Ideas for Inexpensive Targets?

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The best thing about cookies and crackers is that the little furry and feathery critters will love you when you are done.

A box of animal crackers, .22lr firearm, and a little imagination will have the kids on their own big game safari. I got to admit that I'm still a kid when it comes to that.
 
I pretty much only shoot on my own property, or the gf's brothers property (a short 4wheeler ride away). Both of us have our own "area" we shoot in - w/ a big earthen "backstop" (heh ok - its a hill.... rofl) Clean up is easy - and yes... he does of a couple of old washer/dryers out there... rofl.

Kinda miffed at people who would go somewhere else - and treat the area like its thier very own trashing ground... altho i think even I would be tempted if i knew some locked up people were going to be the ones cleaning it up :evil:

J/Tharg!
 
inexpensive targets

I use empty gallon milk jugs for 9mm plicking at 50 yds. Hang them up on a frame at the range and blast away. You can tell if it's hit from 50 yds,they bounce and flip around. And if a slight wind is blowing you can test your skills at hitting a moving target. And I always clean them out of the range after I'm done.
 
A box of animal crackers, .22lr firearm, and a little imagination will have the kids on their own big game safari. I got to admit that I'm still a kid when it comes to that.
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Interior: Grocery store

1st kid: I wanna shoot the monkey!

2nd kid: No! I wanna shoot the monkey!

1st and 2nd kid: memememememememe


Dad: Ha ha ha boys, there are enough monkeys for us all!



Other patron: (Loud whisper) Gladys! Those people are going to be shooting monkeys.

Gladys: Oh dear. We should call the police!





Later a post on the High Road: So there we were at the store just before heading to our favorite shooting spot when suddenly we are surrounded by local PD and, oddly, Fish and Game cops. Took hours to sort it all out.


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Go to local farmer's market and find seller with cantalopes he is uanable to sell for whatever reason.7.62x39HP hit's them is fun to watch.
 
Hot, cheap brand cokes. Give them a little shake right before you set them down. They are great reactive targets and a case of them isn't much at all.
 
I like empty shotgun shells i find at the range, i set them up on rail road ties.
 
Whatever cheap fruit is in season is always fun, even potatos, though they don't "splash" as much.
The little kool-aid drink bags can be stapeled to a wooded backrest. Draw back is they attract bees and hornets from miles around!!
Will have to try the charcoal briquets. Never thought of that.

But please, unless you own the land and want your own super-fund site, don't go leaving a pile of broken crap around. Lots of gravel pits around me have been closed off due to people dumping stuff there. Think that the shooters only shot up the junk that was left by others, but you know who gets the black-eye at the end of the day.
 
As always, clean up after yourself!

My most common plinking target is every plastic bottle from the house. Fill it up with water and freeze it until the freezer is full, then just water in each of them.

They splatter and shatter and come apart, ice doesn't need clean up and all that I have to do is pickup the bottles and drop them off for recycling.

I think now though you guys got on my conscience and I'm going to pick up some of the other people's stuff at the local plinking place. Guess the rangers there will like me for that too.

I'll also have to try making my own silhouettes now, since I've got a ton of cardboard boxes from ammo deliveries :cool:

With the paper plates, you can draw mean faces on them and tell people you are practicing for the zombie invasion!
 
Go to a computer repair store and buy up their old broken keyboards. There is nothing in the world quite like hitting one of those with a round of bird shot and you can pick them up really cheaply.
 
When I lived in Vegas, my wife worked at a produce distributor, so I know a thing or two about shooting produce. The BEST produce to shoot is old pineapples. The leafy tops shoot SKY HIGH when you nail them.
 
Duh! ... and here I have this old washing machine that I need to haul to the dump.

Maybe I'll just take the tractor and drag it out to my "range" - I'm sure the dump will still take it after it has a few holes in it.

So ... what's the best caliber for washing (worshing) machines ...? 7.62*39?

:D
 
The best target back board I ever saw was a section of conveyor belt. I was a member of a club in southeastern Ohio where a club member got hold of some sections of conveyor belt from a coal mining operation in the area. This belt was about 3'-4' wide and about 3/8' to 1/2 ' thick. Cut in about 8' sections it was installed so we could staple paper targets to it. The bullets punched a hole which then seemed to close up. You only had to pick off the staples every so often. It lasted for years where plywood would have to be replaced at least yearly.
 
I used a section of conveyor belt many years back, thanks for the reminder! I have a shoot coming up, and , have two 2'x3' sections sitting in the back of my Bronco!:D

Here2Learn, that sound like a Dave Barry bit! giggle.gif

synoptic, you're definitely from Texas! "cheap brand cokes" They're all cokes down there, I learned the hard way when I lived there!

Me: I'll have a Coke, please.

Waitress: What flavor y'all want?

Me: Um, a Coke.

Waitress: Uh, huh, got that, what flavor for yuh? We got Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and 7-up.

Me: Well, since you don't have Coke, I guess I'll have a Pepsi.

Waitress (to back) One coke!

Me::rolleyes:
 
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