Looking to build something like this.
Who makes the best outside metal targets?
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Best targets, MGM and DM targets have all worked well for me.
@safebuilder was selling some of his AR500 steel targets at the NRA Annual meeting a couple years ago in Atlanta. I bought a 12 inch diameter 3/8 inch thick round gong from him. It's been left outside since then. Been hit with everything from 30-06 and 243 Win down to pistol calibers and 22 rimfire.
No craters, no real dents, but I think there are a few little needle like dimples in it from one of my friends shooting steel-and zinc jacketed 223 ammo at it from 25 yards. That kind of ammo should only be used from 100 yards if fired from a full length rifle (like his-- 20" bbl.)
I spray paint it after every 20 shots or so, and it's held up great.
No rust.
The 3/16" braided steel wire cables that I use to hang it, though, have been cut by bullets about 4 times over these last three years. And one half-inch carriage bolt shattered and split in two from the shock of having a nearby hit that didn't even touch it directly.
No craters, no real dents, but I think there are a few little needle like dimples in it from one of my friends shooting steel-and zinc jacketed 223 ammo at it from 25 yards. That kind of ammo should only be used from 100 yards if fired from a full length rifle (like his-- 20" bbl.)
I spray paint it after every 20 shots or so, and it's held up great.
No rust.
The 3/16" braided steel wire cables that I use to hang it, though, have been cut by bullets about 4 times over these last three years. And one half-inch carriage bolt shattered and split in two from the shock of having a nearby hit that didn't even touch it directly.
