New target

[Jeeper]

I have been making some new targets for my club and finished one today. I have a few more in the works but this is the first one that is done. I tested it a few weeks ago at a match and it worked fine. It might make it into the line up for space city in april.

I am going to make apage on my website dedicated to targets that I see or that I can get picture of so that people can copy the designs for their own clubs.

[tightloop]

Looks cool, tell us how it works..

[Jeeper]

Lets see.

Shoot steel

Two targets rise. :D

Simply a weighted hinge. Nothing fancy. The plate is heavy enough and offset enough to bring up the paper even with long sticks attached. Simple to reset.

[Flexmoney]

Hurry and put it outside in the rain...see how it works when those target get a bit water-logged. (Local club has a big popper that brings up a single paper target when the popper falls. Pretty cool, but we have to be careful of water-weight.)

[shred]

Clever use of angle to avoid splatter-ifying the front targets. Is there enough weight for reliable operation on a windy day? We don't bother shooting if it's raining, but wind we have plenty of on the range.

[Jeeper]

It has an adjustment screw to allow for setting it like a popper. It actually comes up pretty easily. That plate is heavy and so is the pole it is on. It is set back about 6 inches from the center of the hinge. Without the target sticks in the plate wont stay up. I am going to test it in a bigger match outside here in a couple weeks. I also have another activator type target I am fabbing up right now. I copied this idea from one I saw that only had one target appear. The two target definately took more work with making it activate.