Where can you get those metal silouette targets that fall down?

[Grendel-Gene]

There is and episode of FUTUREWEAPONS where they compare the Grendel to the 223 and the AK by shooting at these heavy metallic silouette shaped targets that fall back....

here is the video in question; What i want to know is who makes and sells these. Thanks.

Gene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydP3DUIT_EU

[kamrr4437]

There are many metal target manufacturers online if you search them up on google. Why do you want the ones that fall down though. You just got to go out and stand it back up lol Thats alot of walking.

[Kikn]

A battery an actuator and a switch could be worked up to automatically stand up the target

[Grendel-Gene]

Gee Kamrr..... You actually make a good point there!!! ha ha ha!!! . But I think you can adjust the tension.... maybe they can be set up or modified to bounce back up without having to wire anything up like Kikn suggests... At any rate, i just need a source.

[bwaites]

MGM targets:
http://mgmtargets.com/tstore/index.php?m...30163e961b


Blast all

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/862374/...ifle-steel

http://www.metaltargets.com/NewTargets.htm

I can vouch for MGMs, they are bull tough!

[Von Gruff]

Really all you want with the steel targets is to register the hit and even then with the pepper popper type of target I have seen a coil spring used so the target is self setting after a hit. It doesn;t have to fall through the full ark to horozontal to show a solid hit. So long as it is back behind vertical so that if it continues it WOULD fall but with a coil spring set to tip it back past the vertical to the lean forward set position and you can have an afternoon of fun without having to trudge up to the butts after set up untill you are finished for the day.
There can be a bit of trial and error adjusting the spring placing and size-tension, (depending of cartridge being contemplated) but play with one first then do the rest of them.

[LR1955]

There is and episode of FUTUREWEAPONS where they compare the Grendel to the 223 and the AK by shooting at these heavy metallic silouette shaped targets that fall back....

here is the video in question; What i want to know is who makes and sells these. Thanks.

Gene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydP3DUIT_EU

Gene:

Most likely MGM as they make the steel targets for most high level competitions. I have several of these poppers made my MGM and you have to physically re-set them. I also have a number of auto poppers (6" - 12 " round plates) from MGM, some which were custom jobs and they all use a simple but large spring. They move more with heavier bullets than lighter bullets and their stand is made so when the plate slams back into place, the target doesn't fall forward.

You won't find a full sil that works using springs but La Rue makes an electronic sil that is about 1/4 size that drops if you hit it and goes back up on its own using a motor. They are about $1500.00 each and you would have to make a stand to get them well above the groud at longer distances or you won't see them. Also, they are pretty small so about 600 yards is it for them.

Now, back to the u-tube propaganda film. The pepper poppers you see in that film are set using a bolt that adjusts the plates for sensititivty in order to let them drop when hit with light bullets. You can see from the initial film that they are all angled forward which means it takes a bullet with more kinetic energy to knock them over. What they did was to set them so far forward that no .223 made will knock them over. Those pepper poppers are not easy to push over to begin with and I can easily set mine so no Grendel load would push them over, either.

MGM makes some flag targets at a pretty high price but which are dependable enough to be used for national level competition although I believe the IPSC stuff for carbine or rifle is only 300 or maybe 500.

LR1955

[Drifter]

http://www.saluteproducts.com/

[JohnOD]

I have this MGM Targets "Colt Speed Plate"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZe6a8y8V-E
(not my video)
The sniper legs MGM sells are expensive so I made my own with some flat 1/4" x 2" x 36" steel.
The Grendel knocks it over pretty good at 350 yards and it makes a nice "ping" as well.

[stokesrj]

I've shot this one before on unknown distance ranges, it is very good, but they think so too and charge accordingly. http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tacti...target-tg1
Bob

[rick458]

LaRue makes some self resetting metal targets kind of pricey though

[KentuckyBuddha]

You also might like the self-sealing reactive targets.

http://newboldtargets.com/