Who Shoots Steel Targets?

[alamo5000]

After a couple of discussions here on the forum the idea was brought up about shooting steel targets. Honestly I have been buying paper shoot and see targets and shooting those mainly.

What I did before is I went to home depot and bought some of those big foam insulation boards. I cut them into three pieces so I have a clean board about 36" wide and however tall. I would put my sticker on there kind of center low and use that for a target (there is a hill that is behind so I am not worried about it going through). I have it propped up against some hay bales.

This allows me to sight in a rifle in very short order with just a few rounds. Take a single shot and go examine the target. Take a tape measure and you can see the point of impact from where your aim point was. Measure it, count clicks until you are on and in 3 or 4 rounds you're pretty decent.

But I usually just use that as a general target and it leaves me more or less just punching paper which leads me to shooting groups... which is not a bad thing, but I want to mix it up.

So what did I do? I bought two AR500 plates that are 1/2 size of a regulation paper target. The ones I bought are 12" wide and 20" tall to the tip of the "head". That leaves the main body about 12"x 16" with about a 4x4 inch head. I will have to measure it exactly when they get here. I bought two of them.

I plan to hang one at 100 yards and hang the other at 200 yards and have them offset from each other some. I can obviously change the ranges as I want and the targets will be portable. Even if I put them side by side or in any number of configurations I can practice any number of reflex skills and I will have instant feedback. I can try it standing, sitting, kneeling, laying, on a bipod or whatever.

I think it will be a really good exercise that I can do at moderate ranges. If these two work out good I might even get more steel plates for different or more courses and configurations.

Not that shooting has ever been monotonous for me but I think the whole gong thing will add a whole lot of a different kind of fun and skill building at the same time.

So here is a question to the forum for general discussion... specifically what kind of configurations do you think would work well? What kind of skills should I try to build and work on? What do you think would just be a barrel o' monkeys of fun? It doesn't have to be limited to two gongs (I can get more) so please post up your ideas here.

What do you think?