Steel Targets for Hunting Practice???

[Slickhill]

I make my own steel targets and rarely shoot paper. I usually load a bunch of ammo and check zeros on a cardboard box and never shoot paper again for the year unless something is acting wacky or a change loads or scopes.

I probably have 2 dozen plates scattered around the place and can move them and or my shooting position to get 3/4 of a mile or more if I wanted to. Most generally I shoot from field positions from 200-500 as that’s about the practical limit of my equipment and personal limit on game.

The real practice for shooting game is pigs. Nothing beats the real thing and you gain the benefit of terminal performance notes.

 

[justinspicher]

I turn my C zone sized IPSC steel targets sideways to represent kill zones on mammals. It’s pretty humbling.

I also shoot a lot of pdogs.

 

[waspocrew]

Paper for zero, but I prefer steel and fur for practice.

We have steel targets out to 1000 at our ranch. To keep it challenging, we have some larger targets but also 1.5 MOA targets at most distances.

Prairie dogs are great, but rock chucks are my favorite. I walk a canyon and find them sunning themselves up in rocks. It’s great positional practice with my tripod.

 

[24valve]

Good luck with these?
Using a 308 past 100. Thanks.

Yep, so far the only issue I've had with them was some cratering with 55gr fmj's at 100 yards, but no issues with 223 up to 7 mag/30-06 at distances past that