Poor mans targets.

[Peashooter]

I just ordered a bunch more of the 2" splatter targets, i seem to burn thru them even if most often i turn them into Swiss cheese with about 50% of the shots landing in a hole already there or a hole that slowly grow larger and ragged.

As i shoot 75 - 100 M with .177 and my scope are just 25 X, then i can also make out the shots that miss the splatter targets and hit the cardboard i put them on, but i also think i at the end of pure visual range and so the splatter are quite nice.

I think that now over the winter i will experiment with DIY exploding targets, as that is otherwise something way too dangerous for Danes to handle, even in fireworks form.
Firecrackers, even tiny ones was banned here like in my childhood in the 70ties

Also we really have to get back into fire-shooting, which is a combination of airgun shooting and burning fluids and photography, to get pictures like my Phoenix.

 

[Bigragu]

Here's mine. Draw out some circles and 25 shots later, stress is gone...
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Stress is gone? I take it you’re running against Lew?

Ha! I have trouble with subject matters titled with the starter words “poor man’s…” cause let’s face it, you’re probably shooting at these with a $2K airgun that was filled with a $900 tank which was topped off with a compressor, right?

How about we call it “the DIY target system” lol, or better yet, the “broke man’s target system”

Just funning with the OP. All in humor

 

[EdinGa]

Amazon boxes and anything out of the trash bin that will hold water. I also have half a dozen sweetgum trees on my property that provide 1000s of targets at all angles. It's good practice for squirrel season.

 

[gendoc]

I don't always shoot targets....but when i do,
i do it with miller lite !!

filled with water @ 100yrds with my crown mk2 .22
and uragan .30

 

[Fate]

When I got my Huntsman Revere .22 this past May I shot “normal” targets like always, from splatter to hand drawn. But it didn’t take long for the juice to leave that route. It was so accurate it threatened boredom.

There was no sense shooting under 40 yards, just a waste of time and targets. So I started setting more challenging targets at 40-55 yards, stuff that was not only a little more challenging they also met some other concerns… leave nothing that needs recovery or further thought, for example, or were more dramatic than holes. I also wanted cheap, biodegradable, zero evidence leaving, and even became food! sometimes.

A local Dollar Store provided. Little mini-pops… suckers with a paper handle that could be used to hang on things or stand them up on the ground depend on how they’re bent. M&Ms, both regular and peanut. Etc.

Placed near a wall the suckers leave a paintball-like splatter of color. The M&Ms disappear, but leave food birds and squirrels eat. I don’t shoot every day or take warm up shots. Have yet to miss these penny and dime sized targets, but it’s much more rewarding. And placed where I intend to shoot live things, they give confidence in cold first shots as well as POI consistency and hunting accuracy.

 

[rcs9250]

Sugar cubes work pretty good too. I used to pick up 9mm and .223 range brass and sell it to reloaders cheap, now I set them up at the range on a 2x4 and plink them at 50 yds. I have thousands and thousands.

 

[Treefrog]

Back in the day a neighbor gave me a box of wooden nickels. They didn't last long, but they did inspire me to use Necco wafers. Nowadays, a few seconds spent on a piece of cardboard with a sharpie a washer as does the trick.

J~

 

[superchikn]

Thanks for posting this!
I'm ordering three of the 1/2"ers.

I ordered one yesterday.