Shooting Steel Targets

By Tom Beckstrand

There’s a right way and a wrong way to shoot steel targets.

Shooting at paper is probably what the majority of us spend our time doing at the range. Paper is cheap, easily transported and allows us to readily record group sizes. It’s also a pain to replace if others want to continue shooting and can become a little onerous after a while.

Steel is my favorite target to shoot because it can be set up and shot at until we’re out of ammo or lose interest. That ever-welcome tink tells us when we’re on our game. Yeah, it’s heavier than paper, and we can’t fold it up and stuff it in our pocket when we’re done, but steel is never boring, and good steel targets don’t wear out.

I’ve spent some time shooting steel targets from Action Target, a company that specializes in (not surprisingly) steel targets for personal and public use. The two models I tested were the <a class="colorbox" href="http://bit.ly/1NqV8NV" …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo