Shooting Steel Targets

For Casual shooters like myself, sometimes I hate to sit and just shoot at paper all the time. Its not enough for me to simply have a nice grouping on paper,  I also hate needing a spotter to see if I even hit or not!! I think my most fulfilling shooting is at steel plates, More so because I care about hits. I mean cool groupings on paper are good if thats your thing. As for me I love that sweet PING that echo's accross the desert when you land a glancing shot at 100+ yards with Mosin or something else equally powerful.

One thing to note:
Make sure that the steel you use is acceptable for the cartridges you will be shooting at it. we mostly use junk steel and this results in cratering and ricochets at closer range. So don't be a dummy If you are going to buy steel to shoot at make sure you pick targets from a reputable dealer and that you get steel rated for what you will shoot at it.

Junk steel is no good for anything more powerful than .45acp. we have had too many incidents with rifles and .454 casull at distance shorter than 75 yards. whats also worse is that these targets at 12" circles that are 1" thick, and most of them have some pretty massive craters from the .454 alone xD.

at 50 yards you can hear 7.62x54r ricocheting overhead so after about 5 rounds we decided It we should stop while we were ahead.

If I don't convince you take a listen to hickok: