Shooting golf balls & stuff for fun

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George P said:
If you drill a tiny hole through the golf ball and use either wire or fishing line, you can make them hanging reactive targets (and a lot easier to clean up).....
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I just wrote myself a sticky note about your way & put it on top of my next golf balls, thanks.
 
At SHOT show the last couple years there is this guy with a product called the Mega Boom or something like that. Basically it's a device that allows you to pressurize a water bottle with a bike pump and it makes a big boom when you hit it. I think they are like $15 - $20. I haven't tried it, but it looked entertaining.

And steel plates are always fun if you're doing long distances. It's fun to make the shot, and wait for the target to sing.
 
I pick up shooting clays off the shotgun area and set them up on the 50 or 75 yard back stop . No steel or metal targets allowed so use target stand made with PVC pipe , furring strips and splatter targets
 
Our hens lay far more eggs than we can eat so when we get several dozen ahead I just visit the hen house that is beside my range about half way to the berm and grab a few eggs. Great fun with a .22.
 
My range is at my home and I don't want trash littering my yard so I just shoot steel plates, bottles of water, and rocks. When I used to go to public ranges I always used to shoot others shotgun shells.
 
LocoGringo said:
Related to Varminterror...I signed up for a PRS match (had NO idea what I was getting into) and one of the stages was shooting an egg off of a golf tee at 200 yards. If you hit it on the first try, 50 points. If you hit it on the second try, 25 points. No tries after that. I got lucky and hit it on the first try. It was quite satisfying.

My son (9 years old) and I both enjoy shooting thoroughly shaken Sam's Club sodas. They are a lot of fun. We've also gotten creative with reactive targets and tried different food stuff like tomatoes, cantaloupes and coconut...all with a .22 of course. I was really curious if a .22 could penetrate a coconut. Cheap and small cans of tomato sauce make for good splatters too.

Enjoy experimenting!
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If you belong to a club type thing make sure your allowed to shoot soda cans. My buddy took his brother to our club and they were blasting away at cans with pistols and AR and cleaned up every single piece of can (i know cause i helped) and the next meeting the president said no more pop cans! I guess they seen them in the dumpster. I cant see what the issue with it is but when questioned they said its metal and we are not allowed to shoot metal. Only thing the bylaws says is no steel targets!
 
My Grandfather worked for Desoto paint years ago and they would pay him to get rid of paints that were no longer wanted for one reason or another.

Mostly buckets and drums but there were cases and cases of Loganberry spray paint that I guess Sears couldn’t sell, that I was allowed to paint my steel targets with.

Save up the ones with clogged nozzles, set them on a paper towel on my plate rack, light the paper towel on fire and have my buddy shoot them while I took photos with a 35 mm camera. Then pick up the trash before an adult came to see what we were doing.

I ran across the slides back in the 90’s and scanned them to digital images.

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If global warming exists, I’m pretty sure we caused it...
 
Now THAT looks fun, I don't care how old you are! (... even though that color kind of hurts my eyes ...)
 
croberts said:
At SHOT show the last couple years there is this guy with a product called the Mega Boom or something like that. Basically it's a device that allows you to pressurize a water bottle with a bike pump and it makes a big boom when you hit it. I think they are like $15 - $20. I haven't tried it, but it looked entertaining.

And steel plates are always fun if you're doing long distances. It's fun to make the shot, and wait for the target to sing.
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My oldest son has the MegaBoom.
 
Bama59 said:
I pick up shooting clays off the shotgun area and set them up on the 50 or 75 yard back stop . No steel or metal targets allowed so use target stand made with PVC pipe , furring strips and splatter targets
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Tons of splatter targets here.
 
ontarget said:
Our hens lay far more eggs than we can eat so when we get several dozen ahead I just visit the hen house that is beside my range about half way to the berm and grab a few eggs. Great fun with a .22.
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Keeping the bears out of my oldest son's hen house next door is hard enough.
 
ohihunter2014 said:
If you belong to a club type thing make sure your allowed to shoot soda cans. My buddy took his brother to our club and they were blasting away at cans with pistols and AR and cleaned up every single piece of can (i know cause i helped) and the next meeting the president said no more pop cans! I guess they seen them in the dumpster. I cant see what the issue with it is but when questioned they said its metal and we are not allowed to shoot metal. Only thing the bylaws says is no steel targets!
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I know why you can't shoot soda cans there.
It causes ants to breed & if enough of them are produced you know what happens.
The earth will go off balance & rotate the wrong direction.
 
jmorris said:
My Grandfather worked for Desoto paint years ago and they would pay him to get rid of paints that were no longer wanted for one reason or another.

Mostly buckets and drums but there were cases and cases of Loganberry spray paint that I guess Sears couldn’t sell, that I was allowed to paint my steel targets with.

Save up the ones with clogged nozzles, set them on a paper towel on my plate rack, light the paper towel on fire and have my buddy shoot them while I took photos with a 35 mm camera. Then pick up the trash before an adult came to see what we were doing.

I ran across the slides back in the 90’s and scanned them to digital images.

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If global warming exists, I’m pretty sure we caused it...
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I could tell you some but I don't know what the statutes of limitations are.=Just kidding.
 
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I have also always liked reactive and moving targets too.



These are nice at extended distances.



At long distances it can be difficult to hit the little 2” plates on the 10 plate rack and why the reset is on the last large plate on the right. Even if you can’t hit the little ones you can still reset the others.
 
The exploding paint can pictures call for model dinosaurs, toy tanks and jets, and miniature buildings.

Has anyone mentioned drinking your sodas then filling the cans with water?
Nice reactive targets that can be hung from the tree limbs by the tab.
And you are repurposing and the exploded cans are recyclable!
 
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