Shooting Steel... dangerous?

[jeepasaurusrex]

Yes. 

[FC]

Yes. 

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[NW-GSP]

I am the shop foreman at a heavy equipment attachment company. We have tons of scrap laying around to build targets out of. I can make them pretty easy. I tore my left rotator cuff on Tuesday, so I am down to one arm for while but I could whip up a couple of prototypes if someone is interested.

I also live in marysville and could use a target, Im shooting a 300 win mag. will pay you for your troubles

[jeepasaurusrex]

Let me know what size of a target ya want. 

[NW-GSP]

12 in would be awesome, I figure its kill zone size. I have just gotten into reloading and am wanting to do some long range target shooting with my new shiny remmington 700 300 win mag, I can already tell that a new scope and trigger job will need to happen at some point.

thanks man!

[Biggerhammer]

steel core can and will cause a fire  reg ball ammo is fine.

+1  This I know for a fact! 

[BallisticsNut]

Like to share a personal experience to answer your question.  earlier this year, I designed a free swinging GONG style target for a friendly competition for SCI.  We had 9" gongs made up with 5/8" steel plate hung at various distances.  Near our last shoot, one shooter was shooting a .338 with Barns TSX bullets at our 100 yard target.  I was the range official at the time.  This was a timed event and he had to hit 4 targets from 100-400 yards.  After he his his first target I heard a young boy (7 y/o I would guess) scream and start crying, then heard his father say he had been shot.  We were out in the middle of no where so and they were well behind the shooting line so I didnt think much about it and actually thought his Dad was just kidding around.  After the shooter was completed, the father came up to me and told me his Son was hit by a ricochet.  It seems the bullet jacket separated on impack when it struck the 100 yard target, the jacket came strait back and hit the kid in the Arm.  Though, the kid was not seriously hurt, his shirt was torn in two places and was cut and badly bruised on the underside of his bicep. 

So yes!! to your question.  From my understanding this is the third time in four years this has happened on this range.  So, i would recommend that all steel plates be set with some sort of backward angle so that all impacts are deflected downward into the ground rather then sideways or directly back.  Please consider this when designing gongs for steel plates.   

[Biggerhammer]

Most steel shoots I attend, don't allow .338 Cal on steel and poor bullet choice to say the least.

[700xcr]

Most steel shoots I attend, don't  .338 Cal on steel and poor bullet choice to say the least.

I can see out there at farther ranges. But like you said 100yds. and a copper bullet that the pedals can brake away.

[Biggerhammer]

Most steel shoots I attend, don't  .338 Cal on steel and poor bullet choice to say the least.

I can see out there at farther ranges. But like you said 100yds. and a copper bullet that the pedals can brake away.

Also due to the fact a .338 Win mag, Ultra mag or Lapua mag, beats the crap out of steel at no matter what range. No matter if it's not your steel but all involved don't look at it that way.

[chongo469]

When I used to do a lot of fire alarm installs, we would save all the old fire bells for target practice.........They would sound out loud a big ' GONG" across the valley....we never had any problems, and where we set it up at, even if it did ricochet it would have hit the hillside around it.....

[demontang]

I know my .338 win shooting 200gr nosler bt can punch a hole in 1/2 mild steel plate at 300yds. My 243 and 223 leave just little marks at 300yds. The gongs I've made all are angle so the bullet should hit the ground.

[jeepasaurusrex]

12 in would be awesome, I figure its kill zone size. I have just gotten into reloading and am wanting to do some long range target shooting with my new shiny remmington 700 300 win mag, I can already tell that a new scope and trigger job will need to happen at some point.

thanks man!

The 12" Target should be done by Friday. Just cut the circle out of  3/8" AR-400 plate. I made the frame for it yesterday. All that is left is to attach the chains from the frame to the target, blast, and paint.

[NW-GSP]

wow! thats awesome, Im picking up a 10mm glock tommorow and bought a ruger lcp yesterday so I will be testing it out for sure .

[jeepasaurusrex]

Where are you located? I will be going to the range day on Sunday that H2OHunter is putting on.