Does your range allow you to shoot non-paper targets? If so, what?

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I find shooting reactive targets much more interesting than shooting paper. You can shoot reactive targets on crown land with a non-R, but pistols are limited to range, of course, and their rules.

Does your range allow you to shoot non-paper targets with pistols? I.e bowling pins, etc. ? I think something like shooting pop cans or bottles would be fun (maybe fill them with sand to weigh them down?) if the range was open to that.

Curious to know what you can shoot with handguns at your range.
 
Our club is largely set up for paper targets but it has a 75 yd range with two sets of Bianchi plates. The 100 yd rifle range has a gong. You can shoot other types of targets, pop cans, water bottles, etc providing you clean your mess up. No alcohol containers or glass permitted.

The club has other reactive targets that can be used for matches, etc.
 
Pretty much anything! I shoot AR500 steel gongs and steel knock down targets, those orange plastic self healing targets, pop cans, cardboard boxes, plastic milk jugs full of water, old frying pans, spent 12 Ga. shells, etc. I really don't like or recommend using bottles or other glass items as targets - the resulting sharp broken glass debris is really not what you want to find when you arrive at the range.
 
We got fairly free will here. I like to hit up the bulk isle and buy a flat of cans of pop for cheap. Make great targets an satisfyingly explode to
 
Anything that doesn't leave a mess. Glass, garbage, rocks for ricochets sake, melons are okay if you clean up. Balloons are quasi, many people tend to leave the popped one which looks like #### after a while, but if you clean up no one cares. This goes for both handgun and rifle ranges
 
We can shoot pretty much anything except for glass. If we make a mess we clean it up though! We can also holster without any additional training which is nice.
 
At POCO it is pretty much paper targets, I once got permission to shoot at thin aluminium printing plates but found it wasn't much different than paper.
I like to set up orange clays on the berm at 25 meters and plink away with my .22LR, if I miss it kicks up some dust so I can see how far off I am.
 
Our range is putting up a bunch of steel gongs, pop cans and bottles are not liked mainly because some people shoot them up and don't clean up after themselves, ruining it for the rest of us.
 
We have a silhouette range with tons of steel plates in addition to the standard chicken, pig, turkey, ram ones. We have B plates and some flipper types indoors as well. Pretty much stuck to paper at the two other outdoors ranges though.
 
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