The most fun, very cheap target for a .22?

Ignition Override · January 14, 2009, 04:04 AM

Let's exclude two-dimensional paper etc here. How about three-dimensional?
Other than having some opportunites to chip away at cheap floating oranges or grapefruits (kind of routine), what else?

Any other ideas, or really cheap clear objects etc which can survive three shots with hps from an ancent Savage .22 (maybe hang low from a tree limb/trunk), but not pollute a large stream?

Trying to conserve much of larger caliber ammo: .223, x39, x 54R. Don't want to imagine prices three years from now.

**JohnKSa** · January 14, 2009, 04:26 AM

Crackers/cookies
Ice cubes--you can freeze strings into them if you need to hang them.

New_Pollution1086 · January 14, 2009, 04:58 AM

ping pong balls.

small yappy dogs.

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DaveInPA · January 14, 2009, 05:06 AM

Sugar cubes.

kraigwy · January 14, 2009, 09:09 AM

Grasshoppers in the back pasture

zukiphile · January 14, 2009, 09:12 AM

Potatoes can be sort of spectacular.

When I had a place in the country, I set up some electical backing plates (about four inches square) I obtained from Home Depo for eight cents a piece and suspended them from light chains. At 100m they gave a satisfying "ping!" and danced around, thereafter providing a swinging target.

GEM · January 14, 2009, 09:14 AM

Golf balls... providing you have a great back stop.

Bitmap · January 14, 2009, 09:17 AM

I still like aluminum cans. You just have to pick them up when you are done.

Water filled plastic bottles can be fun but you have to pick them up, too.

Almost any kind of old or spoiled food can be entertaining. That lasagna that your wife made 2 months ago and you forgot was in the fridge, for example.

The fruit cake your MIL gave you for Christmas might be fun, but I'm not sure it's biodegradable, so you might have to pick it up as well. For that matter it might be a ricochet hazard when shot with a .22LR. Maybe you better reserve it for plinking with a centerfire rifle.

Dustin0 · January 14, 2009, 09:19 AM

Dented can goods or cheap soda can.

but Golf balls are my fav. target for my 22.

saltydog452 · January 14, 2009, 09:22 AM

Pendelum 'spinners' move and make a sound when hit. They'll last dang near forever with no re-set chores. Lead splatter is directed at the ground.

salty

My bad. Two dimensions.

CajunBass · January 14, 2009, 09:31 AM

The plain ol' "tin can." Steel really, of course. Aluminum is too soft and 22's, even BB's zip right through them. (Pick 'em up and pack 'em out.)

Animal crackers. Lions and tigers and bears...Oh MY! (Birds and such will clean up after these.)

csmsss · January 14, 2009, 10:15 AM

I'm partial to bowling pins. They're damn heavy, though.

NineInchNails · January 14, 2009, 10:17 AM

Check out 'Just Shoot Me Products'. They make what is called a 'Sniper Training Cube'. They even make products that can be hung if I'm not mistaken.

Before:

Shot with .308

They make different cubes for smaller calibers too like this one:

Here's an unimpressive video (the guy keeps missing):
http://www.justshootmeproducts.com/i...n=Custom&ID=35

These 'Just Shoot Me Products' ARE NOT cheap ... so I made one myself

A DIY Sniper Training Cube:
~ Here's A Video ~

This video is also not too impressive. The rifle I am using is zeroed in at 100 yds and I am doing a LOUSY job at compensating for such a close range and waisting ammo

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NineInchNails · January 14, 2009, 10:25 AM

Balloons are fun to shoot too.

Noonan · January 14, 2009, 12:16 PM

small pumpkins

Smallgame2100 · January 14, 2009, 12:17 PM

I use old tin cans from the recycling bin.

Nigelcorn · January 14, 2009, 12:28 PM

I haven't ever paid a dime for rabbit or ground squirrel targets.

Ignition Override · January 14, 2009, 01:10 PM

Thanks.

It took a while yesterday to destroy a really large pumpkin with the MN 44 ans Mini 30.

triggerhappy2006 · January 14, 2009, 01:34 PM

Quote:

small yappy dogs.

The politically correct term is toy breed, and I pretty sure that shooting small yappy dogs is right up there with launching chipmunks or ground squirrels up in model rockets.

Pumpkins, cans, bottles(glass sucks to pick up), expended shotgun cartridges, 55Gal drums, old scratched CD's(once again hard to pick up), old electronics(messy), squirrels, chipmunks, cats(NY its legal because you cant own a cat), recyclables.

Brian Pfleuger · January 14, 2009, 01:36 PM

If you shoot CCI stingers, apples are fun. Most other .22 bullets will just go straight through, the Stingers blow them up. If you can find a scrub apple tree they're also free.

LucifersPants · January 14, 2009, 02:31 PM

That's a cool idea...pardon the pun

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Delaware_Dan · January 14, 2009, 02:35 PM

+1 on golf balls

chris in va · January 14, 2009, 02:40 PM

I got some rectangular 3/8" steel plates at Home Depot a while back. Hang them from a limb with steel wire, you'll get a very satisfying PING from them as they swing a little. Bowling pins aren't bad either but they just kinda wiggle. I like the idea of golf balls, probably just drill a hole and tie some to the tree.

Beretta16 · January 14, 2009, 03:20 PM

^ More fun to shoot off the ground, they go flying

SKULLANDCROSSBONES65 · January 14, 2009, 03:49 PM

G'day. Mushrooms, stones about one inch in size. For more powerful guns try stones about the size of your fist, at 150 yards.

January 14, 2009, 04:04 AM	#1
Ignition Override Senior Member Join Date: February 18, 2008 Location: About 20 nm from the Big Muddy Posts: 2,887	The most fun, very cheap target for a .22? Let's exclude two-dimensional paper etc here. How about three-dimensional? Other than having some opportunites to chip away at cheap floating oranges or grapefruits (kind of routine), what else? Any other ideas, or really cheap clear objects etc which can survive three shots with hps from an ancent Savage .22 (maybe hang low from a tree limb/trunk), but not pollute a large stream? Trying to conserve much of larger caliber ammo: .223, x39, x 54R. Don't want to imagine prices three years from now.

January 14, 2009, 04:26 AM	#2
JohnKSa Staff Join Date: February 12, 2001 Location: DFW Area Posts: 24,989	Crackers/cookies Ice cubes--you can freeze strings into them if you need to hang them. __________________ Do you know about the TEXAS State Rifle Association?

January 14, 2009, 04:58 AM	#3
New_Pollution1086 Senior Member Join Date: February 26, 2007 Location: WC - CA Posts: 680	ping pong balls. small yappy dogs. T __________________ "I have ridden the mighty moon worm, and it was good" "Aim Big miss Big, Aim small Miss small" "Don't rush the monkey and you'll see a better show." - T. Boone Pickens

January 14, 2009, 09:09 AM	#5
kraigwy Senior Member Join Date: June 16, 2008 Location: Wyoming Posts: 11,061	Grasshoppers in the back pasture __________________ Kraig Stuart CPT USAR Ret USAMU Sniper School Distinguished Rifle Badge 1071

January 14, 2009, 09:12 AM	#6
zukiphile Senior Member Join Date: December 13, 2005 Posts: 4,454	Potatoes can be sort of spectacular. When I had a place in the country, I set up some electical backing plates (about four inches square) I obtained from Home Depo for eight cents a piece and suspended them from light chains. At 100m they gave a satisfying "ping!" and danced around, thereafter providing a swinging target. __________________ http://www.npboards.com/index.php

January 14, 2009, 05:06 AM	#4
DaveInPA Senior Member Join Date: January 20, 2008 Location: Berks County, PA Posts: 1,106	Sugar cubes.

January 14, 2009, 09:14 AM	#7
GEM Member Join Date: August 21, 2008 Location: Near St. Louis Posts: 45	Golf balls... providing you have a great back stop. __________________ A Matter of Timing - A 425 page must-read novel for all gun enthusiasts. *The Cataclysm Scroll*, its sequel, is now available! Links, sneak previews & more info here: www.gmillercompanies.com

January 14, 2009, 09:17 AM	#8
Bitmap Senior Member Join Date: November 12, 2001 Posts: 388	I still like aluminum cans. You just have to pick them up when you are done. Water filled plastic bottles can be fun but you have to pick them up, too. Almost any kind of old or spoiled food can be entertaining. That lasagna that your wife made 2 months ago and you forgot was in the fridge, for example. The fruit cake your MIL gave you for Christmas might be fun, but I'm not sure it's biodegradable, so you might have to pick it up as well. For that matter it might be a ricochet hazard when shot with a .22LR. Maybe you better reserve it for plinking with a centerfire rifle.

January 14, 2009, 09:19 AM	#9
Dustin0 Senior Member Join Date: May 15, 2008 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 701	Dented can goods or cheap soda can. but Golf balls are my fav. target for my 22.

January 14, 2009, 09:22 AM	#10
saltydog452 Senior Member Join Date: August 16, 2004 Posts: 516	Pendelum 'spinners' move and make a sound when hit. They'll last dang near forever with no re-set chores. Lead splatter is directed at the ground. salty My bad. Two dimensions. Last edited by saltydog452; January 14, 2009 at 09:31 AM.

January 14, 2009, 09:31 AM	#11
CajunBass Senior Member Join Date: May 6, 2005 Location: North Chesterfield, Virginia Posts: 4,767	The plain ol' "tin can." Steel really, of course. Aluminum is too soft and 22's, even BB's zip right through them. (Pick 'em up and pack 'em out.) Animal crackers. Lions and tigers and bears...Oh MY! (Birds and such will clean up after these.) __________________ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 (NKJV)

January 14, 2009, 10:15 AM	#12
csmsss Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Orange, TX Posts: 3,078	I'm partial to bowling pins. They're damn heavy, though.

January 14, 2009, 10:17 AM	#13
NineInchNails Senior Member Join Date: June 3, 2008 Posts: 120	Check out 'Just Shoot Me Products'. They make what is called a 'Sniper Training Cube'. They even make products that can be hung if I'm not mistaken. Before: Shot with .308 They make different cubes for smaller calibers too like this one: Here's an unimpressive video (the guy keeps missing): http://www.justshootmeproducts.com/i...n=Custom&ID=35 These 'Just Shoot Me Products' ARE NOT cheap ... so I made one myself A DIY Sniper Training Cube: ~ Here's A Video ~ This video is also not too impressive. The rifle I am using is zeroed in at 100 yds and I am doing a LOUSY job at compensating for such a close range and waisting ammo .

January 14, 2009, 10:25 AM	#14
NineInchNails Senior Member Join Date: June 3, 2008 Posts: 120	Balloons are fun to shoot too.

January 14, 2009, 12:16 PM	#15
Noonan Senior Member Join Date: February 23, 2007 Location: Georgia Posts: 155	small pumpkins

January 14, 2009, 12:17 PM	#16
Smallgame2100 Junior member Join Date: January 8, 2009 Location: New York Posts: 164	I use old tin cans from the recycling bin.

January 14, 2009, 12:28 PM	#17
Nigelcorn Senior Member Join Date: August 12, 2006 Posts: 141	I haven't ever paid a dime for rabbit or ground squirrel targets.

January 14, 2009, 01:10 PM	#18
Ignition Override Senior Member Join Date: February 18, 2008 Location: About 20 nm from the Big Muddy Posts: 2,887	Thanks. It took a while yesterday to destroy a really large pumpkin with the MN 44 ans Mini 30.

January 14, 2009, 01:36 PM	#20
Brian Pfleuger Moderator Emeritus Join Date: June 25, 2008 Location: Austin, CO Posts: 19,578	If you shoot CCI stingers, apples are fun. Most other .22 bullets will just go straight through, the Stingers blow them up. If you can find a scrub apple tree they're also free. __________________ Nobody plans to screw up their lives... ...they just don't plan not to. -Andy Stanley

January 14, 2009, 02:31 PM	#21
LucifersPants Junior member Join Date: November 29, 2008 Posts: 125	That's a cool idea...pardon the pun.

January 14, 2009, 02:35 PM	#22
Delaware_Dan Senior Member Join Date: February 15, 2008 Posts: 1,304	+1 on golf balls

January 14, 2009, 02:40 PM	#23
chris in va Senior Member Join Date: December 26, 2004 Location: Louisville KY Posts: 13,806	I got some rectangular 3/8" steel plates at Home Depot a while back. Hang them from a limb with steel wire, you'll get a very satisfying PING from them as they swing a little. Bowling pins aren't bad either but they just kinda wiggle. I like the idea of golf balls, probably just drill a hole and tie some to the tree.

January 14, 2009, 03:20 PM	#24
Beretta16 Junior member Join Date: November 22, 2007 Location: MN Posts: 230	^ More fun to shoot off the ground, they go flying

January 14, 2009, 03:49 PM	#25
SKULLANDCROSSBONES65 Senior Member Join Date: August 19, 2008 Location: Far Nth Wst QLD Australia Posts: 992	G'day. Mushrooms, stones about one inch in size. For more powerful guns try stones about the size of your fist, at 150 yards. __________________ If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough! When you're confused, I'll try to use smaller words!!!