I got the target a while back and was trying to decide the best way to mount it for shooting. I'd been planning to hang it from the holes, but was concerned about a round breaking the chain or material I used to hang it. Also, all the ideas I had for a hanging system ended up with pretty elaborate and large designs. I came up with this design and thought it worked pretty well for 2 reasons. #1 is that most of the stand is behind the target and #2 is that I had all this scrap wood laying around in these exact sizes. I only had to make one cut to get this all together, so it was pretty easy.
The whole thing is pretty small and fit in the back of my SUV without having to disassemble. I had 2 sides to it so when one of the hanging screws got shot off you could just spin it around and use the other side.
From shooting it, I noticed that the bullets explode when they hit the steel and end up digging a trench out in front of the target for about 5 yards in either direction and that splatter digs in to the legs holding the target.
You can really see the trench in this pic:
We shot one side with handguns (9mm and .45). My brother in law was going for a headshot when he nailed the mounting screw. We shot the other side sighting in an AR15 at 100 yards and just some offhand shooting with my AK.
Overall the stand worked pretty well. I'll put another piece of scrap on one side to replace the shot out screw. The legs got chewed up from the splatter but not bad enough to really weaken it yet.
The whole thing is pretty small and fit in the back of my SUV without having to disassemble. I had 2 sides to it so when one of the hanging screws got shot off you could just spin it around and use the other side.
From shooting it, I noticed that the bullets explode when they hit the steel and end up digging a trench out in front of the target for about 5 yards in either direction and that splatter digs in to the legs holding the target.
You can really see the trench in this pic:
We shot one side with handguns (9mm and .45). My brother in law was going for a headshot when he nailed the mounting screw. We shot the other side sighting in an AR15 at 100 yards and just some offhand shooting with my AK.
Overall the stand worked pretty well. I'll put another piece of scrap on one side to replace the shot out screw. The legs got chewed up from the splatter but not bad enough to really weaken it yet.
