Target ideas - Page 2

WildmanJack · 01-26-2009, 02:02 AM

For my .22 mag, I like to put up a blank sheet of paper and stick those florescent red and green dots on it that you buy at Staples or Office Depot. You get a whole lot of dots and it sure is satisfyig to hit them at 100 yds. For my 1873 Winny in .45 colt, I get a kick out of those graphed targets with the three prairie dogs on them. No prairie dogs here in Florida but a lot cheaper than getting a bunch of Miamians to stand there!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( Just not as satisfying!!!)
Jack

rtracy2001 · 08-30-2009, 08:58 PM

Gallon jugs filled with water and hanging from tree branches, 100 yards 30-30 150 gr HP. (200 yards with the 06)

If I get really bored I add food coloring.

Also pop cans suspended from a string tied to the pull top and swinging in the breeze. (22 LR)

Berdan primed 223 cases on a fence rail (not good for anything else)

chris112 · 09-02-2009, 02:47 AM

Mine starts with a piece of plastic from a water bottle. Cut 4 squares out to form a pattern 1 1/2" by 1 1/2 ". Each square needs to be 1/2" by 1/2". I then mounted it in a 6cm by 6 cm slide mount.
To use lay on your target paper, draw the outline of the squares then fill in with a sharpy. Works great.

rtracy2001 · 11-15-2009, 12:09 AM

I went out to the range with the scouts today, and one of the other leaders had a great target idea:

He took an 8' 2X4 and drilled a small hole about 1/2" deep every four inches or so. the holes were sized so that the stick of a "DUM-DUM" sucker candy fit in snugly.

The scouts had a blast trying to shoot the heads of the suckers, and when they actually got one (after a while we let them use a scope) the colored candy "poof" was a instant success.

Jim_Fleming · 11-15-2009, 02:06 AM

A totally bio-degradable target! Fun as all get out, and a bit difficult to hit consistently... Good Job! Nothing left to clean up, except for the sucker sticks... lol!

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Originally Posted by rtracy2001

I went out to the range with the scouts today, and one of the other leaders had a great target idea:

He took an 8' 2X4 and drilled a small hole about 1/2" deep every four inches or so. the holes were sized so that the stick of a "DUM-DUM" sucker candy fit in snugly.

The scouts had a blast trying to shoot the heads of the suckers, and when they actually got one (after a while we let them use a scope) the colored candy "poof" was a instant success.

01-26-2009, 02:02 AM	#11
WildmanJack GunLoad Trainee Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Punta Gorda, FL Posts: 11	For my .22 mag, I like to put up a blank sheet of paper and stick those florescent red and green dots on it that you buy at Staples or Office Depot. You get a whole lot of dots and it sure is satisfyig to hit them at 100 yds. For my 1873 Winny in .45 colt, I get a kick out of those graphed targets with the three prairie dogs on them. No prairie dogs here in Florida but a lot cheaper than getting a bunch of Miamians to stand there!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( Just not as satisfying!!!) Jack __________________ "Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward" Thomas Alva Edison"

09-02-2009, 02:47 AM	#13
chris112 GunLoad Trainee Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4	Targets Mine starts with a piece of plastic from a water bottle. Cut 4 squares out to form a pattern 1 1/2" by 1 1/2 ". Each square needs to be 1/2" by 1/2". I then mounted it in a 6cm by 6 cm slide mount. To use lay on your target paper, draw the outline of the squares then fill in with a sharpy. Works great.

BP	Bronze Point	IMR	Improved Military Rifle	PTD	Pointed
BR	Bench Rest	M	Magnum	RN	Round Nose
BT	Boat Tail	PL	Power-Lokt	SP	Soft Point
C	Compressed Charge	PR	Primer	SPCL	Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP	Hollow Point	PSPCL	Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt"	C.O.L.	Cartridge Overall Length
PSP	Pointed Soft Point	Spz	Spitzer Point	SBT	Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN	Lead Round Nose	LWC	Lead Wad Cutter	LSWC	Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC	Gas Check

08-30-2009, 08:58 PM	#12
rtracy2001 GunLoad Trainee Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Chubbuck, ID Posts: 23	Gallon jugs filled with water and hanging from tree branches, 100 yards 30-30 150 gr HP. (200 yards with the 06) If I get really bored I add food coloring. Also pop cans suspended from a string tied to the pull top and swinging in the breeze. (22 LR) Berdan primed 223 cases on a fence rail (not good for anything else)

11-15-2009, 12:09 AM	#14
rtracy2001 GunLoad Trainee Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Chubbuck, ID Posts: 23	I went out to the range with the scouts today, and one of the other leaders had a great target idea: He took an 8' 2X4 and drilled a small hole about 1/2" deep every four inches or so. the holes were sized so that the stick of a "DUM-DUM" sucker candy fit in snugly. The scouts had a blast trying to shoot the heads of the suckers, and when they actually got one (after a while we let them use a scope) the colored candy "poof" was a instant success.