Home made shooting gong

Dogleg said:
Truckers conveniently leave broken transport straps along the side of the highway. The thing about webbing is you can hit it hundreds of times before enough dots get connected to part it. Free is good, maintainance free is better.
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Lol! Well said.
 
greg11 said:
I'd ditch the chain.

Weld a couple links onto the rear of the plate, and hang the plate from wire coat hangers. It ain't as pretty as chain, but if you shoot a coat hanger, you can fix it in 2 seconds. Chain, not so much. Double up on the coat hangers and you'll never be a lucky enough shot to shoot two coat hangers in one sitting.

I have a 12" plate, with no stand. I hang my plate from trees or whatever target stands are around at my range. I have used coat hangers or hobby wire from Walmart for the last 2 years.

I started off with chain, but if you hit the chain by accident, you're left "fixing" the chain with paracord or coat hangers (who has a welder in the woods?)....
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I promise you, the Grade 70 transport chain and Grade 8 bolts can take direct hits from whatever you shoot.
I've been abusing the setup as pictured for about 2 years now with many hits to the chains and the bolts.

Not a single breakage!!!

Again, not the only way to skin a cat. Just food for thought...
 
TangoKilo said:
I promise you, the Grade 70 transport chain and Grade 8 bolts can take direct hits from whatever you shoot.
I've been abusing the setup as pictured for about 2 years now with many hits to the chains and the bolts.

Not a single breakage!!!

Again, not the only way to skin a cat. Just food for thought...
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I think the main thing is to just shoot the plate. Lol! Then you can use paper go hold it up. Lol! Don't worry, I know paper would fail, but you get my meaning.
 
RoscoeP said:
Never mind the plate, I have held his rifle before and it is heavy! And he hunts with it.
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Hit the Bowflex dad!
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RoscoeP said:
Hey, I did yesterday and will again tomorrow. I should do some curls and presses with your rifle. Thanks for making my gong holder today. Post up a pic of it, the boys here seem to like your thread. I'll call you on the weekend.
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You don't need go work out more, carrying all that stuff you use your Roadies (aka: your kids) for!
 
The swingset idea is great. TangoKilo and I have shot his innumerable times from 5-500m with everything from 22RF to 300win mag. including steel core x39 and 100s of rounds of x25 We now have a range set up on private property from 100-1000m with the option of going out to 1200(maybe someday). Over the years we have tried several hanging/mounting options from light cable, wire, barbed wire, grade 5 chain and hardware, as well as the webbing straps. For posts we have used wood, and steel I beam fence posts from UFA. To date, and after 1000s of rounds from anything imagineable, the ONLY options for us are are heavy steel rods or rebar for posts, water jet or good cuts by a plasma cutter on AR400 steel, and grade 8 or grade 70 transport chain held on by grade 8 bolts to the rear of the target by nylock washers. This is what will be guaranteed to withstand the energy of rifle rounds repeatedly. At 700 meters I was amazed that my 308 with a 175gr SMK would punch through 1/4" mild steel, and was still ripping chunks out of steel fence posts If you weld links to AR steel you are essentially turning it into mild steel with the heat transfer. The swingset TangoKilo posted a picture of doesnt look like that anymore....after a few days at 500m that square tubing has more than a few holes and divots in it!! It still functions great and is a ton of fun. the next one will be out of rod or rebar though. Deflects direct hits effortlessly.
Everyone has different needs and expectations from their gear, this is just what we found. Was way easier to do it properly the first time, now all we have to worry about is keeping paint on our steel........life is good!!!
 
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