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DIY Reactive Targets
My brothers and I are going shooting this weekend and I started wondering about reactive targets for our rifles. I don't really want steel because of ricochets. Is there someone who can point me to a site where they give ideas on do-it-yourself, homemade reactive targets?
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1. Bowling pins (even when they are knocked down, they still move and react when hit). They absorb a huge number of rounds due to the dense wood encased on hard plastic/vinyl)
2. 3 or 4 foot Rebar staked into the ground with an aluminum can or fruit impaled on the top of the rebar spike.
3. You can also combine the two by putting bowling pins (which usually have a perfect size hole on the bottom) on top of the rebar stakes.Expert firearms attorney: https://www.rwslaw.com/team/adam-j-richards/
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Potatoes are great targets, as are eggs. Also clay birds, old milk jugs filled with water, and a wide variety of fruit.I'm only smiling at you while you talk to me because it's hilarious that you really think I give a crap about you.
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Small water bottles with colored water.
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2 liter soda bottle on a string, either empty or with some water in it.Time spent hunting is not deducted from one's lifespan.Comment
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I suggest onions and shaving cream bottles. They both explode pretty well.Comment
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Go buy some plastic soldiers from the dollar store. Dig some trenches, place the soldiers, hunker back laying prone, and play sniper with your .22's.
Swing by some local garage sales and pick up old aluminum pans. Hang them from a clothes line along with coffee cans, etc. Blaze away.
Fruit is biodegradable and make great small targets.
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aluminum powder and ammonium nitrate.Comment
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Actually, STEEL is great cuz you can shoot them again and again and they will continue to give you feedback...
Most of what had been suggested in this thread are, "visible" hit targets, but after they are hit... they are gone...
The bowling pin probably would be good....
Any other??- LL
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