Thread: Reactive targets - keeping it fun for the kids

Originally Posted by bigbear

mate told try water balloons just with air. recons his kids enjoyed it more then just shooting paper

Yep we've done the balloon thing, with water and air. All good fun, we are just upping the anti

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Mate best one is a full camping gas canister. Just don't shoot it with the valve pointing towards you!
Another good one is a catering can size bake bean can. Leave the lid off and sit an empty one on top. Shoot the bottom one, the top one goes flying up in the ear.

Originally Posted by stug

Mate best one is a full camping gas canister. Just don't shoot it with the valve pointing towards you!
Another good one is a catering can size bake bean can. Leave the lid off and sit an empty one on top. Shoot the bottom one, the top one goes flying up in the ear.

2 person game.
Fill a coffee can or baby food can - push lid type can, with water, lid on.
Put a empty drink can on top.
First person with a rifle (black powder front stuffer ) shoots the bottom can.
Second person with a shot gun (prefer black powder....) has to shoot the flying drink can before it hits the ground.
Sounds easy........ but is bloody great fun!

I wonder how many “potential” forum members never made it?

I just shoot the cans of crappy sugar fuzzy drinks the Warehouse sells, you know the brands you have never heard of.

@GWH what time are you going down? I still have your stock.

Originally Posted by septic

@GWH what time are you going down? I still have your stock.

should be there by 10am

Few chunks of dry ice and a bit of a shake makes them pop

Originally Posted by MSL

Few chunks of dry ice and a bit of a shake makes them pop

We did this at school one time (our science teacher was good value) - it is amazing how big a 600ml coke bottle will stretch before it lets go ....we never found the bottle ( think it was on a roof somewhere)

Originally Posted by Pineapple

We did this at school one time (our science teacher was good value) - it is amazing how big a 600ml coke bottle will stretch before it lets go ....we never found the bottle ( think it was on a roof somewhere)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_e5hieLrU

you get the idea, I find it far too unpredictable to use safely, depending on the bottle it can get to 600+ psi.

regulated pressure from HPA such as scuba tanks on the other hand

Yep seemed like good fun at the time. After that one we did another and put a rubbish bin over the top of it (cut steel drum). The only damage was to our hearing and a dent in the rubbish bin and the fun stopped before anyone got hurt. Now that I am older and wiser........ ish I can see it may not have been the smartest idea.

Originally Posted by MSL

Few chunks of dry ice and a bit of a shake makes them pop

We did this at school one time (our science teacher was good value) - it is amazing how big a 600ml coke bottle will stretch before it lets go ....we never found the bottle ( think it was on a roof somewhere)

Cheap and nasty fizzy drinks in small plastic bottles, add drop of dish soap, shake them before you shoot them.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Cheap and nasty fizzy drinks in small plastic bottles, add drop of dish soap, shake them before you shoot them.

That's what these were, I tipped the drink out. Shooting the fill drink bottles wasn't that exciting so thought I'd try something else.

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Originally Posted by GWH

That's what these were, I tipped the drink out. Shooting the fill drink bottles wasn't that exciting so thought I'd try something else.

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top them right up to the brim. they generally pop better