I had to replace my 150/260 yard target

I had to replace my metal clad target, the 25 LBT carbine destroyed it.

I had a 1/2 inch, 3×4″ plywood sheet clad with .003 sheet steel, the stuff you see in hardware stores in 2×3 sheets.

The Diablos from the FX400 and 500 would sometimes go thru the metal, but never the plywood too.

The 25 LBT shot it to doll rags at 150 yards and 260 yards. And that was with the 17 inch barrel, Now that I have the rifle up and running with a 23 inch barrel, I needed something heavier, and I can also shoot my Ranger 45 at it with out destroying it.

So as my wife took pictures,I replaced it.

I had bought a piece of 3/16 inch, 3×4 steel, it weighs 92 lbs. I painted it white primer and took it down to the target post in the back of my 6 wheel Polaris. Then I removed the riddled target. You can see the dents from the FX rifles and the thru and thru holes from the 25 LBT.

Then I drilled a upward slanting hole and drove in a punch to act as a guide and stop pin to catch the 3/16th inch sheet when I lifted it up while standing on the bed of the Polaris.

I then held it in place with one hand and screwed it on thru holes I had predrilled using a top lag bolt and a lower lag bolt. Then I painted it flat black. The bullets hit the steel and chip off the black paint exposing the white primer underneath.

After painting I drilled a hole 18 inches down from the top and mounted a 8 inch circular saw blade and used a 2 inch bronze bushing to hold it away from the target steel, this gives two distinctly different sound when hit.

I shot at it for the first time using the 25 LBT rifle and the Leupold Hollands scope. I dialed in 21 inches of elevation from my 40 yard zero and put three shots into 2.25 inches at 150 yards.

It was then that I found out I do need a plywood backing. The bullets did not pass thru the steel of course, but my wife was cooking in the house 260 yards away with the doors and windows closed and she could plainly hear the gong sound when the LBT slugs hit at 71 FPE of retained energy. Plywood will deaden the main sheet hits to a whap instead of a gong sound, the saw blade will still sound like a cymbal when hit.

One interesting thing about the Hollands reticle, I can measure the groups at 150 yards by superimposing the reticle on them.

Regards,

Roachcreek