Gong stand

David Marlow said:
My gong stand is done, complete with the wife's paint job. It'll stay at the 100 yard line and I'll replace the steel as it gets shot up until I can buy an AR-500 plate. I already have four poppers and two hanging steel head/torso targets, courtesy of a LE agency that didn't understand what "pistol rated" meant. They decided the pockmarks and holes from the .223 and .308 impacts made the targets too dangerous. I flipped them around, painted them up and woo hoo, free steel.

I am going to ask Santa Claus for an MGM spinner for Christmas. The spinner and plate rack are the two targets that I really want, and then maybe a couple rifle-rated self resetting poppers. Oh, and a Steel Challenge set. Oh yeah, and some 3GN steel knockovers and static clay pigeon stands.

Damn, I really need to be rich.
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Be careful with rifle on anything other than AR500 and that shot up LEO steel. If there are dimples and such the targets will throw bullets back at you.
 
I was pretty hesitant of using the steel with pistol, but the reverse face on all of them are smooth and I've had them for a few years now. There's one hole in a popper base from a .308, but none on the actual poppers. I know what you mean on lesser steel for a rifle target, but my cast iron "gong" is mounted with a sharp angle and I won't be any closer than 100 yards, using strictly .223. It absolutely won't last very long, but it'll be safe where it's sitting. I will buy a few AR-500 plates before too long, or maybe some plow discs. Worst case scenario, I will suffer a similar fate to my inbred hee haw Missouri brethren after saying "Hey ya'all, watch this" and catch some frag.
 
Okay, so I set mine up and shot it today, 4 rounds of .223 at 103 yds and the results were, well, not impressive. I knew the rounds would go through the cast iron skillet, but I didn't expect them to zip through without so much as moving the thing. Looks like it's time to try lawn mower blades.
 
David Marlow said:
I was pretty hesitant of using the steel with pistol, but the reverse face on all of them are smooth and I've had them for a few years now. There's one hole in a popper base from a .308, but none on the actual poppers. I know what you mean on lesser steel for a rifle target, but my cast iron "gong" is mounted with a sharp angle and I won't be any closer than 100 yards, using strictly .223. It absolutely won't last very long, but it'll be safe where it's sitting. I will buy a few AR-500 plates before too long, or maybe some plow discs. Worst case scenario, I will suffer a similar fate to my inbred hee haw Missouri brethren after saying "Hey ya'all, watch this" and catch some frag.
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If by plow discs you mean disk blades, you might as well just get the ar500. Disk blades won't stand up very well either. Don't ask me how I know.
 
i ordered the last stand leg things monday and they came in today, i must say my initial reaction is that they are much larger and more durable looking than i expected
 
MGM is working on a gong stand that incorporates a t-post and L shaped hanger. Looks promising. Easy DIY project with a welder
 
Bob Sanders said:
MGM is working on a gong stand that incorporates a t-post and L shaped hanger. Looks promising. Easy DIY project with a welder
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i saw t gibson post about it on facebook... not much movement for calling hits...
 
Cameron Gonder (gondo) said:
i saw t gibson post about it on facebook... not much movement for calling hits...
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But for practice it should be a good alternative to a $400+ flasher.
 
jcameron996 said:
Smartass
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I appreciate that. That is one of the few times in my life someone has called me that. It's usually "Dumbass". The brain games are working. And to think, my old guidance counselor told me to remember the phrase "Would you like fries with that".
 
David Marlow said:
Okay, so I set mine up and shot it today, 4 rounds of .223 at 103 yds and the results were, well, not impressive. I knew the rounds would go through the cast iron skillet, but I didn't expect them to zip through without so much as moving the thing. Looks like it's time to try lawn mower blades.
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FYI:

Chicom specs manganese steel... http://www.timesfirst.com/selling-lead/492024/Sell-disc-blade-plough-disc-harrow-disc.html

others martensitic steel... http://hehui.ecplaza.net/tradeleads/seller/1100882/disc_harrow_blade.html

others spec ANSI 1080 Q&T to 42 Rockwell C http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/ECL/dsgnmat2.html

Seems to depend a bit on who does 'em.

Not very hard, its the shape and tension in the disk gang that makes them durable.

Don't ask me how I know. :D
 
Finally made it to the range and got a pic of the gong stand.
Used pipe, and Tposts. Real simple and cheap.

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Not a bad idea. That can't last very long at a public range with they eye bolts and chains can it Dennis? Heck the ones we had a okcgc used to fall off all the time just from shooting the bolt heads.
 
Jesse Tischauser said:
Not a bad idea. That can't last very long at a public range with they eye bolts and chains can it Dennis? Heck the ones we had a okcgc used to fall off all the time just from shooting the bolt heads.
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that is going to be the problem with mine, i am searching for some old fire hose
 
Haven't had a problem yet after several hundred rounds.
It's made with grade 8 hardened bolts, and proof chain that is also hardened. You can see from the pic there have been direct hits on the bolt heads, and there is no damage.
 
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