Thread: help setting up a shooting range

What's a good size for a gong?

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Originally Posted by turner nz

What's a good size for a gong?

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For the ranges you are talking, saucer size should be heaps

The NZ Police design manual is a bit lean on design details. I have pdf copy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police range design manual which has a lot more design stuff in it that may be usefull. Most range design manals are based on this document!

You mention its in a valley, so safe from richochet. Do a longsection and plot your richochet path based on 30 deg off the valley floor from -60 mills from centre of your lowest target and I bet its over the hill!...in which case you need 2800m from your firing line for 308 or 4000m for 338 lap to the extent of your safety area, or your into a contained range with more strict standing range orders and/or a f...king big hill directly behind your targets.

Gongs.... I'd be be looking hard and reducing the potential richoche off the fixings for the gongs. I'd be hanging them off webbing straps and timber frames and not steel frames with chains! and setting them into a buttstop

Work on murphys law...if there is anything hard out there, someone going to hit it sometime and you will get! No problem if you have a full safety template, but very few have that luxury.

Cheers

Grant

I made some gongs from redundant grader blade given to me by the local roading contractor, the bit they bolt on to the bottom.Once its worn too much the replace it and stockpile the old ones. Hard as hell. And often the blades are worn way more on one end than the other, so you can get various sizes off the one blade, and weld em together if you want bigger. Whole lot cheaper than biz!

quarries use bizaloy a lot if theres one handy you might get some off-cuts from friendly engineer