12-20-2018, 01:25 PM
82HALO Wrote:Ouch, just searched for sawmill blades...$400 on ebay!! That's one expensive target!!
82H:
Got to go to a mill or scrap metal yard and see if you can get one that isn't serviceable anymore. The ones on E-bay all seem to be re-furbished.
Another one I have shot are plow disks that were unserviceable. Those make a nice ping when you blast them. A guy could hear that ping at 1000 yards as long as the wind is in his favor. I have shot them to 600 and my bullets penetrated them but I wasn't shooting a Grendel. My bet is the 5mm thick disks won't get holes in them at 1K with a Grendel. Or a guy can try to bodge two of them together but eventually they will get destroyed. New ones are about $20.00. I bet scrap yard ones are $5.00.
I have a bunch of steel. Most made by MGM but some made locally. The MGM stuff will hold up. The steels I got from a local mill tended to fold after a couple of hundred center hits with M-118. Turned them around and continued to march.
I would surely go to a steel recycling place and search their warehouse for sawmill blades, plow disks, or anything else that will probably work. A guy could pick up a dozen busted plow disks for a good field fire range and not have to get a lowboy to carry them.
Hang them from engineer pickets and you are good to go.
LR55