ryr8828
05-21-11, 19:50
I built this last weekend after golf. I got the plates for $60 each from wideners. The lumber was left over from some repairs I made on my deck.
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz284/ryr8828/hostagetarget003.jpg
Finally got to shoot at my homemade steel target today. I took it out to the fence, that's as far as I can go without cutting stuff down, it turned out to be exactly 140 yds.
Shot my daniel defense m4 V1 first, I have a 2 moa aimpoint red dot on it. Beat the hell out of the plate with it, hardly any misses and I was really surprised. Shot with the foregrip on a sandbag.
Then I got out my rfb .308 bullpup. It has a leatherwood cmr 1-4x circle dot scope on it. No joy, not a single hit.
Then the fs2000, I have a vortex strikefire on it. No joy there either. I did find a hole in the header of the target stand directly above the target that was .223 though, so it's obviously shooting high.
Both of these bullpups have to be sighted in again before I try the plate with them. I have an eotech xps 2-2 coming for the fs2000 so I'll wait until it gets here to sight it in. I don't know that I can blame either rifle, I shift optics around and it's been cold so I don't really remember what I've sighted in and what I haven't sometimes.
Then I got out the dpms ap4 .308. Beat the hell out of the plate with it, almost all hits. It has a leatherwood cmr 1-4x scope on it also. I shot it off of the grip pod with no sand bag.
I know that both the ddm4v1 and the dpms ap4 have been sighted in because one was a recent build and the other was a recent purchase and I can remember back that far.
I checked the plate after I shot each rifle. No real damage from either .223 or .308. I had 2 edge nicks where the bullet grazed the target's side and that is all. I've got 2 plates left so I'm going to build 2 more of these and sit one at 100 yards and one will go farther out after I clear some brush.
I never dreamed that this could be so much fun. I knew it would be fun just didn't know it would be this much fun.
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz284/ryr8828/hostagetarget003.jpg
Finally got to shoot at my homemade steel target today. I took it out to the fence, that's as far as I can go without cutting stuff down, it turned out to be exactly 140 yds.
Shot my daniel defense m4 V1 first, I have a 2 moa aimpoint red dot on it. Beat the hell out of the plate with it, hardly any misses and I was really surprised. Shot with the foregrip on a sandbag.
Then I got out my rfb .308 bullpup. It has a leatherwood cmr 1-4x circle dot scope on it. No joy, not a single hit.
Then the fs2000, I have a vortex strikefire on it. No joy there either. I did find a hole in the header of the target stand directly above the target that was .223 though, so it's obviously shooting high.
Both of these bullpups have to be sighted in again before I try the plate with them. I have an eotech xps 2-2 coming for the fs2000 so I'll wait until it gets here to sight it in. I don't know that I can blame either rifle, I shift optics around and it's been cold so I don't really remember what I've sighted in and what I haven't sometimes.
Then I got out the dpms ap4 .308. Beat the hell out of the plate with it, almost all hits. It has a leatherwood cmr 1-4x scope on it also. I shot it off of the grip pod with no sand bag.
I know that both the ddm4v1 and the dpms ap4 have been sighted in because one was a recent build and the other was a recent purchase and I can remember back that far.
I checked the plate after I shot each rifle. No real damage from either .223 or .308. I had 2 edge nicks where the bullet grazed the target's side and that is all. I've got 2 plates left so I'm going to build 2 more of these and sit one at 100 yards and one will go farther out after I clear some brush.
I never dreamed that this could be so much fun. I knew it would be fun just didn't know it would be this much fun.