Dug up more fun stuff to shoot!

[ronbeaux]

I thought to myself this morning, "Didn't I used to have some field targets laying around?" So out to the garage/junk storage center I went. And there they were! Right where I left them 10 years ago.



These were custom made by a shop teacher here in my area YEARS ago. We used them in Field Target Comps placed from 10 to 50 yards away.

Mister Prairie Dog has seen better day but is an easy one up close. You have to shoot cleanly through the hole in order for it to fall. Comps are limited to 20 ft/lbs so you won't damage the targets.


El-Roacho here usually got placed between 15 and 30yrds



And last. The BAD AZZ RED BUG. There is a story behind this one. We had guys come over from California to shoot with us in Texas in 1995. One poor guy sat in a red bug nest and got covered with them, ending up going to the Emergency room that night for a Benadrill shot. They don't have red bugs in California so he says. My Daughter sketched it up and my buddy made it for me. From then on, EVERYBODY wanted to KILL the BAD AZZ RED BUG! We would put it at 15 yards to make it easy.



So it looks like I got another work bench project restoring these. They reset with a string you run back to your shooting position so no walking down range after every shot.

Now where did I put my paint???

Oh yeah. None of those misses were mine!

[DanoInTx]

Bet those will be just fine with a little TLC, good deal!  Reactive targets are one of my favorite things to shoot, although I like paper targets as well.  My personal favorite is little plastic Army men and frozen paintballs on toothpics, although the paintball gets a little messy.  I bought a couple big old bags of the green plastic guys at the dollar store for, you guessed it, a dollar a bag.  My youngest son soon saw my collection of green plastic Army men and decided to take ownership of them.  Now I had only shot maybe a dozen of them, and the ones I shot were still out in the yard "somewhere", but everytime my son finds one that is mis-molded or whatever he says,"Dad, why did you shoot this one?".  I think he thinks I have a serious personal issue with the little plastic dudes, but in reality they are just a good size to plink at.  Wow, can I go off on a tangent or what?  Haha, nice find!

[Dave1899]

Man, those are great! I've never shot reactive targets with an air gun but I do love she sound they make with my powder burners

David

[JOHNNY QUEST]

I rember mr. prairy dog..    I think Mrs. Quest remembers him also..  She took her first airgun shot at him... and nailed him 1st try...  If i am correct he was sitting on that same diving board when she did it...

[Gene_SC]

Would, rabbits, squirrels, birds, ground hogs be concidered reactive targets?.......:)

[daved]

Only if "roll over, play dead" qualifies as reactive :-)!  I've been using paint balls, but they're kind of messy in my shop.  So yesterday I picked up a bag of cheap Sweet Tart knock offs, just under 1/2" in dia.  Haven't shot any yet, but the smaller size should make them at least a little more challenging, and the mess can be swept up, instead of needing a mop ;-).  Later.

Dave

[shadow]

Dem some cool target's, that does look like a nasty bug to be sitting on lol. Ed

[speedturtle]

Ron, care to show some pics of the back side of your reactive targets so I can find out how the resetting mechanism works? That would be a good project to work on later.

I also use the little army men and whatever small figurine toys that my kids have that they don't play with anymore and I just scatter them between 20 - 25 yards. Fun to shoot with! Now what I'm using as my targets are the plastic "poker chips" that you can buy for about $2 at wally world. It's about 2" in diameter and I drill a small hole at about 1/4" from the edge so I can hang them on a string or a rod. What makes it challenging is when the wind blows and reorients the chips from a full frontal to a semi side. When I ran out of these targets I go back to paper targets and that's it.

Speedturtle

[kirby999]

One animal at a time. I bought my a Gamo squirrel today at Walmart for $19.97 and I already had a regular Gamo Squirrel target and two like this one for a total of 4 so far. I plan on ordering a set of face plates so all of them aren't squirrels. A friend of mine has 10 acres a little over an hour south of me and he's ageed to gelp me set up a hunter style course on his property . I need to get down there before it greens up and cut some lanes . I hope to have a least 10 Gamo's by the end of the year , I'm trying to remember to buy one a month . We'll also use some spinner targets , maybe a few spoons , who knows what we'll come up with . It'd be nice to just follow a traila and have a variety of targets to shoot at . We're thinking most shots will be off hand or maybe leaning against a tree , or kneeling , just like hunting . We're even thinking of having it 4X or maybe 6X limit on scopes or/and open sights , so the kill zones will be left big. kirby

[Truman]

This is also a good link on how to build one!
http://www.airguns.net/ft_woodfieldtarget.php