Re: How to hang steel plates?
I bought 5 plates from big dog steel, nice waterjet cut ar500.
I've been going thru the process of hanging it now.
The good:
Steel fence posts, drilled at the top, eye bolt installed. Two staked into the ground and then ~5' of 1/4" chain spread between them.
The bad:
Attaching steel plates to said chain has been error prone.
With the .22lr anything pretty much worked.
Not so much with the 223.
Simple S-hooks - after a few rounds the plate bounces loose.
Wire rope, wrapped around the plate bolts then clipped to the chain - lasted 1 223 round. Both wires sheared at the bolts and plate flew.
Generic aluminum caribeaner - after a few 223 rounds the aluminum snap is cut half-way through.
Based on this thread, I see I need to go check some local FD's to see if I an get a section of trashed firehose to try.