What is your Fav target????

[zercool]

Aspirins if you're really up for a challenge.

Golf balls - ask the driving range to buy a bucket. Sometimes hard to find.

I like the swinging/resetting plates.

Anyone tried one of the polycarbonate bouncing targets? Can't remember the brand name, they run $40-50 in CTD and others, force you to reacquire each shot.

 

[84CJ]

1. case of Sams choice cola
2. some oranges and couple apples.
3. Bag of charcoal (I like things that poof)
4. already have paint balls( maybe I cold hot glue some to the charcoal.(POOF) with a splash of color.
5. Necco Wafers
6. Paper plates. (I am almost out thanks for the reminder.) Charcoal and wafers could be hard to hit if you don't check your sights.
7. Ok what the heck I'll add asprin to the list. If I get a headache trying to hit them, I can take an asprin.

Anyone tried a dueling post? Always thought that would be cool.

 

[jkc]

What is Tannerite?

Tannerite is the brand name of a so-called "binary" explosive, sold as "exploding targets" for which it is eminently suited. It comes as vials of a nitrate compound, into which is mixed a catalyst of some sort. The vials (which have a convenient orange label for aiming) are refilled with the mixture, which is not very sensitive or flammable, but detonates violently upon impact of a centerfire rifle bullet, with an attendant chest-thumping shock wave and a very loud concussion which echoes very satisfactorily around rocky canyons! I commend it to everyone! It doesn't seem to create a fire hazard, but it will damage anything in close proximity, such as plants, or what have you. Like any explosive, it can do "work" such as wrecking stuff, scattering debris, etc. If ever I can find the right, safe, location, I want to try touching off a vial of Tannerite taped to can of a gasoline or propane tank with a burning highway flare nearby --- should replicate a fuel/air explosive...

I see knock-off explosive targets offered at local gun shows, but the only examples I've actually witnessed didn't equal the brand-name product.

Google it --- product info, plenty of You-Tube, etc. Have fun!

 

[ohiococonut]

Fruitcake!

That's the ONLY thing I've found it's good for. With the right load you get a wonderful rainbow of colors when they explode. The local wildlife cleanup after me too

I think if you could stack enough of this stuff together you could use it for expansion testing.

Whiffle balls are good with 22lr pistols too.

 

[DougE]

I'm not all that particular. No matter what the target is ........ shooting stuff is fun.

 

[31 Pump]

I'm a big fan of just about any fruit or vegetable. Take your overripe stuff and toss it into the air and blast away with the shotgun. Lots of fun.

Glenn

 

[Jeb Stonewall]

Light bulbs or anything made of glass.

 

[Iggy]

Prairie dogs. Shooters killed 15,000 last summer.

I have a ton of poison set to use on them at 4 oz. per hole, as soon as they start coming out.

Shooting them is more fun than dumping stuff in their holes from an ATV.

 

[S/W - Lifer]

The 500 yard moving targets at Quantico's sniper school.

 

[LennyLames]

Scorpions, but it can be several months before I see one. After all, I don't go around everyday looking under rocks.

When I do catch one, I secure the tail with a surgical clamp, then I hang the clamp from a shrub, or set it on a rock. I use a .177 caliber match pistol at approximately 10 meters.

Last year, we had a plague of locusts, and they were fun to shoot. I posted photos in "Handgun Hunting On A Biblical Plague" a while back, but I'm not sure if it's still available in this forum.

 

[bigt5150]

Clay targets placed on the berm.
Milk or other 1 gallon beverage jugs filled with water brightly colored with food coloring.

 

[5Wire]

I like yo make my own. Here are my faves:

 

[mxbob]

We have a lot of fun with bowling pins around here.
Bob Ray

 

[marvin the martian]

Since my range only allows paper targets, my choices are some what limited. Depending on the day, it may be a bulls eye with company names (at work we do contract mfg'ing - makes for a fun Friday afternoon) or I have some with a famous purple dinosaur that always bring a smile to my face.

 

[SmithNut]

Tannerite works good. You know when you hit it.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Steel! Swingers in particular.

 

[EMT Edu]

My brothers and I shot regularly at paper plates with stick on dots from WalMart. They're in the office supplies, red, yellow, green and blue dots in a pack. About 3/4" I think. The yellow are hard to see on sunny days.

 

[Faulkner]

I like getting a bandalero of suckers from Walmart. Get a 16 length of 2x4 and drill holes in it for the suckers. They make great reactive targets.

 

[jbouwens]

A buddy and I are in the fire extinguisher business and when we get those that we cannot use again well----

 

[jag312]

I have a set of swinging targets for .22 shootong. For other shooting at a national forest or a friend's "backyard", I cut wood squares from scrap 2x4 and spray paint a black circle on one side as a target. We ieave the wood bits for the termites.

Tomorrow, I want to try charcoal. I hadn't thought of it, but it sounds good.