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Offline longcaribiner

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shootin' gallery plans?
« on: March 01, 2007, 03:38:12 AM »
When I bought my farm 10 years back, there was and still is some old broke down equipment buried in the bushes.  I have nearly 100 feet of conveyor chain, sprockets, gear boxes and PTO shaft  from an old feed wagon,   (Like that used in old manure spreaders.   I've been thinking of making one of those old fashioned motorized shootin galleries,   You know with the ducks, pipes and pigeon sillouhettes that march across the stage and get knocked down by the shooter.   (Now only seen in cartoons.)   They actually had such a thing at Disney World back in 1973.   six years later it was one of those wussy laser deals.  Does anyone know where I can get plans, or drawings of how the originals were constructed, so I can adapt them to my scrounged resources?     I figure that ought to be a hoot for cap and ball shootin.

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Re: shootin' gallery plans?
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2007, 06:27:42 AM »
i'm pretty sure galleries use frangible .22 shorts... very low energy.

If you are building for cap and ball, you will need to scale everything way up.

Target plates need to be 3/8 thick steel or thicker.  That's what every club that I have been to uses for steel plate pistol matches.  T1 steel wont be needed for BP or "normal" handguns, hot or cold rolled will be fine.

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