Getting dialed In?

[Mistered]

they bleach out and turn to dust.

Exactly.

[markiver54]

they bleach out and turn to dust.

Exactly.

So...Clay, cans and plastic bottles are ALL safe and acceptable. I save our empty 2 liter bottles and fill them with water. I then add a few drops of food coloring so that they are highly visible.

[Mags]

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I save plastic bottles of various sizes and colors, fill them with water and freeze them. Then later shoot them. Flying shrapnel ice chips, amazing!

... I save our empty 2 liter bottles and fill them with water. I then add a few drops of food coloring so that they are highly visible.

[Ojaileveraction]

Ever been to a trap range?

Yes, but not in many, many years.

Image of my clubs shooting range,

See the covered 200 meter range, to the right are feilds of white.
Biggest is the trap debris field, then the other shotgun sports.

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[Mistered]

So...Clay, cans and plastic bottles are ALL safe and acceptable.

In Oregon however we have a 10 cent deposit on all beverage cans & plastic & glass bottles.
If they get shot up the redemption machine may not be able to read the bar code.
Consequently our roads & woods areas are relatively can and bottle free.

I still occasionally find shot up glass bottles left by mouth breathing low lifes.
This is of course is highly illegal and comes with a fine UP TO $6,250.

[markiver54]

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I save plastic bottles of various sizes and colors, fill them with water and freeze them. Then later shoot them. Flying shrapnel ice chips, amazing!

... I save our empty 2 liter bottles and fill them with water. I then add a few drops of food coloring so that they are highly visible.

Thought of that, but the wife won't give up the freezer space. she stays pretty well stocked. Guess I need to eat as well as shoot.

[Mags]

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With just the two of us we pretty much live out of the kitchen fridge/freezer. The garage freezer is mostly empty. Freezing small bottles of water take up less room and make for more challenging targets.

... but the wife won't give up the freezer space. she stays pretty well stocked. Guess I need to eat as well as shoot.

[markiver54]

Ahhh, lucky you. All we have here at the cabin is the bottom drawer freezer.

[BigAl52]

Because of the cleanup here I always use the clays. There in a box thats easy to throw in the the car ( or place in the car for people who want to pic apart the post) And there isnt any need to clean up at the grasslands because ( they are as mentioned before biodegradable. Theres enough idiots where I go already who haul out all kinds of garbage to shoot and leave it on government land. Someday there going to have enough of that and shut it down.

[markiver54]

Because of the cleanup here I always use the clays. There in a box thats easy to throw in the the car ( or place in the car for people who want to pic apart the post) And there isnt any need to clean up at the grasslands because ( they are as mentioned before biodegradable. Theres enough idiots where I go already who haul out all kinds of garbage to shoot and leave it on government land. Someday there going to have enough of that and shut it down.

How much do clays cost on average Al ? might try that!
The plastic bottles I shoot, are beverages we would have bought anyway. I get the consumption value and the shooting value.
Seriously though, might try the clays if they're cheap.

[Mistered]

Currently $6.88/90 at Wal Mart
i sometimes score them for free however.
When I am out in the woods shooting, driving around etc. and see a deposit of fresh clays I stop and look around for 'missed' , unbroken ones.
Scored about 30 or so a couple weeks ago.

[markiver54]

Currently $6.88/90 at Wal Mart
i sometimes score them for free however.
When I am out in the woods shooting, driving around etc. and see a deposit of fresh clays I stop and look around for 'missed' , unbroken ones.
Scored about 30 or so a couple weeks ago.

Thanks for the info Ed, funny though, 90 ct. why not just an even 100. very doable option though! heck, 90 targets for $7:00. paper targets cost more than that. And with no WOW factor to boot!

[Mistered]

paper targets cost more than that. And with no WOW factor to boot!

Well hard to compare price since clays are a one shot proposition (unless you can see the fragments and shoot at them) and paper targets are going to accept a lot of shots before replacing.
I buy the 3" Birchwood Casey orange target spots at $4.99/40 and print off a 1" target grid and stick the 3" spot in the center to make my paper targets.
Sometimes however I go out with no targets at all since I have an unlimited supply in the form of pine cones all over the forest and can either set them up on logs or just pick them off the ground.
However if you mix some paper target shooting with clays it breaks up the Monotony. Do some dial in on paper then set up some clays at 100 or more yards for some long range shooting. You can always go collect up the missed ones for another time!

[Mags]

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There are still plenty of small non-beverage plastic bottles exempt from a deposit. Then there are also on the small side 2+ serving size bottles exempt from the deposit, too. Orange juice single serve have the deposit, bigger sizes do not. However all soda bottles have the 10 cent deposit regardless of size.
But then on public land we're only supposed to shoot at things marketed as targets or home made paper targets.

In Oregon however we have a 10 cent deposit on all beverage cans & plastic & glass bottles.

I still occasionally find shot up glass bottles left by mouth breathing low lifes.
This is of course is highly illegal and comes with a fine UP TO $6,250.

[Mags]

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Some the Forest Service quarries here are closed to shooting for exactly that reason.

...There's enough idiots where I go already who haul out all kinds of garbage to shoot and leave it on government land. Someday they're going to have enough of that and shut it down.

[Mags]

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Junk mail. Free targets! How many of them catalog magazines does it take to stop a bullet?

Currently $6.88/90 at Wal Mart
i sometimes score them for free however.
When I am out in the woods shooting, driving around etc. and see a deposit of fresh clays I stop and look around for 'missed' , unbroken ones.
Scored about 30 or so a couple weeks ago.

Thanks for the info Ed, funny though, 90 ct. why not just an even 100. very doable option though! heck, 90 targets for $7:00. paper targets cost more than that. And with no WOW factor to boot!

[BigAl52]

Mark
I think there about 7.00 for 90 at Walmart. But I get extra miles out of mine because some of them dont break all the way so I keep shooting the pieces of them until I cant see orange anymore. Another thing a guy can do is build him a stand out of schedule 40 PVC pipe fro Home Depot. Put eye bolts in it and hang some steel from it. I have one that I hang bowling pins on

[Vaquero]

Mark around here a box of 90 range from $7 to $10 plus Uncle Sam's part.

RP

[Rifletom]

Like those clay gizmo's. Hit 'em with a .357 or .45 Colt, then go after the small pieces with a .22 rifle. Much fun!

[markiver54]

Mark around here a box of 90 range from $7 to $10 plus Uncle Sam's part.

RP

I can certainly handle that! only about what I'd pay for a box of 100 rounds of .22's.
Thanks Randy and you too Al. I just never priced them.