JustShootMe Products produces a variety of polymer based targets that are designed as safer reactive alternatives to shooting metal targets. Their description:
Welcome to Just Shoot Me Products, home of the World’s safest reactive targets and target stands. Our primary target materials, Ballistic Polymer and DX-Iron, have set a new standard for shooting safety, never before seen in the shooting industry.
Our product line includes: portable, lightweight and safe, reactive targets and non-reactive target units; indoor and outdoor shooting range targets and systems; shoot houses; bullet traps; safe rooms; and protective barriers. We manufacture targets capable of handling any caliber, from Airsoft to .50BMG, at point blank range.
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Having viewed several of your videos, I have developed an interest in the polymer targets. my only question is how do the rounds act after impact? I can not tell if the rounds are simply expending their energy against the target and become inert like ballistic gel or if they are being deflected away by the contours of the target. Having asked this raises a number of other questions.
1) What is the minimum safe distance that the shooter can engage the target?
2) If the target does indeed cause the round to deflect, how is the round prevented from returning in a similar trajectory?
I am planning to test one of these targets at a range on FT Sill and need to know if the round might pose a danger to surrounding personnel or the shooter after impact. I need to know before testing as I do not wish to find out by trial and error.
Thank you.
1LT Tate
I have no *official* idea. I’d suggest contacting JustShoot Me products for specifics; I have dealt with them in the past and they were easy to talk to…However, they seem to not be maintaining their web site much these days. I do know that Do-it-all outdoors has started putting out polymer targets (same basic thing, but as spinners), and I’d guess they’d have some info on their web site. Go to their site at http://www.do-alltraps.com/ and hit the “shooting gallery” tab at the top.
As for practical experience, these targets basically allow bullets to “pass through” them. We’ve had some bullets get caught by them (as in actually stuck in the plastic), but it’s pretty rare. Since the bullets “go through” you have the same basic safety concerns as shooting at the ground, etc. Like I said, I’d contact do-it-all — maybe they have a military discount. I know that Cabela’s carries a fair number of their products, and I was just up at the Kansas City store and saw some of their polymer spinners two weeks ago. About a 7 hour drive from Ft. Sill, but still — it’s an option.