target practice?

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Abolthunterwssm

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what do you guys like to do for target practice? do you just punch paper, steel targets, water bottles, or what?

i got a chance to go out yesterday, and we had some plastic bottles filled with water and some red dye. you could deff. tell when you had a hit /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Its more fun for me to take out things and look at the damage. like phone books or milk jugs, Yogurt Cups are more fun to shoot than eat. Coffee cans of Flower that has perished was a fun one. Computer parts explode and so do 12" x 12" ceramic tiles and peices of wood flooring
 
It really depends on what I'm practicing to shoot... If it's an action match, I'll set up a series of cardboard targets and bowling pins at different distances (Pins are on spring loaded bases)

If I'm getting ready for PDs, I'll hang out, at about 200yds, some plastic water bottles that I've painted with a base coat of bright yellow and then repainted with either flourescent green or orange paint for the 'shoot & see' effect.
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If I'm just working up loads, then it's just plain targets I've printed out of files in the computer.
 
I'm mostly a paper puncher, because our Competition Range (the one with the good concrete benches) only allows paper targets. It is used for competitions almost every weekend, so it is important to keep it clean.

BUT...we do have a "plinking range" where anything goes as far as targets........ /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Everyone should shoot at least ONE watermelon in their lifetime..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I do a lot of Prarie Dog shooting. I find the 1 liter pop bottles filled with water and placed at differing unkown ranges work real good so do 12X12 tiles or other things that react. With paper you have to shoot check and then paste up the holes then shoot again walk back to check paste up holes ect. Reactive targets fall or explode the only time you have to go back down range is to pick up the pieces. Or set new targets water and red food coloring is good since it is biodegradable just water blows up the plastic bottles through hydrodlic action coloring makes it easier to see.
 
I've been known to cut down small trees in my backyard with my guns.

typically it's a tree that about 2 - 5" in dia. and 30 - 100 feet out, I start shooting at the same area, til the tree falls. I've done this with everything from .22 to .357 mag. pistol and rifle. the larger the caliber, the larger the tree. pistols are closer range, rifles are 100+ feet
 
i have one place that is a lazered 505 yards. thats where the 1 gallon milk jugs with water work great. the other place is 94 yards so we use the shoot and see targets and the small soda bottles with water.
 
I've been shooting paper since that is the only thing the ranges around here allow, either indoor or outdoor. They don't even allow spinning metal targets.

Since ammo is more expensive these days I took a S&W 41 and a Ruger MKII .22's to shoot paper at an indoor range yesterday.
 
theres a range north of where i live where they have hanging metal targets at 1,2,3,4, and 500 meters, fun stuff, its good to hear the bullet ding on the metal!!
 
I use 1 gal jugs and 2 liter bottles when I am not punching paper.
Every jug gets a 1 inch dot painted on it about halfway up,as well as a symbol such as an x or T, only fill the jug halfway so that the reactive target is smaller but also because you can give the target direction...when the targets are set, anywhere from 100 to 400 yds we fasten balloons (hats)to the jugs by putting the end under the cover...this does two things:shows wind direction at target and gives you one more target to hit at range.
here is the fun part...the spotter than calls the shot...example "red dot jug with green X, 234 yds, wind from the west 10 mph, first hit balloon then make the target fall to the right"...

this is how I practice.
 
Mostly clay pigeons, bowling pins & steel.
On occasion, 2 liter soda bottle filled with water for effect.
When you can hit bowling pins @ 400yds regularly, the woodchucks are in serious trouble...
 
I shoot paper mostly but I have been known to put golf balls at the 100 yd target backstop and blast them and I will also set clay pigeons out as well lots of fun /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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We used to shoot clay pigeons, we would lay prone on the 500 yd line and shoot at them. We did this pretty regularly and sometimes we would get froggy and stretch it a bit further. When I took my Precision rifle class we had to shoot them at 1000 yards, wanna talk about frustrating but very rewarding to see a 4" target break that far away.

Chupa
 
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I like to just walk around the desert, bustin' rocks as I go..........Nothing like field positions to tune up your skills. Don


Me too. There are some big rocky hills on BLM land a couple miles from me. The rocks show 22 impacts clearly and the uneven terrain is good practice.

Jack
 
I shoot steel targets, clays, golf balls, crows, assorted fruits and veggies. Basically anything that will make me a more surgical killer... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
When I can find some kittens... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif....I like to shoot at my 30"x30" steel plate for longer ranges, I have a 3'x3' portable plywood stand with a cardboard target I have used 100-1200 yards.

I shoot clay pigeons sometimes, and popcans quite a bit. My goal this year is to hit a golfball at 600 yards.

I do alot of rock shooting too!
 


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