I have a couple large ponds that I can shoot up to 500 yards across water. As of right now I plan on setting up some balloons with fishing line and weights to hold in place. Anyone know of any good floating target ideas? This is my smallest pond but able to shoot at a long distance from my road.
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I would be concerned about trash on the water after the balloons are shot. I hate litter in the outdoors arena.
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Good point! I could run something like a trot line so I could retrieve the trash or maybe tie a bobber to it
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also if theres waterfowl in the pond theyll likely eat the pellets and die ... yes, i had a pond at my last house, and ducks and geese and found out the hard way ..
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Just use ice with food coloring in it. The ice will float and not leave any waste in your pond.
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Oh, that's a great idea, you could freeze shapes to make targets that stuck up a bit - iceberg style!
I was also thinking radio controlled boats to push targets out a ways.
The birds eating pellets is a good point tho - not sure how much waterfowl your ponds provide for. They do ingest small rocks (and pellets) to aid digestion.
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You could make a small scale pontoon with pvc pipe and a plywood deck to put targets on attached to your trot line and a pulley for deployment and retrieval. The plywood deck should catch your trash and pellets for better clean up when your done, it will also open up your options for targets.
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most birds look for small pebble/stones to aid digestion and they love pellets. If you want to eat the ducks or geese from the pond then shooting at or around water without recovering the pellets is a bad idea. Personally I only shoot into pellet boxes or traps because I don’t care liter thousands of lead chunks all over my property or anywhere for that matters.
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I think Brent has the right idea. I am going to build something for myself now. PVC pipes with end caps will float forever. Just make sure they are blocked off so a pellet or slug doesn’t hit it and sink it.
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On the north end of that pond is shallow and I could drive long T post and hang a steel plate with chains. I just like the instant feedback of seeing where It hit with water.
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a small floating dock, and a target holder, you could use cardboard as a target backer and put shoot and see stickers on it, and a small anker or cinder block to keep it from floating away. No worries about littering, as with the balloons. How about a RC boat with a target holder on it, so you don't shoot the boat? I'm working on a RC truck, I just found a gyro for rotating left and right, and to raise and lower the target holder. I'm using a power meter bracket for the target holder it's not too heavy and holds the cardboard target backer . A work in progress to be sure. Hope this stimulates some ideas for you.
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