What do you use for plinking targets?

[buckeye0223]

Looking for some new ideas for plinking...

I have some spinners and paper targets. Just looking for some new ideas to shoot at.

I usually shoot with a buddy, so if you have any ideas on a plinking game I'd love to hear it.

 

[snake charmer]

NRA D1 or B27, and some small pepper poppers.

 

[What the]

Charcoal briquettes, shotgun hulls, tums, bowling pins hung from a branch, tennis balls on the ground or floating in a pond, golf balls on the ground, green treated 4 by 4 by 4 floating or on the ground, assorted fruits and vegetables, fist sized clumps of clay/dirt, clay pigeons. Those should get you started....you are limited only by your imagination.

 

[Dragon88]

Pine cones are in season.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

For plinking... anything I see...

 

[OK Hog Shooter]

I scrounged up some old realtor signs. Great for posting targets on. Old realtors wouldn't be a bad idea either...

 

[J. W.]

I bought five 6" plates along with a 2" and 3" hanging target from Newbold. They're made out of ballastic poylmer, or whatever you want to call it and are safe to shoot with pretty much anything as long as the bullet is ronud nose or spire point. Wadcutters and HP's cut a small hole and reduce target life, so its best not to use them. I mounted them on a portble target stand I made out of scrap wood and steel I had laying around.

My steel targets were getting quite worn and were begining to shoot back, if you know what I mean. They needed replacing badly and I though I'd try these since they were safer and could be used for large caliber weapons if I wanted.

The 6" plates are great for handguns. They work as advertised and I couldn't be happier. The smaller ones I bought for use with my AR. The fast little 5.56 passes though the larger plates without disturbing them, but work as advertised with the 2" and 3" hanging targets. I'm yet to try a big bore highpowered rifle with the larger plates so I can't comment there.

So far I'm quite happy with these. Aside from the safety aspect and increased caliber range, they are much easier to transport than my old steel plate rack.


Edit to add: One of my favorite plinking targets is gravel. Yea, it might not be the safest, but turning a 1.5" piece of rock into a teriffic puff of dust with an AR from 50m is quite satisfying and always makes me grin.

 

[tacticool22]

Paintballs on golf tees. Cheap reactive fun. +1 for the paintball +2 for the tee after the paintball is hit -3 if you break the tee first. Bring some paper and a pencil.
Steel spinner targets. More expensive, but reactive and fun, plus they make noise.
Dueling Trees. First shooter with all the targets on their side looses.
Or the shooter at the end of the magazines with the most targets on their side looses. Way different tactics between those two.
This could be fun and infuriating with two shooters Impact-22 Rolling Steel Target - YouTube
Or use two and race to a finish line.

 

[A10]

Cans.......lots of cans. Try balloons too, they can be a kick.

 

[OKFC05]

A plate rack (6 plates). A pull on the rope resets them, and there is no mess left on the range. If it gets too boring, back up and run against a timer.

 

[Toney]

Golf balls. A little lake i fish on is down stream from a golf course.

 

[MPLUSM]

Eggs and Coleman® stove canisters.

Eggs:
Pros; exsplatsive, biodegradable, cheap
Cons; white (hard to see against snow), delicate transport

Coleman® stove canisters:
Pros; awesome to blow up, canister can still be used as target after explosion
Cons; more expensive than eggs (roughly $4.00 for 3 canisters), explosions are somewhat limited in size (he he)


-Michael

 

[WHO CARES]

At the end of the garden season, I make a trip to the farm where Mom has been growing cukes in some quantity. When she finally gets enough of them she lets the rest grow to maturity and when they are now no longer green and usable but yellow and over ripe they become targets. They explode great when struck with my 22 mag - very enjoyable!

Ward

 

[Jswiney9]

http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-15-22/180089-shooting-games.html#post135848519

 

[BudMan5]

well, to turn an otherwise dull range day into a whole bunch of excitement, I recommend tannerite!

Here's the link:

TANNERITE

and why, yes, a .22lr works just fine

 

[mkflyfisherman]

Caution

I would be very hesitant to shoot at anything (tennis balls, pieces of wood, etc) floating in water - far to easy to get uncoltrollable ricochets, especially with a .22

 

[Shooting Padre]

Ice. Cheap, easy to come by and explodes when hit. Best of all, no messy clean up. Just walk away. Any container that can be easily emptied of a piece of ice will do. Milk jugs work when you freeze them and peal off the plastic. A .22 or .17HMR really make them shatter, so anything bigger would be a (pardon the pun) blast. Great reactive target for both adult and kids.

 

[Redbulladdikt]

we recently tried the Darkotic Zombie targets ( my kid went ga-ga!) also love Golf Balls or Softballs....Bowling Pins are amazingly fun ( put some tannerite on the front and dont tell the shooter! hehe)

old satellite dishes are good too ( legally acquired!!!) the metal ones make a nice PING when you smack em...

 

[Stang Nut]

Reactive Targets

I like playing around with these...

Ground Bouncing Impact Seal Reactive Targeting

The cube is my favorite of the bunch.

 

[PainterlyShotgroup]

check this one out! I just found out about it today...Kind of creepy but still cool...

TARGET-300 - Zombie Bleeding Target "Chris" 33.5" Tall and Includes a Mounting Stake