jgh4445
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Lubeck Tech..go to Wally World or Lowes and get some small diameter wood dowels to replace the metal screen rods. You can shoot em all you want and not damage the unit.
It's rare that a material is perfectly isotropic, meaning that the structure at the atomic level and composition are completely uniform throughout.
The plastic at the rear with the big hole could have fractured along a void from the mold process in manufacturing. The stress of the bullet impact would be magnified at thin-wall areas nearest the impact, causing the giant hole as the rest of it blew out.
Heck, I managed just about the same feat with a tiny 7.62 x 25 from a CZ pistol. When I called Oehler I ordered a few extra pices of plastic, sides and tops.I destroyed 2 of the 3 skyscreens for my Oehler 35P - with my Merkel .500 Nitro Express.
I had lined everything up so carefully (I thought) - everything looked right.
BOOM! Bits of plastic sailed in glittering, graceful arcs. The first skyscreen flopped over to the right - an immediate kill. The second skyscreen took a major hit, but stayed on its feet. The third skyscreen was wounded by fragments, but survived.
Too much gun? I think not.
PRD1 - mhb - Mike