Where does Jow Forums get their reactive targets from? A friend of mine was telling me to go to ebay for ar500 but then after a few rounds of 7.62Nato at 100 yards his target looked worse than this. I really dont want to waste my money on something that is pot metal.
Where does Jow Forums get their reactive targets from...
Isaiah Gonzalez
William James
Got mine at xsteeltargets.com. Shot the 1/2” AR500 at 25 yards with a .204 ruger (4000fps muzzle velocity) just to fuck with it and see how itd handle a worse case, then some .308. Pitted a bit but when used at the recommended range of 100yds theres 0 damage just a lead splatter. I dont know if it was good or bad pricing and have no experience with other brands.
Alexander Lee
Train tracks.
Dylan Walker
Wherever. I'm not poor.
Levi Butler
XSteel on right. Dont have a picture of it after being shot.
Daniel Mitchell
fuck thats a solid idea
Jaxson Sanders
i make my own.
i work in Aerospace and the company i work for scrap's a 6Al 4V 0.062in titanium plate every day.(forming makes 2 per hit, they only need 1)
SO i stack a few and weld them together and shoot em.
6AL when heat treated is basically the strongest metal around.
it deflected some 30-06 surplus armor penetrating black tips i had
Jackson Ross
A table at the local gunshow has them. so theyre my go-to every now and then
also for fun when its watermelon season and shitty store brand 2 liters from Winco
Alexander James
also, a few guys I work with used to make the B2 bomber wings.
they always had left over composite pieces that were perfect for shooting.
no one knows what they were made from, but nothing short of 300win mag could even dent those plates.
Jackson Adams
inconel?
Brody Wood
ceramic?
Thomas Rodriguez
Anal?
Jace Price
>inconel?
no, they weren't metal./
i work with Inconel everyday, soi i know 625 or 718 when i see it.
>ceramic?
maybe, IDK
if i knew the DOD would probably kill me
Xavier Wright
But that's theft
Dylan Gutierrez
Spray painted bits of leaf spring, dont have a picture, but did it once and .223 and .243 bounced off at 150m
Juan Jones
I always thought they were super secret and not very tasty sandwiches, is it all one material? and how much does it weigh?
Owen Ramirez
>it's theft
>mfw
Isaac Murphy
Alls I'm goin to say is the gongs on my range are old drainage manhole covers. 300 yds
Wyatt Peterson
No it isn't, steel is much stronger still, just heavier. The advantage of titanium is that it is an excellent spring steel
Maybe it's not a good idea to use a leaf spring against bullets... You know, so they don't come back...
Landon Phillips
are your bullets not made of lead?
Adam Gomez
If you haven't had a ricochet you haven't been shooting long enough
James Wright
*Not spring steel... That is inherently a misnomer. I meant to say titanium makes excellent flexures
Christopher Wilson
holy shit you got sold fake AR500 that's hilarious. you should report him to ebay.
Grayson Sanchez
Never had any other then .22 and .177 ricochet, then again only non hunting stuff I do with centre fires is zeroing. Wouldnt worry about it anywho, just have the springs hanging and dont shoot them at point blank and you'll be fine. Ricochets are fudd lore anyway, exploded testicle at most.
Jaxon Sanchez
Thanks for confessing a crime. Every little bit helps in taking this site down
Dominic Lee
Worst ricochets I have had were pistol round copper jackets off of steel targets and birdshot off of bowling pins. Didn't know the bowling pin thing would happen but basically imagine being hit by an airsoft gun except many times all at once
Isaac Morgan
When i shoot bees with ratshot in the barn they come back and hit my face often, i wear glasses tho
Parker Diaz
Well bowling pins are 90% epoxy
Ryan Peterson
Pretty much everything else will get stuck in or if powerful enough, go through the pins but birdshot seems to not workout
Bowling pins are fun as fuck to shoot though (just with other rounds)
Gabriel Gonzalez
you using steel ball or something? I can see how that will pop an eyeball/testy
Brody Reyes
Bought two 3/8" AR550 from shootsteel last year when they had a sale on them for ~$70 a piece and built my own stands. Got 2 steel targets and 2 paper target stands for about $240 after everything. I just got back from shooting a few hours ago, so here's some fresh 9mm (left) at 10-25 yards and 7.62x39 at 200.
John Bennett
Of course forgot pic.
Dominic Jones
Set them up to be like the close range rifle targets (30 degrees) they sell for $300 a piece, so I'm happy with them.
Nathaniel Garcia
How thick? How light?
Jaxon Jenkins
While were on the subject, this is an ebay target. It was shot with both 7.62x51 and m855 at 100yards. Should it have craters like this if its true ar500?
Levi Adams
The damage looks excessive for 100 yards, if that was at 25 yards it would be more believable. Me thinks youve been had.
Josiah Martin
I agree with this, but it's not all bad. if it were really soft steel, those would be much bigger craters from 7.62 NATO. I'd suggest keeping the plate but using it only for handguns.
Jack Perez
Farm and computer scrap. I work in both businesses and there's no shortage of good targets.
The only cartridge I've found that hurts the thicker stuff is 556 because of the speed. It laughs off 308 and steel cored 54r.
Logan Turner