Over the past four weeks or so, I had to take a break from focusing on my 25 yd pistol target shooting. At a gun show I found a local company that cut's AR5000 steel targets at an incredibly reasonable cost. They also had parts to make very portable, light weight steel target stands. So, I've been focused on building steel target stands for the range that will easily fit in the trunk of my car.
Here's a pic of the starter set I bought for $80 at the gun show price...two 10" (one is not in the pic), two 8", two 6" gongs, six sets of hangers, and 4 pieces that hold the cross bar and legs together. I started by building two 2' tall by 3' wide stands using 1" metal electrical conduit. I've also played around with painting the steel with target patterns instead of just shooting at black steel (do you like my new avatar?).
They have worked wonderfully at 300 yds and 100 yds using my .308 rifle. I have had to make some modifications to the stand to make it work better with such light weight conduit.
I would highly recommend purchasing steel from this company. If you are interested in getting a hold of them, please PM me.
Here is one of the steel target stands in the trunk of my car. It's very easy to put together and carry out to the target line.
At 300 yds...
At 100 yds...
I also just added two 4" and two 3" targets shown in white. I left the 10" gongs on for added weight for the stand.
I'm getting ready to take two rigs out to the range tomorrow putting one at 100 yds and the other at 300 yds.