How to keep shooting interesting?

Try shooting aerial targets with your rimfire.:D

I was watching some Tom Knapp videos and decided to try some aerial shooting. (Fortunatly I have the space out here in rural SK so no worries about projectiles doing any harm)

Only had a few minutes but was about %30 successful on a soup can and a TONKA toy tire. I was pretty happy with my first attempt but its a real pain in the butt to toss then get gun on the falling target.
 
The two main themes I like are to challenge yourself and reactive targets. Gunsmithing is also fun and different but I kinda treat that as a separate aspect of the sport. A buddy and I use to set up different colour shotshells as shoot/no shoot or hostage targets. I like the idea of filling them with water or maybe red Jell-O. Again, once you get good at it, increase the range and put them tighter together. Use animal crackers to go on a local safari. Use your imagnation.

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+1 on the crackers. line 'em up or clip them to a rod, and start sniping them off at 50 or 100 yards. no cleanup required. if you wait, shoot the birds that come to eat the crackers. then wait some more, and shoot the bigger birds or wait some more and shoot the coyote or hyena. then wait some more..... etc. just work your way up the food chain.
 
With the .22's we always had fun shooting tennis balls out in a field until we couldn't see them anymore. ...

Put some money down when shooting with the bud's
 
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Get some usbr practice targets, much harder to shoot one round at each bullseye than to shoot groups. Also use those colored plastic tacks, but shoot them sideways, not much of a target. Later
 
team_realtree said:
I get really bored of my savage mark II. What are some things you guys shoot or do with your rim fires to keep things interesting? I've got a few prarie dogs out here and starlings I try to shoot but thats about it.
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buy a match grade air gun that you can shoot indoors, . For me its changed my shooting completely, and motivated me to really work on accuracy. Best money ever spent. (sold it to buy a better one....they ain't inexpensive)
 
Interesting !!!!

In preperation for this years gopher trip my friends and I spent hours sighting in our scoped .22, .17 & .22mags in rifles ranging from Brownings--CZ's-- to Coopers a lot of invested dollars....THEN my idiot friend suggested we have a friendly competition " Lets see in a 2 hour window how many gophers we can shoot with----OPEN SIGHTS----what a goof!!!! But one by one my friends secumed to the idea---------Sooooooo off to the gun rooms and dust off our old single shot, open site, banged up, $50-100 dollar rifles-----result !!!! I'm now a 10 year old kid in a 61 year old body......We've spent the last 2 weeks banging away at everything we can what a hoot! Anyone can punch small holes in paper at 25-50 yds but try hitting a golfball at 30 steps free hand open sites with your so called buddies laughing in the background...... So you want some fun Dust off the oldies but still goodies and test out your eyeballs TBG .w:h:
 
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