Your Most Exciting Air Rifle Plinking Target?

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Yesterday was Saturday. 19DEC2015. Weekends virtually guarantee tag sales, yard sales and so on.

For air rifle plinkers, you can pick up all kinds of things. What is the one plinking target you've had the most fun with? Which was the most challenging?
 
You're gonna laugh,,,

But I set up small plastic dinosaurs,,,
Then crawl around like a sniper eliminating them.

Actually I did this a few years back for one very fun summer,,,
I bought a friends daughter a Daisy BB rifle.

I would set the dinosaurs up in her back yard,,,
Then the two of us would go on safari.

Her mom and dad had lots of laughs,,,
Watching a 62 year old pot-bellied senior citizen,,,
Slithering around in the tall grass cocking the rifle for their daughter.

Hey, every hunter in the movies had a gun bearer.

But seriously,,,
Little toy figurines make great air rifle targets.

They are cheap, durable, of varying sizes,,,
And don't cost much money.

Aarond

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Dragonflies on the fly.
Standing on a bank 10 feet above pond surface shooting down. They zig-zag but do fly in a straight line 5-10 feed at a time. I had 1/2 to 1 second to aim and fire. Averaged 1 in 10 for a hit.
 
I used to set up spent hulls on the concrete trap house and hit them at 20-25 yards. The air rifle wasn't overly powerful, but the hulls bounced high. Fun times.
 
Most exciting?
Squirrels because I get to put them in dumplings when I'm done. :)

But I guess that doesn't qualify as "plinking". Most of the time we use pine cones as we are surrounded by pines and they are plentiful.
 
A few years ago, I found a small hubcap laying in my yard. I had recently moved into my new house and assumed it was something left behind by the previous owner. I hung the hubcap on my back fence, and used it for a target. At 50 yards the pellets only dented the metal. One day I noticed the hubcap was missing. I thought the wind had blown it down and forgot about it until I noticed it on my neighbors lawn mower. Apparently he had lost it while mowing my yard between owners. Not a good way to meet the neighbors.
 
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A few years ago, I found a small hubcap laying in my yard. I had recently moved into my new house and assumed it was something left behind by the previous owner. I hung the hubcap on my back fence, and used it for a target. At 50 yards the pellets only dented the metal. One day I noticed the hubcap was missing. I thought the wind had blown it down and forgot about it until I noticed it on my neighbors lawn mower. Apparently he had lost it while mowing my yard between owners. Not a good way to meet the neighbors.
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That does tend to strain neighborhood relations, but these things do turn up here and there all the time, right? Did your neighbor ever find out who 'customized' his hubcap? 50 yards? Nice shooting. What kind of air rifle?
 
Baltimore_900, We never spoke about it but he is a State Police, so I figured He knew, after all it was hanging on my back fence. My rifle is a China made break action. When there is no wind, absolutely no wind, I can hit the can hanging on the fence most of the time. Any breeze and accuracy really drops off.
 
I've had some very good fortune lately with the Bear River/Black Ops line of air rifles whether they be multi-pump or break-barrel. When I first started looking at break-barrel rifles, I heard good and bad but across the board, the prices were generally out of my reach. These days, I am extremely satisfied with the choices I've made. Back in the day, getting creative with plinking targets and finding obscure objects for targets was the thing which is how yard sales came up on my RADAR. I knew this one kid when we were growing up who had a Daisy Red Ryder and he was forever having fun with it. He also ended up becoming the Captain of our State High Power Rifle Team. One obscure little target he always liked were the pull tabs off soda cans. He'd tape them to a string and it was real easy to see when ya hit them.
 
Necco wafers (can't eat 'em, may as well shatter 'em.)
Fruit, any and all sizes. Grapes make a challenging target.
Ice cubes. They shatter great, and get smaller as you shoot.
All of these targets are cheap and don't need to be policed up after you shoot them.
 
AJumbo, Sounds like fun. Blasting ice cubes. Self-policing targets. Love It! After reading these responses, I'd love to get everyone together for a major plinking festival.
 
Ditchtiger said:
Dragonflies on the fly.
Standing on a bank 10 feet above pond surface shooting down. They zig-zag but do fly in a straight line 5-10 feed at a time. I had 1/2 to 1 second to aim and fire. Averaged 1 in 10 for a hit.
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Don't shoot Dragonflies.....they eat all kinds of bugs....and being around water that usually means mosquito. They are very good bugs.
 
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Dragonflies on the fly.
Standing on a bank 10 feet above pond surface shooting down. They zig-zag but do fly in a straight line 5-10 feed at a time. I had 1/2 to 1 second to aim and fire. Averaged 1 in 10 for a hit.
Don't shoot Dragonflies.....they eat all kinds of bugs....and being around water that usually means mosquito. They are very good bugs.
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Shoot the mosquitoes.
 
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A few years ago, I found a small hubcap laying in my yard. I had recently moved into my new house and assumed it was something left behind by the previous owner. I hung the hubcap on my back fence, and used it for a target. At 50 yards the pellets only dented the metal. One day I noticed the hubcap was missing. I thought the wind had blown it down and forgot about it until I noticed it on my neighbors lawn mower. Apparently he had lost it while mowing my yard between owners. Not a good way to meet the neighbors.
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i got a really good laugh out of that...the first really good laugh I've had all day. thanks. :D
 
Used to take my cousin's air rifle to the grain storage barn on my uncle's farm in Spain and close the door. Hundreds of birds flying around in a football field-sized warehouse. Heaven for a 12 year-old!
 
Last winter, I had to drain my pool down to only a foot or two in depth to make some repairs. In the time it was down, the frogs discovered it, moved in, and made for some hellishly-noisy nights.

Those frogs became some cool targets.. guns used were a Gamo AirShot 25-round repeating break-barrel carbine from the 1980s, and a CO2-powered Crosman 1077, purchased only a few months earlier. Both performed well and were fun to run..
 
I like shooting spent 410 shotgun shells at 50 meters, or those little coffee creamers packets you get at a convenience store.
Both give very visual sensory pleasure, the yellow shot gun shells flip high in the air, and the creamers explode in a sea of white cream against a green and brown background. set up your smart phone in slo mo video capture and its even funner :)
 
Evil-Twin said:
I like shooting spent 410 shotgun shells at 50 meters, or those little coffee creamers packets you get at a convenience store.
Both give very visual sensory pleasure, the yellow shot gun shells flip high in the air, and the creamers explode in a sea of white cream against a green and brown background. set up your smart phone in slo mo video capture and its even funner :)
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Evil-Twin, 410 hulls at 50 yards sounds like a challenge and one providing that immediate gratification we all want. The visuals are great and the idea of nailing those creamer packets sounds like a good one! A trip through the woods when I was much younger used to net me shotgun hulls of all different gauges and colors.

This, again, was always one of the cool parts of yard sales and flea markets. I haven't tried the powdered creamer packets yet, but I did try a few of the liquid creamer packets. Nail a few with a pellet and the reaction is wild!
 
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