I've been meaning to post for a while now, been busy with vacation and then recovering from vacation, .

Me and the boys put about 800 rounds through the Career 707 .22 Carbine, Beeman Millennium .20 HW97K and the Air Arms TX200. I finally had a chance to set up some of the reactive targets I had made about 14 years ago, we had such a good time the boys are now asking to shoot with me. Being a father of two boys (I'm sure some of you can relate), there is nothing better than a child asking to do something with you, especially as they get older. All wrapped up in their video games and hand held computer gadgets.

Here is a picture of our range, no targets set up when I took the picture, the forest line starts about 25 yards back.



This is Andrew shooting the HW97K.


Here are a few pics of the reactive targets I made, resettable by that fishing leader with an attached string. Some I made but never attached to the base.



Enjoy



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2015 06:33PM by Sal.

EXCELLENT!!!!



Encouragement to make your "super-choked 50 Cal! Outrider!!!" Hehe

Gary



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2015 06:49PM by barnespneumatic.

I like your targets Sal. Fun to make those things.

Enjoyable to plink. My Grandson and I were shooting at old leather gloves hung from a wire. Catches the BBs with a pretty strong thud and shake of the glove.

Gary

Very nice, are the rings surround the target area aluminum or steel?

I tried using aluminum at one point, some 3/16 stuff I had laying around but it deformed over time and caused me all kinds of problems. I switched to stainless (insert stainless comment here) and havn't had any more problems, even stands up to the 707 .22cal. The rabbit and the rat are early prototypes which I used some galvanized washers, those work super but I was limited by size selection.

Hi Sal,

Yeah - I'd get a nice sheet of inch thick Stainless Steel to make some targets for your Outrider. You can use your Water Jet machine to slice them out!

Oh wait - you didn't order the extra Magnum Trigger Guard ... You'll be fine ...

I like your targets. You must be pretty good shots to keep 98% of the strays on the washers. Good job.

Gary

No kidding, good shooting. If'n twere at my abode, they'd probably all look like they had a bad case of "lead pox".

That's great! You get to spend time with your children and get them outside. Nice targets!

Thanks for sharing,

Pedro