Range Report Your favorite target?

[westford86]

I hate punching holes in paper, unless I'm zeroing or testing something out, it's just so boring. Other than steel I'm curious what's everyones favorite alternative targets?

Personally I like stuff that is very reactionary. Some of my favorites are, golf balls, soda cans filled with water, pumpkins, and most of all pumpkins filled with water (go around to local farms after halloween you'll have plenty of them, and there biodegradable, so no cleanup). Cars are fun too, but don't offer much of a challenge, and the cleanup sucks...

 

[The Mechanic]

Re: Your favorite target?

Tannerite?

 

[Force_Multiplier]

Re: Your favorite target?

clay pigeons

 

[desertHK]

Re: Your favorite target?

balloon

 

[westford86]

Re: Your favorite target?

Clays are great, I use them a lot with pistols.

Tannerite would be a lot of fun, I've never used it though. How loud is it? Is it louder than a rifle?

 

[The Mechanic]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: westford86</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Clays are great, I use them a lot with pistols.

Tannerite would be a lot of fun, I've never used it though. How loud is it? Is it louder than a rifle?</div></div>
More boomie' than a rifle crack. Like a good firework.

 

[Notso]

Re: Your favorite target?

Yeah, paper is boring. I find it very satisfying to see splashes on steel at 1k. Water jugs are always fun too.

 

[Frostbite Slim]

Re: Your favorite target?

I used to get the over-ripe produce at the local market for free, but now I'm using a range that only allows paper. Kinda sucks at times.

 

[doorgunner762]

Re: Your favorite target?

I use Tannerite @ 300 yards for fun.

Get a few pounds, they're not too expensive.

http://www.tannerite.com/

 

[armymedic.2]

Re: Your favorite target?

cattails explode thier puffy seeds everywhere, good fun.

i also like small rocks (baseball) , they explode, are free no cleanup, and misses are easy to spot in a pasture or hayfield

 

[Shortdraw]

Re: Your favorite target?

Paintballs on golf tees @100yds. Shoot the paintballs off the tees, then shoot the tees. It is tons of fun. Steel is fun if it is MOA sized. I have a manhole cover hung on a little island 1100 yards out that rings like a bell when you hit. .223 spent cases @100 yards is great for rimfire practice. Shaken sodas at 2-300 yards with the 22. I like the reactionary targets every once in awhile.

 

[rkgsmith]

Re: Your favorite target?

I'm thinking something that walks around the woods with horns on it works the best.

 

[armymedic.2]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rkgsmith</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm thinking something that walks around the woods with horns on it works the best. </div></div>

yeah but they tend to frown upon multiple engagements on those here in new york.......

 

[armymedic.2]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mnshortdraw</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Paintballs on golf tees @100yds. Shoot the paintballs off the tees, then shoot the tees. It is tons of fun. Steel is fun if it is MOA sized. I have a manhole cover hung on a little island 1100 yards out that rings like a bell when you hit. .223 spent cases @100 yards is great for rimfire practice. Shaken sodas at 2-300 yards with the 22. I like the reactionary targets every once in awhile. </div></div>

paintballs is a good idea!! do they obviously spray color when hit on grass, or do you need snow to make them show up at distance?

 

[johndoe]

Re: Your favorite target?

I like shoot n see targets and ringing steel.

 

[AKAce]

Re: Your favorite target?

Bunnies

 

[Jig Stick]

Re: Your favorite target?

In the winter we freeze water in zip lock containers to make blocks of ice. We dye the water with food coloring. Big red, blue, green etc ice cubes to shoot. They break into pieces, and then we just set the pieces back up. lasts all day. Also explode on impact.

 

[kentactic]

Re: Your favorite target?

i prefer steel... im getting a 1/4in steel plate cut out in a human out line from waiste up. it will be exactly 3 feet tall so i can easily use it for ranging where ever i put it.

 

[FltMed13]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: armymedic.2</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mnshortdraw</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Paintballs on golf tees @100yds. Shoot the paintballs off the tees, then shoot the tees. It is tons of fun. Steel is fun if it is MOA sized. I have a manhole cover hung on a little island 1100 yards out that rings like a bell when you hit. .223 spent cases @100 yards is great for rimfire practice. Shaken sodas at 2-300 yards with the 22. I like the reactionary targets every once in awhile. </div></div>

paintballs is a good idea!! do they obviously spray color when hit on grass, or do you need snow to make them show up at distance?</div></div>

No, most if not all paintballs splat with a bright yellow or bright orange fill. SOME of the competitive paint actually has a bright pink fill that's impossible to miss. Its usually $15-25 per 500 "targets"

 

[westford86]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TXMedic</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: armymedic.2</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mnshortdraw</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Paintballs on golf tees @100yds. Shoot the paintballs off the tees, then shoot the tees. It is tons of fun. Steel is fun if it is MOA sized. I have a manhole cover hung on a little island 1100 yards out that rings like a bell when you hit. .223 spent cases @100 yards is great for rimfire practice. Shaken sodas at 2-300 yards with the 22. I like the reactionary targets every once in awhile. </div></div>

paintballs is a good idea!! do they obviously spray color when hit on grass, or do you need snow to make them show up at distance?</div></div>

No, most if not all paintballs splat with a bright yellow or bright orange fill. SOME of the competitive paint actually has a bright pink fill that's impossible to miss. Its usually $15-25 per 500 "targets" </div></div>

Cheaper than shooting clays...

 

[JWV]

Re: Your favorite target?

I am on the shaken soda cans boat. But if I have no old soda laying around, I usually just fill up empty water bottles and blast them. Small chunks of concrete are also very fun with the big cartridges.

 

[trilogymac]

Re: Your favorite target?

balloons here as well

 

[notquiteright]

Re: Your favorite target?

coyotes, not all of us live in the Big City.

 

[Shortdraw]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: armymedic.2</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mnshortdraw</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Paintballs on golf tees @100yds. Shoot the paintballs off the tees, then shoot the tees. It is tons of fun. Steel is fun if it is MOA sized. I have a manhole cover hung on a little island 1100 yards out that rings like a bell when you hit. .223 spent cases @100 yards is great for rimfire practice. Shaken sodas at 2-300 yards with the 22. I like the reactionary targets every once in awhile. </div></div>

paintballs is a good idea!! do they obviously spray color when hit on grass, or do you need snow to make them show up at distance? </div></div> They just dissapear. Splatter shows against the snow pretty good too. Wrecked the manhole cover with the 308, had to bolt on a 12"x12" piece of plow blade.

 

[gstaylorg]

Re: Your favorite target?

If you can get away with it at your range, try a half-sized can of red spray paint. You'll definitely know when you hit it.

 

[TOP PREDATOR]

Re: Your favorite target?

anything i put the crosshairs on.

 

[Playerz1337]

Re: Your favorite target?

Balloons (pop when shot)
Dirty Bird (black target w/ white holes)
and steel, of course.

 

[7mmRM]

Re: Your favorite target?

Live prairie dogs are by far my favorite, followed by steel and tannerite.

 

[long range dogr]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 7mmRM</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Live prairie dogs are by far my favorite </div></div>


+ 100000000000!!!!

 

[HOOFER]

Re: Your favorite target?

steel, clays. if i shoot paper i get some fun or game targets off targetz.com the pool target is fun for you and a buddy with pistols at about 10 yards pool targetz game

we play just like pool you gotta call stripes or solids and call your shot. no slop a miss goes to next shooter, a hit you keep goin.

josh

 

[vman]

Re: Your favorite target?

melons

 

[Tactical30]

Re: Your favorite target?

I kill some flies, pin them up and then shoot the wings off at 2,500yrds with a .22.

 

[RandyD]

Re: Your favorite target?

I like paper the best. Shooting targets that give immediate feeback of a hit are interesting, but they don't tell you how off center your shot was or wasn't. Paper gives you precise feeback on how accurate you truly are.

 

[350RemMag]

Re: Your favorite target?

shooting nats off a cows ass with out hitting the cow is awsome practice, kind of like a hostage situation..

 

[rymart]

Re: Your favorite target?

Coyotes, Prarie Dogs, Rabbits, Crows

 

[One-Eyed Jack]

Re: Your favorite target?

Steel is pretty satisfying. For fun, knocking over animal shapes is great, and for skill, a small hanging circle will flop around in the breeze when you hit it - everything at least 300 yards away!

 

[WDL]

Re: Your favorite target?

Woodchucks, crows, prairie dogs, coyotes, house cats that are hundreds of yards from the nearest house or barn, paper, steel.

 

[HillbillyfromAL]

Re: Your favorite target?

Dry chemical fire extinguishers are a lot of fun.

 

[Bear_308]

Re: Your favorite target?

Eggs make great targets ... and steel as well if you have it.

But prairie dogs are by far the most fun

 

[Jig Stick]

Re: Your favorite target?

I like to take a piece of 2x10 and lightly tap in some 2in roofing nails. Then I shoot the heads of the nails and drive the nails in all the way. Its hard, but very fun.

old toilets / urinals, burned out light bulbs, turnips, pumpkins, coconuts, old computer monitors / TV's, snack packs, bologna / lunch meat in general, buckets filled with dyed water, cans of MAP gas, trolling motors

 

[SmokeRolls]

Re: Your favorite target?

2 litre bottle of Tannerite with 5 gallons of gas next to it inside a fridge or a washer/ dryer. = just make sure you are atleast 200 yards from target and have something solid to get under for possible shrapnel falling from sky. Also don't do this when you have dry / no burn conditions.

Film it to share with others.... It's a hoot.
....SmokeRolls

 

[westford86]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheSmokeRolls</div><div class="ubbcode-body">2 litre bottle of Tannerite with 5 gallons of gas next to it inside a fridge or a washer/ dryer. = just make sure you are atleast 200 yards from target and have something solid to get under for possible shrapnel falling from sky. Also don't do this when you have dry / no burn conditions.

Film it to share with others.... It's a hoot.
....SmokeRolls </div></div>

Video please...

 

[Guest]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: westford86</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I'm curious what's everyones favorite alternative targets?

Personally I like stuff that is very reactionary. </div></div>

Blue helmets. Fills your second requirement as well.

 

[SmokeRolls]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: westford86</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheSmokeRolls</div><div class="ubbcode-body">2 litre bottle of Tannerite with 5 gallons of gas next to it inside a fridge or a washer/ dryer. = just make sure you are atleast 200 yards from target and have something solid to get under for possible shrapnel falling from sky. Also don't do this when you have dry / no burn conditions.

Film it to share with others.... It's a hoot.
....SmokeRolls </div></div>

Video please...</div></div>
This is not mine but I don't think I could film one any better than this. I do think you would get the idea and then create your own fun. Just make sure you do this in a safe area and well away from homes / people.
.....SmokeRolls
Here's two links that are fun to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiEUMTT5TxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz2X7LNsv7E&feature=related

There are many youtube videos with tannerite used in them

 

[bama110]

Re: Your favorite target?

clays, steel is fun, have 10" plate hung with fire hose very durable

 

[olympian]

Re: Your favorite target?

The head of a full-size NRA/IHMSA silhouette turkey at 385m and out.....

 

[SmokeRolls]

Re: Your favorite target?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bama110</div><div class="ubbcode-body">clays, steel is fun, have 10" plate hung with fire hose very durable</div></div>
I like the fire hose idea.
Find some old discarded 2 1/2" from the firehouse and bolt it in about 4 places and it will probably outlast the plate.
Thanks for that.
....SmokeRolls

 

[bohem]

Re: Your favorite target?

Tannerite
Water bottles
Steel plates
Clay birds
rocks
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paper

 

[D_TROS]

Re: Your favorite target?

When I was younger I used to line up spent 22 cases on a log and try to shoot them off w/o hitting the log. Lots of fun and very challenging...

Now its mainly PD's...

 

[Lefty06]

Re: Your favorite target?

Prairie dogs, steel, paper, or anything else.