shooting gong
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If you want something that you can put anywhere from 400 to how ever far you can see, it's hard to beat a 1/2 inch AR500 steel IPSC pattern target. I have an 8", 10", 12", and IPSC sized plates. All 1/2 inch AR500 steel and it is a nice collection for everything. The AR500 has taken hits from a 300SMK leaving the muzzle at 3000fps and at 500 yards it makes just the smallest mark. Maybe 1/16" deep. Past 800 yards, no marks except splatter marks. Hope this helps.
Can you post pictures of it? Did you fabricate it yourself? If yes, any plans/drawings you could share? Thanks,
I got most of my AR500 gongs on ebay, for a seller listed as "quality target". It was cheaper to pay the shipping than to buy them here.
The set-ups vary, but a quick and dirty portable set-up is 3 chunks of 1/2" rebar and two 3/4" "T" fittings. Tap two uprights in the ground, then put "T"s on the top of those and run the third through horizontally through the fittings and loops of the target. The uprights get loose in the ground eventually, requiring resetting the uprights. The plate makes a fair impromptu hammer, in good old Red Green fashion.
A somewhat more permanent setup is to break a 8" 2x4 in half by stomping on it, then pounding them in the ground until the tops are level. (Neatness counts) Nail either another board across the tops to suspend a gong from, or suitably sized backboard for paper targets. It takes longer to type it than to do it.
Some of my plates are 3/8" and some are 1/2". I can't make a mark on them with 300 grain SMKs out of my Edge at 500 yards, and even shot a 1/2" one at 500 with the .375 Cheytac a few times. That's a waste of bullets at such close range, but the target stood up. The rebar; not as much.
The set-ups vary, but a quick and dirty portable set-up is 3 chunks of 1/2" rebar and two 3/4" "T" fittings. Tap two uprights in the ground, then put "T"s on the top of those and run the third through horizontally through the fittings and loops of the target. The uprights get loose in the ground eventually, requiring resetting the uprights. The plate makes a fair impromptu hammer, in good old Red Green fashion.
A somewhat more permanent setup is to break a 8" 2x4 in half by stomping on it, then pounding them in the ground until the tops are level. (Neatness counts) Nail either another board across the tops to suspend a gong from, or suitably sized backboard for paper targets. It takes longer to type it than to do it.
Some of my plates are 3/8" and some are 1/2". I can't make a mark on them with 300 grain SMKs out of my Edge at 500 yards, and even shot a 1/2" one at 500 with the .375 Cheytac a few times. That's a waste of bullets at such close range, but the target stood up. The rebar; not as much.
Here's a couple pics to give you an idea. I didn't make these, I got them through a group by on AO forum this sping. I would get more pics for ya but im currently up in Resolute Bay at work till the end of the month.
Just do a google search for the dimensions of the IPSC standard target and it is the exact same and 1/2 inch thick.
Sask_Hunter
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- Saskatchewan
I put in an order with theses guys a week ago. http://www.jcsteeltargets.com/.
Mild steel just doesn't hold up too well to any thing.
Mild steel just doesn't hold up too well to any thing.
- Location
- Beaverlodge, Alberta
I made one from two worn out chuck blade bits last week. Used the old hardware to fill the holes and a couple pieces of bar across the back all welded up. Worked good, 303 and 762x54R won't touch it.
Haha I have chain on there now, those were pics from just after I had got them and didn't have any chain lying around. The rope lasted 10 hits from a 535 grain postell out of a sharps at 400 yards. 535 grains makes a big splatter
I got 4 free from a Manufacturing yard they had 4 large 2Inch thick ones that are almost same size as a regular one but of course they are around 100LBs each only negative is the 4 Mounting holes at bottom but then if u bolt it to something means it wont fall over. They were heavy duty lifting parts for vertical tanks but they didnt need them anymore
Canadian_Zuk
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- Location
- Pickering, Ontario
I made this portable steel target from scraps lying around. A buddy gave me the 12" x 1" thick tool steel plate gong and I cut the 4" x 1" from a chunk of tool steel bar stock I had. It's not AR-500 or any other abrasion resistant steel, but it was free and will last for many thousands of rounds. The only real damage so far is a small chunk from from a 150gr .277 bullet from less than 50 yards that just caught the gong at 6 O'clock as seen in the last pic.
In the pic you can see the impacts from 4 different calibers we shot at it.
45 ACP @ 100 yards just takes the paint off (very top left)
.223 at 300 yards does not leave craters, but you can clearly see a mark from the polymer tipped V-max (several near the missing 6 O'clock chunk)
.204 Ruger and 270 Winchester both put craters in it at 300 yards (you can see the difference in the diameter of the craters.
In the pic you can see the impacts from 4 different calibers we shot at it.
45 ACP @ 100 yards just takes the paint off (very top left)
.223 at 300 yards does not leave craters, but you can clearly see a mark from the polymer tipped V-max (several near the missing 6 O'clock chunk)
.204 Ruger and 270 Winchester both put craters in it at 300 yards (you can see the difference in the diameter of the craters.
Then there was that time ... A single 160 grain .375h&h, being a cut-down TSX projectile, so it was ... & loaded to the tyt's too ... 3650fps over the chrono.
1 inch mild steel at 200 yards .... PERFORATED
- Location
- Chilliwack BC
Lol, not likely, you know what that kind of steel is worth to the scrap guy!! I work for an equipment dealer and I have to beg and plead for old blades!
