Targets?

[Cold_DeadHands]

What kind of Targets do you use to shoot at with your shotgun? When I don't use regular paper targets, I prefer 1 Gallon Milk or Water Jugs myself.

[zippy13]

Bio-degradable, orange dome, standard size trap/skeet clays.

[Chinny33]

birds, squirrels, rabbits.

8.5''x11'' paper <--cheapest form, no blood, no mess to clean up

clay discs [skeet/trap]

[BigJimP]

I'm a clay Target shooter - Skeet and Sporting Clays mostly / a little Trap.

[Scattergun Bob]

I still spend quite a bit of time functioning my fighting 870's. Before the snow hit the ground and made transit into the hills tough, I would practice on a falling plate rack with the tightest shooting 870 barrel I have ever owned. For me it's all about speed to the next target and hand manipulation of the scattergun. Shoot one, reload one, shoot one is a great drill to build speed and confidence.

now that the snow has hit, I practice at our indoor range @ 50ft with a steel shaker plate and cheap winchester slugs, same drills, in low light.

[dalecooper51]

Most of the time I try to shoot those aggravating little orange clay targets on the skeet range. Other than that it is either butcher paper, cardboard or steel swingers.

[alloy]

paper plates and clothespins strung on a 30ft wide fence

[true_pair]

clay targets

[oneounceload]

another one for clay targets

[peetzakilla]

Deer mostly.:D

A few homemade paper targets made with filemaker that allows me to aim at the bullseye and hit the appropriate line for reference at each appropriate distance.

[Dave McC]

Plenty of choices. For moving targets I like starlings. Landfill rats have their good points also, though shooting is now prohibited at the local one.

For "Serious" practice, a good low cost, biodegradeable target is a paper grocery bag. Lay your forearm on it down the middle and trace around it with a Sharpie. Add a 4" circle at the top and mount it on a lath 5 feet off the ground or less.

Duplicates the CNS, the side of the bag is about the same as most torsos.

[USA123456789]

well. You can go to your local Wal-mart and get a hand set trap thrower (about 40 or < ) and grab a box of targets and head on out the door.
Im a big trapshooter so if you are looking for something moving try trapshooting then go to skeet or sporting.

[olddrum1]

I usally just shoot mine up in the air. I love to reload and thats the only way I can get them empty. (I have a clay machine out in the barn) Sorry for being silly.

[.300 Weatherby Mag]

clays..

[Vergeltung]

life-size man silhouette targets. :)

[Howaido]

best suggestion I can give:

Take a "wire cone" tomato stake and mount it on top of a 5 foot 2x2" with duct tape. You can mount a small flat square of plywood on top of the 2x2" with a nail to help by providing a surface to sit the tomato stake on before duct taping it to the 2x2".

Drive the 2x2 into the ground so that the tomato stake is torso high, then throw a paper bag over it.

Lasts for dozens of shots with birdshot, is reactive, the size of a torso, the tomato stake takes a pounding, and it is cheap set up.

[hogdogs]

Ice cubes... 5 gallon bucket ICE CUBES!!!:D
Otherwise I love me a fear driven runnin' critter!
Junior likes to use the red clay bird flinger thingy to toss a clay then try to hit it...
Hey as long as the kid is having fun:rolleyes:
Brent