Recommend a good steel target please....

[Hokkmike]

I want to buy a target that would handle from .380 to .45 caliber handgun calibers and mauybe some .22 and smaller caliber rifles. You know, the kind with the metal swing arms, pop down, clang, or move when hit and/or etc.

It would be best if it could accomodate two shooters simultaneously. Either that or I could buy two targets.

Can anybody recommend a source for this kind of target?

I guess, also, that these would require the use of lead bullets only. Am I right?

 

[Phil DeGraves]

http://www.actiontarget.com/index_spt.html

 

[Hokkmike]

Thanks Phil....

I am looking through their site.

My favorite choice, shooting tree and plate rack are, of course, more expensive.

The cowboy targets seem reasonable.

THANKS again......

 

[Markbo]

Those are nice... the reactive ones are a little spendy though!

I'll tell you what NOT to use. Cast iron skillets. I bought 2, seasoned them with oil over coals. First shot from a .22 at 50 yards cracked it. Same for the other at 100 yards. Don't be cheap like me. Go ahead and spend a little money on correctly tempered clang targets!

ETA: If you like there was someone about a year ago on Rimfirecentral.com who actually made his own and put up all the specs and drawings to make your own swinging target set up. Very nicely done, cheap and easy to put together. Maybe worth doing some searches over there to find it.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I use these at my place...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9NylptF1G0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6pKmbOXu60

 

[Markbo]

Evans Targets site is under construction. Where else can you get them?

And what are they made of? At first I thought it was just a soccer ball on a rope, but it is obviously heavier than that.

 

[xsquidgator]

My local Gander Mountain had some I think 1/2" thick steel pendulum kind of targets, package said good for up to 9mm/38- I picked one up for about $30. Turns out there was fine print on the back I didn't notice until after I bought it, "do not use with jacketed ammunition" and something about "do not use closer than 25 yards". Crap. I'd intended to practice with my 9mm but I'm not a good enough marksman to consistently hit a 2" circle at 25 yards with a handgun.

So, I use it at 40 yards with my 22 rifle when I get in the mood. Some jerk one or two stations over from me with a 223 shot a big crater in it when I had my back turned, I didn't find out until an hour later when I walked out to get my target during a ceasefire by which time he'd left the range Maybe it can handle 9mm after all but that 223 really tore it a new one.

 

[Grendel]

I bought mine from Beast Enterprises.
http://www.beast-enterprises.com/Site/Rifle_Gongs.html

See what you think.

Grendel

 

[Amish_Bill]

Tac Targets brought some out to a recent AAC sponsored suppressor shoot.

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His phone @ is 770-307-0360. His email is in the pic linked to above.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Evans Targets site is under construction. Where else can you get them?

And what are they made of? At first I thought it was just a soccer ball on a rope, but it is obviously heavier than that.

I sent an email to Evans Targets. Sorry about that. I didn't know their site was down.

The targets are out of AR500 steel (rifle steel). The first video is with an old camera and so the quality was low, but that is the only video I have of shooting the target with a pistol.

I will let you know if I hear from them.

 

[dmftoy1]

I've had really good luck with this guys stuff: http://www.metaltargets.com

If you want two shooters at the same time his dueling tree is a blast.

FWIW.

 

[Robert Hairless]

You might also want to look at what Arntzen has to offer: http://www.arntzentargets.com/. I've found him knowledgable and obliging.

The target suggested by DNS does look intriguing though. I'm interested.

 

[Mt Shooter]

Know anyone who can weld? I made my own, used 1/4 inch plate cut it into an 8 inch round. welded a piece of pipe the top, ran a five foot piece of 1/2 inch cold roll through the pipe and heat and bend 2 ft for each side 1ft across the top. hammer into the ground and shoot, cant shoot with rifles however they go through but any pistol is good to go.

 

[dmftoy1]

I had bad luck making my own out of 1/4 in plate . .even shooting them with just .45 acp would result in them getting pretty "dented up" over time. 1/2 inch and 3/8 inch seems to hold up fine for .45 acp, but I could never get standard 1/4 inch plate to work worth a damn. FWIW.

 

[sm]

Check with a Scrap or Salvage Yard, usually a welder around, and these folks can fix you up.

Then all all you have to do is get your own spray can of Tyranny Blue* and you are all set...

*certain shade of light blue, like a robin's egg, might of seen some helmets done up in this color...

 

[Javelin]

You know its really not all that hard (or expensive) to make a gong. A trip to your local auto scrap yard maybe? Be safe.

 

[Mt Shooter]

I stand corrected it is 3/8 plate, I have shot the heck out of it with a 45 and stands up well, i did kill one older on though broke the pipe off the plate, not the weld the pipe, just welded it back on.

 

[Pilgrim]

I like these guys: Salute Products.