Clays make excellent target practice

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Was out shooting Clay Pigeons today with real steal.
I was curious to know what kind of effect an AEG would have
on a Clay that would normally get hit with lead pellets.

I initially thought that a plastic BB would bounce off it without
any damage to the clay but WOW was I wrong.

So when I arrived home I had a bright orange clay disc and I stuck
it at the back of my garden. I thought that since it was bright orange
it would be good to fire at. I lashed out my M14 and thought that it
would probably take a LOT of hits to break the clay. Low and behold my
first single shot with a plastic .20g broke the clay into several pieces!!!!

I was amazed. I have a empty 2L plastic coke bottle and the BB wont even
penetrate and yet is makes utter sh1te of a nice thick clay.
Switching to full auto was great fun. I have "powdered" the clay.

Makes me want to buy a box of clays just to destroy with my AEG's

~B

liamo333

HAHA. Good to know.

kdouglas

sweet, that would be great for target practice (and the effect)

is there somewhere i could go to buy clays (aside from a shooting range) and are they expensive?

tuxy

kdouglas wrote:

sweet, that would be great for target practice (and the effect)

is there somewhere i could go to buy clays (aside from a shooting range) and are they expensive?

About €15 for 150 clays
I assume any firearm dealer will be happy to sell them to you.

kdouglas

nice, ill look into that

Arcto

Sweet. Be impossible to hit one in the air though. I propose a challange! First one to post a video of them shooting a clay outa the air wins all the free air they want, FOR A YEAR! :cool:

kdouglas

that all depends on how high you throw it, i could hit one no problem if it was lower than 10 feet high, but thrown like the way a clay normally is, you'd have a hard time


Oh, and on a side note, balloons make great targets, just let them go at head height and let the wind catch them a little bit, then shoot before they get out of range, makes a nice satisfying pop when they burst, reminds me of playing point blank on the playstation

whupass

i shot a clay pigeon with my marker, do i get air? no video though and it didn't shatter

Voodoomelon

It's great craic throwing empty beer bottles up in the air and shooting at them with a pistol, you know you've hit them because of the "chink".

I throw them about 20ft away from myself and can hit them about 1 in 3 shots. Pretty good.

Arcto

whupass wrote:

i shot a clay pigeon with my marker, do i get air? no video though and it didn't shatter

Nah sorry whupass, thats just not good enough. How am i suposed to know you actually ht it.....wait what am i saying. This is the internet! No body lies here! hehe

Yeah i was out the back shooting pringles boxes awhile ago. Then it started raining. *sniff* i got wet

kdouglas

hope your doing that in a safe closed-off area with everyone wearing eye protection and cleaning up after yourself!!

penguin-o7

you could also use water ballons there pretty good cause dere real small so they make good target practise.

especcially wen tied above a door dat some one is walkin out of

Fallschirmjager

dont some swat teams use helium baloons tied down with different colours in the wind and the idea is you have to hit only one colour as they bounce around...may as well copy the masters at it...although you may get a similar effect tieing them off in a windy part of your garden....would be cheaper as well..

edit: jeasus desperate spelling...sorry

ED E

The think about clays that make em break is that they are rigid. The Bottles absorb the hits.

Can you buy helium?

Skatedude

bfsl might have clay pigeons, after all they are a shooting supplies store

Dar

As derek from bsfl suggested, just buy yourself a big box of aldi biscuits. Great for target practice and you can eat them afterwards as well .