Re: Puget Sound Area Shooter's Group
You can hang the steel from a number of different methods. Bigwheels uses two eight foot 2x4's.
1. Cut both 2x4's in half
2. Drill a 1.125 inch hole about 3 inches from the end of all four 2x4's
3. Put a piece of two or three foot .75 inch pipe through the holes, and use
pipe caps to keep them from going through the holes.
4. hang the plates using old fire hose, pieces of tire tread, bungi chords, heavy chain, or just about any other method you can think of. But it has to be able to withstand a few rounds from stray shots.
Steel should be Armor plate as mild steel will crater badly and may cause ricochet. If you got some really heavy steel that wasn't armor plate, I suppose we could put it at 400-550 yards, but I would really prefer using armor plate for safety.
I have 7 plates now, and may get my 8th plate by the time of the match. I will loan out three plates to the first person who says "I'm in, save 3 plates for me to use."
We will need one shot timer too. Many apps for mobile phones have a shot timer in them....so if someone loads a timer app and will be the timer, that will suffice in place of the 3 plates.
After we have enough income from match fees, we can buy an actual shot timer and other gear, but we are starting out small.
