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Originally Posted by Adrian
AR-500 is extreme overkill for handguns.
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I have to disagree, based on real world experience.
The range where I usually shoot has a plate rack that was made by the father of one of the regulars. The plates were some sort of not-so-special (as in not ballistic rated) steel, either 3/4-inch or 1-inch thick. The range doesn't allow rifles (older, indoor range -- rifles would punch right through the backstop plate), so the plate rack never saw anything but handgun ammo -- mostly .45 ACP and 9mm.
The plates became
heavily cratered. So much so that one of the guys was wounded by ricochet fragments when shooting the plates one evening, and had to be taken to the emergency room to be sewn up. After that, the range owner went to a specialty vendor and had new, 1/2-inch plates made up from AR-500 steel.
Much better. No more craters.