Improvised plinking targets

zoiborg

what do you use? eg ballons, tin cans, plastic bottles

Spear

Moved from N&F.

Sparks

Paper, usually.

Tackleberrywho

zoiborg wrote: »

what do you use? eg ballons, tin cans, plastic bottles

Clays are quite good to Test Zero @ long range.
However they are only 4" so they do not give an accurate signal back.

I find Cardboard better then paper as you see the strikes clearer than paper as paper tears

Sparks

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

I find Cardboard better then paper as you see the strikes clearer than paper as paper tears

Proper paper targets don't, because the fibres in the paper are aligned in different directions in each layer.

It wasn't me!

For relaxed plinking, not much beats blowing up clays at range.

Tackleberrywho

Sparks wrote: »

Proper paper targets don't, because the fibres in the paper are aligned in different directions in each layer.

Improvised Targets is the Thread

Cardboard Reigns Supreme

100 Yards .223 Cardboard
300 yards .223 Cardboard

Sparks

If paper targets don't count, Clay's aren't improvised either. Neither are silhouettes, poppers, or pretty much anything other than rubbish - and a lot of ranges won't allow the use of things like bottles, cans, or general bric-a-brac as targets because (a) they can be problematical for ricochets, and (b) the frangible ones make a mess that the shooter often doesn't clean up afterwards...

Tackleberrywho

Sparks wrote: »

If paper targets don't count, Clay's aren't improvised either. Neither are silhouettes, poppers, are they not for certain alternative lifestyles??, or pretty much anything other than rubbish - and a lot of ranges won't allow the use of things like bottles, cans, or general bric-a-brac as targets because (a) they can be problematical for ricochets, and (b) the frangible ones make a mess that the shooter often doesn't clean up afterwards...

Well broken Clays will do, I only need an inch to test zero

And yes on a Range, you do not use IMPROV targets
In the field to "test" zero anything soft with a safe backstop will suffice


I did say Cardboard?

Sparks

And now you're into that lovely gray area in Irish firearms law where target shooting outside of an authorised range is illegal, but zeroing a rifle was promised by an ex-minister to be exempt from this (despite having absolutely no legal basis for that exemption whatsoever), and yet no legal definition exists to distinguish target shooting from zeroing.

Does the phrase "can of worms" come to mind yet?

Tackleberrywho

Sparks wrote: »

And now you're into that lovely gray area in Irish firearms law where target shooting outside of an authorised range is illegal, but zeroing a rifle was promised by an ex-minister to be exempt from this (despite having absolutely no legal basis for that exemption whatsoever), and yet no legal definition exists to distinguish target shooting from zeroing.

Does the phrase "can of worms" come to mind yet?

Zeroing

Can closed

now time for bed

Good night John Boy!!

Sparks

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Zeroing

Legally, no such thing. If the can could be closed up with such a silly approach, don't you think we'd have done that and focussed on wider things?

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