My crew and I want to make several falling target for our range. We have several ideas how to make these target on our own and some of those ideas include wooden instead of steel targets which would ideally by easily replaceable.
The falling mechanism is based on slight incline of the target relative to the vertical plane (pretty basic stuff). I am concerned with two things:
1. Target stability when the weather is windy - because the wooden target is lightweight compared to its steel counterpart
2. Will the target even be able to absorb kinetic energy from the bullet and fall - because there is the possibility that the bullet will very easily penetrate the wooden target and, therefore, fail to transfer its momentum to the target. In that case the target will get hit but stay still.
Does anyone have any experience with wooden falling targets? Does it work? What weapons did you use? What caliber?
Thanks a lot and sorry for any mistakes in text, English is not my native language.
The falling mechanism is based on slight incline of the target relative to the vertical plane (pretty basic stuff). I am concerned with two things:
1. Target stability when the weather is windy - because the wooden target is lightweight compared to its steel counterpart
2. Will the target even be able to absorb kinetic energy from the bullet and fall - because there is the possibility that the bullet will very easily penetrate the wooden target and, therefore, fail to transfer its momentum to the target. In that case the target will get hit but stay still.
Does anyone have any experience with wooden falling targets? Does it work? What weapons did you use? What caliber?
Thanks a lot and sorry for any mistakes in text, English is not my native language.