Looking to buy some steel targets similar as to ones used in NLR shoots, for practice sessions and not may places I've found selling individual targets with hangers especially smaller ones from 1/2"-2".
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the pop cans are fun and the KYL rack from here I have recognized not only in my range but various places I shoot at.
I also have the 'zombie' where you can call the hand shots, feet etc to get small on at 50 yards
I also like MGM for the octagons for CF and use one at 175 yards in 8".
AR500 1/4" Rimfire Shooting Targets
AR500 1/4" steel practice targets. Targets are carefully engineered with reactivity and durability as a highest priority in each design. Quick and simple to set up and take down with generally no tool needed for assembly.
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the pop cans are fun and the KYL rack from here I have recognized not only in my range but various places I shoot at.
I also have the 'zombie' where you can call the hand shots, feet etc to get small on at 50 yards
I also like MGM for the octagons for CF and use one at 175 yards in 8".
For KYL and specialty plates, I will order online. For generic plates, I like to stay local and avoid hefty shipping prices.
I would think steel targets would be pretty steep to ship.
1/4" is about 10.2 pounds per square foot. If you can find a local guy with a small CNC plasma table....those guys love cutting for people. It's a way to recapture some of their costs. With a .22 round I'm not sure that the steel would have to be AR400 or AR500. I would think A36 would be fine. For that matter....a plasma cutter would not care about the different alloys.
1/4" is about 10.2 pounds per square foot. If you can find a local guy with a small CNC plasma table....those guys love cutting for people. It's a way to recapture some of their costs. With a .22 round I'm not sure that the steel would have to be AR400 or AR500. I would think A36 would be fine. For that matter....a plasma cutter would not care about the different alloys.
I feel your pain. I wonder if they require the same target material for pellet gun matches.......
I've had good luck with targets from these guys. They often have
2nds sales regularly.
shootingtargets7.com
Dave
2nds sales regularly.
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This mirrors my experience with this vendor. Great product, great service, VERY fair price.I've had good luck with targets from these guys. They often have
2nds sales regularly.
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Dave
Just picked up one of these from this place. It works great. Maybe they have what you're looking for.
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I bought several AR500 from Shootsteel, like 10yrs ago, Years ago, AR500 Steel Gong Shooting Targets [Low Prices Fast Shipping]
Later some from Shootingtargets 7, AR500 Steel Gong Shooting Targets [Low Prices Fast Shipping]
Might have one or two from Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ar500+go...&i=sporting&crid=1Q6WZ6GJUOBZO&sprefix=ar500+gong,sporting,155&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
We use 3/8" for pistols at more then 10yds and rifles at 200yds or more, small targets at 100yds rifle are 1/2" on straps.
For .22LR we use 1/4" to get the best sound.
1/2" at 300yds+ for 223 dont move much and make a dull thud.
Speed kills AR500, keep impact speed under 2800fps, projectile weight just makes it louder.
Dont forget the chains or straps to hang them from.
Later some from Shootingtargets 7, AR500 Steel Gong Shooting Targets [Low Prices Fast Shipping]
Might have one or two from Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ar500+go...&i=sporting&crid=1Q6WZ6GJUOBZO&sprefix=ar500+gong,sporting,155&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
We use 3/8" for pistols at more then 10yds and rifles at 200yds or more, small targets at 100yds rifle are 1/2" on straps.
For .22LR we use 1/4" to get the best sound.
1/2" at 300yds+ for 223 dont move much and make a dull thud.
Speed kills AR500, keep impact speed under 2800fps, projectile weight just makes it louder.
Dont forget the chains or straps to hang them from.
At my club the TARGETS must be of AR500 steel but the HANGERS do not
Just ordered 36 2" egg AR500 3/8" steel targets and will build my own target hangers.
Also ordered a NYL target and several targets and hangers from JC steel targets.
Beauty of my club is weekends are busy but M-Wed are slow and after 11/1 M-Thus I rarely have visitors but unless weather sucks weekends are busy year round.
M-Thurs I can put out a couple dozen steel targets and as many clay birds as I want and enjoy hours of shooting.
I'm going to buy several 100 pieces of sidewalk chalk and make them into exploding targets as well.
I only wish I had stumbled onto the 22lr precision game years ago.
Just ordered 36 2" egg AR500 3/8" steel targets and will build my own target hangers.
Also ordered a NYL target and several targets and hangers from JC steel targets.
Beauty of my club is weekends are busy but M-Wed are slow and after 11/1 M-Thus I rarely have visitors but unless weather sucks weekends are busy year round.
M-Thurs I can put out a couple dozen steel targets and as many clay birds as I want and enjoy hours of shooting.
I'm going to buy several 100 pieces of sidewalk chalk and make them into exploding targets as well.
I only wish I had stumbled onto the 22lr precision game years ago.
would you be up to selling some of your targets
thanks Gary
Unfortunately I gave them all to my friend who lives in farm country and has his own shooting range. He is happy to let me come shoot with him when ever I wish and I do but he lives in Kouts (IN) 49 miles one way from my home so I only go when I need to shoot past the 200 yards available at my rifle club.
thanks Gary
Unfortunately I gave them all to my friend who lives in farm country and has his own shooting range. He is happy to let me come shoot with him when ever I wish and I do but he lives in Kouts (IN) 49 miles one way from my home so I only go when I need to shoot past the 200 yards available at my rifle club.
I used Owl Creek Fabrications on ebay for mine. They have assorted sizes and thicknesses along with some hanging hooks & more. "Free Shipping", which I take as the shipping costs were added into the prices of each item, which I thought were reasonable, at the time, a few years ago when I bought some AR plates.
For rimfire you don't need AR500 or 400. So many people really don't understand what this steel is really for. AR stands for Abrasion Resistant, and the number is a "hardness" number. I have a grapple on the front of my tractor and there is a huge sticker on the side of it, AR400
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In a nutshell, "earth engaging" tools will generally carry an AR rating....the better ones anyway. You ever look at a blade on a bulldozer, you will see a little strip of steel on the bottom of the blade, that is hardened, and that is the part doing the "digging" the rest of the blade is of a "softer" steel.
"Good" steel and "hardened" steel are not one in the same, you can have very good steel that in the job it needs to do is not hard.
Ever sit at a RR crossing....sure you have....see the rails move up and down as the trucks roll over it, sure you have. The rails and switch plates are soft steel....the rail has a layer of hardened steel where the trucks ride, but the rest of that rail is fairly soft so it will bend under the weight of the train. The switch plates are the same.
Story time, a two for one:
I have a bunch of RR spikes, a guy behind me is dabbling in playing black smith. He sees the spikes and asks can I have some of those, sure, but what are you going to use it for. So and so use to work for CTX and I think it would make a cool gift if I made a knife out of one. That would be cool, but it will be a crappy knife. Why is that, the steel in the spikes are very soft. The RR uses cheap steel? I never said it was cheap, I said it was soft, the steel the spikes are made out of is just going into wood with a little "lip" on them to hold the rail, it does not need to be hard....hard and good are not equal.
He did make a cool knife, but it would not hold an edge.
In the rimfire world you can use very mild steel and not have issues.
Personally I only buy AR500 steel targets now....why, because when you are old and don't remember if that cool spinner you have that has a coyote on one end and a wood chuck on the other is mild or hard, So you send a 3006 and the target does not move....hmm, nope you hit it you just blew a hole right through it.
Years ago when the surplus 8mm stuff was really coming in I had a couple people out and we are banging steel till the rifles get too hot to touch, I don't know how many round we shot but a lot, and the steel showed no real damage. In that case of loose 8mm rounds is one round with a black tip.....is that AP? Yea I think so. Can I shoot it at your targets, yea I want to see what it will do.
Went through it like it was paper.....really crazy stuff.
In a nutshell, "earth engaging" tools will generally carry an AR rating....the better ones anyway. You ever look at a blade on a bulldozer, you will see a little strip of steel on the bottom of the blade, that is hardened, and that is the part doing the "digging" the rest of the blade is of a "softer" steel.
"Good" steel and "hardened" steel are not one in the same, you can have very good steel that in the job it needs to do is not hard.
Ever sit at a RR crossing....sure you have....see the rails move up and down as the trucks roll over it, sure you have. The rails and switch plates are soft steel....the rail has a layer of hardened steel where the trucks ride, but the rest of that rail is fairly soft so it will bend under the weight of the train. The switch plates are the same.
Story time, a two for one:
I have a bunch of RR spikes, a guy behind me is dabbling in playing black smith. He sees the spikes and asks can I have some of those, sure, but what are you going to use it for. So and so use to work for CTX and I think it would make a cool gift if I made a knife out of one. That would be cool, but it will be a crappy knife. Why is that, the steel in the spikes are very soft. The RR uses cheap steel? I never said it was cheap, I said it was soft, the steel the spikes are made out of is just going into wood with a little "lip" on them to hold the rail, it does not need to be hard....hard and good are not equal.
He did make a cool knife, but it would not hold an edge.
In the rimfire world you can use very mild steel and not have issues.
Personally I only buy AR500 steel targets now....why, because when you are old and don't remember if that cool spinner you have that has a coyote on one end and a wood chuck on the other is mild or hard, So you send a 3006 and the target does not move....hmm, nope you hit it you just blew a hole right through it.
Years ago when the surplus 8mm stuff was really coming in I had a couple people out and we are banging steel till the rifles get too hot to touch, I don't know how many round we shot but a lot, and the steel showed no real damage. In that case of loose 8mm rounds is one round with a black tip.....is that AP? Yea I think so. Can I shoot it at your targets, yea I want to see what it will do.
Went through it like it was paper.....really crazy stuff.
Although not questioned by the op, I can attest to the effects of hv-cf rifle bullets (.308 at 100 yds) on "soft steel", a 3/8" thick pistol target in this case.
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I would agree with #8, but if you shop around you can find some places that ship for free. I have found one of my local high school welding teacher that will cut steel for me. Odd shapes, I buy square steel and he does the rest. For sv rimfire you can go to A36 without any problem
I can never get pics on my post so I will just describe the test. At 10 yards with the steel secured CCI SV barley left a mark you could see, my federal punch out of a 16 in barrel left a divet and just for the he'll of it a fmj 230 gr round nose 45 acp left a mark but no divet.
I can never get pics on my post so I will just describe the test. At 10 yards with the steel secured CCI SV barley left a mark you could see, my federal punch out of a 16 in barrel left a divet and just for the he'll of it a fmj 230 gr round nose 45 acp left a mark but no divet.
I would agree with #8, but if you shop around you can find some places that ship for free. I have found one of my local high school welding teacher that will cut steel for me. Odd shapes, I buy square steel and he does the rest. For sv rimfire you can go to A36 without any problem
I can never get pics on my post so I will just describe the test. At 10 yards with the steel secured CCI SV barley left a mark you could see, my federal punch out of a 16 in barrel left a divet and just for the he'll of it a fmj 230 gr round nose 45 acp left a mark but no divet.
I can never get pics on my post so I will just describe the test. At 10 yards with the steel secured CCI SV barley left a mark you could see, my federal punch out of a 16 in barrel left a divet and just for the he'll of it a fmj 230 gr round nose 45 acp left a mark but no divet.
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