Any cheap target ideas?
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Make your own target stands? I posted this one before. Someone suggested using steel pots for 22 instead of spending on AR500 targets.
Home made steel gong stand under 20 bucks
Even cheaper:
I also make my own target stands out of scrap 2X4 from home sites and then just go behind grocery stores to get cardboard to staple to them and print my own targets. In lieu of that, paper plates and a shaprpie
Home made steel gong stand under 20 bucks
Even cheaper:
I also make my own target stands out of scrap 2X4 from home sites and then just go behind grocery stores to get cardboard to staple to them and print my own targets. In lieu of that, paper plates and a shaprpie
Ivan the Butcher
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For rifles, Cheez-it crackers! Very good rifles with good scopes and ammo: M&M's at 200 yards (hot glued on construction paper. These are easier than on the ground)
22 target rifles, a block of 2x4 with a row oh 1/8" holes 1/2" deep. Place strike anywhere kitchen matches in holes. Use the rifle to light the row of matches, (if not windy) then blow them out, then cut off the match stick.
Use a piece of 1/2" pipe or conduit as a tee and put a paint ball on it, very the distances out to 100 yards or further, these are very difficult 22 handgun or offhand rifle targets, you have no idea where the miss is going!
Ivan
22 target rifles, a block of 2x4 with a row oh 1/8" holes 1/2" deep. Place strike anywhere kitchen matches in holes. Use the rifle to light the row of matches, (if not windy) then blow them out, then cut off the match stick.
Use a piece of 1/2" pipe or conduit as a tee and put a paint ball on it, very the distances out to 100 yards or further, these are very difficult 22 handgun or offhand rifle targets, you have no idea where the miss is going!
Ivan
Kernel Crittenden
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I'll take a stick or twig, about as long as a soda straw, push it into the ground and place an empty aluminum can on it (thru the mouth opening). Reacts a little when you hit it, bounces and spins around. Place four or five, each further away with five to ten yard separation. In the end they look about like your paint can, except the shots go downward and safely into the ground.
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Jeez- Those targets would be very cost-effective for me...I'd never have to replace them!
carpriver
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I would them and wouldn't have targets or eat the ones I missed. I use the cheap paper plates for targets out to a 100 yds. put a tad of spray paint in the center for some contrast.
My dad use to stop and get NECCO wafer candy. Slip them under
the bark of a tree or stick them it cracks on fence posts. Anymore
we stop at a Dollar Store, they always have big packages of
cookies or crackers cheap. Have fun blowing them up and feeding
the birds. Very green friendly, I think, don't know what's in those
cookies but they are best shot than et.
the bark of a tree or stick them it cracks on fence posts. Anymore
we stop at a Dollar Store, they always have big packages of
cookies or crackers cheap. Have fun blowing them up and feeding
the birds. Very green friendly, I think, don't know what's in those
cookies but they are best shot than et.
oneounceload
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Fill that paint can with water and fasten the lid on real tight first.
DWalt
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Political signs with the wire frames that go into the ground make excellent target supports. You can pick up all you want for free the day after election. I have maybe 20 of them stacked on the carport. The larger sizes work best.
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I've never been able to do this, but I always thought it'd be cool to try.
Get a bunch of empty cartons (milk, quart, pint, etc.). Fill with water and add some food coloring (food coloring is optional). Stick as many of them in the freezer as possible. Once frozen, take them to the range in a cooler. Peel off the carton and set up the ice block downrange. Shoot it. Repeat. Throw away the carton and you don't have to worry about cleaning up the blow'd up block of ice.
Get a bunch of empty cartons (milk, quart, pint, etc.). Fill with water and add some food coloring (food coloring is optional). Stick as many of them in the freezer as possible. Once frozen, take them to the range in a cooler. Peel off the carton and set up the ice block downrange. Shoot it. Repeat. Throw away the carton and you don't have to worry about cleaning up the blow'd up block of ice.
Ray1970
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Golf balls make neat targets. Try as I might I’ve never “shot a hole in one”.
Hit them a little low and the fly way up in the air
I usually just set a few on the berm so you are basically shooting at the backstop like you’re supposed to.
Hit them a little low and the fly way up in the air
I usually just set a few on the berm so you are basically shooting at the backstop like you’re supposed to.
Balloons with colored snap line chaulk/talc are neat but be certain you use an air pump or air canister not your mouth; old large calenders are great, spent circular saw blades are good for .22/.22wmr at some distance.
Love the political signs idea, especially those with the bums picture.....
Love the political signs idea, especially those with the bums picture.....
5 pound bag of flour (or smaller bag if you prefer). Wrap the bag in 1-2 layers of duct tape and suspend with rope. Every time you hit the target it will move and you'll be rewarded by an obvious cloud of white powder. A bag will hold up to about 50 rounds of .38 special ammo.
OLDSTER
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FREE TARGETS
Absolutely
The best "free" target frames available. The day after the election, the politicos are required to pick up the signs, which are usually left in place. My neighbor is also a shooter, so he and I enjoy the fruits of the election and stock up. I always have at least a dozen nice wire-framed target stands on hand
Absolutely
The best "free" target frames available. The day after the election, the politicos are required to pick up the signs, which are usually left in place. My neighbor is also a shooter, so he and I enjoy the fruits of the election and stock up. I always have at least a dozen nice wire-framed target stands on hand
I realize this won't work for everyone but I live in a rural area and we have a little land. I ride around the edge of fields in a golf cart and shoot holes in the leaves of weeds and bushes. No mess, no fuss and never get off the seat. Larry
kraynky
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I like to run a drywall screw in ole golf balls and use that to hang them from a string. Loads of fun making them dance around. I have hot glued vanilla wafers to cardboard, shoot charcoal briquets, and try cutting a playing card in two, from the edge.
As always, be aware of your backstop. 22's can travel a long way.
Funflyer
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Cheapest and best targets I use for 22 plinking have been spent shotgun shells found all over the place at the range.
The new, cheaper ones with the plastic-bag style sign are
GREAT for targets. The older corrugated-plastic style tend to
shed bits of plastic and make a mess in the trunk/wherever you
store em.
Pull the plastic bag off, and cut a piece of cardboard to fit in
the wire "U". Run duct tape around outside of the wire to secure
the cardboard. Turn the political bag sign inside-out and slip it
back over the wire (it gives the cardboard some rain protection).
Staple your targets to cardboard, right thru the bag. They last
a good long time!
I like 3X5 cards, Post-its, and fluorescent 1" circles attached to used range targets. For plinking, I like plastic water bottles with a bit sand (depth depends on wind) in the bottom.
very cheap paper plate with a magic marker dot in the paper's middle.
Tack to a post,board,or cardboard box
Tack to a post,board,or cardboard box
