Favorite reactive targets?

[PhysicsGuy]

I like to use soda cans. Shake them up good before setting them down too. They explode really nice. Only downside is they are all sticky when you go to pick up your trash. I hate when people leave their litter.

Speaking of this, I found a full soda can that we must have missed while shooting, and didnt find it picking up. Found it a year later, then shot it

 

[ZeroRing]

Side note: I'm very happy to see that everyone has referenced cleanup. This is a huge topic for us to be mindful of...

I hate going out to the woods and finding an old TV, microwave, propane tank, or barbie full house left behind.

That's the beauty of the marshmallow idea... NO cleanup!!

(and use a tarp so you can collect your brass)

 

[bt97006]

Saltine crackers. Another cheap target that turns to bird food when shot.

 

[SquackDaddy]

Necco wafers or Cheez-its. I hot glue them to a piece of poster board. Cheap, they 'explode' when hit, and you feed the birds.

I also like to shoot paintballs off of golf tees.

It is amazing how much fun it is to shoot small balloons with a .22 at 100 yards.

In the summer time, sometimes we spray stuff on our targets that will attract flys. Flys are GREAT reactive targets!

 

[Trlsmn]

Necco wafers or Cheez-its. I hot glue them to a piece of poster board. Cheap, they 'explode' when hit, and you feed the birds.

I also like to shoot paintballs off of golf tees.

It is amazing how much fun it is to shoot small balloons with a .22 at 100 yards.

You could probably use peanut butter instead of hot glue?

 

[ZeroRing]

Saltine crackers. Another cheap target that turns to bird food when shot.

Outstanding idea!!

 

[RallySoob]

nice, peanut butter and saltines.... The ranger is gonna like that idea

 

[needs2hunt]

i found a local bowling alley that is giving away bowling pins.. I went and grabbed up 40 pins...

 

[Islandeddie]

Christmas balls in the back yard with pellet gun.

 

[pakrat57]

Taters are my favorite, they explode good and no clean up.

 

[parsons_12b]

Iraqi insurgents

 

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[jason97496]

Saltine crackers. Another cheap target that turns to bird food when shot.

I liked this idea so much that I cut a groove down the middle of an old 2 x 8 and put some simple legs on it. The groove is just wide enough to hold the crackers up right. It is a good feeling to see the crackers shatter.

The kids like it too.

 

[BrianL]

Pumpkins after Halloween. Albertson's gave them away for free.

 

[ZeroRing]

I liked this idea so much that I cut a groove down the middle of an old 2 x 8 and put some simple legs on it. The groove is just wide enough to hold the crackers up right. It is a good feeling to see the crackers shatter.

The kids like it too.

Very cool!

 

[ZeroRing]

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What is the deal with the music??? :nuts:

Cool watching the 'splosions though.

 

[tionico]

how about giving a bit of a challenge to the venture... take the large size marshmallows and suspend them with sewing thread or light fishing line from something... tree branches? Wait till a bit of wind comes up and sets them to dancing. NOW you've got an adventure....

I DO like the saltines, though...... might try that this weekend, I'm taking some guns off to a friend's house, and we plan on doing a bit of shooting with his boys. The grooved two by is a great plan... doesn't even have to have legs on it. Me may well try the dancing marshmallows, as well. Let's see how good a shot "the BOY" is...... should be pretty funny.

 

[ZeroRing]

how about giving a bit of a challenge to the venture... take the large size marshmallows and suspend them with sewing thread or light fishing line from something... tree branches? Wait till a bit of wind comes up and sets them to dancing. NOW you've got an adventure....

ANOTHER great idea!! This thread is full of them!!

 

[Dutchy556]

Iraqi insurgents

Best answer yet...

 

[Wallygator]

Charcoal Briquette's. Lots of fun. When I was younger we use to shoot loaded shotshells with .22's, hit the primer and BOOM.