practice swingers
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practice swingers
Question.....who is making nice practice swingers for bigbore these days..small bore are everywhere but the big stuff is hard to find. Any ideas where to find these rascals.
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Re: practice swingers
The only place I knew of was 'Target Silhouettes' whom seem to have gone out of business or just folded their web site when we were looking the other day for some.malinois wrote:Question.....who is making nice practice swingers for bigbore these days..small bore are everywhere but the big stuff is hard to find. Any ideas where to find these rascals.
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Neither one of the ranges here in Colorado have actual animal swinger targets, instead we rely on square or round plates to sight in on from the bench. I have made many of these for myself and for different clubs. Scrap steel yards end up with coupons from various manufacturing processes that can be purchased very inexpensively. My favorite highpower target is a 10"-12"x 1" circular target. Drill two 3/8 holes 4" apart near the top. The ideal hanging material is conveyor belt cut into 3" strips. Most gravel pits have piles of old belt laying around free for the taking. Cut it into strips 3"x 12", drill 1/2 holes in each end and fold in half, attach on the backside of plate. This makes the plate hang with the bottom slightly away from you when looking directly at it, hits are deflected harmlessly into the ground. If your club has no hanging fixtures I have used realtor signs,"remove the sign itself, use the frame". Don't ask where to get these, use your imagination, Just kidding! When realtors change companies they don't repaint those signs that have there name on them, they throw them in the dumpsters at construction sights.
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Try this link for Target Silhouettes. They are located in Williamsport, Pa.
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http://www.targetsilhouettes.com/
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http://www.targetsilhouettes.com/
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Thanks Al... that was the one, good to know it's working again, as it was off line a few weeks ago when I gave it to a fellow at the club. Must be they paid their URL fee.cslcAl wrote:Try this link for Target Silhouettes. They are located in Williamsport, Pa.
Al
http://www.targetsilhouettes.com/
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Correction there Kevin....we do have a full set of HP swingers and an extra chicken and pig we have been using this winter alot. They are mounted on frames that Bill S. welded up for us. They are locked up in the large storage container near the out house. They are locked up so the general membership does not tear them up.
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i would suggest asking the club if you could borrow a HP animal and take it to a local shop and have them make you one. I made a few HP swingers for our club, go with AR plate and not mild steel unless you dnt mind seeing it get shot full of holes. it might be cheaper to have someone Cut out and weld on a bar, rather than order a premade one...
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McAlice, Malinois is big enough to carry a HP ram home....now the airlines might think otherwise of the fit under the seat requirements. So the moral here is careful who you pick on I might teach him some chess tricks and add Don's expertise and you are lost.
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Mary! You play chess?! Something else you can whup me at!
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No cribbage Mary, but I was pretty good at chess at kinda miss it now - guess it competes poorly with computer games.
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