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What "fun" targets are your fav's
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I've had the 12" AR500 target for a few years. It's been silver, white, red and will be just about be any color that I have left over in paint.
Recently got the buffalo and IDPA target as seconds from the same fellow I got the 12" target. The IDPA target was especially cheap since it had a little rust on it. Might have to give it an appropriate paint job for the 4th of July.
Recently got the buffalo and IDPA target as seconds from the same fellow I got the 12" target. The IDPA target was especially cheap since it had a little rust on it. Might have to give it an appropriate paint job for the 4th of July.
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My friend who owns the LGS, gave me a bit of tannerite to try a while back.
My 1/4" steel zoo critters......
One more. I made this one many years ago. I usually hide it behind some logs or brush.
I agree with Flinklockar, I reallylike the split the ball
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The range I belong to has two sets of 6 falling steel plates with a rope that you pull to reset. Lots of fun to see how quickly you can knock them down.
Cheers!
Mike
The range I belong to has two sets of 6 falling steel plates with a rope that you pull to reset. Lots of fun to see how quickly you can knock them down.
Cheers!
Mike
When I was in my 20’s several of my friends worked in auto body shops. There was a string of shops and at the end of the road was a dump. People threw all kinds of things in the dump and we shot every Friday.
The two things that I shot that impressed me the most were:
1 - A gallon jar of some kind of pickled vegetables. It was unopened and when I shot it basically exploded and you could smell it from a good distance away.
2 - This one is a little weird…I assume that the possessions of a dear departed one were unceremoniously thrown away in the dump. I found one half of a full set of dentures (don’t remember if they were uppers or lowers). One shot and they basically disintegrated…no tooth to be found!
The two things that I shot that impressed me the most were:
1 - A gallon jar of some kind of pickled vegetables. It was unopened and when I shot it basically exploded and you could smell it from a good distance away.
2 - This one is a little weird…I assume that the possessions of a dear departed one were unceremoniously thrown away in the dump. I found one half of a full set of dentures (don’t remember if they were uppers or lowers). One shot and they basically disintegrated…no tooth to be found!
Steel, hedge apples, dirt clods. Getting lazy and cheap.
Eutycus
Cannon
My wife "let's" me dispose of outdated canned goods. They make pretty good targets,messy but good.
Water filled milk jugs, I like reactive targets and they make a nice thump sound when they explode, 50-100 yards, quart or gallon, all good.
Robby
Robby
I had a Krylon sales rep give me around 300 cans of defective spray paint to destroy. Fun to watch it go up, around and about everywhere. Really fun targets.
Thomas.bill92
40 Cal
I always like steel, eggs also make a fun target but they are getting expensive these days just like the generic canned sodas I used to shoot all the time. Round lollipops are an easy one to set up, just mount a horizontal board or branch of some sort, drill a bunch of holes and put the sticks in the holes.
Different sizes have different point values. We shoot the trophy at the end. You have to call your target. The pirate needs a peg leg. The purple creature was ventilated nicely.
And they give a perfect paint job to anything near enough to it. I haven’t had the pleasure of shooting 300 of them but the few I have shot were enjoyable.
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Empty plastic gallon jugs filled with water and capped. Add a few drops of food coloring if you wish. They explode so nicely... and they approximate the size of a whitetail deer's kill zone, OK, maybe a bit smaller, but if you can hit a gallon jug, you can kill a deer.
Half-gallon milk cartons work well too, but they don't stay in once piece if you fill them with water, so you have more of a mess with them.
The price of these targets is great: FREE!
Half-gallon milk cartons work well too, but they don't stay in once piece if you fill them with water, so you have more of a mess with them.
The price of these targets is great: FREE!
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Plastic sandwich bags half-filled with flour and hung from a string. They make a very visible dust cloud when hit.
Empty plastic jugs (gal milk, 1/2 gal, qt, pint) tied to a couple feet of heavy cord and then to a plastic tent stake into the berm. They jump when hit. I spray paint them in florescent green or orange for better visibility. Pretty darn cheap reactive targets.
