Fun Shooting Targets

[brewbear]

Yeah, once I went to complete the purchase shipping turned into $17 + change.
I think I'll have Kenny make a couple instead.

I want one too, please!!! I can send funds, I have PayPal and I'm not afraid to use it!!

[RonsPlc]

Yeah, once I went to complete the purchase shipping turned into $17 + change.
I think I'll have Kenny make a couple instead.

I want one too, please!!! I can send funds, I have PayPal and I'm not afraid to use it!!

If I could find a US seller, I would order one as well!

[avator]

Lemme see what Kenny does with it. I printed out the pattern and told him to make it 12" x 8" with a 1" butthole.
I suggested 1/4" steel.

[Hoosier Daddy]

I need a Plasma cutter...   

[avator]

Yep, if I had one I wouldn't be asking Kenny to do this.

[wingnuts]

Ping pong balls can be fun and challenging. On golf tees or just thrown out randomly. Also hung with fishing line taped to them, in the breeze. Orange are easiest to see.

Filled with carpenters chalk box chalk they really impress!

[bantam5s]

So what's your favorite fun targets to shoot. Home made, store bought, metal, paper. Bulls eyes or Zombies? Or maybe just tin cans. I come up with a new idea every time I walk thru Home Depot.  Also so many fun free paper targets on the internet I could spent a fortune on ink cartridges.  Just found these metal targets on Amazon, very good quality and unique. I like having some different new animal targets . (1/8 steel)

 I also like to collect old paper targets, like  Daisy, Crossman, JC Higgins etc. just looking at pictures can bring back some memories.

Where did you find these silhouettes at ?
I have a bunch of the air venturi's which have been available at Walmart for a few years but am looking for others.
I didn't know where were other shapes available.
I'd especially like to be able to find a pack of just the little chickens since I now have a good way to not loose them.

I've probably had 6 sets of these the past few years and the only little chicken I have Is from the brand new pack I just opened.

[splitbeing]

Squirrel nutt flippers! What a great sounding idea [kuh-link sound of flipping steel]

[airgunaut]

I have a tiny smoke detector (looks like a little white R2D2) that began chirping its death warning 4 weeks ago from tomorrow (Tuesday morning). It is STILL CHIRPING!  I would’ve expected it to die after a few days, especially after I put it in a box and left it outside 24/7, in hot sun during the day, increasingly cold nights, and a few rainstorms. The thing won’t quit.

Contemplating putting it out of its misery with a pellet. Will it be .177 or .20?

[Tater]

I have a tiny smoke detector (looks like a little white R2D2) that began chirping its death warning 4 weeks ago from tomorrow (Tuesday morning). It is STILL CHIRPING!  I would’ve expected it to die after a few days, especially after I put it in a box and left it outside 24/7, in hot sun during the day, increasingly cold nights, and a few rainstorms. The thing won’t quit.

Contemplating putting it out of its misery with a pellet. Will it be .177 or .20?

Go with the .20, we like to see clean kills here.       

[Back_Roads]

I have a tiny smoke detector (looks like a little white R2D2) that began chirping its death warning 4 weeks ago from tomorrow (Tuesday morning). It is STILL CHIRPING!  I would’ve expected it to die after a few days, especially after I put it in a box and left it outside 24/7, in hot sun during the day, increasingly cold nights, and a few rainstorms. The thing won’t quit.

Contemplating putting it out of its misery with a pellet. Will it be .177 or .20?

Go with the .20, we like to see clean kills here.       

Yes they can suffer for years, I put one in the recycling shed at work 6 years ago, it is still chirping.

[Steelontarget]

I have a tiny smoke detector (looks like a little white R2D2) that began chirping its death warning 4 weeks ago from tomorrow (Tuesday morning). It is STILL CHIRPING!  I would’ve expected it to die after a few days, especially after I put it in a box and left it outside 24/7, in hot sun during the day, increasingly cold nights, and a few rainstorms. The thing won’t quit.

Contemplating putting it out of its misery with a pellet. Will it be .177 or .20?

Go with the .20, we like to see clean kills here.       

Yes they can suffer for years, I put one in the recycling shed at work 6 years ago, it is still chirping.

If you don't hit it in the vital area it will stop chirping and emit an irritatingly high pitched, non-stop squeal until a point-blank coup de grâce is administered. 

BTW, do not let anyone with a smart phone record you doing this unless you want to be infamous in a video gone viral.

[avator]

Do the humane thing... tie a rock to it and toss it in a 5 gallon bucket of water. If nothing else, you won't hear the chirping anymore.

[WobblyHand]

You all are too funny.  Why not just remove the battery?  No more chirping.  You want to shoot something?  Well now you have two targets, the alarm and the smaller battery.

[airgunaut]

This unit has an integral, nonreplaceable battery.

I was loathe to shoot it because it is...well, cute, and because it has lasted longer than the much bigger, common smoke detectors with replaceable batteries.

But it was still chirping today, 5 chirps every minute. If the battery is bad, why does it keep chirping for so long? The dying thing must actually be some other part. Like the mothership motherboard.

I say “WAS chirping” because I silenced it, finally. Note I did not say “killed it.” The little red light still flashes, after 12 shots hit R2D2. An early hit made the chirp change to a single, soft peep. But when I shook it, the device made other weird sounds, one of which sounded like it had laryngitis. More shots and more shaking caused 5 little black plastic rectangles to fall out the holes. At least now it stopped making sounds.

That plastic is far tougher than I expected. Nothing shattered. The only holes were in the perforated metal band that serves as a speaker. (See photos.) The body had no holes, only one small crack and a bunch of lead impact marks. AND the spent pellets were squashed as flat as if they had hit the pellet box’s steel backing plate directly.

Perhaps that primitive thing, a hammer, or a big rock, would smash the plastic. I think I’ll shoot it some more, though. Try to extinguish that little red flashing light.

“Before” photo:

[airgunaut]

“After” photos:

Shot with Blue Streak, H&N FTT 11.42 gr, 3 pumps from 33’, sitting on ground with bent knee for support. R2D2 is 2” tall and 1.5” wide.

Because of a sprained left thumb (the top joint), I had to pump the gun differently from usual.

[WobblyHand]

Must have been satisfying 
Didn't know it was non removable.  Kind of odd it kept on going through.  Think you need to shoot it again, you know, just to make sure 

[airgunaut]

I spoke too soon. It is emitting the alarm sequence accompanied by the alarm flashes, but at very low volume. Sounds like a baby bird begging. Which probably explains the repeated distinct wing whooshes I heard when I opened the door. Raven must have checked out whether an easy snack was sitting there.

So I moved R2D2 into the garage for its last gasp (maybe). Or safekeeping until the next shooting session.

My apologies to the OP for derailing this thread.

[Ronno6]

I take bottle caps and flatten 1 edge.
Then sit on a bar magnet on a support.
Shooting them makes them spin off in a whirrr

Only drawback is locating them in the grass...........

[airgunaut]

I take bottle caps and flatten 1 edge.
Then sit on a bar magnet on a support.
Shooting them makes them spin off in a whirrr

Only drawback is locating them in the grass...........

Walk barefoot in the grass and they will locate you.

Got action video of the whirlycaps?