cheap targets
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The cheapest targets available is usually dirt clods, leaves or plants.
Shooting flowers or plant stalks for called shot bragging rights.
Get some honey packets from the KFC run and smear it on cardboard for flies. Shoot the flies. Shooting flies is damn hard!
Acorns in season make a heck of a target if the squirrels are hiding.
Shooting flowers or plant stalks for called shot bragging rights.
Get some honey packets from the KFC run and smear it on cardboard for flies. Shoot the flies. Shooting flies is damn hard!
Acorns in season make a heck of a target if the squirrels are hiding.
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Yeah will be a crap shoot. As usual Amazon reviews are 100% worthless. 10 people say they stick too much 10 say they fall off.
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I ordered this paper after I found it on one of the AG forums recommend by someone. I think I ordered 1000 sheets.
Not the cheapest but if you like scoring targets it’s really nice.
www.pistoleer.com
Not the cheapest but if you like scoring targets it’s really nice.
Custom Targets & Blank Target Paper
If you need a large quantity of a custom target, we may be able to help you.
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Here is what I use for targets. The paper is created on a program to make pinback buttons. You can make them any size, color or add graphics if you want. I do sheets with 4 targets, 6 targets and 48 targets. The black ring on the 4 target sheet is .070. The 6 target dot is .040. The 48 dot is .030.
The propane bottle is "dimples". It's our 80 yard target. The T Rex is "pimples". He's our 70 yard victim. We have various size dinosaurs we set out between 40-70. Those are "leadbellies" because the pellets tend to rattle around in them.
The tiny dinosaurs like the little orange ones we start at 30-35. They are soft rubber and really fly a long way when hit. They are good out to 60-65 yards but they get hard to hit offhand past 45-50. With a scope they are good to 60-70 depending on how they land.
Inside 35 yards it's 12ga and 410 shells. Then at 25 it's green army men. If we are shooting scopes it's head shot only. Offhand standing its anything goes.
Here is a better shot of ol' pimples. He's a work of art. When it gets cool he tightens up and a lot of pellets fall out. But he collects them really well out there at 65-70 yards on a hot day.
I like shotgun shells. They fly really good and move downrange. They fall into footprints and holes in the sand and hide. They present a target that constantly changes shape, size and range between each shot. They are sweet offhand targets out to 45-50 yards but are tough to hit past that. I can usually hit one at 50 yards within 5 shots offhand. Rested with scopes they are good out to 70. Not impossible to hit at 100 if the day is calm and you don't mind missing once in a while.
I love the plastic dinosaurs and green army men. I learned to shoot a BB gun on them. Now they make perfect airgun targets. I think I'm entering my second childhood. Im playing with the same toys I did when I was 6 years old.
Here is a little guy head shot. 25 yards offhand with the iron sights. I found his head at 50 yards. His plastic head wrapped around the pellet and rebounded. That's it glued to his body with a crater in the middle. What a hoot!
The tiny animals are cool. They are light so their mass does not work against them. They really fly. Here is a tapir shot at 25. Dead nuts in the middle. Again with the hatsan offhand.
The propane bottle is "dimples". It's our 80 yard target. The T Rex is "pimples". He's our 70 yard victim. We have various size dinosaurs we set out between 40-70. Those are "leadbellies" because the pellets tend to rattle around in them.
The tiny dinosaurs like the little orange ones we start at 30-35. They are soft rubber and really fly a long way when hit. They are good out to 60-65 yards but they get hard to hit offhand past 45-50. With a scope they are good to 60-70 depending on how they land.
Inside 35 yards it's 12ga and 410 shells. Then at 25 it's green army men. If we are shooting scopes it's head shot only. Offhand standing its anything goes.
Here is a better shot of ol' pimples. He's a work of art. When it gets cool he tightens up and a lot of pellets fall out. But he collects them really well out there at 65-70 yards on a hot day.
I like shotgun shells. They fly really good and move downrange. They fall into footprints and holes in the sand and hide. They present a target that constantly changes shape, size and range between each shot. They are sweet offhand targets out to 45-50 yards but are tough to hit past that. I can usually hit one at 50 yards within 5 shots offhand. Rested with scopes they are good out to 70. Not impossible to hit at 100 if the day is calm and you don't mind missing once in a while.
I love the plastic dinosaurs and green army men. I learned to shoot a BB gun on them. Now they make perfect airgun targets. I think I'm entering my second childhood. Im playing with the same toys I did when I was 6 years old.
Here is a little guy head shot. 25 yards offhand with the iron sights. I found his head at 50 yards. His plastic head wrapped around the pellet and rebounded. That's it glued to his body with a crater in the middle. What a hoot!
The tiny animals are cool. They are light so their mass does not work against them. They really fly. Here is a tapir shot at 25. Dead nuts in the middle. Again with the hatsan offhand.
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IF you have a range near you pick up skeet clays /shooting clays that people missed and are on the ground ,free to pick up at least at my range .
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I just print these targets https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/printable-targets.561855/ on my printer.
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That's what I use. I don't like black targets because you can't see your shots. White card stock is the best.
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