Thread: Gong shooting matches/stages

Not much chance of a ricochet if the guns big enough

Looks more like what you get when people substitute mild steel for proper hardened plate. If it isn't then you have some serious artillery.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Looks more like what you get when people substitute mild steel for proper hardened plate. If it isn't then you have some serious artillery.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Looks more like what you get when people substitute mild steel for proper hardened plate. If it isn't then you have some serious artillery.

Yep, id hazard a guess that plate is not hardox 450 or bizalloy 500 etc. I run Hardox 450 and ive yet to see any rifle even look like marking it, let alone punching a hole thru it. And ive had numbnuts shoot my plates at 100 yards.

Originally Posted by GWH

Yep, id hazard a guess that plate is not hardox 450 or bizalloy 500 etc. I run Hardox 450 and ive yet to see any rifle even look like marking it, let alone punching a hole thru it. And ive had numbnuts shoot my plates at 100 yards.

That mild steel plate was put up as joke it was shot with 50 cal and 260rem to see what happened.
Bisalloy plate is pok marked with 50 cal and also bent slightly.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Looks more like what you get when people substitute mild steel for proper hardened plate. If it isn't then you have some serious artillery.

You dont need a behemoth. My 22/250 would easily punch thru the discs we had in the early days. 308s etc mostly made a crater.
We were being naughty though and shooting at discs intended for lead only BP rifles.

Edge of disc hits or hits on the hanging chains (BP or smokeless jacketed) in some circumstances resulted in nice winie ricochets.

“Know your limits” dexreasing plate sizes is always good. Standard is to lose all points of you miss and alt is to start again, with unlimted rounds but a time limit.

Another good stage is varying ranges requiring aim off or dialling within a time limit.

Then of course there is the several positions shooting within a time limit. To avoid discussions about what kneeling or sitti g and what variants are allowed these are best done by shooting over or under a a specified barrier - just a piece of cord that the barrel has to be over or under is enough.

Of course, you will want at least one bipod high accuracy long range stage out to where wind comes into play.

Then you have trick shots like through plywood loopholes, spinners and swingers if you can arrange them and “hostage setups”.
Shooting left and right handed is good if youve got a large target but a lot of sporting rifles have asymmetric cheekpieces so do t have too much points on that.

There should be one standing snap shot stage.
This is starting with rifle at waist level pointing down and shoot on command with a loud timer set. If already loaded, 3 seconds is quite difficult and 5 seconds is beginner-easy.

Thanks for those suggestions, some really good ideas.