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    AR/M4 Targets...What Do You Shoot At??

    Some of the more interesting and fun things to shoot at when I'm not at the range (anal Rangemasters) include:

    Charcoal Briquets

    Shaving Cream (yes, full of the white stuff-creates a helluva show)

    Clay Pigeons (on my steel target platform)

    Tannerite

    Air Gun CO2 cylinders (embedded in a dirt bank)

    What do you guys shoot?

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    rabbits, coyotes, junk laying around in the desert.

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    Al Qaeda, Naqshibandi, Insurgents, Terrorists, junk laying around in the desert.

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    Steel gongs. That's all I need.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Avenger11 View Post
    Al Qaeda, Naqshibandi, Insurgents, Terrorists, junk laying around in the desert.
    Too funny, I love it!

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    I found a bunch of cans of "Great Stuff" (the expanding foam stuff you use around the house) really cheap one time. They did the same as shaving cream (also fun to shoot), but left little growing "sprouts" all over the desert that we shot when we ran out of other stuff.
    On the cheap, I like the idea of shooting Charcoal Briquets. I've brought out a sack of patatos, that was cheap and still had a cool affect. Watermellon is awesome, expensive though. You really can't beat seeing it explode with that little bullet thats "just a .22"

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    I like taking 20oz. drink bottles, filling them up w/ water and freezing them. Those work great for up to 200m. 2 liter bottles for 200 - 400m, and milk jugs for 400m+. Good way to "recycle" your trash, or at least get one more use out of it before it goes to the recycling plant (and no, I never leave one single shred of trash at my personal range - the only range we had here was shut down by liberal bone-heads because one group of ignorant a-holes couldn't clean up after themselves ).
    You don't have to freeze the jugs, the water works well for a nice effect too, but the ice is harder, and the bullet actually reacts to it more, and the explosion is more violent.
    Other than that, there's an old barn in my field, with a wealth of old cinder blocks, those are nice, as well as bricks, and I even have an old Chevy small-block V8 that I have set up at 300m to test high-powered rifle penetration (the 5.56 just "chips" at it LOL, although a 70gr. Barnes did break a piece off the lifter valley out once... ) I had 2 of them, but my other one was shot with my friend's Armalite AR30 .338 Lapua... the words "obliterate" and "decimate" come to mind, but needless to say, it shattered.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Avenger11 View Post
    Al Qaeda, Naqshibandi, Insurgents, Terrorists, junk laying around in the desert.
    As the Father of of a Marine Corporal who mans his LAV's 25MM Bushmaster cannon( now back in the sandbox for his 2nd tour), I have to say that is a most outstanding answer! Thanks for your service and for hunting the worst varmints ever Avenger. I'll be forwarding this thread to the Son, he'll get a kick out of it. Keep up the good work and good hunting.
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    Thanks 10MMGary, I meant it with a bit of tongue-in-cheek attitude in reference to Legion6's reply.

    I am glad you took it as you did, as I can imagine some that read statements like that are a little "sensitive" to comments of that sort.

    The truth of it is, we spend more time shooting on the aerial gunnery ranges at chem-lights at night and smoke grenades during the day. Not an easy feat from the cockpit of a fast moving helicopter. But rest assured, we get opportunities to shoot moving targets as well.

    Back home, I usually shoot paper targets on the range. I don't like to shoot things that are difficult to police up after the shooting is done. If you shoot at a public range, you should show respect to that property. I treat it the same as if I am guest shooting in the backyard of a friends home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Avenger11 View Post
    Thanks 10MMGary, I meant it with a bit of tongue-in-cheek attitude in reference to Legion6's reply.

    I am glad you took it as you did, as I can imagine some that read statements like that are a little "sensitive" to comments of that sort.

    The truth of it is, we spend more time shooting on the aerial gunnery ranges at chem-lights at night and smoke grenades during the day. Not an easy feat from the cockpit of a fast moving helicopter. But rest assured, we get opportunities to shoot moving targets as well.

    Back home, I usually shoot paper targets on the range. I don't like to shoot things that are difficult to police up after the shooting is done. If you shoot at a public range, you should show respect to that property. I treat it the same as if I am guest shooting in the backyard of a friends home.
    Well said. I am a member of a conservation league and you have to be a memeber to shoot at our range and I am always astounded at what people leave laying around.
    No respect.

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