the naked prophet
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I wasn't sure where to put this, since it's applicable to both rifles and pistols, so I'm putting this in general.
When my wife and I saw this, we thought it would be great for practice on multiple followup shots. Even though we can't use it for our full-caliber carry guns, the practice with a .22 should improve our skills less expensively.
This Birchwood Casey ".22 Gallery Resetting Target" consists of four 2.5 inch targets, hanging from a steel bar. Above them is a bar hanging from a fifth target. When you shoot each of the four lower targets, they're supposed to spin around back and land resting on the bar of the upper target. Then you shoot the fifth target, which knocks it backwards, pushing the bar forwards and allowing the four targets to fall.
Theoretically.
In reality, what happens is that the target spins around and either bounces off the bar and falls back down, or pushes past the bar and falls back down. If, by some miracle, you manage to get one of the targets to rest on the bar, the next target will promptly knock it off the bar. A target on the left will cause the bar to pop up on the opposite side, knocking the opposite target off the bar. You can easily spend 30 rounds popping the two end targets back up onto the bar, one after another, before any of them will "stick."
On the plus side, the "release" target is quite positive. That and I only wasted $20 on it.
I think these problems could be easily remedied, if BWC would spend an extra $5 on it. If they used a "U" bar instead of an upside-down "T" shaped bar for the upper piece, it would probably not flip the opposite target back down every time you popped one up. Also, doubling the mass of the upper bar would help prevent the targets from spinning on through or bouncing back.
I may go ahead and try to add a couple of vertical crosspieces on the ends of the swinging bar. If that doesn't help, it will probably be relegated to the next garage sale, or whenever I feel like being very frustrated and wasting 30 rounds trying to do what I should be able to do with 5 or 6.
When my wife and I saw this, we thought it would be great for practice on multiple followup shots. Even though we can't use it for our full-caliber carry guns, the practice with a .22 should improve our skills less expensively.
This Birchwood Casey ".22 Gallery Resetting Target" consists of four 2.5 inch targets, hanging from a steel bar. Above them is a bar hanging from a fifth target. When you shoot each of the four lower targets, they're supposed to spin around back and land resting on the bar of the upper target. Then you shoot the fifth target, which knocks it backwards, pushing the bar forwards and allowing the four targets to fall.
Theoretically.
In reality, what happens is that the target spins around and either bounces off the bar and falls back down, or pushes past the bar and falls back down. If, by some miracle, you manage to get one of the targets to rest on the bar, the next target will promptly knock it off the bar. A target on the left will cause the bar to pop up on the opposite side, knocking the opposite target off the bar. You can easily spend 30 rounds popping the two end targets back up onto the bar, one after another, before any of them will "stick."
On the plus side, the "release" target is quite positive. That and I only wasted $20 on it.
I think these problems could be easily remedied, if BWC would spend an extra $5 on it. If they used a "U" bar instead of an upside-down "T" shaped bar for the upper piece, it would probably not flip the opposite target back down every time you popped one up. Also, doubling the mass of the upper bar would help prevent the targets from spinning on through or bouncing back.
I may go ahead and try to add a couple of vertical crosspieces on the ends of the swinging bar. If that doesn't help, it will probably be relegated to the next garage sale, or whenever I feel like being very frustrated and wasting 30 rounds trying to do what I should be able to do with 5 or 6.
