Hey yall - I started up a range as seen in another thread in this forum. I am currently running on what I consider to be temporary target stands that I bought from Metal Spinning Targets - Home. They only provide for about a 18"x24" target board and they get destroyed very quickly with that much fire concentrated on them.
Replacing target boards and the wooden frames has quickly become the most time consuming and labor intensive part of running the range. I know I can streamline and optimize this process and I have some ideas of my own. BUT, I am looking for suggestions for a more permanent solution. I would like to put an 8'x2' board in each target stand horizontally.
I would very much appreciate some photos, sketches, diagrams, descriptions, etc of the target stands at your local ranges.
I would love to be able to simply drop/slide the target boards into a sleeve or frame with no fastening or clipping required. Anything that the board drops or slides into though requires a frame with a pocket in it and that pocket frame can be easily destroyed by gunfire and disable the stand.
IF there are off the shelf target frame systems I would love to see them.
However I am anticipating constructing my own frames and this is the best I can come up with: Weld 3 pieces of rebar together in parallel like a wire rope (without twist) to make the legs and frame. Then get some industrial type clips and simply clip the boards to the frame with a metal clip or clamp (which will frequently get destroyed). The metal clamps that I found are not cheap either. McMaster-Carr You can basically assume they all get shot in 1 week's time. So you would need to constantly have these clips on order and coming in. And like I said at $3-$5 per clip its not very economical.
Coming across this forum and post in some searching and I think I found a solution: Gun Range Target Stand Construction
The angle iron is a very good idea. < V > Drop the boards into the v shaped slots which are also conveniently angled away from the shooters at all times. I also have welders out the wazoo offering to weld in exchange for memberships so this might be a good thing although the material cost will be considerable but I think much more long lasting. I think I am going to head in that direction but would still like some input from you guys!
TIA
Replacing target boards and the wooden frames has quickly become the most time consuming and labor intensive part of running the range. I know I can streamline and optimize this process and I have some ideas of my own. BUT, I am looking for suggestions for a more permanent solution. I would like to put an 8'x2' board in each target stand horizontally.
I would very much appreciate some photos, sketches, diagrams, descriptions, etc of the target stands at your local ranges.
I would love to be able to simply drop/slide the target boards into a sleeve or frame with no fastening or clipping required. Anything that the board drops or slides into though requires a frame with a pocket in it and that pocket frame can be easily destroyed by gunfire and disable the stand.
IF there are off the shelf target frame systems I would love to see them.
However I am anticipating constructing my own frames and this is the best I can come up with: Weld 3 pieces of rebar together in parallel like a wire rope (without twist) to make the legs and frame. Then get some industrial type clips and simply clip the boards to the frame with a metal clip or clamp (which will frequently get destroyed). The metal clamps that I found are not cheap either. McMaster-Carr You can basically assume they all get shot in 1 week's time. So you would need to constantly have these clips on order and coming in. And like I said at $3-$5 per clip its not very economical.
Coming across this forum and post in some searching and I think I found a solution: Gun Range Target Stand Construction
The angle iron is a very good idea. < V > Drop the boards into the v shaped slots which are also conveniently angled away from the shooters at all times. I also have welders out the wazoo offering to weld in exchange for memberships so this might be a good thing although the material cost will be considerable but I think much more long lasting. I think I am going to head in that direction but would still like some input from you guys!
TIA
