Rifle targets-need ideas

[Mean Jean]

I know where there's a pile of the metal post holders for "for sale signs".
Might need to do a late night drive by.

We've also considered mounting an Iphone and sending its feed back to a laptop at the shooting bench.

 

[charlz]

I know where there's a pile of the metal post holders for "for sale signs".
Might need to do a late night drive by.

We've also considered mounting an Iphone and sending its feed back to a laptop at the shooting bench.

Our mile guys use some kind of wifi camera setup. Don't know the details but they position it so it can see the gong which is painted white for showing up impacts. Back at the shooting position they have a laptop and they just watch the video feed.

 

[jaotguy]

OK ... easiest method I can think of ..... just "hang" the targets from 2 chains ... self righting and will swing when hit ....

 

[Baby Grand]

V-8 Juice cans. The big ones for iron sights or the little ones for scope.

 

[eab3]

I have hung clay pigeons from clothes line type arrangements. You might be able to weld bits of round stock on the metal target face to make a stub to hang them on. I have also seen handgun silhouette targets mounted so they rotated around a foot mount like a swinging target, then were reset by a horizontal bar that lifted up and forward, but the distance was only 200 yards max for the rams. A friend of mine built one with relatively light plates that would swing around like a propeller when struck by a centerfire round. It was mounted in a swing set like arrangement. The plate was welded to a rod. This was welded at the other end to a short piece of round tube stock. A smaller piece of tube passed through the larger tube like a drive shaft or axle. This enabled 360 rotation. It was cheap, simple and easy to make. Hope this helps.

 

[k0ua]

How about some of these.
They could text you back or use a two way radio for hit or miss.

You can only use "those" in China. They have lots of folks.

 

[charlz]

OK ... easiest method I can think of ..... just "hang" the targets from 2 chains ... self righting and will swing when hit ....

I made one this winter like that with a piece of 2.5" mild steel plate we had at the range and some drill pipe also laying about. I have not shot it personally but I have been around when someone else was shooting it. At over 200lbs it doesn't appear to swing much. I need to remember my .06 next time I go out there and give it a few love taps




The 'tabs' are some 5/8" 'L' brackets left over from an old disk. Figured they might give the chain a little more life from near-misses. Has been on the range about 6 weeks now but I have not gone up to it lately. I checked it about two weeks after I put it out and someone had already shot the cross-bar. Shot target dead center but 2' high at 200 yards

Also I had some left over orange paint so I gave it a nice thick coating..... really stands out at the range.

 

[buickanddeere]

Don't weld the chain onto the very top. Weld onto the side about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way down.

 

[Mean Jean]

Don't weld the chain onto the very top. Weld onto the side about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way down.

Does this allow it rock back and forth better?

 

[jaotguy]

changes the pivot point so the target tips ( moves) easier when hit ....