Gear review: CTS Targets – a truly portable hanging steel target

By Eve Flanigan

Carrying a homemade post-pounder T-post and CTS target downrange with room to carry a rifle. (Photo: Eve Flannigan)
Few forms of shooting practice are as rewarding as making steel targets ring. The instant—or gloriously delayed, depending on distance—feedback is part of what makes our craft so addictive. Steel targets also make for efficient use of time. While walking back and forth between the firing line and target to check holes in paper is great exercise, it’s also inconvenient and eats up precious range time.
Problem is, steel targets aren’t exactly common. Add to that the substantial effort usually associated with transporting and setting up steel. CTS Targets has solved both those problems in fine fashion with a truly portable hanger design. Having begun business under the moniker Complete Target Systems, the company is now called Complete Target Solutions, conveniently retaining the same acronym and website.
Detail of the precision-cut edge of the 8-inch round CTS target. (Photo: Eve Flannigan)
CTS makes targets cut into shapes from 3/8-inch thick, AR 500 steel. Choices of sizes and shapes are many, and vary from 8-inch circles and squares, to animal shapes (gotta admit, the domestic cat target is not for me), to IPSC-style cut-outs. This test used

Source: Guns.com