Armoured panel ID.

[mrclark303]

That matrix lying there should have been up front of the sloping backstop to hold target frames originally. The steel plate I can't imagine, there shouldn't be anything in there but sand to catch bullets. Anything hard negated the absorbing quality of sand and causes ricochets. If it were armor, it would definitely do that...maybe it was just disposed there at wars end because no one cared? Then someone resurrected the SA 25 yd range...

First cleaning in 75 years...range control will be doing fits... The salvage must have been enormous.

Hi Jim, the range was abandoned for years following WW2 and came back into use by my local club in the late 1960's.

My Father-in-law organised Home Office approval at the time and the way the system works, providing it remains in use, or no complaints are recorded, it just carries on without inspection.

It's up to the range occupies to keep it safe.

Even today, it's only occasionally used, so not 'masses' of lead.