Steel Targets

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Horty

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What are the risks of shooting high powered rifles at steel targets? Obviously richette is a factor, but how likely is that and what kind of damage can it do? If you were wearing eye protections would it be an issue at 100 yards?
 

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Hopefully someone sales AR500 around here. I have been wondering what kind of steel is used for rifle targets. I want to make my own. I can weld and so can most of my friends so I want to make my own. Some of the ones people on here have listed are nice but $$$.

I weld and do metal fab... I just cut up all my scrap into targets and when its destroyed, I just throw it in the bin to be taken for scrap and do it all over again.
 

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i know a guy in Lawton that I bought 2 sets of AR500 Steel plates from. A set is 1- 6"x6" ; 1- 8"x8" ; 1- 12"x12"...all have holes in them for hanging and a set is $120 right now.

My targets have been shot with a 7wsm, 223AI, 243AI, and 300 win mag and none have even cratered yet. (closest shot was 300yards)
 

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i know a guy in Lawton that I bought 2 sets of AR500 Steel plates from. A set is 1- 6"x6" ; 1- 8"x8" ; 1- 12"x12"...all have holes in them for hanging and a set is $120 right now.

My targets have been shot with a 7wsm, 223AI, 243AI, and 300 win mag and none have even cratered yet. (closest shot was 300yards)

Do you have any pictures and how thick are they?
 

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Hopefully someone sales AR500 around here. I have been wondering what kind of steel is used for rifle targets. I want to make my own. I can weld and so can most of my friends so I want to make my own. Some of the ones people on here have listed are nice but $$$.

The $$$$ come from having those steel targets 'heat treated'.
 

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