OK I am guilty of shooting things just to see what happens. ex. Jugs of water. colas (sams choice) Cans of Tomato paste. Bags of flour etc.. I once I shot 10 1 gallon jugs in a neat row with an Armalite AR 50. It was cool Luckily I had enough paper targets to replace all that got soaked. I was at a Forest service range where several hunters were getting ready for deer season.

What is your Favorite Target?

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Boring NRA B-8 centers.

Ted

Al Qaeda Terrorist and Osama Bin Laden

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and bugs

Paint balls (60mm)on golf tees. No points if you hit the tee.

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...it's all just stuff.

I guess I will be slaying paint balls this weekend. I get tired of looking for the golf balls. My son droped a can of chrome spray paint and broke the spray tip off. It made a real mess.

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ORANGES!!! 25yards for pistol and 100 yards for rifle. No mess to clean up, Squarrels and other critters eat it all.

60mm? or 60 cal. I know very little about paintballs but I do have an old tipman 98 paintball gun and some paint balls that have been lying around here forever.

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One with 10 holes in the 9 and 10 ring right after any of the stages in NRA Bullseye ends.

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Cheap "dollar-store" charcoal barbeque bricklets, make a nice puff of smoke when hit hit with a 22 rimfire, rain desolves them...so there is no clean-up, and kids love the puff they give off......makes them aim better.....also nice when hit with a 220 swift @ 200 yds

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rabbits

I am getting my shopping list together.

1. case of Sams choice cola
2. some oranges and couple apples.
3. Bag of charcoal (I like things that poof)
4. already have paint balls( maybe I cold hot glue some to the charcoal.(POOF) with a splash of color.
5.?????

The list is still short.

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Necco Wafer candies.
Take a scrap of 2X4.
Run it lengthwise through a tablesaw to create a shallow groove about 1/4 inch from the edge.
Now, set the Neccos in the groove, a few inches apart. A dab of contact cement will keep them from falling over if you hit the board.
You can also glue Necco wafers to construction paper, plywood, heavy cardboard, etc.
These shatter nicely when hit.
They're gone in a week or so, the rain or dew melts them.

Mine are pretty boring compared to those listed.Paper plates from the dollar store(200 for $200)and a black dot in the center from a magic marker.I am usually messing with my sights so I like to see where I am hiting...Mike

1. case of Sams choice cola
2. some oranges and couple apples.
3. Bag of charcoal (I like things that poof)
4. already have paint balls( maybe I cold hot glue some to the charcoal.(POOF) with a splash of color.
5. Necco Wafers
6. Paper plates. (I am almost out thanks for the reminder.) Charcoal and wafers could be hard to hit if you don't check your sights.

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Tannerite!

What is Tannerite?

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The heads of the snapping turtles when they stick them up out of the water of my tank.

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There is a truss plant near me that gives away their scrap for your stove or fireplace. Part of it is glue lams ends that are about 8 inches on a side. I like to reduce them to splinters with one cylinder. Each shot makes smaller and smaller pieces.

I'm better with a 14 round clip in a 10mm.

Aspirins if you're really up for a challenge.

Golf balls - ask the driving range to buy a bucket. Sometimes hard to find.

I like the swinging/resetting plates.

Anyone tried one of the polycarbonate bouncing targets? Can't remember the brand name, they run $40-50 in CTD and others, force you to reacquire each shot.

1. case of Sams choice cola
2. some oranges and couple apples.
3. Bag of charcoal (I like things that poof)
4. already have paint balls( maybe I cold hot glue some to the charcoal.(POOF) with a splash of color.
5. Necco Wafers
6. Paper plates. (I am almost out thanks for the reminder.) Charcoal and wafers could be hard to hit if you don't check your sights.
7. Ok what the heck I'll add asprin to the list. If I get a headache trying to hit them, I can take an asprin.

Anyone tried a dueling post? Always thought that would be cool.

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Tannerite is the brand name of a so-called "binary" explosive, sold as "exploding targets" for which it is eminently suited. It comes as vials of a nitrate compound, into which is mixed a catalyst of some sort. The vials (which have a convenient orange label for aiming) are refilled with the mixture, which is not very sensitive or flammable, but detonates violently upon impact of a centerfire rifle bullet, with an attendant chest-thumping shock wave and a very loud concussion which echoes very satisfactorily around rocky canyons! I commend it to everyone! It doesn't seem to create a fire hazard, but it will damage anything in close proximity, such as plants, or what have you. Like any explosive, it can do "work" such as wrecking stuff, scattering debris, etc. If ever I can find the right, safe, location, I want to try touching off a vial of Tannerite taped to can of a gasoline or propane tank with a burning highway flare nearby --- should replicate a fuel/air explosive...

I see knock-off explosive targets offered at local gun shows, but the only examples I've actually witnessed didn't equal the brand-name product.

Google it --- product info, plenty of You-Tube, etc. Have fun!

Fruitcake!

That's the ONLY thing I've found it's good for. With the right load you get a wonderful rainbow of colors when they explode. The local wildlife cleanup after me too

I think if you could stack enough of this stuff together you could use it for expansion testing.

Whiffle balls are good with 22lr pistols too.

I'm not all that particular. No matter what the target is ........ shooting stuff is fun.

I'm a big fan of just about any fruit or vegetable. Take your overripe stuff and toss it into the air and blast away with the shotgun. Lots of fun.

Glenn

Light bulbs or anything made of glass.

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Prairie dogs. Shooters killed 15,000 last summer.

I have a ton of poison set to use on them at 4 oz. per hole, as soon as they start coming out.

Shooting them is more fun than dumping stuff in their holes from an ATV.

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The 500 yard moving targets at Quantico's sniper school.

Scorpions, but it can be several months before I see one. After all, I don't go around everyday looking under rocks.

When I do catch one, I secure the tail with a surgical clamp, then I hang the clamp from a shrub, or set it on a rock. I use a .177 caliber match pistol at approximately 10 meters.

Last year, we had a plague of locusts, and they were fun to shoot. I posted photos in "Handgun Hunting On A Biblical Plague" a while back, but I'm not sure if it's still available in this forum.

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Clay targets placed on the berm.
Milk or other 1 gallon beverage jugs filled with water brightly colored with food coloring.

I like yo make my own. Here are my faves:

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We have a lot of fun with bowling pins around here.
Bob Ray

Since my range only allows paper targets, my choices are some what limited. Depending on the day, it may be a bulls eye with company names (at work we do contract mfg'ing - makes for a fun Friday afternoon) or I have some with a famous purple dinosaur that always bring a smile to my face.

Tannerite works good. You know when you hit it.

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Steel! Swingers in particular.

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My brothers and I shot regularly at paper plates with stick on dots from WalMart. They're in the office supplies, red, yellow, green and blue dots in a pack. About 3/4" I think. The yellow are hard to see on sunny days.

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I like getting a bandalero of suckers from Walmart. Get a 16 length of 2x4 and drill holes in it for the suckers. They make great reactive targets.

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A buddy and I are in the fire extinguisher business and when we get those that we cannot use again well----

I have a set of swinging targets for .22 shootong. For other shooting at a national forest or a friend's "backyard", I cut wood squares from scrap 2x4 and spray paint a black circle on one side as a target. We ieave the wood bits for the termites.

Tomorrow, I want to try charcoal. I hadn't thought of it, but it sounds good.

Zombies...definately zombies.

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"Light bulbs or anything made of glass"

Sir, I hope you are on your own land or using a tarp or something to clean up the mess.

My brother likes to shoot Christmas oraments he buys at end of season. He goes down to Sears and gets a refrigerator box and cuts a long window in the box and hangs the ornaments from a string inside the box and shoots them. No mess that way.

I like shooting terrorist targets. I grabbed the wrong roll of targets for a pistol class a couple of months ago and ended up with the terrorist targets for class. The ladies absolutely loved them. Not only were they shooting COM they also shot off his tootles. If any terrorists land here they better watch out for the pistol toting Grandma's.

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USMCR 84-87, USAF 87-07

Once when I lived in Salt Lake City, myself and a realatively new shooter made to the trip west of the Great Salt Lake to engage in what we named, "The Great American Veggie Shoot".

On our way out of town we stopped a a grocery store and made some purchases: cheap soda, cheap beer, potatoes, tomatoes, cheap canned tomatoes and other assorted inexpensive edibles.

At the checkout, the cashier noticed a rather eclectic assortment of food stuffs and asked what we were doing, to which we replied.."you'll never guess"...and left it at that.

Well, when we arrived at the desert, we set up targets a various ranges and began to connect with an assortment of scoped hunting and varmint rifles.

The cans of soda and beer will always be my favorites, however, potatoes at 100 yards make a very nice "kinetic" target..."the blow up real good!" We did, however, discover that heads of lettuce, etc. do not make a very good target. They just sit there!

Over the years since that day, we have many times relived this memorable experience.

Veggies are fun...to shoot!

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+1

Only problem is.. along with the ammo shortage, zombies have been harder and harder to come by for me. Just last week I paid $40 for a dozen zombies. I know it was a rip off... but I hadn't used zombies in so long I couldn't resist.

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Actually.. since my range = my property, I can shoot anything I want really, but I generally stick to home made paper targets on a backstop. Every now and then I'll use cans.. but 90% of the time it's paper targets.

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Like most older guys here, I was raised shooting in the late 40s and 50s when things were far different. Every village had a free town dump. We would walk around it blasting bottels with our .22 rifles. In my case it was a deep old quarry they were trying to fill up. I usualy went there mid week by myself, and once every week or two dad would go with me with our trash. He would throw bottles for me and I would him. Soon it was rare to miss one. That later led to a ruger single six, throwing, drawing and shooting them by myself. A pill bottel wasnt very safe. Next to none of us can do that anymore since things changed in the 60s all over the country. Paper targets were the most boreing, and we only used them to resight our rifles in before deer hunting season. Somehow my dad found a heavy steel plate with a hole drilled in the middle. Probley was a professional made gong for a shooting gallery way back around 1900. We mounted it on a old tree behind the house. If you shot through a 45 caliber hole drilled in the center it would hit a steel disk that would ring harder against the mounting. The plate had target grooves just as on a paper target, and you could keep repainting the face and when dried it would of course chip the paint to see where you were hitting. Dont know what happened to it, but somebody could make some good money makeing them again!

In the 40s and 50s all the villages had town dumps that were free and we could roam and shoot bottels. That was the most fun.
Somewhere my dad had got a target from around 1900 that was used in old shooting gallerys. It was a round heavy cast iron plate with grooves just like on a paper target, with about a 45 caliber hole for the bullseye. It had another free moveing metal disk behind that, that would ring extra loud if your 22 bullet drilled the hole. You could keep painting the gong, let it dry and see your bullet strikes each session. We had that hung on a tree in the back yard. I dont know what happened to it, but someone could make a fortune makeing them again!

Sorry for the double post, I hit the post now button twice, and had to do it over! I am learning! I like repeating myself anyway!

FM, I also spent many enjoyable hours at the local dumps.

We used to go at night, and usually the dump was on fire. It reeked of burning wood and paper as well as the stench of burning garbage.

On the cold fall and winter nights, the rats would "tinkle" was they ran through the broken bottles and cans.

It was so much fun and we never had any idea that someday it would become "politically incorrect."

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Those were the days charlie! Another nice target if you had the extra money and wasnt hungry, was those old necco waffers that came in different colors. Squeeze them in the bark of a tree, and they would dissapear when hit.