Firing target for firearms shooting training
a firing target and firearms technology, applied in the direction of movable targets, bullet catchers, weapons, etc., can solve the problems of not being able to effectively capture and trap bullets fired by handguns or long guns, affecting the safety of shooters, and targets posing a significant risk to shooters, so as to achieve the effect of improving the firing target for firearms shooting training
Inactive Publication Date: 2021-07-08
SWISS DEFENSE SOLUTIONS SARL
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The present invention aims to improve firing targets for firearms shooting training. Specifically, it seeks to provide a target that offers optimum protection to the shooters. Additionally, it aims to reduce the environmental impact of the target and facilitate the treatment of waste resulting from shooting training. This includes the recovery and possible recycling of bullets, bullet fragments, and other bullet residues.
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These solutions are not however sufficient to effectively capture and trap bullets fired by a handgun or a long gun, in particular when firing at short distance, or even very short distance.
In particular, these targets pose a significant risk of injury to the shooter due to possible fragments generated on impact of the bullets and / or possible ricochets, in particular in case of poorly aimed shots.
These firing targets therefore do not provide satisfactory protection from the point of view of the safety of the shooters, and are therefore essentially used for distance shooting that badly or poorly reflects real conditions of engagement of firearms by police or security forces for example.
These known targets also pose problems from an ecological point of view in that the bullets and bullet fragments are not effectively trapped by the target, and even less collected in the target itself, and are therefore liable to end their travel in the environment of the target, which necessitates specific and potentially costly treatment of the waste occasioned by repeated shots.
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[0056]Various aspects of the present invention will be described with reference to various preferred embodiments as illustrated in particular by FIGS. 1 to 11.
[0057]FIG. 1 shows a general perspective view of a preferred embodiment of a firing target for firearms shooting training in accordance with the present invention, which target is designated globally by reference numeral 1. This target 1 consists of various elements only some of which can be seen in FIG. 1, comprising a protective screen 50 disposed on a front portion of the target 1 substantially facing the shooter(s) and thus on the trajectory of incident bullets fired in the direction of the target 1.
[0058]As will be seen hereinafter, the protective screen 50 is placed in front of a bullet collecting casing as well as a lattice structure housed inside said bullet collecting casing, which elements are not directly visible in FIG. 1 as they are preferably covered by a trim 51-56 comprising a plurality of trim elements 51, 52A...
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A firing target for firearms shooting training including a bullet collecting casing having a lattice structure disposed inside the bullet collecting casing in front of a rear wall thereof, which lattice structure is designed to dissipate kinetic energy of incident bullets and includes at least a first series of deflecting plates designed to deflect the trajectory of the incident bullets, with the first series of deflecting plates arranged according to a first inclined plane relative to the rear wall. The firing target further includes a protective screen placed in front of the lattice structure of the bullet collecting casing, on the trajectory of the incident bullets, and designed to halt any bullet fragments. The lattice structure includes at least a second series of deflecting plates arranged according to a second inclined plane relative to the rear wall and arranged between the first series of deflecting plates and the rear wall.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a U.S. national stage filing of International Patent Application No. PCT / IB2019 / 054399 filed May 28, 2019, which claims priority to European Application No. 18174510.0, European Application No. 18174515.9, European Application No. 18174516.7 and European Application No. 18174518.3, each filed May 28, 2018, the contents of each application hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention generally relates to a firing target for firearms shooting training.TECHNOLOGICAL BACKGROUND[0003]Firing targets for firearms shooting training that are adapted to at least partly capture or trap bullets, bullet fragments and other bullet residues after impact are known in the art. Such targets are described in particular in publications DE 93 21 164 U1, DE 43 17 742 A1, DE 20 2004 005 719 U1, WO 2009 / 035401 A2, US 2016 / 0116260 A1 and US 2017 / 0248393 A1.[0004]These solutions are not however s...
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CPCF41J13/02F41J7/00F41J1/10
InventorTENDON, PASCALKOERFER, JACQUESSENATO, GÉDALE
OwnerSWISS DEFENSE SOLUTIONS SARL