As Reactive Targets, Billiard Chalks Are Fun and Challenging
Reactive targets — whether balloons, steel gongs, or clay birds — always add fun to a range session. But precision shooters may want something more challenging (i.e. smaller) than a clay bird when shooting inside 300 yards. For a change of pace, try shooting at inexpensive pool cue chalks. Less than 1″ square, these will test your marksmanship skills.
Pool Cue Chalks — Cheap, Fun, Dramatic
If you’re looking for a small target that makes a nice big cloud of color when hit, try pool cue chalks — those little blue cubes you use to dust the end of billiard cues. Measuring about 7/8″ per side, billiard chalks make very challenging targets at 100 and 200 yards. When you hit them, if you nail the circular “dimple” in the middle, they disintegrate impressively, tossing blue “smoke” in all directions. Billiard chalks are inexpensive. You can buy a dozen chalks online for about $3.00 — just 25 cents each. And the prices drop with more quantity. One gross of chalks (that’s 144 pieces) costs just $19.95 at ozonebilliards.com.
To see actual hits on chalk at 100 and 200 yards, watch the video above. (WARNING: Soundtrack is loud and advertisement may play before movie.) The movie-maker, Phil of the Random Nuclear Strikes Blog, cautions that: “You’ll notice (in the video) that some of the hits are ‘wiffs’ instead of ‘poofs’. If you look at the picture above, you’ll see the 1/2 inch dimple in the cube face. If you don’t put the bullet in that dimple, it’ll ‘wiff’ on you.”
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Chalk at Ozone Billiards is on sale for $19.95 per gross. They are available in blue, green, gold, burgundy and red.
also you can try to shoot paintballs they are .68 caliber and cheaper than billiard chalk too, so try hitting them at 100 and 200 yards. I hit 4 in a row at 200 with witnesses but man they are hard to see in the sun casting a shadow below them.
Charcoal briquettes are another. We tape them up at the 100 yard range during our sporting rifle matches
We use the neighborhood cats staked down at 600yds, makes good prairie dog practice.
With classic ZZ Top… nice
Those would be a fun challenge offhand at 100m. We have a side money shoot at matches using the 1/5th scale Smallbore silhouette Chicken at 100m and it gets hit pretty regularly. $2 to enter per match day and you get one shot at it for each 10 in a row you get during the match for Master and AAA shooters. AA, A and B class only need 5 in a row to get a shot at it. A hit gets you 20% of the pot and on several occasions the whole pot was almost wiped out! Trying to get it to build into a big pot to add pressure but it gets hit to often. Might have to try these pool chalks instead!
Oh yeah, I have a 72ct box of these in every color they come in. Satisfying & cheap reactive targets if you hit them in the center with anything more powerful than a 22LR, and they don’t leave much mess to clean up.
I use double-stick tape on the back to hold them onto target rails. Just make sure you stick them to steel so that they have something nice & hard to crush against when you hit them. Put them on thin plywood & they’ll just punch right through!
I like dum dum suckers from wally world a big bag of them doesn’t cost much. Just stick them in the ground. We made a stand out of a piece of 2×10. Just drill holes in it. Leave the paper on they explode better.