Fun targets?

[bcc629]

I like to hang a bowling pin from a tree. After you hit it once, you have a moving target. They're incredibly strong, and don't get the full impact because they move when you hit them. I'm looking for new ideas for my new 454. Thinking about watermelons or gallon jugs of water. Any other ideas?

 

[DeadAye]

I like clay pigeons at a distance.
Gallon jugs are just too big but plastic liter bottles are getting there.
We use colored water so you can see that you hit one, but with the 454 that might not be necessary

 

[mstem]

yep, gallon jugs filled with water or half gallon jugs

cheap canned soft drinks

balloons

golf balls

melons

certain useless four legged vermin that are pets of the devil

ping pong balls

eggs

just about any round fruit

 

[H Richard]

1 liter and 2 liter bottles filled with water for distances out to 500 yards make good Prairie Dog practice targets.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

If you have a safe place to do this. I used a 44 Mag for this but a 454 will only make it better. Supplies; One 2 liter pop bottle full of something bright colored (I used Red-Pop) and a 5 gallon bucket with lid, water. On the safe range, fill the five gallon bucket to the very top with water, lightly place the lid on the bucket and set the 2 liter bottle upright on top of lid. Shoot the bucket with you full powered ammo and it will launch the 2 liter bottle 50 plus feet in the air, shoot the bottle when safe to do so (if you can!). Ivan

H Richard when you don't have 500 yards to practice, use M&M's out to 200 yards. If you can nail M&M's at 200 you can nail anything in the dog town at 500! Remember; "Aim small, miss small" (from American Sniper & other places.) We like to shoot Cheeze-it crackers (about 1 inch square) with 22 LR on windy days, then hunt down the pieces and then the crumbs. Good wind training. Ivan

 

[litenlarry]

A fun target I found was a can of a foam sealant, used for filling cracks..Once the can is used for the cracks, the rest of the can is useless, even tho there is still the ingredient inside..
When you hit it, you will know !

 

[walkin jack]

We used to line up spent .22lr brass on a RR tie at the deer lease. and bang away with out Ruger 10/22lrs. lots of fun and pretty challenging. You don't necessarily have to have a big gun to have big fun.

Also my BILs and I chipped in and bought an old Dodge dart body. We set it up out in the "south 40" and blew it up with every thing we had from .22s to .45/70s If you and find an old car body with all the glass still intact it's even more fun. We shot it up from one side and then turned it around and shot up the other side. Too much fun!

 

[litenlarry]

Thought of another one..Old skil saw blades can be great 22 cal targets..Just nail them to a post and ding away..You can definitely hear a clink when hit...

 

[wittmeba]

Same here - just couldn't see a stationary target having a hole punched into it at 100 yards or so. I needed to see something move.

I took a big nail (about 10" long) and drilled through the side of a 2X4 and nailed it into a tree. Now if I can hit it, it spins.

 

[USAF385]

The only "fun" targets that I have are on my plinking range.

This spring, I would like to work on getting some moving targets in there.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Frozen gallon jugs. They talk back when hit.

 

[Acebow]

I like hedge apples--the bigger the gun, the bigger the splatter. Lots of shots per apple with a .22. And you don't have to clean them up afterwards.

Back when I worked for a living, I confiscated a bunch of cans of spray paint from some kids who were putting bad words on the asphalt road. Mom and Dad came to pick up the kids, no charges were going to be filed, so no need to turn the cans in for evidence and Mom and Dad saw no reason to keep the paint, so they 'gifted' them to me. Full and half-full cans of Krylon can be impressive when hit with a .38 and larger bullet. Kinda fun to tape one to the back of the bulls eye when your buddy doesn't know it..... Acebow

 

[sheepdawg]

Old spray paint, the brighter the color the better. Back in the good old 70s we would get fluorescent spray paint, different colors and hang it from a rope or something. Put some white cardboard under it, instant black light poster. Like wow man.

Of course it helped price wise working in a paint store

 

[brucev]

Fun target? I have very much enjoyed using old worn out harrow blades. I spray paint them with flat white paint. About two or maybe three coats will work well. I shoot them with whatever handgun I'm using that day. The axle hole makes a good aiming mark at 25 and even 50 yds. After you've fired a group, take a picture with your cell phone camera. Then repair the surface w/ a quick spray of paint and return to the firing line to do some more shooting. These harrow blades will withstand any common handgun round including the magnums using cast lead, JHP and JSP's. I lean the harrow blades at a slight angle away from the firing line. A piece of scrap metal or concrete block behind the harrow blade works well to keep it from falling over. Occasionally one will put a bullet through the axle hole so it will hit the concrete block. The larger calibers will pretty much wreak the block. I have used old discarded truck hubs to hold the blade up. These work very well. HTH. Sincerely. brucev.

 

[RSBH44]

at my buddies place we have a few things hanging from wires suspended from a 2x4 nailed between two trees. we shoot across a small pond with our 44's at them at approx. 75 yards. each one smaller than the next to make it challenging. 1st is a hubcap, then a coffee can, next is a pop can, then a small tomato paste can and last are two bottle caps. Each one has to be hit before you can move on to the next.
Also below, under the hanging targets we have a wooden bench set up to blow up various items filled with water, pop, paint whatever. cabbages are a riot to shoot too.

 

[Ματθιας]

I have a friend who works at a produce shop and we can get heads of lettuce/cabbage and other fruits and veggies past the sell by date.

The thing about lettuce/cabbage is that they are about the size of a head...put it on a stick, cut the top off and fill it with say ketchup, and... well... you get the idea.

 

[Rastoff]

This is fun:

 

[amazingflapjack]

worn out Teflon frying pans

 

[wunderboy]

Charcoal briquettes on a string hanging from a branch, helps if the wind is blowing

 

[Drm50]

Targets

In the winter me and brother drive down hollow roads and shoot
ice sickles off the break necks and rock outcrops. We start at tip
and work to top. Large bore is called for, some of these ice sickles are big as a man. We also had empty propane cylinders
hanging from tree limbs. They ring when hit and deflect the slug
unless dead centered. We are using 44s & 45s, my brother has
been hunching with a Merrill 30 Herrett.