What is your favorite shooting game?

[Kermit]

My friends and I do most of our shooting indoors on paper and at the end of our session, we try to come up w/ a game to test our shooting prowess. Anyway, outside of shooting business card logos at 25 yards, what are your favorite games?

[cobraman]

USPSA of course, followed by IDPA and then Bowling pins

[jmlv]

by far and away. I have shot some IPSC in the 80's and a match or two of bowling pins and IDPA. Pins are fun but CAS is a real blast.:D

[Christopher II]

Mmmmm, tough one. Probably Steel Challenge, but I've shot some IDPA that came close. Three-Gun is in there somewhere, too.

- Chris

[Gunner45]

I would have to say IDPA. Second would be the .22 mini bowling pin matches that our range ran last year. They were a real hoot.

Gunner45

[9x45]

USPSA, IDPA, 3-gun, Steel, Steel Challenge

[don't shoot it's me]

It's called "Oops. wrong window". Basically, it is a variation, of "Oops. wrong door" Where someone you don't know tries to come in and take everything you own. and even do harm to you in the process. The object is to make sure you harm him before he harms you....

[blades67]

Shooting steel, followed by shooting pins.

[CZ_]

IPSC, GSSF, and Cowboy-Action games are all fun.

But, its not always possible to make those events, and those events are not always numerous (GSSF only comes around once per year for example).

So, I've been known to improvise. Long story short, many of my relatives own farmland with countless acres to shoot on, so when I visit we set up our own little range with water-filled cans, and other stuff that reacts when you shoot it.

[ACP230]

Bowling Pin Shooting, with Steel Plates a close second.
I shot for 10 years at the Second Chance Bowling Pin Shoot and that was fun in a way no other shooting event has been.

I remember one day on a local range when the plates fell just right and no one could get near me. That was fun too, but it didn't last a week like the Second Chance match used to.

[SkunkApe]

A lot of times when I'm up north drinking with my buddies, someone will suggest that we try that William Tell trick where you shoot an apple off someone's head. We use bows and arrows because we don't have crossbows. That's always good for a few laughs.

P.S. If you can, always try to be the bow and arrow guy and not the apple guy.

[Skunkabilly]

Tennis ball at 50 feet. One shot at a time, taking turns. First guy who gets it, gets a drink courtesy of the other guy.

TWOBLINK: NEENER NEENER NEENER!! :p (in all fairness it was my gun and it was the first time he's shot a P7)

Something to do while waiting for the P7 to cool off.

[Tamara]

Plinking games?

Well, we start out with the usual coke cans at 15 yards in the back yard. As those get shredded, substitute spent 12 gauge shells. As those start getting knocked into the woods, scrounge up some .45 Colt CCI Blazer or boxer-primed milsurp rifle brass off the ground and set it up at 15 yards. That's challenging... :eek:

[9x19]

IDPA, GSSF and Rimfire Plinking in that order.

[twoblink]

Does anybody else play "roll the orange"??

[OkieCruffler]

My son and I like to chase golf balls. First one to miss has to go retrieve the ball. As the years go by I'm making that trip down range more and more often. Here lately we've found the joy of shooting at spent 7.62X39 brass at 35 yrds. Alot of fun to watch them fly.

[Radagast]

IPSC, steel plates and watermelons.

[SVRider]

Here's something you can probably do at the range. My shooting partners prefer silhouette targets. When they get tattered and we can't see what we're shooting anymore we bring them back in and stick 2 round dots side-by-side in the groin area and shoot for those. It's great for laughs and gets all the other guys in neighboring lanes wincing.

[Onslaught]

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Any time, day or night, right in my own living room :D

[dev_null]

SASS!

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[Will Beararms]

How about the "Blow the head off the repeat offender who invades your home." shooting game? It's easy. Go to your range set up a full body target at 7 yards and pratice putting rounds into the cranial mass again and again and again and again.....:D

[Jesse H]

My son and I like to chase golf balls. First one to miss has to go retrieve the ball.

Now at this point does the winner continue shooting at the golf ball? ;)

At the range, with buddies sometimes we try to shoot the staples out of our targets so that the target falls.

At home on the PC it's Counterstrike. Not very realistic, but hey, free ammo.

At the arcade you guys should try Silent Scope. Sniper game that's actually quite challenging.

[Skunkabilly]

Some buddies of mine try tagging flies that land on the targets.

[banjobart]

Set up 12 steel targets. Fastest time with one mandatory reload wins the buck. Requires Pocket Pro timer. Similar to USPSA shootoffs, USPSA- the best game going.

[banjobart]

Second favorite; squirrel in the bird feeder. Can I turn his lights out before he sees me and scrambles for the sanctuary of the neighbors deck?

[twoblink]

My old house use to have these flowers that had bumble bees all around them... Red Ryder... well, you know...:D

[voilsb]

Russian Roulette! Of course, I don't think it's quite as fun for the loser as some of the others ...

In seriousness, though, I haven't played any plinking games yet. Might have to do so some time soon.

[OkieCruffler]

We had alot of fun around here this summer with airsoft guns hunting grasshoppers and wasp. I wonder if I need a licence for that.:confused:

[johnbt]

Tin can races. How far can you roll yours?

A can on the ground for each shooter. Aluminum cans work, but not well. Set them where they're fairly easy to hit. As you roll them the shots get harder.

Each shooter gets the same number of shots. Rifle, revolver, autoloader, whatever. Pick a number.

You can set a time limit if you like. You can take turns shooting so you can laugh at each other's shots.

No side bets allowed :)

John