range results,,, to graphic for photos....
after about 10 minutes of the news this morning I had had enough, loaded few rifles up and headed out, stopped at small vegetable stand at the end of the road, asked the young ladies there if they had any bad melons got funny look and told them just wanted a cantalope/watermelon or two to shoot and would take any bad ones off their hands, gave the young lady $5 and got 2 cantolopes, and cracked butternut squash, and two small zuccinni?. add all that to about half dozen green/or overripe tomatos I had and off I went.
first off was the 22lr, well the tomatos could roll away and try to hide from these hits, it took about 3-4 to finally put them out of their misery. next 357 either rifle/pistol, though I did only get one hit witht the pistol left the front half of the tomato with nice big hole and tomato guts strung out a few feet behind it, but it was one shot kills. next the 30-06 and finally the 8mm both of which tended to just make red/green mist out of the tomatos. cantolopes didn't fair much better, though it did take a few more 22 shots to kill them but the results were relatively the same.
toughest of the bunch was the zuccini/sqash they just rolled over on their backs and laughed at the 22's, but the laughing stopped when 30-06 and the 8mm took over. so for all you vegetarians out there I only have one thing to say........ nnnaaannner, nnnaaannner, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaa, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaa. I feel completly better less stress and I now know I am safe from any veggy attack, and just for Ricci if I had had any lima beans I would have done them in also, though I do think the 22 would have been enough for them......
first off was the 22lr, well the tomatos could roll away and try to hide from these hits, it took about 3-4 to finally put them out of their misery. next 357 either rifle/pistol, though I did only get one hit witht the pistol left the front half of the tomato with nice big hole and tomato guts strung out a few feet behind it, but it was one shot kills. next the 30-06 and finally the 8mm both of which tended to just make red/green mist out of the tomatos. cantolopes didn't fair much better, though it did take a few more 22 shots to kill them but the results were relatively the same.
toughest of the bunch was the zuccini/sqash they just rolled over on their backs and laughed at the 22's, but the laughing stopped when 30-06 and the 8mm took over. so for all you vegetarians out there I only have one thing to say........ nnnaaannner, nnnaaannner, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaa, nnnnnaaaaaaaaaa. I feel completly better less stress and I now know I am safe from any veggy attack, and just for Ricci if I had had any lima beans I would have done them in also, though I do think the 22 would have been enough for them......
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Yep, a 22 makes a pretty good beaner buster 0 -
Actually, I think Lima beans would make great targets for .22LR practice. Set a row of them out at 50 yards and get ready for a challenge!Another one I enjoy are the chalks used for billiards or pool. In bulk they run about 22 cents/each.
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An even better target ... playing card hung sideways. My daughter did this one. 
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Damn Nanuq-That's great. The range I used to go to had a sheltered 22 range with the targets set outside. Guys shot at aspirins and bet $$$ on them! 3 -
Best target is animal crackers. Kids love to shot them with .22's.plus good eating too. Also a tennis ball is fun if you have another shooter to keep it moving. 0 -
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good or all of you, any day plinking is a good one nice shooting on the card .
we have back yard get together's once some times twice a year ( ten to twenty family and friends ) more often just a coupe of us banging away . at one of back yard ammo wasting days a nephew brought out must have been twenty or thirty pumpkins he got a deal of fifty cents each maybe a bit cheaper they set up at local farmers markets and sell produce .
any way along with our normal used appliance assortment that is rounded up each time + well any thing that was laying loose to be shot is dragged out or set up down range . every one has a great time .
My guess something viral about seeing reaction targets other than just a hole punched in a paper ( we do that too ) we skipped it this year due to the ammo and of course the dreaded covid anti social rules0 -
A couple years back, the Grandkids grew about 2 buckets full of miniature squash(the decorative kind). Those made challenging AND entertaining targets for the 22's at 25 yards. 0 -
I currently work in a grocery store and saw several split pumpkins being thrown away today because they are not fit for sale. Your post made me think.............alas.....anything not fit for sale or damaged........goes in the compacter........because of very strict rules. 0
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