Novelty Targets

[Big John]

What type of targets do you like for novelty shoots? Ball splitting,potatoes,chalk,feathers,clays.Pass on some ideas if you will.

 

[No Deer]

Went to a shoot last fall where they had golf balls tied to a string. There was a drywall screw screwed into the golf ball, a length of string tied to the screw, and then tied to a string strung between two uprights. They had about 8 of these, the cross string was approximately 3 feet off the ground and the golfballs were hanging down about 8 or so inchs. This was set up about 20 or so yards from the firing line. Got some interesting results with hits. One hit must have just nicked the ball and sent it spinning around tangling it with several others. A nice clean hit with a trade gun shattered one. Another hit one with a small cal rifle and that golfball took off like he had just teed off. It went about 100 yards and hooked into the woods. Was as much fun watching someone hit one as it was to shoot at them yourself.
NoDeer

 

[BrownBear]

We use Pilot Bread crackers rather than clays. About the same size, pretty tough but they break well. Best of all, with one rain your mess is gone after the shoot. If you want some real fun, load some in a clay pigeon thrower for the shot shooters in your crowd. They are so flat and fast that you have to really whack them to put them down.

 

[sonny]

I am making a deer head with small holes where the antlers go,so i can insert pretzel sticks for horns.At 20 yards or so you can try to clip the horns off the buck,somthing different!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup:

 

[bshultz]

used a VCR that ticked us off once at a 100 yards, that was fun :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :m2c:

 

[2Knives]

One of our groups does a lifesaver shoot. We also do a "can shoot". It's done in teams. You fill one beer can with water and one is empty. The empty can goes on top of the water filled can. Shooter 1 shoots the water filled can with a rifle, near the bottom causing the empty top can to fly into the air. Shooter 2 has a shot gun and has to hit the flying empty can. The team with the most holes in the top can wins. It's a hell of a good time. :m2c:

 

[SquirrelsaurusR]

As long as you have a good backstop, you can try moving targets: Take a soda can and fill about one-third with small pebbles or shot to give it some weight. Tie heavy string or fishing line to it, and string it up over a tree branch. Give it a push and try to shoot it as it swings back and forth.

Use a high branch when possible. The longer the string it's hanging from, the longer it will keep swinging. You may have to attach a weight to the end of the string and throw it over the branch.

 

[Slowpoke]

When I think of novelty targets, I think of paper targets that are diffent than your standard bullseye targets. That is to say you're shooting at a turkey, chipmunk, playing cards, and etc. Our club has about 50-60 different types of these targets and if your interested, PM me and I'll get you some together and send them out.

SP

 

[musketman]

What type of targets do you like for novelty shoots?

Get a 1 gallon plastic milk jug and fill it with nasty black water what and bury it just below the surface of the ground on a hill side...

Step back and recreate Jed Clampett's famous shot of finding "Bubblin Crude"... :crackup:

Always wanted to waste ball and powder trying to quarter a round ball using three axes set in a triangle...

First I'll have to brush up on my geometry... :huh: :crackup:

 

[musketman]

Novelty Target... :crackup:

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[brushbuster]

Novelty Target... :crackup:

[/quote] hey can that be enlarged to a 3"x5" center? :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

 

[Ohio Joe]

Actually, I think that's a fine looking target! :thumbsup:

 

They make a box about the size of a cigarette pack that has a small bull on it. You sit it up at the diastance you want to shot at and if you hit the bull on it it explodes produceing a cloud of smoke.
We use them at the club back home in PA for the kids to shoot at. they have a ball with them.

Woody

 

[Al Bateman 1]

One I enjoyed watching..shooting, is the Drop Your Drawers shoot. Bring out your frilly unmentionables..most likely a pair of red(?) long johns, attatch them to a cross cord with split wooden cloths pins. Point is to shoot the pins one at a time (one shooter at a time) and thereby drop your drawers. BTW, cutting the cross line and dropping everybodies drawers won't work...don't ask :nono:



Rough Heading West, Always has been

 

[Gary]

Poker chips on a board. Call your shot.

Williamsburg has a steel silhouette of a redcoat.