Duo fashions targets for police and military training, shooting ranges
By Siv Schwink
Monday May 11, 2009
Siv Schwink, for The News-Gazette
Dean Rothermel watches as Steve Smith welds a target frame for a cutout produced by Rack Systems.
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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