Once, in the Utah desert, we "disposed" of a partially full "half size" propane tank with a well placed .30-06 tracer round.

Damn,....she "blowed up reeaaaaaalll good!"

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I shot a bowling ball with a .270win. It blew into lots of pieces, none bigger than a tennis ball.
The overripe fruits are good, esp. citrus. Pumpkins are very poor targets, bullets just go thru, and even a shotgun won't blow them apart.

Ditto on the bowling pins. I still have 6 or 8 boxes of ten pins that haven't been shot at yet.

Have to disagree on the pumpkins. True, they don't blow apart easily, but they do take a beating. Last November the landscape place next door dropped off all their unsold stock...from the tiny table top size to too huge to pick up. I blasted them from all ranges. Came home with pumpkin guts in my hair...it was a good day.

Plus you can bayonet 'em. Which by the way might be a useful skill to hone if ammo prices keep going the way they are.

Try some ice cubes. Keep them in the ice chest until your ready to start. Good reaction and .99 worth goes along way. We all know the clean up procedure. For new shooters and young ones, tie small balloons or oyster soup crackers to a limb on a 6ft. piece of thread, allow to flow in the breeze. Give them a pellet rifle and a 250 tin of pellets. Let the fun begin.

My favorite target is a 4x4 (3.5x3.5 actually) block of wood. My kids and I play keep-a-way at 50' with it using 22 handguns.

I like pumpkins for plinking with the 22. You get a nice orange geyser with every hit and they are easy to see at longer distances. Around here every one and their dog has a lemon tree. They can't give them away fast enough. Anyway they make nice biodegradable targets. Tee up some old golf balls, lots of fun with a 9mm or 38/357. Take an old tennis ball and set it up against a nice berm. Take turns chasing it with 22's.

My favorite....I had an old computer years ago that I needed to get rid of but didn't want to turn it in anywhere due to the data left on the hard drive. Took it out and put 50 rounds of 357 through it. Boy was that fun. I kept remembering every time it shut down or dropped the internet connection. Payback baby, payback! We picked up all of the pieces, and there were a lot of pieces, and dumped everything into a dumpster on the way home.

I've always wanted to shoot a can of that expanding foam stuff but never have because I think clean up would be a pain. Anyone tried it?

Boy am I glad this post came back you guys have a lot of good ideas. Shooting at a landfill would be the awsome. Anyone have a time machine?

I am starting to search for more durable targets. The gong would be cool and I will build one of those for sure. Bowling pins and golf balls hanging from tree limbs. A tire with a card bord circle rolling down a hill is fun too.

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It is on the list now I have a useless clogged up can around here some where Ill wait till last to shoot it so I can let it dry before getting around it. That stuff sticks to everything.
Dusted about 10 cans of shaving cream from the dollar store yesterday. Kinda cool. Hangs around longer than you would think.

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