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#1 ·
This maybe the wrong forum but i wanted to ask what do you guys shoot for fun at the range? im not talking about targets or spinners...i mean whats fun to shoot. Ive got a list going of what i love seeing getting hit with either one of my handguns or my AR.



1. Cans of shaving cream. Bought from the dollar store. high powered rifles are great for this!



2. Silly string - also found at the dollar store



3. clay target for bird hunting practice - easy to see and fun to hit



4. Coke cans - still full, shake em up good!





what else???
 
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#2 ·
I prefer to use targets that last beyond 1 hit and are easy to cleanup after the shooting is over.
 
#3 ·
i mean whats fun to shoot. Ive got a list going of what i love seeing getting hit with either one of my handguns or my AR.


I read your post......



I think soda cans are the coolest, shaken, not stirred.

I saw on "Lock & Load" with Lee Emery(history channel) they had paint filled balloons strung up with a white canvas behind, Im sure that would make for some fun fun artwork. That would be best done on your own backwoods property though, not a public range of course!
 
#4 ·
Red cream soda or orange crush look better than coke. Water bottles filled with water and then add a drop or two of food coloring. Old televisions or computers. cardboard cutt outs of Fat Jared from Subway. Mellons or apples. I want to find a chance to shoot up an old POS car!
 
#6 ·
This is going back a few years, but friends of mine once used a 2ft. tall Papa Smurf bank filled with blue food coloring and water.
 
#7 ·
1) In rural locations, crab-apples (or any apples) make for challenging targets, great explosions, and they're FREE!



2) When I was a kid in Upstate NY, we use to go out to the river gorges in winter-time and shoot huge icicles from across the gorge. Not saying it was smart, or ecologically friendly, but it was spectacular.



3) That said... nothing beats a woodchuck (ground-hog) at 100 yards with a 72gr hollow point, cranked up around 3000fps out of a .243 Varmint-Master... Pretty much cut 'em in two with a well placed shot.



4) We shoot clay pigeons regularly in rifle, and/or shotgun matches. Not flying, but as smaller stationary targets, shot on the clock.



JeffWard
 
#10 ·
I prefer to use targets that last beyond 1 hit and are easy to cleanup after the shooting is over.


+1



However on occasion I will fill 2 liter bottles with water and lay them with the cap facing me. The challenge is to bullseye the cap. The thrill is to see the bottom of the bottle blast out if you bullseye the cap.
 
#15 ·
This past winter we would fill up used 1pint water bottles and 2 liter coke bottles and gallon milk jugs and freeze them. And like the earlier comment above we would lay the bottles down with the cap facing us as well. Now with spring here we just have to shoot fast before they melt. Today my buddy and I were at Cabela's and picked up a target stand with those e-z see targets as well as a spinner but that is for our 22's. I'm sure as the summer goes on we'll be thinking of something new, maybe this year I'll start a garden and shoot some tomatoes. You can never have enough tomatoes.
 
#16 ·
This past winter we would fill up used 1pint water bottles and 2 liter coke bottles and gallon milk jugs and freeze them. And like the earlier comment above we would lay the bottles down with the cap facing us as well. Now with spring here we just have to shoot fast before they melt. Today my buddy and I were at Cabela's and picked up a target stand with those e-z see targets as well as a spinner but that is for our 22's. I'm sure as the summer goes on we'll be thinking of something new, maybe this year I'll start a garden and shoot some tomatoes. You can never have enough tomatoes.
You just gave me an Idea Zuchinni!
You just gave me an Idea Zuchinni!
 
#19 ·
Bowling pins.



You can get them free from your local bowling alley. They throw out old ones all the time. Just make sure you get the ones with the wood core.







As fas paper targets go if I'm not shooting steel then I'm shooting paper plates. Here is a web site you can print out your own paper targets for free. If you want something bigger than your printer can handle then I guess you could put them on a flash drive and go down to kinkos and print out the big ones.



http://www.6mmbr.com/targets.html
 
#22 ·
Necco wafers and other assorted candies and foods for biodegradable. There's a progression of sizes in clay birds international clay birds down to Necco wafers and whatever can be found at the grocery store.



With a scoped rifle or airgun some folks will use bowls of sugar water or other bait for flying insects.



Other folks can try to catch the edge of a plastic bottle lid with the bottle standing up (fill the plastic bottle with fluid first) and so unscrew the lid entire and intact by just catching the edge with a bullet - done right which I think is mostly luck but folks with more success claim skill the lid will unscrew so fast it flies up.



time was nitrogen tri iodide and more complex boomer shoot style mixes could be brewed at home - now that iodine is a regulated substance it doesn't pay to get the terrorist label nor yet to get credentialed for an afternoon's plinking.
 
#23 ·
I like to shoot

  • charcoal briquettes - when hit makes a black puff cloud.
  • "dollar store" jars of mayo - makes a big white splat
  • "dollar store" canned hairspray - I only shoot these with rifles at distance and tracer rounds
  • cheap soda cans (full/shaken)
  • balloons filled with oxygen/acetylene and shot with tracers ***example results - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0PqmkKeNmc***
 
#25 ·
While technically not a "Range" target, during the summer, our range is filled with those large "Bore bees". A model 617 and a box full of .22 shot shells, and a gaggle of those bees makes for a fun afternoon at the range.



My "go to" targets are always steel. Different sizes and shapes keeps the game fun, and you'll find its as much fun to hear the sound of a well placed shot as it is to see one.
 
#26 ·
I'm so stupid! I've been shooting mainly paper. I love these ideas. I collected most of them in a document for my use, here it is if anyone wants to print it out:



Things to shoot for fun



charcoal briquettes - when hit makes a black puff cloud.



"dollar store" jars of mayo - makes a big white splat



"dollar store" canned hairspray - I only shoot these with rifles at distance and tracer rounds



cheap soda cans (full/shaken)



balloons filled with oxygen/acetylene and shot with tracers



Necco wafers



1. Cans of shaving cream. Bought from the dollar store. high powered rifles are great for this!



2. Silly string - also found at the dollar store



3. clay target for bird hunting practice - easy to see and fun to hit



4. Coke cans - still full, shake em up good!



I think soda cans are the coolest, shaken, not stirred.





Red cream soda or orange crush look better than coke.



Water bottles filled with water and then add a drop or two of food coloring.



Mellons or apples.



Pumpkins full of thermite. Be sure your not too close, 20 yards at least.



However on occasion I will fill 2 liter bottles with water and lay them with the cap facing me. The challenge is to bullseye the cap. The thrill is to see the bottom of the bottle blast out if you bullseye the cap.



Balloons are fun to shoot at especially on a windy day! I just blow them up and tape them to cardboard backing and go at it. Great way to practice head shots also.



s fun to chop down small dead trees using 12ga 00 buckshot, depending on the size it usually takes about 2 shots. Then when you're all done you got wood for the fire.



One gallon plastic milk jugs filled with water and maybe a bit of dye.



You can never have enough tomatoes



Golf balls, the more you shoot, the farther they get



Bowling pins: You can get them free from your local bowling alley. They throw out old ones all the time. Just make sure you get the ones with the wood core.



I don't like leaving a mess in my backyard range.



+1 on leaving the range [or state forest, desert arroyo, etc.] as good or better than you found it.
 
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