We shoot at gravel.pits up in Federal forest property in the Washington Cascade mountains.
The one we use most of the time hasrb.c steep sand & gravel banks. We will shoot at head sized rocks inbedded in the bank with the handguns.
At the furthest distance it it close to 125 yards.
People alwas shoot clay pigeons out there so there are those to shoot at.
I take my seven year old grandson out shooting every weekend from spring until the snow flies.
I load down 38/357, 44spl/44mag and 327 Fed mag for him to shoot.
I buy used golf balls at a pawn shop 3 for $1' they are fun to shoot. They really fly when you hit them.
Hardball base balls are fun to shoot too.
I have around a dozen of the plastic interactive targetsn balls, triangles, square and hanging plastic targets that swing with hit. The bird, small woodchuck, two circles, one big circle.
I have a sandwich board that take a 30" x 30" piece of cardboard that will.hold two targets. One for me, one for my grandson
I have two long finsh nails on the top that stick.up a inch & a half that i put a 1x2 on that is hanging out a foot on both sides. I have two holes on each side i can pit nails in to hold stuff up on s string to shoot at, charcoal brickets that i drilled a hole in for a string to hold it.
Small glass jar lids that i punch a hole in to hang them.
I will drill.hols in ice cupsn use them.in the ice chest to.keep our coke cold and put a string in them.to hang & shoot.
I will.buy a twelve pack of the cheep store brand soda, put some on ice to drink and the rest get shaken up and shot at with the 17HMR.
When eggs are 99 cents a dozen i will pick up a dozen for him to shoot at.
He has been shooting since he was fourn he can shoot better the some adults I go shooting with.
He has a AR15 223/5.56. I let him shoot 50 some times a hundred 223 cartridges a week.
He also shoot 50 44spl/44mag cartridges and 50 to a 100 38spl/357mag cartridges a week and a bunch of 22lr.
When we go to shoot we go from when we get there until it gets close to dark.
I also pick up other peoples shotgun hulls and steel rifle &.pistol cases. Generally three to five 5 gallon buckets a week.
We don't shoot shotgun or use steel cases.
I did pick up fifteen pounds of brass yesterday.
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It's all fun.
Every week is the same; buckets & buckets of garbage shotgun hulls and steel rifle & pistol cases.
If we shoot semi autos I lay a tarp down for our brass cases to land on.
The bolt actions, single shots & revolvers the cases are put back in their plastic case after being shot.
The 22 cases are collected and put in the scrape case bucket, i reload and also prep all the reclaimed range brass we pick up so I always have a bucket to throw the garbage brass into. Locally they are paying 90 cents a pound for it.
We crush our aluminum soda & beer cans to take to the recyler as well. They bring 25 cents a pound.
My grandson gets the scrap money to save up to buy guns. His next gun purchace will be a Kel Tec P32 in blue or OD Green.
If anyone needs brass and wants to help a kid buy another gun send me a PM.
I have a lot of 9mm, 40cal, 45acp, 223.
I have been reloading the same 100 pices of 38/357, 44spl/44mag brass every week since last summer. We shoot aroud seven months sometimes eight months out of the year. We seldom miss a weekend of shooting.
