An entertaining means of inexpensive target practice...
by Paul 
, Friday, May 20, 2016, 15:37 (3048 days ago)
With 22 LR ammo impossible to find in many localities, the use of air power is increasingly attractive. Field Target type knock-over targets set out at random distances help one to learn to judge range and trajectory. AirGun Depot has them on sale right now. $15 plus shipping.
http://www.airgundepot.com/search.html?keyword=remington+knockdown+targets
An entertaining means of inexpensive target practice...
by bj 
, Friday, May 20, 2016, 19:37 (3047 days ago) @ Paul
Isn't there an organized airgun sport somewhat like that?
The beauty of airguns is that you can use a lot of cheap and common items as targets- bottle caps, empty shotgun shells, crackers, tin cans, etc.
It's called Field Target...
by Paul , Friday, May 20, 2016, 22:18 (3047 days ago) @ bj
and I'm trying to get some interest locally in starting up a chapter of the Colombian Precision Shooting Association to delve into it.
The cool thing about these targets is that a hit only counts if the target falls. You can whack the face plate all you want and it's not going down. Once you slip a pellet through the "kill zone", it topples right over. That makes for quite a challenge. Once you start using the reducers it gets even more challenging. A couple years ago my rifle's mainspring broke so was reduced to using a converted 10 Meter rifle to finish the course. The thrill of actually knocking over one of the 50 meter squirrels with that rifle was something else! (I don't want to talk about the closer in ones that stayed vertical...)
An entertaining means of inexpensive target practice...
In my youth, I used Necco Wafers for targets. It was more fun to watch them explode when hit than it was to eat them.
An entertaining means of inexpensive target practice...
They still are fun.CVS still sells Necco Wafers. Buddy of mine and I shoot Necco wafers with air rifles at 25 yards.
for bigger targets potatoes work well for anything bigger
Than 22.
bigger targets --- thnaks to Paul's posts on airguns --
by John Meeker , Maumee Ohio, Sunday, May 22, 2016, 15:20 (3046 days ago) @ stonewalrus
They've been a sorta continuous updating on the state of the art. My nephew has also gotten into some of the serious hardware in .25's and up, as well as the new pressures and propellants. Once in a while, too, you see an article on the the builders who create actual big-bore stuff and impressive 'air' velocities. Airgun Depot seems to a source for what is nearly 'the special' of the day. At any rate, given local ammo costs in many places, and less places to just plink; a decent underlever, fixed barrel, possibly with an airgun-resistant scope.......22 airgun can be had pretty reasonably. I used to laugh at the Krauts in FRG with their dinky little 'airpower shooting clubs'.....but what goes around comes around, apparently. Hmmmmmm....lessee...bigger bore, more velocity, good optics, 'quiet report' thingys'. I guess Ol' Beeman did sorta see the future...
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by John Meeker , Maumee Ohio, Sunday, May 22, 2016, 15:25 (3046 days ago) @ John Meeker