Good places to practice Penetrating using Nessus,metasploit

[harithacats]

Is there a good places to practice penetration testing REALISTICALLY using nessuus,metasploit like utilities ?

[Defience]

Usually sites like this one will let you poke around as long as you report any findings and don't cause any harm to the site. Other than that, you can create your own and test on it. Sites like hackthissite and hellboundhackers give you missions to try out and let you make attempts at the actual site.