Reactive target ideas

[xDom]

[quote=" rabbit heads stuck on spikes for a bit of real target practice.[/quote]

Love it!!

Like something out of Game of Thrones!

[mickb]

Another vote for shaking up cheapo coles brand softdrinks. They will explode even for 22LR. If you are using a decent calibre take advantage of giving them a safety lesson with a watermelon or 10lt oil drum filled with water. Let them see what the hydrostatic shock does from a high powered bullet, with an admonition to keep guns pointed in safe directions at all times.

[bladeracer]

Another vote for shaking up cheapo coles brand softdrinks. They will explode even for 22LR. If you are using a decent calibre take advantage of giving them a safety lesson with a watermelon or 10lt oil drum filled with water. Let them see what the hydrostatic shock does from a high powered bullet, with an admonition to keep guns pointed in safe directions at all times.

For an even better result, beer cans shaken up explode quite nicely too when shot.

When I was a kid I would stack up wet clay from the creek then go well back and shoot the lumps, they explode nicely with high-velocity rounds. Too bloody cold here to be scraping around in the creek water though

[bigfellascott]

[quote=" rabbit heads stuck on spikes for a bit of real target practice.

Love it!!

Like something out of Game of Thrones![/quote]

She's a great way to teach kids how to shoot bunnies humanely, give it a go mate. That's how I taught my kids how to shoot em with the 22's they have.

[on_one_wheel]

Another vote for shaking up cheapo coles brand softdrinks. They will explode even for 22LR. If you are using a decent calibre take advantage of giving them a safety lesson with a watermelon or 10lt oil drum filled with water. Let them see what the hydrostatic shock does from a high powered bullet, with an admonition to keep guns pointed in safe directions at all times.

For an even better result, beer cans shaken up explode quite nicely too when shot.

When I was a kid I would stack up wet clay from the creek then go well back and shoot the lumps, they explode nicely with high-velocity rounds. Too bloody cold here to be scraping around in the creek water though

I'm more than certain that wasting good beer is a serious offense against the tobacco and alcohol act.
Make sure your using bad beer

Bad beer

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[TassieTiger]

Well hasn’t this thread gone left...lol.
Was at Bunnings today - thought I needed some butane for my camp stove...but I don’t have a gas stove lol.

Took some ideas from here, balloons, bottles, 29c soft drink cans, etc mixed it up as best I could - think I’ve converted a few ppl. A great day was hand and an even better night telling tall stories lol.

[Chappo]

For an even better result, beer cans shaken up explode quite nicely too when shot.

NO.... Bad bladeracer....
That’s alcohol abuse

Set up some golf balls on tees 25-50 yds out for open site 22lr’s
Good training to get your eye in. They fly off nicely when hit square on

[mickb]

I'm more than certain that wasting good beer is a serious offense against the tobacco and alcohol act.
Make sure your using bad beer

More of an offence against the 'minister for finance' $50 for 24 shots

[Die Judicii]

Let them see what the hydrostatic shock does from a high powered bullet, with an admonition to keep guns pointed in safe directions at all times.

I regularly use soft drink cans full of water for testing the zero of the 22/250, and several times I have noticed (when they are sat on a piece of particle board) that the hydrostatic pressure has left a fairly deep ring where the base of the can has been punched downwards into the particle board.

[TassieTiger]

I'm more than certain that wasting good beer is a serious offense against the tobacco and alcohol act.
Make sure your using bad beer

More of an offence against the 'minister for finance' $50 for 24 shots

Then another $25 for farkin ant repellent—not to mention the pissed bunnies...

[CrackThump]

Well hasn’t this thread gone left...lol.
Was at Bunnings today - thought I needed some butane for my camp stove...but I don’t have a gas stove lol.

Took some ideas from here, balloons, bottles, 29c soft drink cans, etc mixed it up as best I could - think I’ve converted a few ppl. A great day was hand and an even better night telling tall stories lol.

Great to hear it was a success T.T. . glad we could help.. New converts to the sport are always welcome (and needed)

[bladeracer]

Saw this just now on FB, looks like a fun way to introduce kids to air-rifles - in the states that allow kids to shoot still.
Basically a steel tube with a hole through the bottom, 6.5mm at the front with a larger hole at the back. Drop a piece of blackboard chalk in the top and any pellets passing through the hole give a puff of chalk dust, and the chalk falls automatically to reset itself.

[TassieTiger]

If I could place a video on here I would - those butane canisters are something else when they go off lol - not endorsing their use but entertained everyone to the nth degree. Stix also mentioned a great idea - helium balloons with chalk powder...an adler with 5 shots loaded would test the reflexes lol

[Stix]

Can you put it in yoochoob & post a link...?

& did you do the helium thing...?

[TassieTiger]

I’m a little gunshy about putting things like this on tutetube - I’m not tinfoil hat but I also know what could be done if really, really wanted to be done...let’s just say, I was 35/40 metres back, hit 2 canisters sitting in front of a camp fire, with the Adler - and it was wonderfully warm for a good couple of seconds. See behind the camp fire was a carefully built rock wall to protect the fire from the wind - so gas ball was redirected back and up...it was at least 12metres in diameter.

I tried the helium thing but could only get three balloons at the time and they were already full so no chalk...and YES - I missed one and it’s headed to NZ in 45kmh winds. But it has a I love you bear on it - so they’ll know it’s from me.
But this evening as I was buying up cheap gag gifts for my 3 year olds party on weekend - I FOUND that they now sell helium kits for 50 balloons!! Disposable cylinder, etc...very cheap too. Game on lol.

[bladeracer]

I’m a little gunshy about putting things like this on tutetube - I’m not tinfoil hat but I also know what could be done if really, really wanted to be done...let’s just say, I was 35/40 metres back, hit 2 canisters sitting in front of a camp fire, with the Adler - and it was wonderfully warm for a good couple of seconds. See behind the camp fire was a carefully built rock wall to protect the fire from the wind - so gas ball was redirected back and up...it was at least 12metres in diameter.

I tried the helium thing but could only get three balloons at the time and they were already full so no chalk...and YES - I missed one and it’s headed to NZ in 45kmh winds. But it has a I love you bear on it - so they’ll know it’s from me.
But this evening as I was buying up cheap gag gifts for my 3 year olds party on weekend - I FOUND that they now sell helium kits for 50 balloons!! Disposable cylinder, etc...very cheap too. Game on lol.

Make sure you kill _and recover_ the balloons. Cattle and other animals can swallow them and die.
https://www.facebook.com/farmpostmortem/

[TassieTiger]

Couple stills...

Edit - taken pics down. I do not want to be seen as potentially encouraging this kind of thing.

[Sergeant Hartman]

That is the water catching fire from the gas as you have some mines using fracking near you right?

[cracker]

took out some bits of scrap 90x45mm pine, cut into 100-300mm bits on the weekend.
some exploded, some went flying... not real mess just bits of timber big deal...

[cracker]

took out some bits of scrap 90x45mm pine, cut into 100-300mm bits on the weekend.
some exploded, some went flying... not real mess just bits of timber big deal...

[Elmer]

I’m about to take a small group of ppl to my property - who have expressed an interest in trying shooting.
Most have squeezed off a few .22’s and some of the younger ladies have fired a 12g.

Just looking for ideas on reactive targets to spark the interest a little - other than seeing holes in a bit of paper?

Half a kilo of Ammonium perchlorate...only kidding mate lol

[TassieTiger]

PEPCON disaster...? Lol. Nasty stuff.