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Cosyden

Cosyden

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Let’s see them cobbled together targets. No need to spend £20/30/40 plus on knock downs. Here’s mine for starters. A 2.5” repair washer loosely nailed to a dead tree stump with a spacer behind, exactly 35m from my back door. Ideal for a quick 10 min plink and gives a satisfying ‘ting’ when it’s hit (which isn’t that often!!).

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Plinking targets:

1). I make plaster (chalk) Gummy Bears. They are small enough to make the game interesting.
To hold them in place they are inserted into a foam (pipe insulation) tube.
The part which is visible is 10mm square. They "blow up" when hit and produce a cloud of dust.

2). Pellets on cocktail sticks. . Ideal solution for a tin of crap pellets.
Crimp them onto cocktail sticks and shoot them. They make a pleasing "ZINGGGG" if hit properly.
The foam insulation tubing comes in handy again here.

3). Plastic bottle tops.
Any bottle tops will do. Milk bottle tops are excellent and last a long time.
Suspend them from a piece of string, and hang them with a decent backstop behind them. . They jump like crazy when hit.

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Shed made from spare shed parts and stood up on bricks and pallets. Granted I have bought almost all of @hairyarms targets over the last couple of years I think.
The base is starting to give a little now but it's still standing.

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Little box made from left over decking boards, backed with thick wood and layered with a tonne of old towels too keep it silent and so anything I have they slings pellets.
Staple cardboard to the front and stick or staple anything you want on it.

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Brackets from an old ottoman bed and a little duct tape to make the card holders for the good old cutting the deck thread. Means I can place them at different distances to make things harder. 👍

Have a couple of other sheep boxes that I can place around the garden at various distances when me and the two lads are shooting together.

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Cosyden said:
@Fatbob 59 I like the use of gas bottles. I’ve got a couple of the big 47kg bottles I was going to use to make a sawdust burner but I reckon I could definitely hit them at 35m……. maybe!

@Wing Commander good plan with the crimped pellets, I like that idea. 👍
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I make all sorts of stuff from bottles , if you want a burner to last then the 2 piece bottles are what you need as they're 5mm thick , 3 piece ones are thick top and bottom but the main barrel is only 2mm
 
JaySan said:
Shed made from spare shed parts and stood up on bricks and pallets. Granted I have bought almost all of @hairyarms targets over the last couple of years I think.
The base is starting to give a little now but it's still standing.

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Little box made from left over decking boards, backed with thick wood and layered with a tonne of old towels too keep it silent and so anything I have they slings pellets.
Staple cardboard to the front and stick or staple anything you want on it.

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Brackets from an old ottoman bed and a little duct tape to make the card holders for the good old cutting the deck thread. Means I can place them at different distances to make things harder. 👍

Have a couple of other sheep boxes that I can place around the garden at various distances when me and the two lads are shooting together.

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We all like @hairyarms targets his mine
 

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Probably not quite what the OP intended when he started this thread. Disregard the woodwork, the paper target on the right is an NSRA 6yd pistol target. The vast majority of my shots are in the black which leave an awful lot of unused/wasted card. An hour or 2 of faffing with a word processor I can now print on the back of the virgin card that which you see below on the left, 9 for the price of 1. Five shots into the single black then a further 40, or whatever takes your fancy, into the 8 blacks on the rear. The gold sticker just hides the first 5 shots. I think it fits the bill of being ‘cobbled together’ as originally requested.

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It sounds much louder in the vid than it really is. With a rifle I find it better to wait for the target to come around and shoot just ahead of it but with a pistol it's easier to follow the targets around. I only made it for laughs and it didn't disappoint!
I don't shoot it at home because of the risk of ricochets. No such problem at the range but it does raise an eyebrow or two amongst the "serious" shooters!


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