What's your favorite range targets?

[analog_kidd]

I usually take a pack of paper plates. You get like 100 for $1.50, so they are real cheap. Somewhere I found some little orange stickers that I put on the plate, just for something to aim at. If you staple the plate to a backstop so that you are shooting the bottom of the plate, the shadow in the bullet hole makes it easy to see your shot.

We have an outside plinking range that you can shoot "stuff" as long as it's not glass and you pick it up when you are done. I usually take some old milk jugs filled with a little bit of sand. There are usually some golf balls laying around too that are fun to shoot at.

What is everyone else's favorite targets?

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

I'm a paper plate fan as well. Dirt cheap, and about the size of a human vital zone to boot.

[musicman]

golf balls, bowling pins, dvd players, computers, and plastic bottles..... and an old favorite.... rotten fruit and veggies!!

[strob2000]

1) clay pigeons

2) bottles or can

3) shoot-n-see

[SpacemanSpiff]

I googled targets and found some printable targets. One website had a bunch that prints on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Works out pretty good.

[Guest mikedwood]

I like 2 liter bottles full of water.

[Guest Grout]

I still have several hundred IPSC targets and some pepper poppers left over from the old days.

[analog_kidd]

I like 2 liter bottles full of water.

I tried using water, but with the bottle on the ground, and a downward angle of the bullet, after about one magazine the bottle is empty. I've been using sand, but I think I'm going to mix them together, a little sand and the rest water. This way you get the water spray for a minute, and then you can still keep using them.

[Guest Halfpint]

Paper plates, or Ritz crackers for when I take my 11-yr-old cousin shooting. Coke cans, any other targets of opportunity . . . and the next time I take my 5R out, my old cell phone will be my "checking my zero" target.

[Guest sling]

Paper plates, or Ritz crackers for when I take my 11-yr-old cousin shooting. Coke cans, any other targets of opportunity . . . and the next time I take my 5R out, my old cell phone will be my "checking my zero" target.

Hah! I thought i was the only one that shot at Ritz crackers. Sometimes i get really ballsy and shoot at Chex squares.

[shaftbass]

Shoot and see, charcoal, railroad spikes, metal swingers that ring when you hit them, golf balls (great for .22 - start them on the ground close and shoot as fast as you can while they get farther away), cheap cans of soda (well shaken).

[Guest Rugerman]

Milk jugs with water, paper targets with an orange backing (helps to see your shots really well), golf balls.

[Angus]

Well, I'd say the neighbors cat...but somebody here may be my neighbor?....jk

I so far have bought them every time I go to the range, but I am thinking paper plate is the way to go for me..thanks folks.

[Guest db99wj]

M&M's.

Usually I'm at an indoor range so whatever targets I can find. I might start the paper plate things, or we do have a sticky with downloadable targets. Could print those off.

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=813

[molonlabetn]

I just shoot at everybody elses' targets.

[creeky]

Bowling Pins mainly...

[musicman]

I just shoot at everybody elses' targets.

I've been known to do that, too!

But usually everybody gets at me after awhile.

[ShaunM]

Whatever is laying around in the chirt pit and there is always plenty of crap laying around, not to mention free.

[ZZRguy]

It depends on what gun I bring to the range, if I bring my 22's I shoot at squirrel targets, shoot nc's, cheap bullseye targets from wal-mart. I read about one I have meaning to try, it is the small cups that you use for mouthwash and put water in them and freeze them. One of these days I am going to try it.

[PackinMama]

Cheap well shaken soda cans

Paper plates with orange stickers for a bullseye

Metal "plinker" targets (just got one and its a blast )

Any kind of junk I've got laying around

Marshmallows in the water!! Anyone ever try this? Very

[Guest Halfpint]

Hah! I thought i was the only one that shot at Ritz crackers. Sometimes i get really ballsy and shoot at Chex squares.

It started as an accident... I left him and my uncle alone at the field we use for a shooting range, when I came back they were shooting at the crackers I had planned to snack on.

Now I keep my food in my pocket when we go shooting!

[Guest canynracer]

Cheap well shaken soda cans

Paper plates with orange stickers for a bullseye

Metal "plinker" targets (just got one and its a blast )

Any kind of junk I've got laying around

Marshmallows in the water!! Anyone ever try this? Very

That sounds like FUN!!!

[PackinMama]

Marshmallows in the water!! Anyone ever try this? Very

That sounds like FUN!!!

It is! The marshmallows generally split in two and fly up in the air before they come back down again......then if the water you're shooting into has bluegills......well, lets just say they like the marshmallows....thus giving you another "target" to shoot at

Please, anyone that tries this keep in mind that bullets will ricochet off water.....so it's best to shoot from a higher position than the water and know where you're bullets could go if they do ricochet......have fun but most importantly, be safe!

Edited September 8, 2008 by PackinMama
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[analog_kidd]

I'm planning on going to the range this weekend, and was going to fill some milk jugs with sand. Then I though about filling them with water and freezing them. Has anyone ever tried this? Will they just shatter?

I'll let you know. I just put a couple in the freezer.

[Shima]

"You'll shoot your eye out!"