Shooting targets

[singlehandjay]

I recently made a couple spinning targets. The target itself I cut out of 3/8" AR400 steel so he should be able to hit these with anything and not worry about poking holes. The different sizes should make different sounds when hit.

 

[Tom Butler]

Those look fun.

 

[wanderingrichard]

They are

Jay, you gonna make a Texas Star, too?

 

[singlehandjay]

They are

Jay, you gonna make a Texas Star, too?

I figured I would give him different things every Christmas or for his birthday. Pretty soon he'll have a full blown gallery. Last time I made him a target that was shaped like an oversized ice cream cone and would lay down and stand back up on its own and was also made from AR400. The ones you're talking about are the rolling kind when it's hit? The one with the shapes all pointed the same direction was going to be able to stab into the ground to use like a shooting tree but I didn't care for the lack of stability of it standing up so I just went with 2 horizontal targets

 

[wanderingrichard]

Was talking about one of these

Challenge Targets Commercial Grade Texas Star Target

Innovative and affordable shooting targets direct from the manufacturer.

www.challengetargets.com

 

[singlehandjay]

Was talking about one of these

Challenge Targets Commercial Grade Texas Star Target

Innovative and affordable shooting targets direct from the manufacturer.

www.challengetargets.com

That's a cool one. I'll have to throw something like that in the mix

 

[klq@stl]

Tune them up, play music at the range.

 

[Roper]

Very cool!

 

[wanderingrichard]

That's a cool one. I'll have to throw something like that in the mix

There are several variants of the star. One version has legs of varying lengths , which causes it to go all kinds of crazy when the first or second plate is cleared from it.

 

[Islander]

Those look like fun. I love plinking steel targets.

 

[Russell]

Very cool, love shooting steel targets.
The problem I had with mine was that they would miss the high carbon steel and put holes in the legs and cross pieces.

 

[Bob Rankin]

Spinners are super fun to shoot! There would always be a set of those at the NRL long range matches I used to go to when competing. I started out with a 260 Remington then went to a 6mm Dasher, then to a 6.5 Creedmor. Set that sucker out at 300 -400 yards and see how fast you can go through them.