So the lady said she wanted a shooting gong yesterday and I went and welded one up out if rebar and a old practice welding plate I had. Mainly going to be shooting it with the .22lrs but was kinda nervous of the possibility of a ricochet off the plate. In y'alls experience is it a valid concern or should I just not worry about it ?
safe pistol distance with good safety glasses on is 25 feet for ar500 steel minimum and you get bullet fragments back just none large enough to do much more than draw a bit of blood 50 feet might be better for her the 22 will be fine on the soft steel but much more than a pistol 9,40,45 will start to dimple the steel
make sure your steel has a slight down facing angle
22 rifle shoot 25 yards or further on steel
do not shoot steel with rifle rounds under 100 yards , definitely no green tips
it isn't that the steel tips come back it is that they dimple the steel steel with craters or dimples should not be shot or it should be long range 200+ yard steel
rifle rounds like 308 even at 300 yards will crater soft steel
Do Not shoot dimpled or cratered steel at anything less than long range
there happens to be a scar in my right leg from shooting dimpled steel oh sure got away with it shooting weak 38spl then shot a 40s&w and got half a bullet back in my leg happened to hit a crater just right
came back went through 2 layers and into my leg left a bullet shaped hole about 3/8 deep and fell out into the deep snow didn't find it , snow was a foot deep , when I got my pant leg up the blood was trickling down. impact wounds take a long tome to heal. had it not goon through 2 layers first I would have probably had to pull it out of my leg.