Mickey D
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Cheap brand soda. Shake them up and shoot for effect. 
fun things to shoot with a .22 pistol
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papajohn428
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When the kids and I were headed to the boonies to shoot we'd often stop at our favorite grocery store and either check out the dumpster or ask the produce guy if he had anything that needed blowing up. Sometimes he'd have apples or melons, once in awhile we'd get a whole case of lettuce. Lettuce blows up real good with a hit from a 223 or a shotgun, especially if you dip it in a bucket of water first. Best of all, the produce is biodegradable, no cleanup needed!
Vanilla Gorilla
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Well, you can feel free to take your football and go if it causes you so much heartburn, I'm sure.
I spent many formative years shooting a .22 and later other guns down into an old mine pit full of water with trash floating on the top. The horror! 20 years later, I still haven't managed to unintentionally harm anything with my rounds.
I really miss the days of shooting at old strip-pit (illegal) dumps. They were full of great targets. Old fridges, TV's the occasional car, paint cans, bottles and of course-rats! There were three such dumps within 10 miles of me and people expended thousands of rounds shooting them up. Alas, they have all been posted and covered-over.
For fun plinking at my club range we use steel soup cans, metal swinging targets and spent 12 gage hulls. I'll have to try the lollipops and charcoal briquettes as the range is going to ban clay pigeons because of the huge mess they are leaving in the gravel.
If you get stuck shooting paper- try the bug and fly targets- even with a scoped .22 rifle those tiny ladybugs and mosquito's are TOUGH to hit.
For fun plinking at my club range we use steel soup cans, metal swinging targets and spent 12 gage hulls. I'll have to try the lollipops and charcoal briquettes as the range is going to ban clay pigeons because of the huge mess they are leaving in the gravel.
If you get stuck shooting paper- try the bug and fly targets- even with a scoped .22 rifle those tiny ladybugs and mosquito's are TOUGH to hit.
Straightshooter2
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Why is it that when I read the title of the thread I instantly thought of Mel Brooks as Rabbi Tuckman in Robin Hood saying, "dere's trees and rocks and sqvuirrils"?
Can I plead Nolo Contendere? BTW is there a statute of limitations on mailboxes? Not that I ever did it but....
I guess you don't want to hear "Road signs and bottles"
Let he among us who has not in his far distant yout pinged the odd glass bottle or that isolated road sign cast the first stone!
Can I plead Nolo Contendere? BTW is there a statute of limitations on mailboxes? Not that I ever did it but....
fat tom
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Well, you can feel free to take your football and go if it causes you so much heartburn, I'm sure.
No such luck.
f.t.
geoff40
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It crosses my mind that the young'ns here have never seen a dump, and don't really know what we are referring to. 
But yeah, those dump rats, man were they fun!
A Remington single shot, a box of shot capsules, and a front yard full of dragonflies is sure a lot of fun too!
But yeah, those dump rats, man were they fun!
A Remington single shot, a box of shot capsules, and a front yard full of dragonflies is sure a lot of fun too!
I like my dueling tree.
Ballons are fun for beginners! Cheap pretty easy to hit depending how big you make them. At my range we will stick 9head size ballons on a 4' x 4' sheet at 50 yards. We all have big heads so ~ 9 inch in dia. First one to hit all nine the fastist wins! Or firing one 10 round mag who hits the most. Standing is an option. Sitting at a rest with a bag is a option. Prone also.
You can also play a game like "Basketball Horse" where you have to shoot the same ballon on your sheet, in the same way as the hitter did. Cheap fun. Of couse you can vary the yardage also. We have done this at 75 yards but it gets slow.
So with .22lr we usually go at 50 yards. With new shooter's we will go at 50'. Fast game.
Golf balls, shotgun hulls, pieces of clays, cans, plastic bottles, are all fun.
We do put the cans and bottles in the recycle bins.
For "paper targets" I really like the self stick color changing kind. Caldwell makes some good ones.
Guy22
Vanilla Gorilla
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I'd forgotten about this. My brother took a section of 2x4 and drilled holes for the tees and paintballs on top. A fun target with our 10/22s at 50-75 yards. Hits at 100 yards are not nearly as regular as I'd like them to be, though.
Vanilla Gorilla
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