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Which of those targets do you use for rifle practice? How close do you get? The published minimum safe distances sort of limit what you can practice with the rifle, but I've seen videos of 3-gun guys practicing on steel silhouettes inside 20 yards with their rifles.
Do you have an example of drills or courses of fire you practice with your steel (rifle, pistol, or shotgun)?
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I use the B/C zone and Plate Racks for rifle practice. I only shoot the pate racks at about 40 yards at the closest. The rack on the left is an economy rack. It uses 3/8" AR500 plates that are welded to brackets. It's really only made for pistol and shotgun but I had mine upgrades with an AR500 splash guard on the front. That's the angled piece below the plates that deflects shrapnel from low shots downward. I don't remember the cost of the upgrade but I think it was $2-300. This was my first plate rack that I bought before the 3-Gun Nation Pro series and regional matches started putting MGM plate racks at 50-100 yards at every event. So I hadn't originally planned to shoot it very heavily with rifle. I shot the living crap out of it for 3 years with my rifle practicing for those matches and eventually the welds on the plates cracked. So I took them off and rewelded them. Welds are weak! They aren't able to handle the velocity of the .223 rounds. After I cracked those plates I bought their deluxe plate rack which runs about $700 more. It's plates are one piece and they are bolted to the hinges. A good way to tell the quality of any steel target system is the thickness and quantity of the welds used and if the targets are bolted on versus welded. I have some cheap steal plates that I bought from a local outfit when I first started and they had one bead of weld between the base and the plate. MGM welds theirs 2-3 times and bolts on the steal that is going to get heavy use.
MGM Targets Sportsman Series Plate Rack
This is the deluxe rack. If you plan tosh pot a lot of rifle or don't want to fix/repair a plate ever it's the way to go in the long run.
MGM Targets Deluxe Plate Rack
The other target I shoot a lot with both rifle, pistol, and slugs are the three MGM Targets B/C zone is a full size Ipsc silhouette minus the outer D zone. The cool part about the MGM C Zone target is the bracket that it hangs on. The bracket makes the target hang backwards at the bottom at a 30 degree angle. That cause the splatter to go downward. So you can shoot these up close with a .223. All AR500 will get little dimples from rifle rounds at close range but it's just minor surface damage. It won't cause richouttes like a big dimple in a non AR500 plate will.
MGM Targets B/C Zone
If I was just starting out I'd buy 1-3 C zones, a deluxe plate rack and as many 5-6" round/square plates as I could afford.
I don't have a lot of drills I use to practice. I mostly work on the fundamentals of marksmanship with pistol draws, gun pickups, reloads while shooting the targets. I will work on shooting into and out of a position/box too. When I started out I shot as many local club match 3-gun, USPSA, shotgun, steel challenge and IDPA matches as I could to simulate match stress and target presentations. Nothing in practice can fully simulate the once and you're done pressure you get in a match when the timer goes off.
Holler at me if you have any more questions.