Need data on AR-500 steel for baffle range

[Land_Owner]

Trying to find an ASTM number, AISC number or related testing standard that identifies AR-500 (abrasion resistant) steel for specification use in a baffled range for the Army Special Forces.

Google and Yahoo have not been kind (enough) on this one...any help would be appreciated...and am posting on several of this Board’s Forums simultaneously.

[RamSlammer]

G'Day
      What about bisaloy 360? Thats what we use in Australia for silhouettes and it will stand up to FMJ's out of .308's easily.
Juddy

[yankee]

I would start bu getting a hold of your local steel supplier. They will have books from the different mills that would have this type product and would have all the specs available

[Jerry G]

The toughest stuff I have found is called T-1.  Any steel supplier knows what that is.  I made some targets out of 1/2 " thick T-1 and thought I could blow some holes with a 7mm mag without drilling.  At 20m, it put a crater about 1/4" deep in my target and I had to another 15m to get the thing back.  If you are shooting "Ball ammo"at it, you might want to do a little expermenting with the angle of the plate and allow the bottom end of the plate to move when it gets hit.

AR steel is like taking pot luck, it is stuff that didn't make the grade they were shooting for at the mill.  I'm not quite sure what the stuff is.

Hope that helps.