Homemade Steel Target Help

[terrywick4]

I ordered a heavy duty steel target online and built a mount using spare 2x4s and $2 sawhorse brackets.

Using the sawhorse legs holding a 2x4 with two holes drilled, I attached the steal target first using zip ties thinking that if they got shot, they would be cheap and easy to replace. These would only last a few hits from a 5.56 before breaking.

Next we tried some heavy duty wire wrapped through the holes a few times. This lasted much longer, but no more than a couple mags.

Does anyone use or have any suggestions of anything else I could use that would be more durable? I hesitate to use chains because I feel like if those get shot they will be expensive to replace.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Hux

Mine came using rubber tow straps, the hooks bent to hold when target swings. They take the swing of target when hit and will take a stray bullet or two