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Our closest steel targets on our in-town trail walk are of course, the handgun targets.

We've not had any bounce-backs from them. They all hang at a slight angle, which deflects all the balls to the side and down.

Our out-of-town range on the Black Water road.
The two posts beside my bench, are 12" x 12" rough cut Douglas Fir. We build this shooting shed 3 years ago. It's
96' long, with 92' of concrete for the floor. I'm the little guy second from the right - 2 1/2 weeks after getting my new titanium knee- left leg bit sore there.

Even the steel gongs on our long-distance range (longest gongs are 1,100meters} are hanging at a slight angle. This deflects bullet fragments down and to the sides.

The 600gr. bullets from my bro's .50/90 Sharps (custom bl.) lay on the ground, under the 1,000 meter buffalo. They become perfectly round disks of lead about 1 1/2" in diameter, with the base in the exact middle of the disk. This shows the bullets are coming down perfectly square with the ground(universe) not at an angle, pointing down. The buffalo is the only one of our plates that hangs perfectly flat to the shooter.
We were out playing yesterday. A dull day with comfortable temperature about 65F.
Taylor's 3-handgun handgun targets at 18 meters on the plywood board for testing his 1875 Remington revolver with BP.

1st picture: The first bunch of targets with a berm behind, are at 50 meters, then large set of targets at 100 meters.

In this 'closeup' picture, the target butt beside the flag pole, is 500meters.
The red target with the white dot, is 600meters and is a 4' octagonal sheet of AR500.
Right above the 600 meter target is a white sheet of plywood, 700meters.
Behind that to the left is 900 meters, then the orange buff at 1000 meters.
Above the buffalo, the road (cleared area) runs up to 1,400meters. We have no targets there yet, but I might have enough staff on my Sharp's (1st pic) Soule sight to get to it, when we do - maybe not.
With smokeless, I have lots of sight as I run 500gr. at 1,650fps using Benchmark powder.

The sight setting when I took the picture is 500 meters, for the black powder load I am using with a 525gr. Lyman bullet.

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