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What’s your favorite target?
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The small apples that grow on the trees along my yard. They average the size of a golf ball. When there’s a good crop I’ll bag and freeze them. That way I have a stash to last me.
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Beside squirrels when hunting or Starlings/Sparrows/pigeons etc when pesting I like to shoot acorns off my oak trees, blades of grass, dandelions, weed stems etc. Flys or wasp that land on my target back stop. I also like shooting my know your limits target out at 62 yds.
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I like to tie up and hang duraseal targets from tree branches. They hang down about 6' with paracord and you can use the line to check your cant. When hit they dance wildly, it's real easy to see, and you don't have to reset or paint them all the time. The most important thing is that they are quiet. Nobody knows that i'm shooting and I like it that way.
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You guys have some beautiful outdoor ranges. I used to love to plink but where I live these days I’m stuck to shooting in my basement. I’m fortunate to have 46’. I’m mostly interested in target rifles so seeing how well I can group on the standard 10 meter air rifle target is the mainstay of my shooting. I’m currently trying to get better at shooting offhand and that looks like it will keep me busy for life!
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If you are shooting the small flippers at 55 yards, with a pistol, I'm just going to sit here and resent you. ;-)Cans for springers and steel for PCPs.
20 yards for pistols.
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55 yards for rifles and pistols. Paint the steel with white spray paint and let dry. Orange paint for the bullseyes. They really pop with two coats of paint. Paper targets only zeroing.
I can hit the cans with my LP400 with about eight inches of hold over when the wind cooperates.
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Hehe my peas do not do that kind of damage to a frying pan, but i have actually managed to make a hole in one, at considerable distance.
Also these days dandelion make nice yellow targets, cutting the stalk a .22 or so target is nice, but hitting the flower itself is also rewarding.
Also these days dandelion make nice yellow targets, cutting the stalk a .22 or so target is nice, but hitting the flower itself is also rewarding.
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BTW for our new " needle " target, the shooting gallery chalks behind the 6 mm hole dident do much for a visual reward.
So we did a experiment stuffing the hole through the chalks with chalk powder, and that instantly gave a better result.
Here my M8 hit a full chalk, but just smashing 1/3 or so of it behind the hole give a similar puff, you will see the cloud of dust drift across the field for many meters before it fade in the wind.
I will probably try something new along these lines with making another " needle " type target, but with a bigger hole. probably 8 - 10 mm CUZ this will be put up at 118 M distance, and a 6 mm hole is a very tall order for a .177 at that distance, if you need like 30 -50 shots to get one hit, that is more like a lottery and not shooting.
Still 10 mm hole will probably also need you to fire a few shots before you connect, CUZ the .177 are not repeating its shots very much, unsure if that is a general calibre thing or it is just the wind playing tricks.
I do mostly see l & R deflection / change in POI, but i do also see a little Up & Down so i think the flaky .177 calibre is also to blame a little.
And of course me the meat behind the rifle.
I have been thinking " i wonder if a piece of drywall would give a similar puff of dust"
That stuff here is like 10 mm thick so i figure cut strips of the stuff so they are 10 X 10 mm to put into the gravity magazine behind the "needle" target.
So we did a experiment stuffing the hole through the chalks with chalk powder, and that instantly gave a better result.
Here my M8 hit a full chalk, but just smashing 1/3 or so of it behind the hole give a similar puff, you will see the cloud of dust drift across the field for many meters before it fade in the wind.
I will probably try something new along these lines with making another " needle " type target, but with a bigger hole. probably 8 - 10 mm CUZ this will be put up at 118 M distance, and a 6 mm hole is a very tall order for a .177 at that distance, if you need like 30 -50 shots to get one hit, that is more like a lottery and not shooting.
Still 10 mm hole will probably also need you to fire a few shots before you connect, CUZ the .177 are not repeating its shots very much, unsure if that is a general calibre thing or it is just the wind playing tricks.
I do mostly see l & R deflection / change in POI, but i do also see a little Up & Down so i think the flaky .177 calibre is also to blame a little.
And of course me the meat behind the rifle.
I have been thinking " i wonder if a piece of drywall would give a similar puff of dust"
That stuff here is like 10 mm thick so i figure cut strips of the stuff so they are 10 X 10 mm to put into the gravity magazine behind the "needle" target.
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I have two favorite targets. Both are regular attractions at the DIFTA field target club.
My favorite is one called tall Tom. It’s a big homemade steel turkey with the kill zone in the head.
When you hit the kill zone the paddle falls then the target falls. It takes a few seconds for the whole target to fall over like a giant redwood.
The other is an axe head welded between two knock down targets. You have be to hit the axe blade perfectly to split the pellet and drop both targets.
My favorite is one called tall Tom. It’s a big homemade steel turkey with the kill zone in the head.
When you hit the kill zone the paddle falls then the target falls. It takes a few seconds for the whole target to fall over like a giant redwood.
The other is an axe head welded between two knock down targets. You have be to hit the axe blade perfectly to split the pellet and drop both targets.
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Hitting sharp edge to split and hit 2 things, might well be tried here this season, same go for splitting cards.
Actually might also try some short range 30 yard stuff, though in my case it will end up as 30 M as we dont have much shorter.
Actually might also try some short range 30 yard stuff, though in my case it will end up as 30 M as we dont have much shorter.
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Splitting a card is very hard . I think it is a luck thing. I can hit the card edge every time. But it only cuts half the card.
The axe splitter was surprisingly easy.
The axe splitter was surprisingly easy.
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