Well, my department range budget isn't huge and I am trying to come up with a somewhat economical moving target system.
Here are a few of my brainstorming ideas (lots of storm, maybe not as much brain)....
remote control car; maybe attach a long plastic pole, similar to the orange bicycle flags kids have on their bikes. I would attach a stiff paper target to the top of it.
pulley system; have two heavily weighted poles with pulleys downrange, run rope between them and to the back of the range (maybe two more pulleys there) and by pulling the rope left or right targets attached could move laterally. Possibly set up a window frame downrange as well to simulate a suspect walking past a window.
weld a heavy target onto a garage door spring, then weld that to a heavy steel tire rim filled with cement. Shoot the target and get the target swaying. not sure if the spring would hold up to misses though.
Any thoughts?
Mike
Here are a few of my brainstorming ideas (lots of storm, maybe not as much brain)....
remote control car; maybe attach a long plastic pole, similar to the orange bicycle flags kids have on their bikes. I would attach a stiff paper target to the top of it.
pulley system; have two heavily weighted poles with pulleys downrange, run rope between them and to the back of the range (maybe two more pulleys there) and by pulling the rope left or right targets attached could move laterally. Possibly set up a window frame downrange as well to simulate a suspect walking past a window.
weld a heavy target onto a garage door spring, then weld that to a heavy steel tire rim filled with cement. Shoot the target and get the target swaying. not sure if the spring would hold up to misses though.
Any thoughts?
Mike