These were a little hot

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I have some steel plates set up at appx 80yds from where I was shooting.
It’s just some 3/8 steel plates I got from work to shoot 22 and 9mm with. Every once in a while I’ll shoot them with a AK. Most of the time it just puts a big ass dent in but doesn’t Penetrate. As I was shooting my shooting buddy told me a few round it was kicking out a monster flame. He slow motioned it to get the pic. Also when we went to look at the plate it had several rds that went through. Must have been the hot ones😁

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I’ve seen several people hurt and a vehicle hit by shooting damaged plates. You should stop using them immediately. Bullets do crazy things from time to time when hitting dirt or other hard objects. No need in increasing the chances.
 
And people get irritated when we disallow steel jacketed stuff at matches. You may not penetrate with that stuff, but dimples and dents abound. Replacing steel gets expensive!
 
Majicmike said:
As in returning the projectile??
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Anything, even minor dents or whatever which leave you "looking into a bowl" greatly increase the chance of flak coming back toward the shooter.

Next time you clean a soup bowl in the sink. Notice how you naturally don't use full force water to rinse with the edges turned your way? Because water will spray you? Yeah, lead does that too.
 
Tim said:
And people get irritated when we disallow steel jacketed stuff at matches. You may not penetrate with that stuff, but dimples and dents abound. Replacing steel gets expensive!
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At the range I ran, we used to have steel set-up for our members. It seems that I was ordering new plates every 3 weeks because of divots. Now, it's bring-your-own, with distance and steel angle rules. I've removed bullet fragments dozens of times during training because of this, often making me bleed.
 
Slacker said:
Plates with divots / dents are DANGEROUS.
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Yep, that's why I don't like shooting mild steel at all. I once had a ricochet fly back past my head at over 100 meters from shooting mild steel plates with a mosin and steel cored ammo.

I was doubled up on ear protection and it hissed loudly past my ear... meaning it was probably only a few inches from my head. Definitely a butt puckering moment.
 
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