Tin cans

[riflejunkie]

Tin cans are may favorite target.  They are essentially free.  When I shoot my Daisy Avanti 853 all I do is dent them slightly, so they last a good long while.  I can shoot paper targets, but for an afternoon spent plinking with an eye on strengthening my offhand skills nothing is as good as setting up 10 cans or so and calling your shots.  Since the Daisy is pretty low power I can opt to move cans over by hitting extreme left or right on a particular can.  So I have 2 rows of 5 cans.  I usually try to shoot the back row first.  If  I need to shoot a can in back but a front row can is in the way I try to move it without knocking it over.

[Gene_SC]

Ya when I have finished shooting the targets that I have set up I shoot all the stuff I have hanging in the trees around the back yard. Shooting stuff on the ground is fun also.. I only shoot off the bench but have become very accustom to it. I can sit under cover and shoot out on days when it is wet as well..:) Just love shooting lead all over the place..:)

[TCups]

I have often wondered if there might be an air gun equivalent to the pin gun shooting I used to do a bit of -- knocking down bowling pins as fast as possible with a 45 auto pistol.  Easier to knock over with a head shot, but harder to hit.   I think a real bowling pin might be dangerous to shoot at with an air rifle, though.  Tough plastic cover might spit a few right back at you.  

Maybe Gene could figure out some type of reasonably heavy, durable material that would be good for pellet shooting and turn out a few mini bowling pins on that lathe of his some time.  Actually, solid aluminum might not be bad.  

[Big_Bill]

I see small to medium bowling pins made of soft PLASTIC at the Dollar store often ! They are hollow inside, and as long as you use a low powered airgun, they might last a long time :)

Bill

[ShadowShot]

DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use foosballs or golf balls.



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[Dave1899]

Now tha would make a nice avatar...LOL...I might change mine

David

[gamo2hammerli]

Here's one of my 9 meters shot-up soup cans. Probably have 50 shots in her. I put a 1/4" thicksmall metal plate in-between thick cardboard to stop the pellets from going through.....the cardboard also stops thepellet from bouncing back out after hitting the metal plate. Gets abit messy since the cardboard dust/pieces puff out....the cardboard taped on top helps keep the dust inside abit.

[riflejunkie]

What we need are cans made for shooting that will last for years.  Someone with sheet metal capability could make some heavy enough that we couldn't shoot holes in them.

[Gene_SC]

LOL Tommy, your the cause of me not falling asleep right away last night..:) Was thinking about them bowling pins..:)

[Gene_SC]

I was thinking of buying some long 1/4" wood dowels and rolling up some different size balls of that clay stuff we use in our target box's. Can make them any size we want and just stick them on the end of a dowel cut to what ever length you need. That way there would be no danger of the pellet coming back at you. Would be safe and still do what you want.

[daved]

One of the best things about PCP's is being able to blow holes in things :-)!  One of the things I use are short sections of copper water pipe.  Drill a hole in it and hang it from whatever, makes it even more interesting if there's a little wind moving them around.  Hitting a piece of 1/2" copper at 40 yards is pretty satisfying ;-).  Also, it's soft enough to soak up pellet strikes without flinging them back at you, but tough enough to last quite awhile.  Later.

Dave

[Big_Bill]

There is a fellow that makes knock over targets that never break. He makes them in forms of cans all the way up to dinosaurs ! A little expensive for my back yard, but very nicely made.

[riflejunkie]

I don't know why I thought it needed inventing!!!! Duh!! Buy pipe cutter and cut pipe of whatever size approximates a can. Will last forever, to Daved's dismay

[daved]

Damn, you're right, I'm dismayed :-).  Actually, you don't even need to buy the pipe cutter, just go to your friendly local plumbing supplier and tell them what you want.  Most will sell galvanized pipe by the foot, and will charge little or nothing for just cutting, although threading is extra.  What's even cooler, if you hang your pieces of pipe and pick the right lengths, you can make music with your air rifle!  Hey, I should market that, the air rifle wind chime target set...  Later.

Dave

[gamo2hammerli]

There`s some copper pipes that`s pre-cut already....I think in 1 1/2" and 2"......but I like the different length ones with the different tones when hit....I think I`ll try that.