35 Whelen
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Had some friends coming out last Saturday for some fun, food, firewater and firearms. So, I gathered up some scrap around here and threw together a steel target. I had an ulterior motive as I'd been wanting a 200 yd. regulation size target on which to practice offhand shooting.
The target itself is constructed of two 22" diameter, 1/4" steel plates that I welded together. I then welded scoring rings on it the same size as the NRA 200 yd. "SR" target which is used for 200 yd. Offhand in High Power competition. The little welding rods weren't cooperating, so I left the 8-ring off welding only the X, 10, and 9-rings. Hung it from an old satellite dish frame and made provisions to stake it.
One of my buddies that came out has never been one to fire a rifle with any deliberate accuracy as he says his "eyes are too bad". So, I got his little DPMS M4 sighted in and after a few pointers he was nailing the target with great regularity and eventually started slinging them in the 9 and 10-ring and even managed a couple of X's all firing offhand with no support whatsoever!
All in all, we shot LOTS of ammunition:
The nice thing about a target like this (I have one at 600 yds. too) is a little spray paint fixes it up good as new with only some occassional welding to patch the dents. To hits are easy to hear even while wearing hearing protection and any hit on the target so long as it's 1.5" or so from the edge would score at least an eight.
The target has given me a new reason to rush home, throw together 10 or 12 rounds of .223 , grab the AR and practice a little offhand.
35W
The target itself is constructed of two 22" diameter, 1/4" steel plates that I welded together. I then welded scoring rings on it the same size as the NRA 200 yd. "SR" target which is used for 200 yd. Offhand in High Power competition. The little welding rods weren't cooperating, so I left the 8-ring off welding only the X, 10, and 9-rings. Hung it from an old satellite dish frame and made provisions to stake it.
One of my buddies that came out has never been one to fire a rifle with any deliberate accuracy as he says his "eyes are too bad". So, I got his little DPMS M4 sighted in and after a few pointers he was nailing the target with great regularity and eventually started slinging them in the 9 and 10-ring and even managed a couple of X's all firing offhand with no support whatsoever!
All in all, we shot LOTS of ammunition:
The nice thing about a target like this (I have one at 600 yds. too) is a little spray paint fixes it up good as new with only some occassional welding to patch the dents. To hits are easy to hear even while wearing hearing protection and any hit on the target so long as it's 1.5" or so from the edge would score at least an eight.
The target has given me a new reason to rush home, throw together 10 or 12 rounds of .223 , grab the AR and practice a little offhand.
35W