A gong in a gong

I made a light weight going for kids shooting 22s a 300mlronund with both a 50ml and a 25ml hole with a swinging plate on each hole. I'll find a photo of it but kids love shooting it

I have one I made as well.

In truth, if you hit the centre one it swings back with the shot and bangs on the front one as it falls back like a bell ringer. If you miss the small one and hit the big one the big one hits the small one, making it swing back and fall forward in the same motion. I found you get he same sound whether you hit the centre or not. The only ways to make it different is making the small one so it has a rubber stop out to that as it returns to vertical it doesn't clang the big one. That or make the big one out of ply etc more like a gong in a backboard.

Still fun to shoot either way so have fun and hit it lots. They do ring better than a normal gong too...

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

How would they last out in the weather?
Because that's about all that would damage it at six hundy at my place.

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Nothing a splash of paint wouldn’t help with. A number of years ago I was fortunate enough to have long range targets peppered across the open slash country of @Barefoot ‘s felled forestry block. I really enjoyed shooting up there as the topography of the valleys meant that you were constantly challenged by the swirling wind which could be left to right at the end of your barrel but right to left at the target. Sometimes shooting up there you could pick up the glint of the sun on the copper bullet and watch it snake its way toward the target as it passed through differing cross winds.