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I know I post up a lot of the same pics regarding the shooting of steel and problems arising from doing so.
If It's too repetitious, I apologize but feel some people don't see them so it's a first for many.
Points I try to make.
Shooting at scrap steel is just dangerous unless done so at relatively long distance 150 yds ++++ ++++++
Shooting flat mild steel ( non hardened or AR rated) with rifles is dangerous within 100 yds. Mild, like scrap junk targets should be shot at 150+++ and be one time, sacrificial use.
I have shot AR500 steel in a carbine class as close as 50 yds without issue.
Shooting mild steel with pistols CAN be OK as close as 7 yds although AR400, AR500, 550 and armor plate is preferable. Shooting mild should be limited to non magnum calibers and not with any pistol caliber carbines.
This is dimpled mild steel. The edges should be surface ground off between sessions.
This target was shot at close range ( with a rifle) when we went to another bay. We believe one of our party tried to get the plate to swing over but no one ever admitted to doing so. This is heavily cratered steel and if a bullet hits partially into the crater, there is a very good possibility of some coming back at you.
It was part of this setup ( just set here for pics).
This swing setup was used for quite a few group shoots with as many as 50 participants. The plate was 1/2" mild steel and after thousands of hits, started to bend slightly. The spring plates were shot at with pistol cal carbines. We disallowed further shooting when noticing how severe the rounds dented the 2" steel supports. The 2 lower right resetting Colt speed plates are AR500 targets purchased from MGM targets. These are 3/8" thick and can handle any pistol fire.
This 3/8" thick 8" round was hit with a S&W500 and Cor-Bon ammo. The bullet stuck in the plate at 20 yds
The spring plates were modified to angle forward to defect more bullet frags to the ground. You can see the outline of spatter down the support steel.
I ended up giving all of these away (except the AR rated ones) and purchased AR500 8" rounds from a guy on this site.
This was an experiment to see how much penetration various rifle and a few pistol rounds did to a piece of 1/2" thick mild steel. I shot from behind steel cover and set up paper to know POI before shooting the steel. I got no frags back that I'm aware of ( no dings or noise from the protective steel in front of me). I used 9mm, .40S&W, .44mag, 30-30, 30.06, .300 WinMag, AK & SKS 7.62X39, FR-8 and Ishapore 2A1 7.62X51, Wolf .223 (guess what's what
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