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Don't laugh, but I'm getting back in to rimfire shooting and looking for a little gong, say 2inch/50mm. Think it would be more fun than shooting paper (but not rabbits!). Anyone know where I can get something like this, or DIY ideas for the DIY-challenged individual. Gun City sells spinning targets, but they are always too low to the ground for where I shoot.
Pretty easy for a local engineering firm to fabricate one up for you if you don't have the diy skills. The disk just needs to be high tensile like 4140 or biz80 plate. For the up rights 1/2inch pipe is plenty or 12mm rod.
Sorry @MightyBoosh I'm laughing :XD: my bad:thumbsup:
For normal 22LR 6mm mild steel plate will suit your needs fine - once you go to the jackets ammunition though say 22Mag or 17HMR then you need to step up to Bis80.
Steel supply place may be able to part you off a piece of 50mm x 6mm strip - then all you have to do is drill a hole in it, hang it and start shooting.
I use a bit of 8mm mild steel for my rimfire gongs. 22LR barely takes the paint off. Magnum leaves a dent but not much. I have mine on a frame made of steel 10mm rod so I can push it into the ground or I can get a piece of wood, drill 10mm holes in the right place and set it into that on harder ground. There is another small gong behind the hole in the centre. This was an idea to see if it would work. The centre hanger is for the small "bull gong. With an air rifle hit on the big one you can tell easy enough. When an air rifle hits the smaller one it swings back and make a clang when it hits the front one again. With the 22 it does not work that way. Tee is enough energy it goes all newtons cradle and you cannot tell if it went through the hole or not. Either way it is a lot of fun
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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Outd...311.0.0.CVUbFK
Free delivery for US$1.12 each. Stainless
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Originally Posted by Tommy
I did see those. Do you think they'd be up to the job?
Yeah, got some myself. They're fine for rimfireQuote:
Originally Posted by MightyBoosh
Awesome, I do like an AliExpress bargain! ;)
Good question and much more fun than paper. As suggested if Ali express doesn't work out just a small off cut of steel plate from the local engineering shop. 4 to 6 inch's max. I hung mine under a bent electric fence batton.
Get's a real good ring and jumps around, quiet satisfying and very good practice for technique and getting to know both your rifle and a caliber.
Cheap to practice and get some wind blowing and mate it's amazing to see what it takes to ring the gong.
I got heavier plate as it was also used out to 300 mtrs with a 223 so covered a few different rifles.
Mucko is the one he can get you sorted. He is at Mount Maunganui.
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Some of the rimfire targets. 6mm mild steel good for all rimfire from 50 out to 250. The swingers are just on old door hinges and swing well.
AliExpress bits arrived. Look OK. Comparable in size to a rabbit's head :thumbsup: I'll report back when I've fired a shot at them.
Destroyed in three shots with 22LR at 50 metres :D :D :D
To be fair, the body seemed to cope quite well. The neck got a bit bent out of shape on the second shot and the whole thing went flying off with the the third shot, broken at the neck. I had it attached to something solid via a bolt through the eye. It could spin freely, but no room to manoeuvre left and right. I'll try with another one on a chain before giving up
Maybe the bloke who recommended them to you @Tommy hasn't hit them three times yet :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MightyBoosh
Hey at least I woulda hit the one I was aiming at @Gibo hahahahaha The ones we've shot are hung on wire at similar range, they got a little bit spooned up after a session, but didn't break! Maybe worth attaching them more loosely? We used subs too, were you using minimags or something? The other 3 dozen I gave to other people on the forum that don't have neighbours, I'll see how they got on.
CCI subs.
Maybe Northland air is lighter and make subs go supersonic! /S
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PM me your delivery address.Quote:
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That's bloody awesome, thanks! Will do.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
As some way of paying it forward, if anyone wants four of China's finest gongs*, send me your address via PM.
*Good for air rifles, or alternatively any other calibre provided you don't actually hit it.
what about at 100m?
I was born with mine.
Don't know, didn't get the opportunity, but at almost the same muzzle energy (i.e. 50 versus 100 metres), I wouldn't hold out too much hope for the Chinese gongs!Quote:
Originally Posted by blair993
Chinese gongs sent to @ Russian 22.
Enjoy torturing them :D
I will! I will see how long they last me. I will send any that I do t use to anyone else who wants one.Quote:
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I have some biz 80 9" x 3/4"thick gongs just arrived pm if interested.
New gongs arrived. Thanks very much @veitnamcam :thumbsup:
They look like they would take a bloody good clobbering, like the Chinese gongs on steroids!. Slightly bigger and way heavier plate. Can't wait to try them out and when I do, I'll report back.
I hope they are good....im getting 50 cut out of 5mm 450 grade.Quote:
Originally Posted by MightyBoosh
The couple I sent you are 6mm 400 grade.
Just make sure they can rotate freely and Im sure they will take anything any rimfire can throw at them @+50y maybe even up to 223 @+100y?
I have been using 6mm mild for my rimfire gongs and not a mark on them yet(apart from testing them with a 223 at 200 and 350m)
Even with hmr wmr up close?Quote:
Originally Posted by blair993
Generally speaking it is impact velocity that marks up plates rather than caliber or grains(generalization)
used 22mag at 50m 30g vmax on the small plates hanging on chain and no marks. didnt try closer than that. 17h2 hardly mad them move.
I have plates cut and gongs for sale here.
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...i-gongs-42386/
