[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Fun Reactive Shooting Targets (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 8/14/2009 11:10:13 AM EDT
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What are some FUN and CHEAP (Shooting propane tanks for fun is not cheap) "reactive" targets that you like to shoot when you are out plinking? I need some ideas... I am tired of shooting water bottles. |
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Quoted: What are some FUN and CHEAP (Shooting propane tanks for fun is not cheap) "reactive" targets that you like to shoot when you are out plinking? I need some ideas... I am tired of shooting water bottles. Well yeah, if they're yours.  Clay pigeons can be fun. Just setting them up on things etc. Though maybe not as reactive as you are looking for. |
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Torch or lantern style propane tanks set a few feet from road flares.
Watermelons or apples. Old soda or beer cans. Swinging gongs made from railroad tie plates and rebar. Old appliances or electronics. Burnt out light bulbs. Balloons. Shotgun clays. Just clean up your mess when you're done! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Old canned goods In before someone tells you not to shoot canned goods, due to the coming apocolypse. The expired ones Such fun Expired? What is "expired"? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/09/old_tinned_chicken/  |
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Quoted: Buy bulk pack of ping pong balls. Put hole in it with soldering iron. Fill with flour. Scotch tape over hole. Shoot them they go POOF. I put a piece of string under the tape and hang them from my target stand. There is no doubting if you hit it or not. Load them with black powder instead. FFFg or FFFFg. People will know when you hit them even if they're inside their houses a mile away. A plastic milk jug filled with water to the very last drop and tightly capped will react very nicely. Anything that's completely full of water and has no air space in it will react strongly to being shot. But just a little air space in the jug takes all the fun out of it as it's the water that's non-compressible. The air space will just absorb some of the shock. Tin cans of food that are bulging make good targets...but downwind. CJ |
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Buy bulk pack of ping pong balls. Put hole in it with soldering iron. Fill with flour. Scotch tape over hole. Shoot them they go POOF. I put a piece of string under the tape and hang them from my target stand. There is no doubting if you hit it or not. Load them with black powder instead. FFFg or FFFFg. People will know when you hit them even if they're inside their houses a mile away. CJ Really unstable enough to blow? |
| I built a quick to install/take down swing set looking thing with cables hanging off the center section. I clip clay pigeons to the cables and use it for handgun drills. If I miss I have no feedback on where I missed, unlike a paper or cardboard target. It really makes you focus on the front sight. It has helped me quite a bit plus clay pigeons vs. 230 grain FMJ is fun. |
| If you have a rifle that shoots really fast, thin-skinned bullets (anything faster than 4000 fps), fill a gallon milk-jug brimming full of gasoline. Light the top on fire like a candle. Get back at least 30 meters, and shoot the jug about two-thirds down from the top. The resulting fire-ball and mushroom cloud is spectacular. |
| After getting tired of picking up trash, I just shoot steel. You can get 4-6" AR500 circles for $20 or less. |
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You can always go to a local, small grocery store and ask them for old produce like potatoes, melons, tomatoes, apples etc (stuff that's fairly firm, and will blow up nicely.
A game I've heard of, but haven't done yet is to take X number of potatoes, split them into two groups, and spray paint them bright pink or bright green (any bright color works). Then, you and the person/persons shooting with you (works best if there's an even number of people), set them up at different ranges, say 5 at 25 yard, 5 at 50 yards, 5 at 100 yards etc. Then with each person, or team, taking one shot at a time alternating, you try to eliminate the other teams potatoes before they get yours. |
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Quoted: I built a quick to install/take down swing set looking thing with cables hanging off the center section. I clip clay pigeons to the cables and use it for handgun drills. If I miss I have no feedback on where I missed, unlike a paper or cardboard target. It really makes you focus on the front sight. It has helped me quite a bit plus clay pigeons vs. 230 grain FMJ is fun. Yeah, I seen that done with golf balls and such, handing down from a string. |
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A cheap bag of 250 count Dumb Dumb lolli pops. They are approx, 1/2 inch in diameter and give a good puff of sugar powder when hit. Then cut off the stick, can return the next day and shoot the squirrels eating the left overs.
Daisy shatter blast targets, $4.50 for 120 count and they are a little larger than golf ball diameter Golf balls tied on a string and lined along a horizontal wooden dowel supported on both ends. Hit em and wind em up one way then unwind em the next round. Golf Ts, drive em through a target or set em sideways and shoot the heads off, then cut off the rermaining stick. Still working up some more. But dang cheap thrills are tuff!! |
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Buy bulk pack of ping pong balls. Put hole in it with soldering iron. Fill with flour. Scotch tape over hole. Shoot them they go POOF. I put a piece of string under the tape and hang them from my target stand. There is no doubting if you hit it or not. Load them with black powder instead. FFFg or FFFFg. People will know when you hit them even if they're inside their houses a mile away. A plastic milk jug filled with water to the very last drop and tightly capped will react very nicely. Anything that's completely full of water and has no air space in it will react strongly to being shot. But just a little air space in the jug takes all the fun out of it as it's the water that's non-compressible. The air space will just absorb some of the shock. Tin cans of food that are bulging make good targets...but downwind. CJ I Would stay away from these, they're bulging because they contain botchulism and that's bad news right there. |
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What are some FUN and CHEAP (Shooting propane tanks for fun is not cheap) "reactive" targets that you like to shoot when you are out plinking? I need some ideas... I am tired of shooting water bottles. Well yeah, if they're yours.
Clay pigeons can be fun. Just setting them up on things etc. Though maybe not as reactive as you are looking for. Clay Pigeons are more fun when you hide a bottle of tannerite behind one of the 20 you placed on the berm
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Of everything listed so far, I like the charcoal briquette and apple suggestions best. Have you tried one of these?  My 10yo daughter loves shooting at this thing. She can hit 5/5 better than half the time from 50 feet or so with iron sights. I have the 22LR model and one of my nephews whacked it with the AR a few weekends ago and put a big hole in it at the top of one of the circles––after he was told specifically not to shoot at this target with the AR.  |