Shotgun clays and Sams Club sodas. Cheap, and you can see a hit.
(actually the way my eyes are getting, I couldn't see those at 300 yards w/out glass).

 

how about some of those little coleman camping propane tanks, if you want to see a cool fireball you need to light a fire behind it first. just shooting around in it wound make it ignite. A tracer might though, never tried that before....hmmm....

 

How about an old pressure cooker that still holds a tight seal....fill it full of liquid drano and a bunch of strips of tin foil and seal the cooker up tight and give it a good shake to get the tin foil mixing with the drano. Walk down range (probably at least 50-75 yards to be safe) and shoot it and watch it explode. But I would give it at least 10-15 minutes before you shoot it depending on how fast the pressure builds up inside of the cooker.

 

things to shoot

old trolls,Aldis can drinks ,ice,eggs,paint balls,and i can go on and on-mother in laws-oops scratch that,golf balls are good too,

 

I like concrete blocks, but messy to clean up. I know a lot of people do paint cans, but not enviromentally friendly.

 

targets

large vegetables, check with the guy at the grocery
and they are bio-degradeable

 

This doesnt have the "bang" most of the suggestions do but i have used lolli pops before. Just pit it stick first in the ground you have instant targets. Probably more fun with a .22 than a large caliber rifle. I havent tried it yet but have thought about putting a little flour into a baloon and then blowing it up a little. Not sure how well it will work but something i have been wanting to try, lol.

 

Animal ccokies with 22 LR at the range, 22 calibri in the back yard. The birds really like to clean up after me.

CLF

 

When I was a dealership tech (in another life) I used to collect up the windshield washer fluid jugs (gallon) and fill 'em with water. They are very good for testing pistol ammo by lining jugs up and shooting. They are great for long distance rifle targets...especially varmint bullets. I used to get about 20 jugs a week easy.

 

Put some thumbtacks on your target.

It's fun to shoot them out.

 

I used to shoot a lot of watermelons, even before R.Lee Ermey declared war on them.

But that was when you could get them for a quarter, 50 cents if they were cold.

m49

 

The balloon and flower idea sounds interesting and CHEAP.

I like the water jug idea as well but for that *zing* factor it almost needs to have some pressure behind it - club soda or the Sam's Choice (which is pure liquid s--t anyway) may be the ticket.

 

Tannerrite:w00t:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1i2QVwXlE&feature=related

 

One of my all-time favorites...


Back when AO(hel)L, mindspring, etc were mailing CDs at a rate of 12/week to every human on the planet... we would hang a stack (5 has good effect, but not like 10 :biggrin on a nail in the backstop. A direct hit with your favorite supersonic ammo will cause the CDs to shatter into millions of pieces and produce a very nice "poof" of "glitter", especially if the sun's just right!

"Try it, you'll like it!" :w00t:

 

One word...Tannerite.

http://www.tannerite.com/

 

Instead of flour in the balloons, put some ground up colored chalk, like the kids sidewalk chalk. Nothing like red chalk in a balloon

 

I think I've cleaned up after some of you at the public range...

I like clays a lot. Plastic bottles with colored water. Balloons. Eggs are a favorite.

 

the neatest thing i ever used was a full gallon of milk i forgot to put away. after hitting it with a 7mm there was a neat white cloud that drifted down the valley.
i just had some steel plates welded up into a v pattern so i can drive down range and set them out.

 

here about october 30th, it will be quite easy to get a hold of large orange targets at the farmers market... they give you deep discounts that close to halloween just so they dont have to drive them all the way back to their farm...

 

Charcoal briquettes are great and make a nice cloud when hit. Their dirt cheap too when you get the generic brand. Bio degradable too.

 

Drill a hole in a golf ball, thread with some 550 cord, and tie it to something downrange. I use a wooden dowel and bungee cord it off to the side of a target frame.
Do one on each side and you can do some back and forth games with them.

CHRIS

 

Dollar store shaving cream cans.

 

these are some good ideas, I may have to try some out.

 

these are some good ideas, I may have to try some out.

I know. Some I knew of but others are completely new to me.

 

I like the paintball idea, maybe take a 20oz soda bottle and cut it in half and pour a bunch of paintballs in it, Im not sure I could hit that at 300 w/o some ocular enhancement.

I used to walk the road for scrap aluminum and found several cases of nice green beer that by now is 10 years old or more. Ive been saving them up for the day I got a snazy 60 year old rifle with a scope on it to blowem away. The day has came and I havent had the chance yet.

I suppose you could take you some baking soda (or some other compounds) in water and agitated it in a soda bottle and shoot it at a distance, save the soda for afterwards

For the longest time I shot old harddrives, they're good for about 20 shots or more, and you can find old ones day and night.