DIY Targets for AR Shooting!

[brihacharan]

A bit of innovative thinking is all that's needed to make "out of the ordinary targets" for plinking
While emptying the garbage bin at home I saw an empty beer can & a soda bottle cap....
A wild idea struck & this is what they ended up as!
I used transparent tape to stick the bottle cap on to the beer can....


At 15ft - just one shot with my Samurai 3G 0.22 cal - Hit the bottle cap dead centre


Family, Food & Fun apart this was the best celebration I did on Baisakhi Day
Briha

[aadhaulya]

Good innovative idea Briha ji.

[Basu]

Aaha ! Aaha !!

Basu

[timmy]

Yow! That's deadly shooting, Brihaji!

Good idea! Pop cans make great targets and, after they are all shot up, they still retain their scrap value!

[toughsurvivor]

that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

[brihacharan]

that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

It's 15 feet (5 yards)
The soda bottle caps are thick (1.5mm approx.) and the surface area being small the resistance to penetrate is comparatively high!
But the same thickness in a Deo Can offers less resistance because of a larger surface area - where the pellet goes through & through!
Try it!
Briha

[brihacharan]

Yow! That's deadly shooting, Brihaji!
Good idea! Pop cans make great targets and, after they are all shot up, they still retain their scrap value!

Timmy,
> I find a great similarity between Golfing & Shooting....
> There are days when every swing winds up on 'par' & on other days its 'hack - 'hack' - the ball never kisses the sweet spot of the club
> Same with shooting - there are days when you pick up your gun - just aim and shoot & wind up with a 1/2" group @ 25 yds & on those days (I don't want to remember them ) the group gives you a 2" wide smile
> I have come to realize that when your body & mind are at peace with one another - everything you do - goes right
Briha

[essdee1972]

Brihaji, after your serving of Baisakhi food and notun gurer payesh, you would really have been in zen state!!

I tried the harder targets like tumblers, etc., but found the ricochet too dangerous, esp. since I shoot indoors. The old shoe box-and-telephone directory target stop works perfectly for me. And outside my window there's the national park. So no risk even if I miss a couple. To make life interesting I print out pics from the net. I once had "the most wanted man in the world" as a target!!

[brihacharan]

Brihaji, after your serving of Baisakhi food and notun gurer payesh, you would really have been in zen state!!

I tried the harder targets like tumblers, etc., but found the ricochet too dangerous, esp. since I shoot indoors. The old shoe box-and-telephone directory target stop works perfectly for me. And outside my window there's the national park. So no risk even if I miss a couple. To make life interesting I print out pics from the net. I once had "the most wanted man in the world" as a target!!

There you go...essdee - innovation at its best (Shoe Box + Old Telephone Directory)
BTW - The best part of "Nuton Gurer Payesh" is that you can savor it either 'piping hot' or 'chilled'
Briha

[toughsurvivor]

ahh Birha ji sorry i am too poor in yards and meter concept. but you are correct with deo can or beer can the pellets often goes through. your shot was great.

[pratik_mahale]

No doubt Sir your shot was great

that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

It's 15 feet (5 yards)
The soda bottle caps are thick (1.5mm approx.) and the surface area being small the resistance to penetrate is comparatively high!
But the same thickness in a Deo Can offers less resistance because of a larger surface area - where the pellet goes through & through!
Try it!
Briha

Soda bottle caps thickness is not more than 0.2 mm & at 15 feet it should be easily penetrated by .22 pellets

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[toughsurvivor]

Birha sir a little effort from my side, i know it is not so good but i tried. i have not plinked it yet.

[aadhaulya]

Guys I super like Griha ji's idea of empty beer cans. But as I see it one shot destroys the can.
Therefore, a have bought loads of these cans and am in the process of emptying them to have a good supply of targets. But then I am too sozzled to shoot at them.

Regards

[timmy]

No doubt Sir your shot was great

that's great ! that's good innovative thinking. 15 yards mean almost 5 feet i think. pellets would have gone through the can .

It's 15 feet (5 yards)
The soda bottle caps are thick (1.5mm approx.) and the surface area being small the resistance to penetrate is comparatively high!
But the same thickness in a Deo Can offers less resistance because of a larger surface area - where the pellet goes through & through!
Try it!
Briha

Soda bottle caps thickness is not more than 0.2 mm & at 15 feet it should be easily penetrated by .22 pellets

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Here's a hole rudely poked through the 26" armor used on IJN Yamato and Musashi main battery turret faces:



I wonder where the Navy got the tune up spring to do this?

[aadhaulya]

Seems like the spring also went through, lock stock and barrel.