Saturday, March 05, 2005
Making Field Targets
I have been a busy bee getting targets ready for the new Field Target season, our first TVA club match takes place on March 19th for anyone wanted to come shoot with us. I have been fixing older targets and making a few new ones. Gamo started making two field targets base on a British design. They only have two face plates, a rat and a squirrel, and only a 1 1/2" kill zone size. They work pretty well, they fall pretty flat with about 3 ft. lbs of energy but the paddle and face don't look like they are up to some of the high power rifles shot on many courses these days.
One day while I was talking with Dick Otten via email, he had a good idea. The targets only cost $20-$25 and the action seems to work fine so why not just cut off the face plate and put my own faceplates on them. I thought that might work fine and save me a lot of time. So I am going to buy one more Rat target and give it a try. Basically what I am going to do is just cut off the face up each side of the base of the faceplate to just below the killzone. Then all I have to do is weld on my own face plate and probably add some extra steel to the paddle. Once I get it down I will report my finding in this space.
