My buddy Paul ( AKA Strikefast ) made my first Gong target about a year ago. I keep it out at the 55 yd mark from my back porch. It has four kill zones on it. 3/8", 5/8" , 1" , & 1.5".
Well I've been wanting some more of them to set at 45 yds, 47.5 yds, 50 yds, and 52.5 yds and Paul made my wish come true. He had made some experimental targets for me last year that I just didn't shoot as much as I do the gong, so I went over to his house and got schooled on metal target making 101 ;-) Now I've always had the utmost respect for Paul as an artist. But now I have a whole new line of respect for all the hard work and tooling that goes into a metal target. We stripped the paddles and KZ off the old targets and he made a new face plate with 5/8, 1", & 1.5" killzones for the new targets. I've found that the 3/8" kz is a little hard to hit consistently at 55yds. I can always drill a 3/8" KZ in the face plate at a later date if I feel the need.
Each target has a stainless steel disc behind the face plate that makes the most distinctive sound when hit. Sorry I don't have video, but it's just too dang hot outside. Cameras and scopes and everything want to fog up in this stanky dirty southern summer heat. I'll get back into video mode this fall.
Here they are in all their freshly painted glory ;-)
Well I've been wanting some more of them to set at 45 yds, 47.5 yds, 50 yds, and 52.5 yds and Paul made my wish come true. He had made some experimental targets for me last year that I just didn't shoot as much as I do the gong, so I went over to his house and got schooled on metal target making 101 ;-) Now I've always had the utmost respect for Paul as an artist. But now I have a whole new line of respect for all the hard work and tooling that goes into a metal target. We stripped the paddles and KZ off the old targets and he made a new face plate with 5/8, 1", & 1.5" killzones for the new targets. I've found that the 3/8" kz is a little hard to hit consistently at 55yds. I can always drill a 3/8" KZ in the face plate at a later date if I feel the need.
Each target has a stainless steel disc behind the face plate that makes the most distinctive sound when hit. Sorry I don't have video, but it's just too dang hot outside. Cameras and scopes and everything want to fog up in this stanky dirty southern summer heat. I'll get back into video mode this fall.
Here they are in all their freshly painted glory ;-)
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