"Natural" Target Ideas For Cinder Pit.

[Capn Jack]

Take a box of crackers to use for .22 targets.

 

[Tilos]

um...
Tin cans, not aluminum.

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[quneur]

Watermelons

 

[Stomper]

heh..heh..wood. huh..huh..uh.huh

Are you threatening me?!

 

[Flopsweat]

heh..heh..wood. huh..huh..uh.huh

 

[arakboss]

How long does it generally take for clays to degrade?

 

[arakboss]

68 shots of well placed 50 BMG rounds to take down a tree. I am guessing it would take many hundreds of 223/7.62 rounds to do the same.

 

[Certaindeaf]

How long does it generally take for clays to degrade?

If you smoke them, not long at all.. hard on giggity the lungs though.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

How long does it generally take for clays to degrade?

Weather and sun play a role here.
I would guess...months to years...since I often see the same leftover clay bird bits at the shooting pit I go to.

Leftover clay bird bits make for an excellent target by the way....
I often "clean up " the above mentioned shooting pit , by using the leftover clay bird bits as targets for my Hawken rifle or one of my .22 rifles.
Andy

 

[Aero Denezol]

Leftover clay bird bits make for an excellent target by the way....
I often "clean up " the above mentioned shooting pit , by using the leftover clay bird bits as targets for my Hawken rifle or one of my .22 rifles.
Andy

I do the same thing. I build little piles out of the larger leftover clay fragments. Very satisfying to vaporize with a shotgun.

 

[Mike_M57]

Charcoal brickettes, They explode into a black cloud when hit! and they are cheap DR

This is a good idea. I had a friend who was into black powder rifles and he'd stretch a rope between 2 posts/trees/etc. and use sewing thread to hang charcoal briquettes from it as targets. VERY frustrating if there's any wind, but VERY satisfying when they go POOF!

Another option would be to go to a local cattle range and collect dried cow patties. Use them like clay birds. You can shoot and fertilize at the same time. Instead of calling "PULL!" you would call "BULL!"**

Make it a competition. Winner gets a special trophy.






** Yeah, I know... a lot of you are calling "Bull!" just reading this post.

 

[boattail]

Firewood rounds on their sides painted like a target. If the rounds are big enough they absorb a bunch of lead and when the log falls apart the bullets are in one localized spot.

 

[Hemlock]

It takes a long time for clay targets to decay. They're made with pine pitch and coal dust. Or something like that. A few years back biodegradable targets became more available. They are supposed to degrade, but they don't dust ball like the regular ones and are harder to break with shotgun bbs. They'll still break with bullets, just not into as many pieces.

 

[arakboss]

I ended up using a bunch of rocks since that was the abundant material around. The pics only show a sampling of what I place on the hillside.

 

[Flopsweat]

I ended up using a bunch of rocks since that was the abundant material around. The pics only show a sampling of what I place on the hillside.


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You should call that first one the Stegosaurus.

 

[arakboss]

Nobody has shot my targets yet. Here is unzoomed and zoomed set of one target batch.








Bonus photo of dead bumble bee. Wilsonville Target flashback.

 

[arakboss]

Another shot of unzoomed vs zoomed.

 

[Flopsweat]

Another shot of unzoomed vs zoomed.



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Steggy lives!

 

[RVTECH]

Cone of pine.

LOL ! always been my favorite! I send 'em flying regularly.

These WERE killed or injured while out shooting!

 

[Dover1]

Soda crackers, Ritz crackers, Grahm crackers, etc. They explode and critters will clean them up when you leave.