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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => BROW => Topic started by: Drydock on October 28, 2022, 11:15:43 AM
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Have 3 of these, no problems with my 50-70-630 rounds at 100 yards+. Good targets at a good price, other sizes available, discount if ordering more than one, free shipping.
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No problems with the 1/4" warping/cupping? Most AR targets seem to be 1/2" thick, but maybe that would only be needed with full power, jacketed rounds, but not so much with big, relatively slow lead.
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Nope, no warping, cupping or dimples. Shot only with lead alloy at BP velocities. He has 3/8 and 1/2 as well, price goes up with thickness.
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Drydock,
I'm curious how you hang them. I had a 10" X 3/8" AR500 gong that I hung from a custom welded frame meant to stand up to a tyro's wild shoot from my buffalo rifles (50 2-1/2" SS and 45-70 Gov). The Big Fifty Sharps knocked that gong ass over teakettle at 100 yards. It landed two feet in front of the stand. Re-hanging it for every shot was such a pain I gave up on the idea and am looking for a target my Sharps won't dismantle on impact.
Dave
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I use this stand: https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1023917733?pid=167338
I use carriage bolts to hold the target to the chains, as the 630 will knock it off the S hooks.
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We had the same problem with our IDPA steel targets. We use hardened carriage bolts now. Works much better.
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Laugh at Amazon moment: Last week, ordered 1 (one) Highwild target stand off Amazon, $42, free shipping. Came home today to find 1 (one) large box on my porch, containing 5 (five) target stands. Checking the invoice, nope, only charged for one.
Life is good.
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1/4"X48" Buffalo at 500 yards. No problem tipping it over. No dimples or pits, but then we were using lead 50-70's and a 45-70
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BTW, does anybody have any idea of how close you can use, say, .30-06 on 1/4" AR 500 with no damage to the target?
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I have a few 5/16" armor steel targets. I have shot them with 5.56x45 copper & steel jacket lead as well as fmj 30 Carbine. Dimples the target face badly at 100 yd. I prefer using them at 200+ yd - that adds at least a little challenge to the shooting part (11"x12" target). My 8x57 cast is good at any distance. If I tried full power '06, I'd certainly test it at longer range & hope for the best. Would be some risk to that test.
Regards,
Slim
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Thanks Slim!
What I'm thinking is that I have some 12" buffalos that were cut incidentally when the big buffalo was cut. I feel like I could sacrifice one of them. I'll set it at 500 and shoot it with my 300 WM, then just keep moving it in until I start seeing damage.
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Excellent plan. Besides, if it starts to show damage, just use it with lead bullets from then on.
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Used round baler belts work well for hanging swinging targets in place of chain.
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I've used that, too. The secret to using chain is to use hardened chain and hardened carriage bolts to attach them.
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Used round baler belts work well for hanging swinging targets in place of chain.
:-[
To be honest, I was just trying to get it hung up quickly. It only arrived that morning
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Understand that get it up in a hurry thing.
Draping the baler belt over what ever you have for a crossbar to hold it up, and then using hard bolts to secure the target to the belt, you'll get less jump than when a bullet goes astray and hits the chain above the target and not the actual target...
Those belts seem to hold up better to errant bullets with a mind of their own too. ::)