Hunting pop cans

[contender]

Yep,, you gotta shoot at hot, stale beer from a good distance. That beer vapor does get quite big.

I'd put them on my range,, shoot them,, and leave them for a few days to dry & reduce the smell. Then into the recycle barrel.

 

[gramps]

I love reactive targets. Clay pigeons are cheap. Hitting them at 25 yds with a handgun is satisfying!!! Old soda yessss!!!
gramps

 

[Tensaw]

My relaxing meditating this morning was used for target practice on a coke can about 40 plus yards. Uberti 1873 ler gun and blackhawk both 45 colt. I like peep sights.

I have the same combo. Lots of fun!

 

[Laserbait]

I was at a training back a couple of years ago. I bought 2 30 can cases of Keystone light, and some real beer. Everyone had to shoot 3 cans of keystone @ 100 yards before we put the guns away and had dinner/drinks for the night. It was fun!

Trying to see those silver cans at 100 yards at dusk with Iron sights/Red Dots/Eotechs was tougher than I thought it would be!

 

[Dan in MI]

I can't believe you destroyed that dime!

Many years ago when freon was dirt cheap we would shoot full cans. Stand them upside down and shoot the rim. They would go 100' in the air. Miss the rim and you still got an exhilarating explosion.

 

[harley08]

This reminds me of a day shooting at Coors light cans. In the 80's I used to work at a Fed Mart, which is pretty much like a Kroger nowadays. We got a pallet of Coors light in. Somebody accidentally stored it in the freezer locker. The bottoms of all the cans pooched out. Someone else had an idea to put it on the loading dock in the sun to see if that would fix things. We ended up with a pallet of ruined beer. The whole pallet went into the dumpster- well, almost the whole pallet. My buddy who was the head of security and I loaded the back of my Bronco with maybe 30-40 flats. We bought a bunch of 12ga birdshot and .22 and headed out to San Fran canyon and had us a good old time. Shake those cans up and they vaporized when even one birdshot pellet hit. A couple hours later we were covered in dried beer mist and had sore shoulders, but that was one of the most fun times I've ever had. Picked up the remnants of the cans and the aluminum scrap got us a lot of our ammo money back. Getting the beer off the Bronco, the guns, and ourselves was another thing, though. We still joke about how glad we were that we didn't get pulled over on our way home- that would have taken some explaining. You could smell that rank beer smell from a block away. Probably wouldn't have believed we didn't drink a drop.

That reminds me of the time we bought some cheap beer while waiting for it to get cold we would take a couple of full cans shake them up and hit them with our .22 Ruger Carbines. Hit then one time and the cans almost blow apart.
Those were fun days!

 

[Mobuck]

"Everyone had to shoot 3 cans of keystone @ 100 yards before we put the guns away"
handgun or rifle?

 

[harley08]

"Everyone had to shoot 3 cans of keystone @ 100 yards before we put the guns away"
handgun or rifle?

 

[harley08]

Nope. Just shoot one or two cans put the gun away then start drinking, occasionally a friend would come over from the next camp, I would ask him if he wanted a beer? He would say twist my arm. - Good old days!