buickanddeere
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Hi, would like some input if you've made your own practice shooting targets for the range. Material gaugeDuicatr
Hi, would like some input if you've made your own practice shooting targets for the range. Material gaugeDuicatr
Sure, I'll try to get a pic this WEnd. I wanted to combine my interest in welding and enjoy some range time with an interesting, reactive portable target. Plus I just purchased a new factory Mossberg 590A1, with Magpul furniture. Haha..can I say wanting some fun with 12g slugs......!��
No you're not...I'm with you..newbie here, now that you called me out....I wearing my fake mustache to the range.....lolI have shot some slugs in my time, and maybe it is just me, but I cannot ever remember thinking that shooting slugs was really really fun. The recoil even with my semi-auto Remington 1100 is kinda stiff. Maybe I am just a pansy in my old age, and I can shoot AA birdshot loads all day, but 3 or 4 slugs and I am all done.. oww...:sorry:
Certain jacked bullets are ok. The speed has more to do with it than anything. The lead bullets with a coper plating are ok. I can crater a plate with a 22 hornet firing a 40 grain bullet, but a 45/70 firing a 550 grain bullet doesn't hurt them. Almost all pistol rounds are ok.AR500 at 1/2" suspended so that the target has some give to it and angled toward you. I allow only lead bullets or powder coated lead bullets. No jackets to deflect wildly or to pit the slick steel surfaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg prs
If it takes 3/4 inch steel to stop a .308, I'd like to see what my .375 JDJ will do. Here is a picture. A .308 is on the left and a .375 on the right.There was a guy on Youtube (lot of stories start that way), that was shooting a variety of rifle calibers and bullet designs into different thicknesses of steel that was kind of neat. I think it was 5.56, 7.62x39 and .308 from 100 yds, and I don't recall what type(s) of steel he used, but to stop the .308 it took 3/4" of thickness from such a close range. Don't know if it helps, but it was/is an interesting watch that might give you some ideas. I wouldn't go out and buy armor plate to shoot at--just go thicker than your research shows your best penetrator requires. 25/06 is a smoking fast round with a small cross-section--going through 1/2" of mild steel at 100 yds doesn't surprise me a bit.
If it takes 3/4 inch steel to stop a .308, I'd like to see what my .375 JDJ will do. Here is a picture. A .308 is on the left and a .375 on the right.
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Mine is also in a Contender frame. I guess I'm a big wussy too, because I have never toughened up and shot it. My 454 casull with baby loads is enough of a handful.I have fired exactly 2 rounds of .375 JDJ in a Contender frame. I handed it back to the owner. That dang thing hurt my tender little wrist something fierce. I know, I know, I am a big wussy.. maybe so, but that contender pushes the rather severe recoil right straight back into your wrist, and was darn uncomfortable. If this wasn't a "family channel" I would use more descriptive language.
Mine is also in a Contender frame. I guess I'm a big wussy too, because I have never toughened up and shot it. My 454 casull with baby loads is enough of a handful.