Reactive Steel Target Basic Safety Rules and Precautions
The use or steel targets may result in serious personal injury or death
Caution! Failure to read and understand these instructions prior to the use of this product greatly increased the risk of injury to persons and property. You should read and fully understand the following instructions before any attempt to use this product in any manner.
These products are intended for a specific use as part of an inherently dangerous activity. These
products must be used in the intended manner only and in direct
compliance and accord with the enclosed instructions. Even so, injury
may occur. Due to the inherently
dangerous nature of the activity, no warranty of these products is
given other than they will perform as designed in their intended use. Any alteration of these products or their use shall void all warranties expressed or implied. Other
than the foregoing, there are no warranties or guaranties given nor any
liability assumed by the manufacturer in the use of these products. All risk of injury is assumed by and shall pass to the purchaser of these products other than those items specifically stated.
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Always wear ANSI approved safety glasses with side shields to protect the eyes.
Always wear shooting rated hearing protection to protect the hearing.
Always wear a baseball type hat with the brim down snugly against the
top of your shooting glasses. This protects the forehead and top of head
from lead and jacket particles and from hot ejected brass flying about the air.
Strongly recommended for all shooters and
people on ranges where steel targets are used; long sleeved shirts and long
pants to reduce the potential of injury from lead and jacket splash-back.
Bullets, after hitting steel targets, create a "splash cone" of lead and
jacketed particles that can travel greater than 20 yards for handguns and
greater than 75 yards for rifles. This "splash zone" can reach up to a 25-degree cone angle in a 360-degree direction
from the surface face of the impacted steel target.
Highly recommended is the exclusive use of
frangible ammunition when shooting at any steel target. The use of frangible ammunition will reduce
these potential injury-causing particles substantially. Contact your ammunition distributor / dealer
for additional information on frangible ammunition availability and its use.
If using non-frangible ammunition, use only quality duty / service type
handgun ammunition with a maximum muzzle velocity of 1,500 FPS. Rifle ammunition muzzle velocity should not
exceed 3,200 FPS.
Never shoot Armor Piercing (AP), steel or hardened type ammunition at
any steel plate!
Use shotgun lead birdshot and buckshot ammunition only on steel
targets.
No Shotgun Slugs! (ie: Foster or Sabot design)
Recommended minimum
distance from the shooter:
Rotator: 8 yds. for handguns; 15 yd. for shotguns. Urban Rifle Target: 75 yds.
Spectators stand 10 yards directly behind the shooter.
Use only on a properly constructed firing range with adequate backstop
height (minimum 25 feet) and adequate downrange safety area (minimum 500
yards).
Locate the steel target as close
to the range backstop (approx. 10 feet or closer) as possible, as this will
assist in reducing the downrange ricochet effect and distance.
Discontinue the use of any steel target at close range (less than 75 yards)
that has surface craters caused by wear or improper ammunition use on the
target's impact area. The target's
impact surface must be smooth and flat to safely use at less than 75 yards.
Never shoot hardened or Armor Piercing (AP), steel or hardened type
ammunition at any steel target!
Never shoot any type of shotgun slugs at any steel target! Serious personal injury or death can result.
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