Grizzly GT Reactive Auto Reset 220 Steel Target Review

By Chris Dumm

USA –-(Ammoland.com)- When I go shooting, I hate having to waste precious range time doing things other than shooting.

Setting up and checking my targets are some of those range-day time sucks that A) aren’t fun, and B) don’t increase my proficiency one iota. Grizzly Targets invited us to test the Grizzley GT Reactive Auto Reset 220 Steel Target.

This beefy 3/8″ self-resetting target is made of AR500 steel.

As soon as we started shooting at it, I realized that a target like this has the potential to completely transform the way I spend my range time. Durability is everything in a steel target, so we didn’t pull any punches. We tested this thing much harder than any safety guidelines — or common sense — would dictate . . .

And it passed with flying colors.

Construction
AR500 is a medium-carbon manganese steel alloy, heat treated to through-harden it to a Brinnell rating of 500. ‘AR’ stands for ‘Abrasion Resistant,’ and the hardness and toughness of this steel makes it good for armor applications. Grizzly Targets uses a 14-inch slab of galvanized 3/8″ AR500 steel for the target plate. The AR500 plate is cut with a low-temperature laser cutter, which doesn’t produce brittleness like higher-temperature plasma cutting can.

The target plate is shaped like a stylized 1/5-scale human silhouette. The ‘head’ area is 2 inches wide by 3 inches tall, and the ‘torso’ area is 4 inches wide. It also happens to be exactly the size and shape of a standing prairie dog, so it’s a perfect practice target for varmint hunters.

The target plate is attached to the base by a hinged baseplate (also of AR500) and two large Grade 8 hardened bolts. The hinge has a coil spring to keep the target upright, but it’s sprung weakly enough that its own weight will pull it down. You can tie it back with a loop of string so it will take up less room in the back of your truck.

The target plate is bolted to the hinge with large Grade 8 hardened bolts. Grizzly’s Jeremy Griffin explained to me that welds would be a weak point, which eventually crack as the target plate flexes slightly under impact. The bolts allow a little bit of (literal) wiggle room, and they’re also easily replaced if…

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