Its guys like you that caused my gun club to PROHIBIT the use of such large guns shooting RBs, at our steel plates. Actually, they stopped it themselves, after we gave them an ultimatum:
Either they bought or helped repair( weld usually) the targets they broke, OR leave the club. All had other, smaller cal.guns to use, and the idea of actually working at the club( as most of the board members do all the time) just ruined their idea of fun. ( How little do they know! :rotf: )
Basically, around here, the rule is, " You break it, You own it!"
Nobody is trying to take the fun out of shooting sports, but some calibers are simply too large to allow them to be fired at some of our targets. The first time you see a .22 bang plate tree ruined at a club, by some idiot who had to shoot it with magnum rifle ammo- at close range, naturally---- you wouldn't want him to waste that $2.00 apiece ammo now, would you??-- You will better understand why the people who do the work to provide you those targets take a Lynch Mob's idea of justice towards shooters who go out of their way to destroy targets, that are not meant to be destroyed.
Go make some bang plates of your own thick enough and tough enough to withstand the force of large projectiles. Then take your plates to the range, and let others shoot at them. Better yet, make this a project for all the club members with Besses,who want to shoot RBs at bang plate targets. They you can all give the plates to the club for general use, and earn the respect- not condemnation- of other club members. NO?
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