RANGE SAFETY ***USE CORRECT AMMO AND TARGETS!!!***

hey guys I'm Jerry Mitchell Mike and I want to share with you 43 years of range experience of matching the correct ammo to the correct target so I've been in a lot of matches I've seen a lot of poorly designed stages and target systems that people can get hurt on so but what I'd like for you to do is take a moment and please subscribe to our YouTube channel it means a lot to us and we can the more subscription of course the more videos we can do so on with the show alright guys 43 years of experience give you an idea ammunition target design this right here is a 500 vanila rifle target I've seen people shoot pistol at close range with them but what you see and what you want to look for in a target design instantly you got a right angle right here anytime you see a right angle on a target and you shoot pistol ammunition on it it's a no-no and the reason for that is when you shoot a projectile on steel it's gonna have a 360 dispersion and guess where it goes it goes right on this ledge and then guess where it goes after that goes right toward you so you never want to have a pistol target with a Ledge on it this is a pistol target that's designed correctly and when you shoot it it'll have the dispersion but it won't spray back towards the shooter so what you want to be aware of when you set a target like this up correctly you don't want to have it set back on the edge because then you have that edge again to shoot back toward the shooter so the correct way just to present a pistol target to the shooter correctly is always have the face in front of the ledge so you never have a 90 where to shoot back toward you so this is to be shot with a rifle at over 100 yards and it's a good application for that and something you never want to ever do is shoot mile steel with a high-powered rifle and here's a really prime example of it here's one that's been shot continuously at about 200 yards and you can see the pock marks in it and what you see in a pockmark and one thing you want to realize if you ever see a pistol target with a pock mark in it like this you never want to shoot it with the pistol round it at any distance what happens that energy of that bullet goes into that hole and it's gonna come right back at you a big part of that bullet is gonna come back toward the shooter and that says that's a no-no you never wanna and you can see the backside as some pock marks also anytime you see a pockmark on a target it's it's a it's an unsafe condition so you don't want to ever shoot it you seen in a match you should suggest that they change it out always flat face target no pockmarks no right angles and also the ground underneath the target is very important if I'm shooting a pistol round and the target is relatively close to the ground and there's a steel stand or there's a lot of heavy rocks or something there that can deflect that bullet again or the piece of the bullet it might come back to water shooter so that's something you always want to be aware of is what is next to that target another bad scenario say I have the right pistol target here I have another piece of steel on a right angle the frag come off of the face of this target hits this target and it's got another right angle right back toward the shooter so when you do your target setup you always want to make sure that that 360 spray is gonna go away from the shooter and not contact anything that can direct any part of that projectile back to the user so a little bit of safety input there okay bullet design is going to be very important when you shoot steel leg bullet like this this is a coated lead bullet the spray is going to be another 360 degrees sprayed but let itself is very soft and when it hits another object if once it deform and loses velocity very quickly relatively safe to shoot it by just about any safe distance past ten yards another jacket design of course is a brass jacketed bullet it's a great design it works great for what it's intended to on steel you have to remember that brass jacket is a little bit stiffer than lead so anytime you got any right angle is there you might get a piece of a jacket back so if nothing think about the next jacketed bullet is a regular gilding metal it's a copper and zinc alloy it's a little bit softer it's a little bit more ductile so when it hits another object it wants to lose velocity relatively quick and then of course the fourth one would be a bi-metal jacket this is a European manufacturer as a surplus round sticks to a magnet it's usually a mild steel jacket with some kind of a coating on it a copper or copper washed or brass washed finished so it doesn't corrode definitely not something you want to shoot on steel within 100 yards and a lot of places out west we have rifle ammunition with that same kind of a jacket it's totally outlawed because when you shoot steel the high velocity and the steel jacket actually makes a very bright very high temperature frag and they can set the brush on fire a lot of fires have been started with steel-jacketed ammo on steel targets so some ranges ban it completely so something to think about also this the steel jacket isn't very stiff so it wants to stay in its original shape and it has a tendency to bounce around a little bit more than you then you like for it to do and of course the other projectile would be a steel core ammunition like this ss109 it has a small steel tip in it something you don't want to have a shoot steel with and of course a lot of that surplus rifle ammunition 50 BMG most ball rounds have a big steel core in them like this and you have to realize steel does not necessarily flatten out relatively quick so it has a tendency to bounce around you won't definitely stay off a steel with this ap rounds even worse because the core is gonna be even harder so you want to do you want to use the right ammunition for the application steel targets up close most military law enforcement use of French a frangible projectile it's a reduced ricochet or reduce hazard ammunition is a 9 millimeter round it's usually made out of a compressed copper or 10 alloy but compressed into a bullet but what's really unique about it when you hit steel it breaks into a lot smaller pieces so the tendency of those smaller pieces to bounce around with a lot less energy so give you an idea you could it it breaks like glass so that's what it does when it hits steel target it breaks just like glass into a thousand small pieces where a regular bullet like a live bullet like this when it hits it has a tendency to stay into a lot bigger pieces which can bounce around so reduced hazard ammunition still reduced hazards anything up close can be hazardous so choose you ammunition choose your targets right let's go out on the range and shoot a couple of steel targets with some Fran Jambo alright we out on the range with ten yards away got some standard 1/5 Dean ball FMJ and we shoot that target on the right twice I've got a little bit of a cardboard scatter shield on it I hope it stays there for two rounds what we're looking for what kind of frag pattern we have or that cardboard and also the one on the ground give you an idea of what goes on when you actually shoot a steel target so alright guys two shots target on the right one fifteen ball here we go got him let's do one more got him again so we're clear now we'll take a look go take a look okay as you can see there's a piece of lead on the inside as you can see on the bottom here we had picked up a couple of little pieces of frag you had enough energy to go through the cardboard and that was about four or five feet away but you can see the pattern around the cardboard and that's what you get when you shoot steel you get a 360-degree spray so that's what you want to always remember 360 degrees guys so that bullets gonna go every whichaway and if it finds something to bounce off of and this angled back toward you it's gonna give you a little bit of love so let's go back and shoot Fran Jambo on the target on the left okay we're back at ten yards again I've got some frangible ammunition a hundred grain bullet it's probably a little bit faster than that one fifteen ball but the idea behind these bullets are that when they hit steel they shatter into a lot smaller pieces and it's a lot lighter weight projectile leaving the face of the target so let's go ahead and shoot that target on the left oh and my shield fell let me go send it back up hey we're back at ten yards again I got one more round of fringe let's go ahead and pop and see what it looks like and we're clear let's go down take a look so what you see is the French pattern is a lot finer so that means the pieces that the bullet comes into is almost like dust so what you're looking for right there is the small to put the smaller particle of bullet carries a lot less energy and it doesn't have the tendency to carry energy back toward you it's a reduced hazard ammunition and if you look on the bottom here nothing had enough energy to penetrate the cardboard on the bottom so a lot smaller pieces this bullet goes into thousands of little pieces energy is dispersed a lot quicker a lot less potential of a bounce back off the ground or a target stand or a target next to it so you always want to match the projectile to the application always want to be safe okay you can eyes we're back in the shop here we have the frag patterns this is one 15 ball out of a 9-millimeter you see how big the pieces can be and that's where the hazard comes in if these pieces want to continue on and go places if you have a right angle they'll come back toward yourself and a reduced hazard ammunition as a frangible projectile you see that the pattern is totally different a lot smaller pieces it's the most totally uniform shatters like glass a lot less energy less possibility of bounced back it's a lot safer to shoot on steel in close quarters so always match ammunition to the target requirements and always shoot the correct target for application and you'll have a good day on the range

Channel: Jerry Miculek - Pro Shooter

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Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020