recycle.
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