so what do you shoot your pellet guns at? share your favorite types of targets

anyone shoot Bell Target? Popular in pubs in the UK. I bought this one from Steelplinkers. Made up some non-drying paint that can be smeared between strings to make scoring easy. Shot thru 3/8" hole will ring bell scoring 5 points. Other rings score 4,3 and 2...outside the outer ring 0.

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My favorite thing ever since I was a kid has always been little scale toys, then I imagine I'm 800 yards away and sniping, or calling in artillery.

Little Army Men... set up a battle scene and try to pick off that bazooka before he makes a mess of things.

Dinosaurs... Grazing in a meadow... I'm craving a brontosaurus steak, but she's behind cover... oh no! Looks like t-rex is hungry too! Better take him out first before he ruins supper!

Hot wheels... There's a motorcade approaching... they're not stopping! Take 'em out!!


I've got a 1200fps air gun, so it can make a real mess of the scene. Especially the metal hot wheels. Carnage galore.

I always get funny looks at yard sales as people wonder why the large bearded man is buying all their children's unwanted toys. Even WEIRDER looks if I tell them why, lol.

My new favorite thing is happy meal toys. These stupid "minions" and "talking Toms" and now "sing" characters my kids get in their happy meals. They all repeat some annoying two word phrase over and over and over and over and OVER AND OVER AND MAKEITSTOP!! So when I (and the kids) have had enough, we go down stairs, clamp the offending toy in, and start shooting. The neat thing is, they're all pressure sensitive switches, so any hit that doesn't destroy the voice system, just sets off the voice.

It's absolutely hilarious to see a minion standing his ground in the face of the barrrage, shouting back at you after every shot, slowly being torn to shreds. Bang! "Banana!!" Smash! "BANANA!!" Bang! "BANANAAAA!!!!".
 
For a back stop, I just take 4 or 5 old pairs of jeans, fold and stack them so they cover about an 18x18 area, then put a couple loose wraps of duct tape around them to keep them in place. Then I just put the square into an old grocery bag, and hang it from a wire clothes hanger so it floats behind whatever target I'm shooting. The pellets go deep into the denim, and stay put. The kids BBs penetrate the plastic, but not the denim, so just drop down and collect in the bottom of the grocery bag, ready to be extracted and reused.
 
Also like shooting wax, every time I buy a new type or brand of pellet. Current favorite is the cross man destroyer on the right. Best groups, and penetrates as deep as the pointed crossman, but better terminal ballistics for the birds in the hangar.




Also, pennys are fun :)


1982 American penny vs 1992 penny:



 
Magpies, magpies, magpies and more freakin magpies...and because I live in the city I have to hide inside the house with the curtains closed like a sniper ....barrel sticking out the open window by a few inches...but every year I manage to snipe a few...wife always shakes her head as she sees me laying on the floor with my (air ) rifle and scope..some neighbors are thankful...other not sure so that's why the sniping from inside the house
 
my Ruger Air Hawk w irons has only ever shot at pigeons since unboxing 11 yrs ago. Unfired in the last 4yrs as i am no longer as frequent on the farm. Never counted but filled several old grain bags every year. The .177 w hollow points was very effective, much more than flat heads or high velocity pellets. Would be fun to take to the range to see how well it target shoots.
 
I had a 78G for quite a while. Fun unit!

I can't really recall exactly when or to whom I sold it either.

IIRC, I paid $80 for it in a holster, at the Moose Jaw Gun show about 20 years back now.

It was nice, but not as nice as those two!

I always wondered about the history of those, and whether they were contract built for S&W by Crosman. A lot of the build quality and methodology was really close to that of the Mk1 and Mk2 guns. I know that the gas caps over the CO2 carts would interchange, though that may have simply been coincidence brought about by the size of the thread used.

Cheers
Trev
 
trevj said:
I had a 78G for quite a while. Fun unit!

I can't really recall exactly when or to whom I sold it either.

IIRC, I paid $80 for it in a holster, at the Moose Jaw Gun show about 20 years back now.

It was nice, but not as nice as those two!

I always wondered about the history of those, and whether they were contract built for S&W by Crosman. A lot of the build quality and methodology was really close to that of the Mk1 and Mk2 guns. I know that the gas caps over the CO2 carts would interchange, though that may have simply been coincidence brought about by the size of the thread used.

Cheers
Trev
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S&W actually made the 78G and 79G from 1971 to 1980. They sold the rights to Daisy in 1980 and Daisy renamed them 780 (.22 cal) and 790 (.177 cal).

here's what these 2 guns sold for new....

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Excellent - and I thought I was good at keeping every receipt and scrap of paper!
They reminded me at first sight of the Daisy 717/747 so maybe inspired that shape (I assume they and the 777 came later).
I like the idea of a CO2 target pistol that isn't a Crosman and still "looks like a pistol" - and I'm not counting Umarex and the like. There's the Tau series but they look a little funky - and cost a fair bit too.
We appear to have hijacked this thread, sorry.
 
Ha! that is some history! I love the old airguns... and those two look like mint examples!

As for the OP's question... I like paintballs (for shooting outside). Take a piece of cardboard and a hot glue gun, blob on some goops and stick on a paintball. Or if you have a little rise in the ground you can stick them on golf tees but it is better if there is something behind it to catch the splatter. They pop nicely when you hit them and are cheap and biodegradable.
 
ddtank said:
Excellent - and I thought I was good at keeping every receipt and scrap of paper!
They reminded me at first sight of the Daisy 717/747 so maybe inspired that shape (I assume they and the 777 came later).
I like the idea of a CO2 target pistol that isn't a Crosman and still "looks like a pistol" - and I'm not counting Umarex and the like. There's the Tau series but they look a little funky - and cost a fair bit too.
We appear to have hijacked this thread, sorry.
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The Smith & Wesson 78G and 79G pellet pistols (and subsequent Daisy 780 and 790 models) are based on the Smith & Wesson Model 41 .22 LR target pistol.

The Daisy 717/747/777 are another whole family of pellet guns.

I've got a 717 and two 777's

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rws53 said:
S&W actually made the 78G and 79G from 1971 to 1980. They sold the rights to Daisy in 1980 and Daisy renamed them 780 (.22 cal) and 790 (.177 cal).

here's what these 2 guns sold for new....

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That's pretty darn cool!

How do you come by that they made them in house, rather than had them made, or are you just going by their availability dates?

Cheers
Trev
 
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