Potatoes or any kind of fruit thats gone bad, the birds love it too
Fun Plinking Targets
- Thread starter ebruder
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I've been thinking of a few ideas for plinking targets. one of them being a target that would move up each time you shoot it, and the goal is to get it to the top in the shortest amount of time. i dont know if it'd actually work though and i have no fab skills so it probably won't ever see the light of day.
my other idea is having a metal target, but the bullseye will a seperate piece of metal, perhaps the size of a quarter. it'll be attached via a very dense piece of foam, and i'm hoping that the piece of foam will change the sound of a confirmed bullseye hit. if it actually does, then you might even be able to do this with all the rings with difference density foam or different thicknesses of metal, to get different sounds for each ring.
i also have another idea. the target will have 2 stages. the first stage will be closer to the ground, and when you hit it, it'll send the second target up a poll with the energy generated from the hit(i dont know if .22lr is strong enough to actually send a piece of metal upwards, but i guess you can just use a reusable destructive target to save weight, like a can) and you try to shoot the second target, which would make it swing to the other side of the poll, before it hits the ground.
my other idea is having a metal target, but the bullseye will a seperate piece of metal, perhaps the size of a quarter. it'll be attached via a very dense piece of foam, and i'm hoping that the piece of foam will change the sound of a confirmed bullseye hit. if it actually does, then you might even be able to do this with all the rings with difference density foam or different thicknesses of metal, to get different sounds for each ring.
i also have another idea. the target will have 2 stages. the first stage will be closer to the ground, and when you hit it, it'll send the second target up a poll with the energy generated from the hit(i dont know if .22lr is strong enough to actually send a piece of metal upwards, but i guess you can just use a reusable destructive target to save weight, like a can) and you try to shoot the second target, which would make it swing to the other side of the poll, before it hits the ground.
Derek__Erickson
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Great thread.
When I feel like indulging I'll get a warm six pack of coke, shake it up, and go to town.
Bad vegetables (especially tomatoes) are great with CCI velocitors. Have a little chat with your local grocer and he'll be glad to hook you up with a box of rotten veggies. They throw that stuff out anyways.
When I feel like indulging I'll get a warm six pack of coke, shake it up, and go to town.
Bad vegetables (especially tomatoes) are great with CCI velocitors. Have a little chat with your local grocer and he'll be glad to hook you up with a box of rotten veggies. They throw that stuff out anyways.
I like to shoot old abandoned plastic toys.I found, a bag of them, at a highway rest stop, on my way to my camp spot.It was great fun blowing away: army jeeps, plastic hockey figures,x-men, etc.Makes a rimfire seem more powerful that it is somehow.
I had a computer cheese me off last weekend, so, I'm taking the keyboard out back and am going to play a little game of "shoot the keys off"..
Figure, me and a buddy can bet loonies on whether you can shoot a specific key on the keyboard. Of course, we move farther and farther back as we go along....
Can't wait until it warms up enough to do that.
Oh, and I'm shooting the CPU up as well...
Figure, me and a buddy can bet loonies on whether you can shoot a specific key on the keyboard. Of course, we move farther and farther back as we go along....
Can't wait until it warms up enough to do that.
Oh, and I'm shooting the CPU up as well...
maltextract
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- Rural Manitoba
Plastic army dudes from the dollar store. For under $4 I can usually get 100 green plastic guys 2" tall. If you put them on sandy soil it is like they are under fire when you miss. Another good target for .22s is a 2x4 sawhorse with heavy man door hinges screwed on to the bottom, a cheap homemade reseting gong target, also fun to tape #11 caps to the inside of the hinge, with a good hit they snap off.
I like shooting tin cans because they are reusable for like 15 shots and the sometimes go flying when you hit them. And they are easy to stand up.
The most absolute fun is beer bottles. But they are a pain to clean up unless you find a place where you don't have to clean up
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Ice is another good one.
The most absolute fun is beer bottles. But they are a pain to clean up unless you find a place where you don't have to clean up
.Ice is another good one.
wonderful suggestions so far, especially when a decent zombie is so hard to find nowadays. lol
the best non paper target i ever had the pleasure to shoot (no special effects) used to be at our saskatoon muzzleloaders range,
it was a basic rusted out steel drum set at about 100 yards off. we used either 44 mag revolver sighting almost dead on, and 357 front sight slightly raised.
the drum sits nicely on the front sights.
if you hit, you can hear the bullet punch into the barrel, but it would lose energy and can't exit, but spin inside the barrel. confirmed shot.
no need to walk out and check, like with paper. terrific lazy man approach to long range shooting.
used to bring a hibachi, some decent steaks from safeway, and bbq in between the shooting, when ready, we pack the guns away, enjoy the steak with a paper cup of decent red wine (we didn't over indulge) and then go home having had a terrific afternoon.
shooting, red meat, and a shot of alcohol afterwards, and good fellowship, what more could a man ask for? (don't answer that) regards to all
that was the time (late 70's and early 80's) without range inspectors, fear of negative puble opinions, or cops hassling you.
the best non paper target i ever had the pleasure to shoot (no special effects) used to be at our saskatoon muzzleloaders range,
it was a basic rusted out steel drum set at about 100 yards off. we used either 44 mag revolver sighting almost dead on, and 357 front sight slightly raised.
the drum sits nicely on the front sights.
if you hit, you can hear the bullet punch into the barrel, but it would lose energy and can't exit, but spin inside the barrel. confirmed shot.
no need to walk out and check, like with paper. terrific lazy man approach to long range shooting.
used to bring a hibachi, some decent steaks from safeway, and bbq in between the shooting, when ready, we pack the guns away, enjoy the steak with a paper cup of decent red wine (we didn't over indulge) and then go home having had a terrific afternoon.
shooting, red meat, and a shot of alcohol afterwards, and good fellowship, what more could a man ask for? (don't answer that) regards to all
that was the time (late 70's and early 80's) without range inspectors, fear of negative puble opinions, or cops hassling you.
The most absolute fun is beer bottles. But they are a pain to clean up unless you find a place where you don't have to clean up
Not talking to you, but to the newer shooters: don't shoot glass, unless you are absolutely sure your fun will not become another's woe.
I know, I know; no brainer, until someone does it. Glass is sharp - I lost function in my left-hand trigger-finger due to a shattered glass pane (industrial accident).
P.S. Good thing I'm right-handed!
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