Recent content by mikhail kalashnikov

Thank you for the resources, I may have possibly visited one of them during my research, I too have welded new teeth a dozer bucket, or a track loader rather in my case as well as build from scratch and rebuild multiple other buckets. I have been welding and fabricating for a little over 15...

Now thats a target. Do you have any problems with the bullets bouncing back? with it being so heavy?

We use mig to weld our targets, I can't quote the number but the wire is rated for 80,000 lb and as far as the brinnell scale goes I'll have to dig out my paperwork from the research prior to starting construction. I want to say 550-600 (don't quote me on this though.) I'll try to find the...

AR 500 is some pretty good steel, the thing is that AR stands for abrasion resistant, AR type steel was designed, to my knowledge, for use where things were constantly rubbing or moving against it. ( concrete truck shoot comes to mind.) The steel we use was specifically designed to be shot, it...

Mechanical engineering Mechanical Engineering is one of the most employable degrees a person can get, I'm in the process of getting my ME masters. Almost every consumer product that's not grown has went through an engineers hands at some point, even 3rd world countries need engineers and do...

We have shot them a ton and we haven't had that happen, which is kinda surprising, it seems like they would, but it's never happened to us. My brother and I ususlly set up two of em and and race em past a line we paint on the range ground, pretty fun stuff.

Hello I need the opinions/ advice of my fellow shooters on some steel targets I make. They were designed for use with rim fire and pistol rounds, we've tested them with everything up to .45 auto at 30 yards and they work awesome, zero damage as result. They are constructed of 12560 armor plate...