What is your range setup and what are your targets?

[PyroMonkey]

I usually shoot from a second story window that overlooks the back yard.  It's high enough that pellets hit the dirt behind the target at an angle that makes them dig in rather than bounce.  Even if they did ricochet there's nothing to hit but 300 acres of tall grass and trees so ~10,000 rounds later I've pretty much figured out it's safe. 

Shooting from a high, comfortable (air conditioned  ) place makes me feel like an elite sniper  and I often find myself setting up battle scenarios with those little green plastic army men and picking them off one by one with the discovery... tell me this is normal or at least ok Sometimes I'll get very over confident and put one out at 75-100 yards and just shoot until I get lucky but when I do... it makes my day!

What are your favorite fun targets and how do you dispatch them?

  I'm interested to see what all the elite airgunners here do in the summer or when they're not shooting paper.   - Andy

[VINNY]

I always shoot standing unsupported, and usually at 12 yards into my goofy "shooting gallery" I made. I set up wine corks, shotgun shells, bottle caps, on up to cd"s [aol] and anything I can find that looks fun to blast away. I am going to get some golf tee's and cheese balls and try that. I want to shoot at paintballs too.

[PyroMonkey]

I always shoot standing unsupported, and usually at 12 yards into my goofy "shooting gallery" I made. I set up wine corks, shotgun shells, bottle caps, on up to cd"s [aol] and anything I can find that looks fun to blast away. I am going to get some golf tee's and cheese balls and try that. I want to shoot at paintballs too.

I shoot at paintballs, in slowmo on my scope cam it looks really cool. Instant hit confirmation

[Lambchops]

I normally shoot at 18 yards benched at Gamo 5x5 targets. When i'm plinking, it's up to 30 yards.

[mcc1961]

I shoot at wooden matches and paint balls at 20 yards.I can go back 25 yards but it is in my neighbors yard,he doesn't care if I shoot from there but i hardly ever do that because at 20 yards it is still pretty hard to hit a wooden match.

[OldmanJunky]

18-30 yards, depending on what I am doing.  Mostly just paper or the random yard pest who ventures in.

Sometimes I pick up old junk and jam it into the duct seal trap.  Watching a 45 fpe smack around an old doorknob adds a little variety.  I gotta try this paintball thing.

[Wild Onion]

I'm able to squeeze 10 yards out of my basement. It's tight, and I haven't hit anything except the target and the drywall a couple times - lol! For a backstop, I use a large Goldfish box stuffed with old clothes like jeans and t-shirts.

[Dead nuts dog]

Well this year due to Beatle killed pines I dropped bunch of trees. That opened up my available distance to 150 ish yards.
You are ok for shooting the little green army men --- aim small miss small ------- as for the scenarios your creating about shooting them you might want to seek some professional help LOL just kidding, what ever trips your trigger

I like to shoot at .22 hilti rounds, it basically a blank. I like the way they go POW when they are struck by a pellet. I find it very rewarding. Other than that pinecones are fun, the branches that hold them and  my favorite is to shoot between the legs of assorted creatures.
I do wish Bigfoot would strol on threw some day. I think I would tackle him, if not I'd shoot him in the butt

[Norm_m]

Well my indoor range is 10 yards and used mostly when I set up a new gun or want to shoot one of my other AG's over the chrony, which is always set up ready to be used. My outdoor range is pretty nice as I hang a custom made shooting bench from my home office window and I have the ability to shoot all the way out to 100 yards. Most of my shooting is at paper targets or critters that wander to close to the house.

Norm

[Tater]

Well my indoor range is 10 yards and used mostly when I set up a new gun or want to shoot one of my other AG's over the chrony, which is always set up ready to be used. My outdoor range is pretty nice as I hang a custom made shooting bench from my home office window and I have the ability to shoot all the way out to 100 yards. Most of my shooting is at paper targets or critters that wander to close to the house.

Norm

Pictures?

[Addictedtoair]

The indoor part of my range consists of a bench and chair along with my rests and assorted bags. My FX Independence is tethered to a regulator attached to a 88 cu ft CF 4500 psi tank.

I shoot out an open window 30 yards to a silent trap atop a bucket. I shoot a modified Steroid 15 target that has 45 bulls instead of the 15 for match practice. I also shoot at these bug targets that someone posted along time ago.

My noise and physical signature is very low and the neighbors have had no complaints!

Brett

[william71743]

Well I have a 2 acre yard with nothing behind me. Lately I've been after sparrows and starlings that try to get to my Martin boxes. Sometines my little dog trees a squirrel . I also have a 50 yard range set up where I can shoot paper.

[PyroMonkey]

Nice setups guys!

I will encourage you all to try paintballs, I use golf tees to set them up.  They are by far my favorite target and I have a few thousand old ones from my paintball days just waiting to be splattered.  If you want to get really fancy, get up close, really close, as close as you're sights/scope will allow and try to nick them on the side so they spin.  Sometimes you'll get lucky and they will leave a cool spiral shape painting on the ground.  Who says marksmanship isn't art?

What about cap gun caps?  I've always wanted to shoot them but they're so small I haven't tried it yet, maybe there's a way to attach them to something to increase the "kill zone"

Another fun one is empty shell casings.  Be careful because they go flying but that's part of the fun.  Just imagine what happens to a 9mm or even .22lr casing when you get a square hit.

[pappa]

For initial sighting-in and some diagnostic shooting, I use a 5 inch thick cardboard box crammed full of folded newspapers with computer printed targets taped on. I put the target against the far wall of the dining room, sit at the far wall of the family room and shoot across the family room, kitchen and dining room at the target. This is real close to 10 yards.

For varmints, I use a door jam or porch pillar as a brace for my left hand and shoot out of the front door or the back door or porch.

For plinking target practice, I have a wrought iron .22 rifle spinner with 3 spinners of different sizes set in the front yard at 35 yards from my rocking chair on the front porch.

For fine sighing-in at this distance, I use a sturdy tripod with a large V shaped rest padded with 3 inches of egg crate foam rubber as a rest and shoot at a steel framed target next to the spinners. To save my old legs, I use a 25 power tripod mounted spotting scope to check the target.

[grizzlyadams]

i have spinners set at 20 and 25 yds. four of the gamo squirrel targets set from 20-45 yds. a target board at 20,35, and 50 yds. thats from my back deck. if i go up in the field and set up my bench i can get almost 300 yds., but i have new neighbors and i don't know them yet so i refrain from target shooting in the field at the moment

[Crosshairs]

This is my attic set up for 10 meters.
                    Mike

[Onebaddj]

I can get up to 20 yds in the house and 24 if i shoot through the window to the fence. When i can i head out to the lake where i can get about 110. I shoot paint balls matches outside and steel beeman silohettes. I have a 1 gal milk jug frozen solid waiting on the next time i can get the condor out side. That should be fun. Soda cans fill with water and frozen are also a good time.

[cheerIO]

I shoot at the shop since I'm at work most of the day and I'm lucky to have a longish yard.
I pest for rats at 15yards but my practice range has targets at 15, 30, 60, and 90 yards.
I shoot at paper targets in pellet traps close up. At 60 and 90 yards I shoot tin can tops that have been painted with fluorescent paint so that I can see and hear the hits.

[Cathartes]

I have a trap at 20 yards from my bench, markers at 30 and 40 yards where I often set spinning targets, field targets, or a trap for bench testing or plinking, and a clothesline with six soup cans just past 40 yards for casual offhand plinking. I take a few shots at the cans pretty much every morning.

[Fishbone]

Nothing fancy here!

I have a box with spinners setup at 15yds to shoot out the bedroom window, mostly for the c02 guns.
For longer ranges, a lawn chair and a portable saw horse and a sandbag rest with targets and spinners at 30yds, 45yds. (The orange covered atv usually isn't parked there, and might be blocking the furthest targets.)

I made atv trails around the my property and out into the woods, I took an idea from another poster and use old spoons nailed to trees, sometimes I walk around the trails and shoot off hand or with a bi-pod rest.

As for 'live' targets, out here in the woods, there's no HOSP or starlings, they do come through during the fall, and I can't bring myself to shoot finches, cardinals or other song birds.

But squirrels!! the woods and my yard are full of them, but have to wait for hunting season!