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Do you use them?
What style? Competition with your buddies?
What brand?

I tend to buy Challenge Targets brand.

Bought a bunch of targets from JC Vibby several years ago, back when it was more of a fund raising project for a youth group or something. They've morphed into a full blown company now with a slick website and everything.

https://jcsteeltargets.com/

Just use them for rimfire and centerfire plinking on our club range. One particular 1/2" thick, 8" round plate has been in use since about 2012 or 2013 and absorbed well over a thousand hits at 200 yards from a .223 on up to a 270 WSM and it's still going strong. The rimfire targets will last forever.

With steel shooting so popular lots of folks make good AR500 targets these days. Still have a few that haven't been used but if I need a replacement there is a local company that makes them and I'll probably get some there just to save on shipping.

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All mine were bought on line and mostly from these three shops.
Shipping has been a non-issue because they all use USPS bulk rate or they run a free ship special.

https://shootsteel.com/

https://ar500targetsolutions.com/

https://shootingtargets7.com/

We have been using the rimfire swinging trees with the grandkids. They got bored with paper targets . We still use both, but enjoy the action of steel better

We shoot steel targets at home. I make my own on my cnc plasma table. I get scraps of AR400 steel from my steel supplier. We prefer to hang them from chain. I prefer to allow the bottom of the steel target to swing back a little on impact. It makes them last much longer and helps deflect bullet fragments downwards. 1/4” thick for rimfire. 3/8” thick for short action centre fire.

Same here, I've got a set of his NRL22 TGTs for my practice range. I made 4x4 stands for them, then added some of my 2/3rds AR550 IDPA silhouettes for "backstops" so we can see the misses on windy days:





All together I've got about 80 pieces of steel, predominately AR500 for the centerfires. I've also got one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/ShootingTarg...g-Plinking/dp/B07VLJJD6L?ref_=ast_sto_dp

I've also got two sets of AR500 Bowling Pins (really for Centerfire) that we plink with .22s, they need "heads shots" to take them off the rails.



Last, but not least I've got a set of these:

https://www.qualitytargets.com/animal-silhouette-target-targets-10-pcs-1-4-steel/

That I use these stands for:



My latest acquisition for the "big guns" 540 yds off the back deck: