Scary Day at the Range!

[zeke]

Wouldn't steel targets be safer for the shooter if they were convex instead of flat? Just asking. Larry

Even Ar500 steel pistol targets may end up "cupped", if not rotated on regular basis. Especially if heavier pistol rounds are used on them. By cupped am meaning the previous flat surface facing the shooter is confex. Now if you shoot at a convex target , and hit at the top of the target, the angle may throw the rebonding projectile upward, instead of down. If you shoot at a concave surface, the bottom half of the target is facing up.

If the op is related "cratered" to pock marked, pock marked targets are very dangerous as they can send projectiles right back at you. This is why regular soft steel targets can get dangerous relatively quickly. Even if they are "hung".

 

[BE Mike]

Unorganized shooting is very dangerous.

Yes it can be because there are no safety rules and folks to enforce those rules. I've seen ignorant people do some dangerous things with loaded firearms when there was nobody to correct them. I've also seen ignorant people get exasperated, pack up their gear and walk away when someone pointed out their dangerous behavior.

 

[Luke Duke]

I'm going out to the range today an tossing these 3 plates in the trash. After reading these posts there's no reason for them to be there. I dont want anyone else to experience what we did.

 

[H Richard]

Plates can be "straightened out", lay down of a firm surface,(concrete, etc.), and flatten out with a sledge hammer. Just watch for any signs of "cupping" and pull then and flatten again.

 

[Farmer17]

This is the knife and hatchet set my mom got me with S&H green stamps when I was eight or nine years old in the late 1960s and I think it is exactly like the Jeffrefrig knife that stopped a bullet. I believe it's called a Utica Sportsman.