Need Target Suggestions

[Keres]

Hello all!

I'm in need of some advice on Targets.  I'm responsible for setting up my clubs shoot in the next few months, and I would like to have some fun/different targets. I'm very new to this, and have only shot at one R'voo and another time just watched my dad (didnt pay attention really to the targets).  So suggestions would be greatly appreciated...and pictures would be down right fantastic! 

Thanks in advance! ~Shawna <3

[Rev]

At the Powderhorn Clan New Years 'voo we had a skwerl shoot. The skwerls looked a lot like taters hanging on a thread. They were up in the trees & a hunting party went out in single file, hunting skwerls. When the leader of the party spotted a skwerl, he or she stopped wherever they were & took a shot. If they missed the next in line got a shot & if successful became the new leader & so on down the line. If the skwerl was hit, but not powdered it was considered wounded & counted for half a point. The next shooter than took their turn. I actually won the shoot without any dead skwerls, my .40 cal. skwerl rifle wouldn't powder 'em.

[Red Badger]

Couple of questions before i weigh in on this one...

How much time do you have to prepare?

What kind of Range facility do you have?  Rev's is a great idea if you have that kind of range area but if your limited to an open field with an earthen berm there are some other ideas....

Give us an idea what we have to work with

I like a frame with pieces of charcoal tied to it, and those dum dum suckers placed into the Frame, CD's placed edgewise to the shooter etc.. and you have one shot at each  things like that. 

[Stumblin Wolf]

Me and a couple other fellows have set up some NOTORIOUS trailwalks,,,
Red Badger has a point, would need to know what kind of range you have to work with.

[Keres]

My shoot will take place in June. I have my Dad and boyfriend at my disposal to help with the set up, building things etc... :)

It's not a trail walk...just a big long range. (not sure what the "technical" term is) 

I've seen the charcole one...that was really cool! also they hung dog cookies also.

The sqwerl is just a cute idea!!  I want to some how incorporate that in the shoot...Guess I can make a fake tree or something of that nature.

I saw a target that looked like a dart board...that looked fun to me..

but please keep the suggestions coming..this is great!! :)

[Red Badger]

if you have the technical ability a target inside a target (like a heart inside a deer shape) is also a fun one I have shot at - if you hit the heart it flips the tail on the deer to aid in scoring... Don't know how it works they would not let me see the mechanics of it, but it was a challenge....

Also gongs and chains are challenging targets...  and have read about splitting the ball and trying to hit two targets with one shot.. not sure about safety with that one!

[old salt]

another one is 2-3 in.  dia heavy gauge steel tube with a 90* curve
and flapper one end and other end mounted in a 12X12 plate

[Stumblin Wolf]

at one range shoot you had to sit on a stump and shoot through a big washer to hit a target in the back of it...if you hit the washer it had a string connected to a dixie cup full of water over your head...

hang a logging chain horizontally between two posts 

the splitting the ball on the ax bit is pretty safe, you don't want anyone on either side of the shooter. Some balloons  or clay pidgeons on both sides of the ax head need to break for the shot to count

fill up some 20 oz water bottles with water and a few drops of food coloring and hang from a bar out about 40 yards...easy but entertaining...

I have lots more but it would be interesting to see what other folks come up with!

[Leathermonger]

This one will get em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Blood Shoot
CHEAP materials list
1-individual ketchup packets from your favorite fast food place, as long as one side is all white

2- white paper plates

3- hot glue

Procedure
run a strip of hot glue on the printed side of the ketchup packets and glue to the paper plates will nilllie, not center, place targets at 30 to 35 yards and first one to make blood wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stumblin Wolf]

thats a neat one leathermonger!

[Keres]

You guys are awesome, the suggestions are great--that water one would be great for summer! and it would bring some really good laughs!

I've done the blood shot one before..that was a lot of fun too!

We do have some steel targets at our disposal...I'll be setting those up.  Thanks guys! Please keep the target suggestions coming!! 

[DEADDAWG]

I like the Egg Shoot. Hang a bunch of eggs on strings at 25 yards. Call out which egg you're shooting at. If you hit it, you score. If you don't, you eat it. Of course, some eggs are hard boiled and some ain't, don't know which is which. If'n you don't want to eat the egg when you miss, a predetermined donation to the club is to be made (before the egg is cracked). There's always cut the card, popsicle sticks, string, balloons; just use your imagination.

[bwhoffman]

you can take empty egg cartons, as a mold, and fill them with drywall mud. put a piece of string in it so you can hang them.
makes good reactionary targets when hit!
same as shooting charcoal briquets!

fruit and vegetables of the season are good targets also.

shooting from all positions, over a log, off of sticks is good.

myfavorite, and it will miz everyone up.....any gun but your own! seperates the men from the boys so to speak.

[Spitunia]

if you have the technical ability a target inside a target (like a heart inside a deer shape) is also a fun one I have shot at - if you hit the heart it flips the tail on the deer to aid in scoring... Don't know how it works they would not let me see the mechanics of it, but it was a challenge....

Also gongs and chains are challenging targets...  and have read about splitting the ball and trying to hit two targets with one shot.. not sure about safety with that one!

Using ballons on each side of the blade instead of clays makes for happier shooters.
But don't volunteer to supply the axe unless you already need a new handle.

[DEADDAWG]

For the axe shoot, I use old single bit axe blades and weld them to a steel plate and weld a small shelf on each side to hold the clay birds. Easy to pick up and put away, easy to set back up for the next shoot. Make up multiples so you don't have to go down range as often or use at different distances for different values.