Caldwell Rimfire Resetting and Swinging Target Kits with Steel Frame, for Shooting Practice, Outdoors

This is a great little target for the .22lr gun or an air pistol. The air rife (CO2 in my case does not move the top target but the plink is obvious). Its perfect for the .22lr rifle and so much easier than cans that have to be set back up. Its small, but this is a great advantage if you can shoot in your back yard as long as you control where your bullets are going. By aiming down at it, your bullets go into the ground beyond it. This makes it better than sticking a target on a tree where a miss will go into who knows where. The plink and movement is satisfying too. I did not bother with the stickers. This means it is harder to see (particularly in aligning with the front sight on my Crossman, much easier on the iron site on the 22 rifle). I did not care if the stickers were on there but this does make the targets a bit harder to see is all. The shots do remove the black paint (rust would be something to watch for) , but who cares if the target is marred - its a target and I'm shooting at it. Lead projectiles tend to damage what they hit so the fact it simply makes a ding in the target is not really that big of a deal (clearly it would affect the stickers put on there so there should be no surprise or even reason to mention that the bullet or pellet is going to affect the target). It definitely stands up to .22lr and works just as it should. In fact, I had a bigger "dent" from the CO2 fired pellet than the .22lr (40gr). More than worth the money. It works well with air rifles but will ricochet more (cannot cause the top target to spin) so common sense is necessary. Its very steady for me. Do not see it being flimsy at all. Mine looked and worked exactly as pictured (sans the stickers I saw no point in putting on there).

This is a great little reactive target for Center Fire handguns. I have shot it with 9mm, 38 special & .45 ACP at reasonably short distances and it has held up very well. Lots of bullet splatter marks after two range trips, but little or no pitting and absolutely no deforming of the plates, and I was shooting it with jacketed target rounds at much closer then recommended distances. Obviously the paint will only hold up to a certain amount of bullet abuse, but that's what spray paint is for. It spins very actively when hit with center-fire rounds. The top target is small enough to be a challenge to hit at ranges appropriate to the firearm your using. It is not designed for rim fire rounds, and it will NOT flip when shot with a .22LR. However, it will still react, rocking visibly if hit with .22 ammo. I actually prefer shooting this spinner with my .22 over the actual .22 spinner I have, mostly because it is sturdier (the one designed for .22 has a cheesy stand which means it falls over quite often and has to be re-set up). Even though it does not spin violently, that means it stabilizes more quickly which makes quick followup shots possible. It's good for drills doing double taps, or triple taps (Mozambique drills) with cheap .22 ammo. Although not as "effective" for training as regulation sized paper targets, it is more fun to drill with then paper. I found on my last range trip that an additional fun exercise with .22LR is to hit either paddle so it starts to swing, then time your successive shots while the paddle is swinging away to increase its momentum, (either on the same paddle, or for more challenge, alternating paddles). This requires fast reacquisition of the moving target as it will not swing for very long when hit with a .22LR. Good shooting will cause the paddle to flip over completely (once) with a few well timed shots. The faster you get off a well aimed shot, the fewer shots it will take. Please note (as can be seen in the picture) that this has no real stand, only two legs, so it MUST be pushed into firm (but not rock hard) dirt. I have found it drives into my local range's dirt fairly easily (especially as it is built strong enough for me to stand on the cross bar to push it down, and it has stood straight without falling over when shot every time (which is more then I can say for most of my other reactive steel targets). However, your mileage will obviously vary depending on the consistency of the ground in your range area. Very hard dirt may prevent it's being seated deeply enough to take the punch from center-fire rounds, and very soft dirt may give enough that the target will fall over. This target is definitely NOT designed for center fire rifle rounds, and I would not shoot it with a rifle. It would probably hold up to rifles shooting pistol rounds such as .22LR or 38 special and even then I would set it further away then I do for pistol. That said, I have not done this so I have no actual experience as to how it holds up in this case. If you want to shoot steel with regular center-fire rifle rounds, you are probably better off with AR500 or AR550 steel gongs, and you really need to be working at long ranges (75+ yards) with properly angled steel plates to minimize bounce back. In other words, do your homework. While the plates do "give" as the unit starts to spin, generally enough to direct any bounce back down into the dirt, I did catch a .38 special jacket "return to sender" full in the chest, which is one reason they say to use soft point (lead) rounds on steel. (I WAS aware of this danger and was wearing full protective gear including heavy clothing, so no harm, no foul). As in shooting all steel, you should be extra careful when shooting this target. Make sure you and all spectators are wearing safety glasses and full cover clothing, most especially if you're shooting closer then the recommended 75 feet. As other reviewers have noted, packaging was horrible. My product came with the box open and mutilated and the product half hanging out of the box on delivery, mostly because it is shipped in it's product (store shelf) single layer cardboard box with no mailing "over box". This means the posts you drive into the dirt punch easily through the cardboard and out the box. Any paperwork (instructions, etc.) and the advertised stick on bulls eyes were missing from my package. However, Despite the horrible packaging I have not removed a star because: 1. It's a piece of steel, which is meant to be shot, there isn't that much you can do to it during shipping (or otherwise) that would hurt it, and despite the mutilated box, the product made it to me in totally undamaged condition. 2. The stupid stick on bulls eyes always pop off with one or two shots, so I wouldn't have bothered to put them on anyway. They would have gone in my range bag with the rest of my paper targets, no great loss. 3. It's a target... If you can't figure out how to use it, you shouldn't be playing with guns in the first place. Most of the "instructions" that come with these targets are dire warnings included (for good reason) by the firm's lawyers to reduce lawsuits. Shooting steel is a whole lot of fun, but if you have never done it before, do your homework and learn how to do it safely and not get hurt, which means more then just reading the warning pamphlet which would be included in the box. Bottom line, a fun target for center-fire handguns (at least up up to .45ACP) as well as being a very satisfactory .22LR target (with properly adjusted expectations), at a reasonable price, slightly marred by poor shipping practices. Not for center fire rifles.

I'm a long-time shooter, and my girlfriend wanted to get into shooting now that we're out in the country. So, out comes the Marlin Model 60 and we had a great time plinking cans -- she was hooked! ... and "hooked" means running to the targets every few mags and re-positioning whatever we were shooting at. Not a huge deal, but it's much nicer when you don't have to trek to the target much. I grabbed the Caldwell rimfire target and it's been the perfect solution. There's ONE negative -- the bottom targets don't cleanly stick in the 'up' position and wait for you to hit the top bull. We found that one or two swing up and then fall back down on the third or fourth hit. Does it really matter that we aren't going 1-2-3-4 right to left and then re-setting it with the top bull? Nope. What matters to us is that we know we hit a target and that we don't have to walk up all the time and reset it. It's very nice to focus on the shooting and enjoyment and not make runs down the range. I picked up a can of bright orange spray paint for $3 at Home Depot to use on this because as other reviewers have said, the stickers do wear off (they *are* being hit with bullets). A quick blast with the paint and it's highly visible. We're pretty happy with this target for under $20.

Just got this target setup today, and so far I have shot about 50 .177 pellets at it. The directions indicate that you be a minimum of 75ft away from this target for safety reasons. Well, if I put this 75 feet away, I won't even be able to see it! These are small metal targets. Maybe the size of a fifty cent piece. I'm using iron sights for target practice and it would be pretty funny to even try it at that distance. I'm sitting around 45 ft and I'm able to hit them, but not with enough force to spin them. I have an old Crosman 2100 pump that I only pump up 3-4 times, so I'm not trying to put out a lot of force. I think this would work very well with a scoped .22 at the 25 yard recommended distance. If you are hitting them at that distance with those size targets, you are a very skilled marksman! Good product. ### Update ### Okay, evidently I am an idiot. I had the target set up facing the wrong way. Yup, not going to flip the targets that way! So, once I turned it around it works very well. At 45 feet you still need to hit them dead on to make them flip, but that is more of a marksmen issue than a product one. These are still very small targets to hit, and I don't know if I will even get to the 75ft recommended range, but I will be happy with the closer range as well. Very nice product.

This little thing is indecently fun with .22LR ammunition. It is NOT for centerfire ammo of any kind. Easy to set up, looks to be durable when used with a rimfire cartridge. On mine, all 4 don't stay up at the same time often (hitting the far right one tends to knock the far left one down, and vice versa), but that just means you still have things to shoot at. .If all 4 do stay up, the reset target works fine. 40 grain 140 ft*lb soft lead round nose .22LR flip these every time at 50 yards. Nice little toy for the range;. When you set it up, the movable legs come towards the front, aiming at the shooter, so that the target is leaning towards you. If done this way, it will not fall over on a hit and the spinners have a good chance of staying up on the catch bar for the reset function. One last thing. Don't bother with the stickers, they'll come off after a few hits. Get some fluorescent paint in the color of your choice for the target spots and shoot away.

it works pretty well if the target is closer. Otherwise each pendulum will sound off with a "Tinging" and will move depending on the amount of force it's hit with. I gave it a three star because it is a bit poorly designed. A better design would have included longer posts that could be pushed into soil deeper to hold the target securely in place and instructions with precise illustrations would have indicated which side of the target is considered the face. But, just as the photo shown on Amazon's page, that is the way it should be set up.....it leans forward toward toward shooter, otherwise it WILL NOT function as a resetting target. I have contemplated mounting this target to a 2 or 3 ft square piece of plywood to hold firmly, then relocating this target down range much further and hoping not damaging it while using as a .22 long rifle caliber target. It is worth the money spent and does indeed provide a good target for pellet and BB guns. Personally I don't care whether the pendulums swing up and lock out of sight anyway. Hearing the sound and seeing it swing is enough satisfaction.

Works like it should. Withstood at least one shot from an S & P 40 caliber.

Great fun.