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<blockquote data-quote="cowboy" data-source="post: 1104463" data-attributes="member: 8833"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">[I've hung a steel plate with two 2 foot chains from a swing set like contraption that I built, the plate is 24 inches in diameter, 5/8 inch thick, and weighs 120 lbs.] Quote</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">You might consider adding 2 more chains to the bottom side of your plate and fastening them with chain so that your plate has a downward and back angle to it so that the bullets would be deflected in a downward trajectory upon impact. It shouldn't take too much of an angle to accomplish this - experiment and adjust the length of your lower chains accordingly.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowboy, post: 1104463, member: 8833"] [FONT=Tahoma][I’ve hung a steel plate with two 2 foot chains from a swing set like contraption that I built, the plate is 24 inches in diameter, 5/8 inch thick, and weighs 120 lbs.] Quote[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]You might consider adding 2 more chains to the bottom side of your plate and fastening them with chain so that your plate has a downward and back angle to it so that the bullets would be deflected in a downward trajectory upon impact. It shouldn't take too much of an angle to accomplish this - experiment and adjust the length of your lower chains accordingly.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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