What do you shoot at
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 
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Those campaign signs all along the roadway. I harvest them and stick my target dots on them.
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i shoot critters i can eat, or destroying my property. maybe a beer carton with little circles
drawn on the bottom........
drawn on the bottom........
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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
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Lately I've been shooting a lot of padlocks. We cut the old ones off of equipment and replace them with new ones where I work, so I've got dozens of these old and very solid padlocks. I just hang them on strings and when they're hit it puts them in motion.
A couple months ago I was shooting a lot of plums. They make a very satisfying splat when you hit them dead on and shatter the pits. Cherries make good targets as well. I don't like to waste food, but when these are in season we have so many that most go to waste anyway.
Other good targets that I've used include aspirin tablets and pennies. The aspirins are cheap and explode in a cloud of dust when hit. Drill a hole in the pennies and hang them from a string. You could use a washer too, but pennies are cheaper and less useful.
I've also just used any old scrap of metal in the past. Scraps of copper or galvanized pipe and fittings can be hung on strings and make an audible clang when hit.
I also shoot a lot of cardboard boxes. I'll either mark a small dot on them with a sharpie or I'll punch a hole in them and stick a dandelion head through it. The dandelion heads really stand out against the cardboard and they're just more fun to shoot than a dot of ink.
A couple months ago I was shooting a lot of plums. They make a very satisfying splat when you hit them dead on and shatter the pits. Cherries make good targets as well. I don't like to waste food, but when these are in season we have so many that most go to waste anyway.
Other good targets that I've used include aspirin tablets and pennies. The aspirins are cheap and explode in a cloud of dust when hit. Drill a hole in the pennies and hang them from a string. You could use a washer too, but pennies are cheaper and less useful.
I've also just used any old scrap of metal in the past. Scraps of copper or galvanized pipe and fittings can be hung on strings and make an audible clang when hit.
I also shoot a lot of cardboard boxes. I'll either mark a small dot on them with a sharpie or I'll punch a hole in them and stick a dandelion head through it. The dandelion heads really stand out against the cardboard and they're just more fun to shoot than a dot of ink.
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I'm in the ink dot phase myself. My basement range is laughable, maybe 7 yards. I just try to make the best of it. I took an old tree bucket and filled it with rubber mulch and jeans. Works well! Top left was with my Cometa 400 .22 with FX 15.89s. And a scope, but at 3x. It loves those pellets!
Top right was Benjamin Fortitude with blurry 4x scope and 10 rounds of HN Crow Mag.
Top right was Benjamin Fortitude with blurry 4x scope and 10 rounds of HN Crow Mag.
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A house had some of that foam trim molding around the top the woodpeckers made a deep nest inside it they bought some kind of woodpecker repelling paint $$ after fixing the hole and the next day the hole was back.
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This thread is great reading…
I gotta ask you Bedrock Bob, are you an analyst or engineer?
When you described how it was easier to shoot a triceratops than a T-Rex, I had to know what you do, lol.
-Ed
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