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I'm a big fan of the dollar store and the spoons (I'd like to take credit for the idea but I'm sure I'm not the first )

BUT, one thing I really like to shoot are ICE CUBES. They are entirely free (hydro bill aside), leave no mess and require no cleanup, and THEY EXPLODE when you hit em . I use the run of the mill 1.5/2 inch ice cubes from the freezer tray. Hitting em with a .22 pellet is soooooo freakin satisfying you would believe; they explode into a thousand little shards that you can hear sprinkling down at the other end of your yard for a second or two afterword.

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Dan

When you have a gun that can hit anything at 50 or 100 yds with no worries. anything can be a target.To go out and buy a target just seems a waste of money. Pick a branch on a tree or a cat tail at 100 yds, an apple on a tree, a pine cone. The only reason to buy a pellet trap is so you don't send 5 lbs of lead into the earth. which in my opinion is where it came from in the first place. I,m a shooting junkie. I don,t care what I shoot as long as I,m shooting.

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If I had only one wish, it would be to be able to "unsay" things.

i use a table spoon, a tea spoon, 1 inch piece steel for scoped @ 20 m.
3" and 6" square aluminum plate, and 2 " round steel plate @ 20m. for open sites
3 and 6 @ 25
and a bright orange crab bait container (found washed up on beach) on a pole at 30 meters.

crows at various distances- but as soon as they see me they take off and assume evasive maneuvers with great haste!!! ( probably due to the no-fly, crow "re-education" i have implement, inside the wire of my personal political re-education compound)

i also have some non-grassed areas, where i site in and also use to snipe rocks. dry dirt is fairly reactive when dry.

i also have some 6" plate hanging from trees by 3 foot string- they spin around vertical axis as well as swinging back and forth in the wind.

i am also planing on suspending a wooden pallet- which i plan to used to sit upon and use like a swing. so the plan is to sit cross legged on, get swinging, then shoot from a moving platform.

the idea of being on a moving platform, shooting a moving target, sounds like fun and should help improve my skills for the crows.

all shooting done with under 500 beeman springer (177 and 22), scoped p-17, and hopefully a desert eagle soon.

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my other coil is a sub ohm
sub 500 .22 Crosman Phantom 500 open sites
sub 500 .177 Crosman TR77 NPS 4-16x40 UTG
sub 500 .177 Hatsan mod 33 with Quattro trigger open sites

Now that idea I like! I'll have to give it a shot. May be a challenge at the distances I'm shooting at.

I have a bunch of different targets. The most frequently used are frozen juice can lids stuck into a groove ripped into a 2X4 (Folks save them for me. Sad I know but hey). The second is C02 cylinders(spent) stuck into holes drilled into a 2X4. Both "ping" nice and vary the challenge. I have a 50 metre home outdoor range so I guess I am spoiled. And as alway is my "rack" with spinners, Paper and cans. http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo32 ... and002.jpg
Happy shooting:)

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Paddle faster, I hear Banjos

Lol!. Love the rack.

^ Great set up !

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as i race nitro powerd 1/8 scale rc buggys i have old worn out tires and spare lexan body shells some times i shoot those then use them to go race looks pretty rad i like to shoot pennies and empty tubes of lip chap also i seem to acquire lots of ipods that just stoped working from my friends those are a ton of funn to shoot

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sight hold breath squeeze trigger hit it dead center

Can't believe no on mentionned paintballs... cheap golfing tees and paintball are a perfect match.
The paintballs are fairly cheap and biodegradable nothing to pick-up when your done shooting.
I cut the grass shorter where I shoot so I can clearly see the targets, I tried drilling a piece of wood to fit the tees in but one miss and the piece of wood moves too much and the paintballs all fall down so each tee must be separated.

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You can’t buy a single airgun for everything. Golfers use many different clubs, airgunners need more than one gun

BRILLIANT! Never would have thought of that! *dances excitedly* I like the exploding factor - one of the reasons my favorite thing to shoot has always been empty beer/wine bottles. Unfortunately they leave a huge (and dangerous) mess, which is why they only get shot at in the massive fire pit at the TB campsite. After a few fires the glass shards just melt down.

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-Bella

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.

I don't shoot in the yard but I have ten metres in my shop. As far as a pellet trap goes what works for me is a 12 bottle wine box with half a dozen pieces of thick old carpet taped together and put vertically into the box . It works well for lead containment and you can pin paper targets on it and I also use a larger piece of plywood behind for stray pellets. /AGG

Ive posted this before but for my money sidewalk chalk is the greatest thing, they explode in a cloud of dust when hit. for closer work .22 casings are good out to 20 yards for a bit of a challenge.

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Airgunning is my hobby... and it is cheaper than
maintaining an outside relationship with another woman.
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You sure have a lovely rack indeed......

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HW97
FX Impact

I used to shoot pinecones out of the trees but i shot them all and now there is none left, and none are growing back so i throw golfballs on the lawn and shoot them around

I don't think that's the greatest idea. Golf balls are specifically designed to withstand & be bounced off a high pressure impact. Now I'm definitely not sure about this, but I feel as if you run the risk of having pellets bounce back at you or ricochet in dangerous directions. Make double sure you and any spectators are wearing eye protection...

ps. NEVER shoot a superball for this reason

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Dan