BUT, the target mechanism would be protected by 1 1/2" thick A500 steel, minimum, and ONLY the target rounds would be visible. Some shooters have the ability to destroy an anvil with a 2 pound rubber mallet. The target rounds would be 1" thick A500 for the same reason. Easy to build, not too difficult to set up, and basically 'bulletproof'. If you wanted to save a little coin, the target rounds could be made from 1/2-3/4" CRS and be easy bolt on replacement.
We have one similar at our range but it's home made and reset with a rope.
Daddy, what's an enabler?
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
The problem with plate racks is spatter tears up the unhardened parts over time. No real way to avoid it unless you make heavy duty enough its immovable w/o a tractor.
"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
BUT, the target mechanism would be protected by 1 1/2" thick A500 steel, minimum, and ONLY the target rounds would be visible. Some shooters have the ability to destroy an anvil with a 2 pound rubber mallet. The target rounds would be 1" thick A500 for the same reason. Easy to build, not too difficult to set up, and basically 'bulletproof'. If you wanted to save a little coin, the target rounds could be made from 1/2-3/4" CRS and be easy bolt on replacement.
We have one similar at our range but it's home made and reset with a rope.
That's what I was thinking of when I suggested the 12v reset with a remote, nobody can shoot the rope and you just push a button.
BUT, the target mechanism would be protected by 1 1/2" thick A500 steel, minimum, and ONLY the target rounds would be visible. Some shooters have the ability to destroy an anvil with a 2 pound rubber mallet. The target rounds would be 1" thick A500 for the same reason. Easy to build, not too difficult to set up, and basically 'bulletproof'. If you wanted to save a little coin, the target rounds could be made from 1/2-3/4" CRS and be easy bolt on replacement.
We have one similar at our range but it's home made and reset with a rope.
That's what I was thinking of when I suggested the 12v reset with a remote, nobody can shoot the rope and you just push a button.
Ten 6" round x 5/8" thick round targets for around $250-$300. Steel to make a SUBSTANTIAL frame that can take the punishment of high speed bullets would be around $500 minimum; 1" thick CRS ain't cheap! Welding all that mess up, AND buying a trailer with a 1,000 lb lift boom to haul it and set it up.........
I am NOT you huckleberry on this one!
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” ― Douglas Adams
I brought my silhouette target and it survived just fine. It is made out of ar500 and it only got one mark on it. If it is close it is only safe with pistol rounds and they won't hurt it. I would bring my dueling tree but it won't fit in the trunk. A certain person thought I might have over built my stand but it was on hand and free.
Those tires wouldn't survive 5 seconds at the shoot.
FIFY!
Your estimate is closer to the truth. There IS a fix for that, though. Use one of these in front of the tire with the concave facing the shooting position. Ricochets coming back at the errant shooter will cure them of targeting the tire.
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
Compressors, pistons, electronic controls, which only run perfectly until you host your first big match. . . I vote "or what"
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
― Douglas Adams
I am NOT you huckleberry on this one!
― Douglas Adams
Use one of these in front of the tire with the concave facing the shooting position. Ricochets coming back at the errant shooter will cure them of targeting the tire.
https://www.shoupparts.com/858-Disc-Blade
The frame and trailer tongue would still get shot to doll rags, though.
― Douglas Adams