I like to shoot other things with hair or fur.

Cow water buffalo was a good practice session once. Wild pigs. What I am really looking for is a local farmer with a kangaroo culling permit and hopefully a few hundred tags per year. By law the carcases have to be left on the property and not harvested, ie the farmer and his dogs can eat them but you are in trouble for taking them away. A hopping kangaroo at full speed would make great practice target. Deer too are good practice. I haven't used a double on feral goats yet but they would be particularly good practice.

Paddy melons in the field also make excellent targets. Set them up on fence posts. Once I used a series of limestone rocks (head size) and shot them in order, furtherest first and simulating a charge, until they got real close. When you hit them they explode if a fantastic display with bits of rock falling many metres away. The last one I hit made a little mushroom cloud and bits were even falling behind me. Very exciting (I made up the mushroom cloud

). Shoot as fast as you can, reload etc, until the last is hit. Try not to hit the farmers posts though especially when it is your own fenceline.

Something else good to use is 2 litre soft drink plastic bottles filled with water and maybe a little bit of dye.

I like these sorts of size targets as I'm not looking for MOA accuracy when practicing. I want to hit a reasonably sized target quickly and hit it every time. A paddy melon is a good ele brain sized target too but far easier to hit.

If shooting at targets, if checking/working up loads, then use proper standing rests etc, otherwise forget the circular pistol targets. Put a game animal target up, and snap shoot them as quick as you can and get the sights aligned. Do it from different ranges. Right I am talking about shooting in my own paddock, not an overly officious formal target range.

I want to set up a couple of running targets, one a charging buff and another crossing one.