I myself have been enjoying poping tin soup cans at the back fence off hand with my 48. 41 yards if I remember the last time I ranged it. Clean pass throughs at that distance with my 48. Thinking of getting some steel spinners as well, but would love to hear of what you guys are shooting!
and screw the lid on over the end of string. I then wrap some electrical tape around the tin to keep it from coming apart once it is hit. I hang these all over the place in trees and shoot em up. Great targets. I hear charcoal briquettes are fun but have not got around to them.
Oh yea, weeks ago I came across a bag of strings of Christmas tree lights that I could'nt get to work last year. Brought back fond memories of my icorigable youth with those.
Potatoes? I got a couple of them and some hp's. Now I've got something to do after the yard work tomorrow.
Golf ball or smaller hard green tomato's they explode when hit with .20 or .22 hollow points or wadcutters.Old 35mm camera film cases filled half full with flower.empty pill bottles work good too(full don't work) A big poof when hit.
Also the political pictures you get in the mail,I get even with the daily torture they put me thru everyday on TV.
Obama's got big teeth knock one out at a time Te he he and Palin's glasses make a great bullseye.
And always make shure your back stop is safe and stops flying lead!
BBGun Bob
SE Mich.
Darth Vader Called !! I joined the Darkside!!
.22 Disco
I'd have to say my favorite for plinking is to fill empty soda cans with water. The impact is cool, and so is examining the can aftarwards. This is also my favorite plinket (plinking target) when shooting my .17 HMR
It's amazing what the little .17HMR round can do at 100 yds: <br/>
Pratice golf balls(wiffle),pine cones are a renewable target(as long as you pace yourself)and any kind of small firm skinned produce with Hollow Points.
Hit it square centered too, the range was about 25 yards (I figgured that was far enough) but OH-MY-GOD does that pellet scream right back to where it came from!!! A screaming richoet somehow missed me, but left a lasting impression NOT to do that again! Same thing happened with a plastic Army Man years earlier...
Yep, some targets are best left un-ventlated!
My personal favorite is an empty 12 & 20 Gauge Hulls. Due to the many varied manufacturers, several quite visable colors exhist that provide clear 50 yard visability. Reaction is spectacular and even Pistols make a solid and pleasurable "wack" upon impact! Spent CO2 Powerlets also afford shiney, reactive,targets. They can be suspended on fishing line via a sheetmetal screw in the end or simply stood upright in the dirt. Both of these reactive targets have sufficent size to give Novices a chance to regurarily score hits also can give more Accomplished Shots a challenge at longer ranges.
Over the years have tried everything for plinking purposes you could find, when a teen we lived out in the country and we had a 3.2 bar across the street and would find bottles of beer half empty shake them up and shoot those to see them blow up somewhat when hit. In those days though we were using guns like the Daisy 880 and Crosman 760. Since then though have used asprin tablets, shotshell primers at safe distances, metal targets, water filled ballons, bottles, but clean up the glass mess, nothing like busting up a bunch of stuff with a gun. I think everyone has that inner need to just shoot stuff up sometimes for fun, as long as in fun, this is where the Diana magnum airguns have made airguns fun for this purpose.
A few years ago my daughterinlaw fixed way to many hard boiled eggs for Easter.After setting around for a few weeks my son and I used them,15 to 50 yards. We had a great time.Could be costly.
Gary
I'm fond of shooting at paintballs on golf tees in front of a black posterboard backdrop.(this is not to say that I actually hit them all that often) Balloons with a bit of flour in them are fun. JakeH said to try a potato, never tried that, and the wifes out and I just saw a spud in the kitchen ...I'm going outside to shoot me an outlaw tuber.
-I.B.M.
when i was a kid my favorite plinking target was oranges in the many orange groves we had in whittier california where i grew up. i loved the orange juice shooting out of the oranges. i am sure the growers did not appreciate it though.
it is impractical for me to do back yard plinking now so i have set up a little rifle/pistol range in my private office in my insurance agency. some guys have little putting greens. i have a short rifle range. great way to blow off steam. i made a pellet trap out of an old woooden shoe shine kit i found out in my garage. lined the back with water seal electrical putty. my benjamin won't go thrue it but i have not shot the diana 52 yet. behind the trap i have two phone books but don't think i will need them. that putty is very dense. if one layer is not enough for about 10 bucks i can add a second layer.
The neighbor's yard is the local baseball field and during the season it's not uncommon to find a baseball or two laying in my yard. I see the kids climb the fence to retrive the baseballs, but sometimes they miss one which I toss back over the fence. Now there's this one aging flourescent yellow softball with the cover coming off that kept appearing but was never retrieved by the kids. I'd toss it back over the fence, and it would re-appear...Well, I could not resist finally and sunk a bunch of RWS .22cal Superpoints into it. Given the weight of the softball, I was quite impressed with the reaction when hit, it would roll around quite easily. Afterwards, I took the skin off and cut one of the pellets out - they were buried about 1-1/2 to 2" into the hard foam core that was under the cover.
By the way - I dont shoot when the ball games are in progress and I may owe them a new softball!! Just couldn't help myself. Picked up some RWS SuperHpoints today and theres some spuds sprouting roots in a bag in the kitchen....
I shoot @ lions, tigers, bears and other small stuff for plinking
September 17 2008, 12:14 PM
In ANIMAL CRACKERS! LOL!
They are fun, bio-degradable, will even feed wildlife and do not need cleaning after the shooting session. They are dead cheap (about US$2.00 for a 20 lb. bag) and they have great irregular shapes that challenge your concentration and aim.
You can set them up with plasticene/playdoh, or even hang them from small strings across a frame and let them dangle in the breeze.
Go back to the 40 yard line and you will see a BIG challenge!
BTW, I can't remember if 41 yards is actually a "Vern". Does anyone from way back old times of the AGLF remember?
My permanent range plinking targets are Birchwood Casey Air Gun Flipups - at 30, 40, and 50 meters. They seem to be the only ones that always work with a wide range of guns. Of course the old favorite "tin cans" are also out there with white plastic pill bottles on top (they jump something fierce when hit). When I'm plinking with lower FPE stuff, I bring out the modified (metal sleves in place of plastic ones) Gamo (green case) flip ups. Cheap Soda shaken up in the hot weather doesn't last long unless you put it at 50 meters and go after it with an open site pistol. Shatterblasts are also out there at the longer range. The spent C02 cartridges haven't been too exciting, they just dent, even with the higher powered air gun stuff, maybe I should try the string thing instead of stuffing them in the popped top of a soda can.
I have it set up in my crawlspace, 10meters from the firing line. And it literally is a crawlspace at the traps. I think I have less than 24" of vertical height, and I don't like crawling in the dirt to the trap more often than I really need to. With the silhouette trap, I don't have to go to the trap to reset anything.
1. Nekko Wafers at 35 and 50 yards
2. Paint Balls, same ranges
3. A heavy brass bell (about 21/2" target) hanging form a tree branch at 75 yards (need the distance to insure the pellet energy is bled down due to ricochets (I shoot slightly downhill too so that helps also) - I makes a satisfying noise.
Only place I can find them now is Cracker Barrel. I used to shoot Life Savers but had too many shots go through the holes, so they didn't break. Same thing with hitting steel washers tossed into the air.
you were aiming for the holes, right? i used to through little tiny dirt clods into the air (i just remembered this) and shoot them. dirt clod skeet shooting.
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