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New game for Scout camp this summer. 5 shots offhand at 30yd. 5pts per hit on squeeky toy. 0 for a miss. -8 if you so much as nick the seat and the lid slams shut and yer done!


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I've had the 12" AR500 target for a few years. It's been silver, white, red and will be just about be any color that I have left over in paint.

Recently got the buffalo and IDPA target as seconds from the same fellow I got the 12" target. The IDPA target was especially cheap since it had a little rust on it. Might have to give it an appropriate paint job for the 4th of July. 😁


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When I was in my 20’s several of my friends worked in auto body shops. There was a string of shops and at the end of the road was a dump. People threw all kinds of things in the dump and we shot every Friday.

The two things that I shot that impressed me the most were:
1 - A gallon jar of some kind of pickled vegetables. It was unopened and when I shot it basically exploded and you could smell it from a good distance away.

2 - This one is a little weird…I assume that the possessions of a dear departed one were unceremoniously thrown away in the dump. I found one half of a full set of dentures (don’t remember if they were uppers or lowers). One shot and they basically disintegrated…no tooth to be found!
 
I always like steel, eggs also make a fun target but they are getting expensive these days just like the generic canned sodas I used to shoot all the time. Round lollipops are an easy one to set up, just mount a horizontal board or branch of some sort, drill a bunch of holes and put the sticks in the holes.
 
I had a Krylon sales rep give me around 300 cans of defective spray paint to destroy. Fun to watch it go up, around and about everywhere. Really fun targets.
And they give a perfect paint job to anything near enough to it. I haven’t had the pleasure of shooting 300 of them but the few I have shot were enjoyable.
 
The shooting clubs in Europe and back East would use artistic illustrations on a plank or circular board, that were targets, that could be mounted on a wall after.. These ranged from military enemies (King George lll as an example) or wild beasts

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Empty plastic gallon jugs filled with water and capped. Add a few drops of food coloring if you wish. They explode so nicely... and they approximate the size of a whitetail deer's kill zone, OK, maybe a bit smaller, but if you can hit a gallon jug, you can kill a deer.

Half-gallon milk cartons work well too, but they don't stay in once piece if you fill them with water, so you have more of a mess with them.

The price of these targets is great: FREE!
 
Empty plastic jugs (gal milk, 1/2 gal, qt, pint) tied to a couple feet of heavy cord and then to a plastic tent stake into the berm. They jump when hit. I spray paint them in florescent green or orange for better visibility. Pretty darn cheap reactive targets.
 
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