Thread: DIY Steel Targets

Thanks fellas will follow up with both. Not a complicated design at all and realsteel are local.

Cut a couple of gongs out of wear plate 500 grade offcuts the other week
but after looking at this thread and others.
I think my mickey mouse design maybe not a good idea.

Originally Posted by SPEARONZ

Thanks fellas will follow up with both. Not a complicated design at all and realsteel are local.

Planning to make some of that waratah bracket to tilt the gong on an angle
maybe next month or 2 when I'm not so busy,
let me know if you still looking by then.

Originally Posted by Snap 4T

Cut a couple of gongs out of wear plate 500 grade offcuts the other week
but after looking at this thread and others.
I think my mickey mouse design maybe not a good idea.

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Planning to make some of that waratah bracket to tilt the gong on an angle
maybe next month or 2 when I'm not so busy,
let me know if you still looking by then.

Nice.
I would recommend is you round out the corners on the mickey mouse ears - sharp corners = crack initiation given the repeated impacts the targets are subject to.
A bit personal preference but in my experience larger bolts work better as well - the flip side of that is smaller bolts are far cheaper to replace when they do fail.