What do you shoot at

[BABz58]

We shoot mostly cocktail picks, dressmaker's pins and paintballs. We used to try and find the smallest possible cocktail picks, but now instead use any size we can get cheap, and we 'whittle' the big ones down. Some can take 5-6 shots before completely disappearing! Then we shoot the stick down in maybe 1/2" increments. Neat thing is that you can get holiday themed cocktail picks to keep your weekly airgun group shoots interesting.
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Paintball targets can be 'seasonal' as well. Just this week on the day of our shoot it was 'National Pancake Day'. We use the smaller .50 call paintballs. Before and after views of our target:

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With glue and toothpicks (and some time) you can make biodegradable targets pretty much as small as you like.
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Wish I was THAT good. Goals…

 

[ndwind]

I was at a Black Powder cartridge shoot one time where they had a dimond 200 yds offhand. now thats a tuff target! it was probably 12 inches top to bottom. ther isnt much to the center of a dimond shape. make small one and hang from a sting at whatever distance you choose and it will be challenging! Especially in the ND wind.

 

[Peashooter]

I forgot.

Also very much like to shoot straws and branches / flowers in the grass, for a reasonable chance of a hit within 50 M, but i have stretched it out now and then, but then it get orders of magnitude harder to pull off.
At 100 + yards, you would want 1/2 inch branches at least, and then they have to be dry to break them in one shot, a fresh branch will need many hits with a .177.
But up close something like the size of the caliber you shoot is fine.

Moist aggravating shooting not directly backed stuff is, you often do not see where you miss, so in those cases i like to have something close by i can take a shot at now and then to see where i am at.

Previous outing i was shooting at a lump of dirt way back there, and after that was levelled just two pieces of old branches lying on the ground a foot further away.

A man can only shoot paper for so long.

This summer i also whacked a blackbird when i was testing 20 grain in my rifle, at 60-65 M distance the bird did a forward somersault and then nothing.
Generally though i dont really shoot at birds, i dont think we have any here that is / would be classified as pests, but pretty sure many a farmer here are pissed about starlings ASO.

 

[Spartan]

I print these targets out on 4x6" thermal shipping labels and then stick them on the various empty Amazon and other shipping boxes received during the week. I sit those on the ground in front of small logs set at 20, 30, and 40 yds in the yard. Slap a new target label over the old one a few times after it's shot up. Once the boxes are shot full of holes or after they get soaked in the rain, they just get tossed in the recycling. Completely free (even the labels with a biz shipping account) and zero maintenance. Don't even need to buy ink for the printer since it's thermal paper. Been doing it this way for years. At 50 yds I have a small steel target gallery with various flippers and spinners.

 

[apslatton]

Assorted size target stickers on a steel exterior door (mainly used for sighting in) have an auto reset with 3" targets on it, and a tic tac toe resetting target. Otherwise I did put some 308 casings on a sawhorse yesterday and shot those

 

[boresnake]

Those campaign signs all along the roadway. I harvest them and stick my target dots on them.

 

[gendoc]

i shoot critters i can eat, or destroying my property. maybe a beer carton with little circles
drawn on the bottom........

 

[cavedweller]

I like 1/4” square graph paper and 1/4” graph card stock - I put tiny dots on the different intersections spaced about one inch apart…. One shot per dot