RV4driver
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Zombies...definately zombies.
What is your Fav target????
- Thread starter 84CJ
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"Light bulbs or anything made of glass"
Sir, I hope you are on your own land or using a tarp or something to clean up the mess.
My brother likes to shoot Christmas oraments he buys at end of season. He goes down to Sears and gets a refrigerator box and cuts a long window in the box and hangs the ornaments from a string inside the box and shoots them. No mess that way.
I like shooting terrorist targets. I grabbed the wrong roll of targets for a pistol class a couple of months ago and ended up with the terrorist targets for class. The ladies absolutely loved them. Not only were they shooting COM they also shot off his tootles. If any terrorists land here they better watch out for the pistol toting Grandma's.
Sir, I hope you are on your own land or using a tarp or something to clean up the mess.
My brother likes to shoot Christmas oraments he buys at end of season. He goes down to Sears and gets a refrigerator box and cuts a long window in the box and hangs the ornaments from a string inside the box and shoots them. No mess that way.
I like shooting terrorist targets. I grabbed the wrong roll of targets for a pistol class a couple of months ago and ended up with the terrorist targets for class. The ladies absolutely loved them. Not only were they shooting COM they also shot off his tootles. If any terrorists land here they better watch out for the pistol toting Grandma's.
Gutpile Charlie
US Veteran
Once when I lived in Salt Lake City, myself and a realatively new shooter made to the trip west of the Great Salt Lake to engage in what we named, "The Great American Veggie Shoot".
On our way out of town we stopped a a grocery store and made some purchases: cheap soda, cheap beer, potatoes, tomatoes, cheap canned tomatoes and other assorted inexpensive edibles.
At the checkout, the cashier noticed a rather eclectic assortment of food stuffs and asked what we were doing, to which we replied.."you'll never guess"...and left it at that.
Well, when we arrived at the desert, we set up targets a various ranges and began to connect with an assortment of scoped hunting and varmint rifles.
The cans of soda and beer will always be my favorites, however, potatoes at 100 yards make a very nice "kinetic" target..."the blow up real good!" We did, however, discover that heads of lettuce, etc. do not make a very good target. They just sit there!
Over the years since that day, we have many times relived this memorable experience.
Veggies are fun...to shoot!
On our way out of town we stopped a a grocery store and made some purchases: cheap soda, cheap beer, potatoes, tomatoes, cheap canned tomatoes and other assorted inexpensive edibles.
At the checkout, the cashier noticed a rather eclectic assortment of food stuffs and asked what we were doing, to which we replied.."you'll never guess"...and left it at that.
Well, when we arrived at the desert, we set up targets a various ranges and began to connect with an assortment of scoped hunting and varmint rifles.
The cans of soda and beer will always be my favorites, however, potatoes at 100 yards make a very nice "kinetic" target..."the blow up real good!" We did, however, discover that heads of lettuce, etc. do not make a very good target. They just sit there!
Over the years since that day, we have many times relived this memorable experience.
Veggies are fun...to shoot!
USAF385
US Veteran
+1
Only problem is.. along with the ammo shortage, zombies have been harder and harder to come by for me. Just last week I paid $40 for a dozen zombies. I know it was a rip off... but I hadn't used zombies in so long I couldn't resist.
USAF385
US Veteran
Actually.. since my range = my property, I can shoot anything I want really, but I generally stick to home made paper targets on a backstop. Every now and then I'll use cans.. but 90% of the time it's paper targets.
feralmerril
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Like most older guys here, I was raised shooting in the late 40s and 50s when things were far different. Every village had a free town dump. We would walk around it blasting bottels with our .22 rifles. In my case it was a deep old quarry they were trying to fill up. I usualy went there mid week by myself, and once every week or two dad would go with me with our trash. He would throw bottles for me and I would him. Soon it was rare to miss one. That later led to a ruger single six, throwing, drawing and shooting them by myself. A pill bottel wasnt very safe. Next to none of us can do that anymore since things changed in the 60s all over the country. Paper targets were the most boreing, and we only used them to resight our rifles in before deer hunting season. Somehow my dad found a heavy steel plate with a hole drilled in the middle. Probley was a professional made gong for a shooting gallery way back around 1900. We mounted it on a old tree behind the house. If you shot through a 45 caliber hole drilled in the center it would hit a steel disk that would ring harder against the mounting. The plate had target grooves just as on a paper target, and you could keep repainting the face and when dried it would of course chip the paint to see where you were hitting. Dont know what happened to it, but somebody could make some good money makeing them again!
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
In the 40s and 50s all the villages had town dumps that were free and we could roam and shoot bottels. That was the most fun.
Somewhere my dad had got a target from around 1900 that was used in old shooting gallerys. It was a round heavy cast iron plate with grooves just like on a paper target, with about a 45 caliber hole for the bullseye. It had another free moveing metal disk behind that, that would ring extra loud if your 22 bullet drilled the hole. You could keep painting the gong, let it dry and see your bullet strikes each session. We had that hung on a tree in the back yard. I dont know what happened to it, but someone could make a fortune makeing them again!
Somewhere my dad had got a target from around 1900 that was used in old shooting gallerys. It was a round heavy cast iron plate with grooves just like on a paper target, with about a 45 caliber hole for the bullseye. It had another free moveing metal disk behind that, that would ring extra loud if your 22 bullet drilled the hole. You could keep painting the gong, let it dry and see your bullet strikes each session. We had that hung on a tree in the back yard. I dont know what happened to it, but someone could make a fortune makeing them again!
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Sorry for the double post, I hit the post now button twice, and had to do it over! I am learning! I like repeating myself anyway!
Gutpile Charlie
US Veteran
FM, I also spent many enjoyable hours at the local dumps.
We used to go at night, and usually the dump was on fire. It reeked of burning wood and paper as well as the stench of burning garbage.
On the cold fall and winter nights, the rats would "tinkle" was they ran through the broken bottles and cans.
It was so much fun and we never had any idea that someday it would become "politically incorrect."
We used to go at night, and usually the dump was on fire. It reeked of burning wood and paper as well as the stench of burning garbage.
On the cold fall and winter nights, the rats would "tinkle" was they ran through the broken bottles and cans.
It was so much fun and we never had any idea that someday it would become "politically incorrect."
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Those were the days charlie! Another nice target if you had the extra money and wasnt hungry, was those old necco waffers that came in different colors. Squeeze them in the bark of a tree, and they would dissapear when hit.
Gutpile Charlie
US Veteran
Once, in the Utah desert, we "disposed" of a partially full "half size" propane tank with a well placed .30-06 tracer round.
Damn,....she "blowed up reeaaaaaalll good!"
Damn,....she "blowed up reeaaaaaalll good!"
westcoast362
Member
I shot a bowling ball with a .270win. It blew into lots of pieces, none bigger than a tennis ball.
The overripe fruits are good, esp. citrus. Pumpkins are very poor targets, bullets just go thru, and even a shotgun won't blow them apart.
The overripe fruits are good, esp. citrus. Pumpkins are very poor targets, bullets just go thru, and even a shotgun won't blow them apart.
morsecode
Member
Ditto on the bowling pins. I still have 6 or 8 boxes of ten pins that haven't been shot at yet.
Have to disagree on the pumpkins. True, they don't blow apart easily, but they do take a beating. Last November the landscape place next door dropped off all their unsold stock...from the tiny table top size to too huge to pick up. I blasted them from all ranges. Came home with pumpkin guts in my hair...it was a good day.
Plus you can bayonet 'em. Which by the way might be a useful skill to hone if ammo prices keep going the way they are.
Have to disagree on the pumpkins. True, they don't blow apart easily, but they do take a beating. Last November the landscape place next door dropped off all their unsold stock...from the tiny table top size to too huge to pick up. I blasted them from all ranges. Came home with pumpkin guts in my hair...it was a good day.
Plus you can bayonet 'em. Which by the way might be a useful skill to hone if ammo prices keep going the way they are.
riversalmon
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Try some ice cubes. Keep them in the ice chest until your ready to start. Good reaction and .99 worth goes along way. We all know the clean up procedure. For new shooters and young ones, tie small balloons or oyster soup crackers to a limb on a 6ft. piece of thread, allow to flow in the breeze. Give them a pellet rifle and a 250 tin of pellets. Let the fun begin.
Capt Steve
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I like pumpkins for plinking with the 22. You get a nice orange geyser with every hit and they are easy to see at longer distances. Around here every one and their dog has a lemon tree. They can't give them away fast enough. Anyway they make nice biodegradable targets. Tee up some old golf balls, lots of fun with a 9mm or 38/357. Take an old tennis ball and set it up against a nice berm. Take turns chasing it with 22's.
My favorite....I had an old computer years ago that I needed to get rid of but didn't want to turn it in anywhere due to the data left on the hard drive. Took it out and put 50 rounds of 357 through it. Boy was that fun. I kept remembering every time it shut down or dropped the internet connection. Payback baby, payback! We picked up all of the pieces, and there were a lot of pieces, and dumped everything into a dumpster on the way home.
My favorite....I had an old computer years ago that I needed to get rid of but didn't want to turn it in anywhere due to the data left on the hard drive. Took it out and put 50 rounds of 357 through it. Boy was that fun. I kept remembering every time it shut down or dropped the internet connection. Payback baby, payback! We picked up all of the pieces, and there were a lot of pieces, and dumped everything into a dumpster on the way home.
bamabiker
Member
I've always wanted to shoot a can of that expanding foam stuff but never have because I think clean up would be a pain. Anyone tried it?
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84CJ
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Boy am I glad this post came back you guys have a lot of good ideas. Shooting at a landfill would be the awsome. Anyone have a time machine?
I am starting to search for more durable targets. The gong would be cool and I will build one of those for sure. Bowling pins and golf balls hanging from tree limbs. A tire with a card bord circle rolling down a hill is fun too.
I am starting to search for more durable targets. The gong would be cool and I will build one of those for sure. Bowling pins and golf balls hanging from tree limbs. A tire with a card bord circle rolling down a hill is fun too.
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84CJ
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It is on the list now I have a useless clogged up can around here some where Ill wait till last to shoot it so I can let it dry before getting around it. That stuff sticks to everything.
Dusted about 10 cans of shaving cream from the dollar store yesterday. Kinda cool. Hangs around longer than you would think.
