welcome to the den of the social regressive lately we have been testing
some very fine centerfire rifles like this Savage 10 BA stealth evolution
and the model 10 GRS both of those have been in 6.5 Creedmoor and with a very
precise rifle there's some really fun tests you can do rather than just
shooting paper and my favorite so far has been the unknown distance challenge
and that is where the shooter and the spotter both are trying to estimate
range to a target of a fixed size and these things are placed at random out in
on a field and you try to figure out how far away the thing is and then try to
shoot it in as few you know actually hit it in as few shots as possible so what
we've been kind of basing this whole thing on are these targets right here
these are the champion Duraseal clay pigeon holders and these are made of a
material that you guys have probably seen before sporting goods stores carry these
Duraseal targets and kind of what these do is they they just kind of absorb
bullets without being destroyed by them you can see that this one has taken a
few hits already we just have these tiny little holes going through and these are
from six point five millimeter bullets and you can see the exits right here
they're pretty much just the same size as the the entrance holes so these are
designed to take quite a few hits and be able to keep functioning they they don't
really destroy easily and I've shot it these quite a bit we're gonna take a
close look at some of the the damage that we have on some of these but first
I just kind of want to show you how this works you do have each of these comes
with a stake that you can just jam into the ground these things actually go in
pretty easy and I got to say that the metal is tough we're gonna take a look
at damage that some of the metal has sustained as well or if you want to
attach your targets to a 2x4 then you get these little clips as well so yeah
each of these holds a 108 millimeter clay pigeon and pretty much all of the
this stuff that you're going to get at Marty or sporting goods stores your
standard size is gonna be a 108 millimeter
clay pigeon one of the cool things about the coloration of this is that it's
going to contrast really well with the typical orange of a clay pigeon or the
black that you might get around the edges or the black on the backside if
you wanted to try to shoot in that direction this is going to not only
stand out really well against whatever backdrop you have even in a grassy green
field you can see that these things stand out very well and you do get
contrast there so you actually know which part of this you're supposed to
shoot and if you want to do that measuring like the unknown distance
challenge that we did you can measure to the edges of the clay pigeon or you can
measure to the edges of the target itself so let's take a close look at
these and see what kind of damage that we've done to this over several
challenges I have not only shot the six point five millimeter bullets in these
two challenges you've seen on video but I've done some stuff just for fun with
some friends too where we shot at these with 22 long rifle and with pistols
actually we've shot everything from 45 acp down to 22s at this and let's just
kind of see how hurt these things get as you can see I still have all five
sitting here on the bench so that's a good start let's take a close look at
some of the damage that we have here if you look at the front side you can see
that we do have some kind of pinholes going through them and some of these you
can see a little bit of a larger diameter kind of smear around the
outside I'm guessing that this was hit by a handgun bullet this was shot by
rimfire by centerfire rifle by centerfire handgun and despite that kind
of large print that you see on the front check out the backside here it's still
just a tiny hole going through the back pretty cool most of the stuff that we've
been shooting has been Full Metal Jacket and so you know that's gonna help
supposedly if you're gonna shoot these targets try to shoot them with Full
Metal Jacket or you know the open tip match that we've been shooting not
something that's going to expand really rapidly
varmint bullet or something a really nasty hollow-point will carve these up
more quickly than some of the others so you can see that we just have some just
very small holes through these things I got the feeling these are going to last
me a long long time so here's one that has a bit more profound damage this one
must have been used as the the short-range target a bunch I know here
this one's interesting this is the largest hole that I've seen so far in
any of these that's a pretty good sized hole in the front and on the back and
it's still pretty small back here looks like I made a bigger hole on the the
front side than the back interesting so this one is a little bit torn up we have
some frayed sections here but you know what the little tabs that retain the the
disc the the clay pigeon none of these are damaged at all I've never had any
problem getting the clay pigeons back into these things there's no functional
damage to this whatsoever and this guy yeah about the same stuff and we have
had a couple of hits in some interesting areas like on this one you can see that
this was probably hit by a handgun bullet right here through this kind of
flex section right here where the stake attaches and again it's just a tiny
little hole on the on the rear side so yeah really nothing going on there we've
had a couple where the stake has taken a hit and apparently this is some pretty
good steel because this right here this took a hit from a 6.5 Creedmoor
and it was bent pretty good we just popped it in a vise and bent it back and
it's back in back at work and this one on the last shoot with the stealth
evolution this one also took a hit somehow I there's no hole of any kind we
just found it bent over we're not exactly sure what happened but yeah we
just we bent this one back Kyle just bent this one over his knee and yeah we
just put it right back out there and got to
work see ya know profound damage based on the damage we just saw I think that
we can expect a really long life out of these and some of the benefits that I
should mention about this there are all kinds of systems out there that can
allow you to hang clay pigeons or whatever but you can see that just the
toughness of this kind of sets it apart from some of the other things out there
if this takes a bullet you know as you can see nothing is really gonna happen
with some of the others that might be wire based metal based it's going to
take damage and it's just gonna accumulate really quickly whereas this
yeah I think it is going to last a very long time there is also something really
cool about the retention on the back of these you can see these little kind of
nubs hanging out back here and what these are gonna do is no matter
what the wind is like it isn't going to shake the clay pigeon loose and really
this thing just isn't going to move around we we've shot this in you know
pretty low winds so far we've had them in some kind of different conditions but
yeah these things just they don't move the clay pigeons don't fall out the only
way that they fall out really is if they take a really solid hit and decide to
explode and that is one other thing to notice in some of the video that we've
shot so far since you do get number one a bullet moving very quickly and you do
get a little bit of support from the outer ring here sometimes these things
they don't necessarily explode like you would see if you shot it with shotgun or
whatever they did they just get a pin punch through them or sometimes just a
part of them falls out and that's one of the reasons why it's good to have a
spotter or a really nice scope like this HD mr2 so you can verify that you did
actually put a hole through them for the most part though it is pretty obvious if
you've made a hit there have been a couple where we've driven up afterward
we thought we missed and then we did actually have a hit yeah for the most
part you can see the holes put there here and it might be a difference
between different types of clay pigeons we've shot champion clay pigeons through
here and some of those biodegradable ones that you get at Walmart and they
both seem to act about the same but yeah total
on these I think right now on Amazon these are selling for about 18 bucks
apiece so yeah outfitting yourself with five of
these it does kind of add up a little bit but when you factor in the total
life that you're gonna get out of this and the the kind of fun challenges that
you can do like I mentioned you know we even shot pistols at these things at
closer ranges some 22 long-rifle you know kind of quicker drills going back
and forth between shots yeah you're gonna get a lot of a long life and a lot
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