Duo fashions targets for police and military training, shooting ranges

BROADLANDS – In his home-based shop, you might find Steve Smith or his partner Dean Rothermel burning a chicken silhouette from 5/8-inch ballistic armor plate. As co-owners of a Broadlands-based shooting-target company called Rack Systems, the two childhood friends have been producing hand-machined, reactive steel targets since 2001.

Rack Systems has supplied specialty targets to police training academies, several federal agencies, prisons, the security departments of community colleges and rail transport companies – and occasionally to the public for personal sport-shooting range.

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