OT - plinking targets?

[hankj]

I may be showing my age, but many years ago, there were these little round, wooden disks, about the size of a checker, with a little brad sticking out the back. You could stick 'em on a sheet of plywood, or whatever, fence post, rail, anything wood, and pick 'em off with a .22. They came in a cardboeard box about the size of a 2# box of salt.

I can't find a gun shop or range anywhere around here where anyone ever heard of the **** things. Since I lived in New Jersey then, I thought maybe some of you Easterners might have a clue?

Hank

[cope]

Hank,

Thios is a welding forum! Make some out of steel! I have never seen what you are talking about but I don't know why some poker chips and brad nails wouldn't work. Better yet use Ritz crackers and the animals could eat the broken targets.

[hankj]

Being the somewhat lazy individual that I am, I was looking for the easy way out. I didn't want to get involved in a labor-intesive effort to get up and running with these things - you need too many!!

I'll hang in there. Maybe someone will remember them. I might just burn a bunch of circles and tack 'em to a sheet or something, and make a mask so I could spray paint the circles without painting the backstop, so you could see the hits through the scope. It's a thought....

Hank

[jimg]

The closest thing I know of are the paste up exploding targets. These have bulls about the size you're looking for and you certainly know when they've been hit. However, I suspect this isn't what you're interested in.

An alternative would be to either make or purchase a set of swingers the size you're interested in. I've done both but for RF I don't think making would be cost effective. The beauty of a swinger is that they auto reset, you know when they've been hit and there's nothing to clean up. You will need to occassionally repaint them though...very cheap. If you plan to make I would just use heavy mild steel. However, if you might want to shoot them w/ RF mags then I'd use AR500 which also works well for everything else too (all CF whether handgun or rifle). HTH jimg

[metals406]

We always used clay pigeons. They're cheap and easy to see, and did I mention CHEAP Or you could do like my old man (Before his eyes went to ****) and shoot the lit wick off of a candle at 50 ft. w/ a .22 (OPEN SIGHTS TOO BOOT!) Me and my older brother sure did waste a lot of mom's fancy candles trying to get that one down. I prefer targets that flopp around when you hit'em, so I blast Columbian Ground Squirrels (AKA: Gophers) Hold on. . . I think P.E.T.A's just pulled up

Nate

[bababen]

Don't know if making some out of steel is a good idea. See, I have a second job I consider my "fun" job. Heck, I'ld do it for free, but the fact that they give me a check for it makes me do cartwheels. A couple nights a week I work at an indoor pistol range in Stone Mountain, GA.

The reason I mention this is before we mandated that all targets be purchased from us, customers used to bring there own. I guess, technically speaking, if some one brings in a car door with a bullseye painted on it - that's considered a target! Well, to keep the story brief, the word ricochet should come to mind. No one ever got hurt (that I know of), but the adjacent walls caught more crossfire than CNN.

Try some replacement Chinese checkers. They are made of wood, most come stained red or green, they are about an inch in dia., and they are pretty cheap.

[hankj]

Metal406,

I'm still laughing! Wait 'till I tell the neighbors about CGS's! We live in a gopher mine! My dog's excavate huge pits chasing the little bastrds (which I, of course, hit with the yard tractor and **** near get unseated!), and SCREW P. E. T. A.!!! In fact, I'm thinking of getting myself a .204 with an adjustable scope just to terrorize 'em.

Bababen,

Yeah, I wouldn't just hang 'em up without there being a surround to catch the bouncer's. I'll hear one whine through the treetops here now and then when the neighbor kids are shooting at rocks with thier .223. I've had a couple of conversations with them as they've grown older! My good bud's son and my grandson are old enough to graduate from thier BB guns for 22's this year, and I have the better of the properties to shoot on, so that's what I'm setting up for.

Actually, if I can figure a way to stand up clay's where we can hit 'em, that would work, too. A case of those is dirt cheap.

Hank

[Mike W]

Hank, I used to hunt ground squirrels with my Remington .223 varmit special. I would avoid 100 yard shots, no challenge. I still remember the scope lighting up with the red fog effect. I got a few at 300 yards. I used a range finder and had my 6 to 24 power scope calibrated in yards. Once I knew the range, I cranked the scope to match it.

[qualls]

Red plastic caps off plastic milk jugs with nails through them, or caps off 20 oz or 2 liter drink bottles.

[Wanna B Welder]

check this out.

http://www.dogbegone.com

looks like a blast to me.

[mrc]

Wooden strike anywhere matches... Sitck em in a 2x4 with holes drilled in it

Start by trying to cut em in half... then try to light em

Never actually succeeded with the latter... I could smell the burnt match tip a couple of times, but was never able to light the match and leave the tip still attached.

Mike

[Karish]

Too many years ago to admit to, when I was shooting for my Junior NRA qualifications, we would occasionally tape Necco (I think that's right) candies on the targets and shoot them. They are thin, hard disks of different colors. They break right apart when hit. And, if one or two didn't make it to the target, oh well!

[hankj]

You guys are great, as always.

I ain't shootin' no food, by God! Necco Wafers? I recall them......

I think I'll opt for spinners on a good setup to protect the neighbors from any bounces, and keep the kids happy and SAFE, which is the bigge.

Thanks,

Hank

[_TJ]

Friend of mine has a Marlin .22 bolt action he got at Walmart of all places. It has a match-type barrel on it. This thing is so accurate we were shooting asparin and tic tacs at 50yrds. I **** you not. Asparin make good little targets if you can hit them. A dead on shot turns them into a puff of white powder.

My first project in metal fab class was a spinning pistol target, turned out great... I'll have to post a pic of it one of these days. Had to beef up the design, we were shooting at it with 9mm and tore it up pretty good. Fun stuff though.

[Sandy]

I may be showing my age, but many years ago, there were these little round, wooden disks, about the size of a checker, with a little brad sticking out the back. You could stick 'em on a sheet of plywood, or whatever, fence post, rail, anything wood, and pick 'em off with a .22. They came in a cardboeard box about the size of a 2# box of salt.

I use 8 inch aluminum pie pans and a roofing nail. Hit 'em ever time.