Bouncing 12GA hulls around with a .22 is one of my more pleasant ways to spend a day.
Tin Cans
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On Sundays when the town dump was closed we use to go and shoot whatever was there. Lots of bottles...cans..rats. Back when such activity would not bring a swat team. Matter of fact the local cops would stop by and join in the fun.
One of my dad's best friends was a deputy and when his department got riot guns with lights on them he would stop by the dump while on patrol and shoot rats. One time he was there and a call came over the radio to check out a report of gunfire at the dump. He waited 5 minutes and then reported it was all clear, nothing going on.
Tin cans at a sand bank, my favorite way of shooting with a good ol Remington 552 speedmaster. Although I will say that a can of Cambell's tomato soup set on end and hit with a 22-250 is also pretty neat. Remember when tomato soup was 10 for a dollar?
Always my favorite target when out plinking with 22's especially! Except I use the aluminum versions.
Now if you want to take shooting cans to the next level, get some potato chip cans and fill them with water. Then set them up at 50 yards and fire away with a 45-70. It was probably at Camp Perry when I was a little boy that during an NSSA event a number of such potato chip cans were set up and were then fired on by a Gatling gun. The hydraulic pressure would rupture the seams of the cans.
CAJUNLAWYER
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Can't beat the dead end sign at the boat launch either
I just made plans for this Friday with a buddy for some "plinking on the prairie". I need to search my pantry for some possible targets. Maybe a few swollen cans of tomato paste 
Reminds me of my dump shooting days. Before they became "sanitary landfills". We shot glass bottles, cans. tv's, appliances and rats.....A SUPER fun shooting gallery.............Sadly those days are gone forever.
On my personal range I keep and shoot a lot of 1 qt. empty oil cans and a bucket of tennis balls for reactive targets
Sho do miss shooting glass bottles..............
On my personal range I keep and shoot a lot of 1 qt. empty oil cans and a bucket of tennis balls for reactive targets
Sho do miss shooting glass bottles..............
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Pretty much everything and anything is a target.
Tom Kent
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For some real tin can fun, get some of those pressure cans such as whipped cream and cheese comes in. Any hit is pretty spectacular but a hit at the base can have the effect of launching a posiden (sp) missile.
CScott
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One of my favorite shooting pastimes is throwing 3 or 4 tomato cans out on to the ground and then randomly shooting double action until all the "bad guys" been "chased away". Fun and really good practice although I'm afraid if I ever have to shoot at an actual bad guy, I'll only hit him in the foot!
Well, maybe, or maybe not . . .
Well, maybe, or maybe not . . .
When we were kids, we used to go to the golf course to find golf balls.
We would keep any good ones to play golf with and take the ones with smileys to my uncle's farm and shoot them off the fence posts. If you got one right in the center that thing would launch. Off center hits would send it but off in odd directions.
Once we shot all of them off the fence posts we would wander through the pasture and bounce them around until there was nothing left.
The corn crib was always worth a quick look see, shot all kinds of little corn eaters back there. Then a walk around the barn checking for pigeons and then to the trees along the old lane to pop any starlings that happened by.
Between my cousin and myself we could pop almost a brick of 22's in an afternoon.
We would keep any good ones to play golf with and take the ones with smileys to my uncle's farm and shoot them off the fence posts. If you got one right in the center that thing would launch. Off center hits would send it but off in odd directions.
Once we shot all of them off the fence posts we would wander through the pasture and bounce them around until there was nothing left.
The corn crib was always worth a quick look see, shot all kinds of little corn eaters back there. Then a walk around the barn checking for pigeons and then to the trees along the old lane to pop any starlings that happened by.
Between my cousin and myself we could pop almost a brick of 22's in an afternoon.
Something similar to this was an actual event when my dad was an NSSA skirmisher. Pressure cans of spray snow were hung on crossbars and each team proceeded to fire Civil War type rifles at the cans. When a pressure can was hit by a .58 Minie ball there were some spectacular flights.
Black Walnuts , green pine cones/pecans make good targets too.
