Never saw a target like this before

[chboats]

I have never seen a target like this before where you can see the rifling so clearly. I was shooting off hand at 25 yds with a 44SBH with Lyman 429244s over 20 gr of 2400. It looks like ridges left by the rifling groves were sharp enouch to, in some places, scrape off the black ink but not cut the paper.

Carl

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu158/chboats/G%20stuff/44target002.jpg

[SharpsShooter]

Obviously, the paper is swageing your boolits down. Good thing it was a 44 or you might have been injured by a ricochet.[smilie=1:



SS

[Echo]

Wow. Well, that is interesting...

[Blammer]

sharpshooter! That was too funny!

[chboats]

sharpshooter - You may be right. Would a harder boolit help this problem?

Carl

[montana_charlie]

Another strange thing about that target...the highest you can score on it is 6.
If you hit closer to the center, you only get 01.

CM

[Guesser]

Charlie; thats because you are on the front range, if you were on the west side, it would merely be upside down!!!!!!!!

[Tom W.]

Now I'll have to check my next targets, just to see......

[GeneT]

I've seen that before, and in my experience it is most closely related to the material behind the target. If you have a smooth piece of stiff board you get prints like these. If you have an old board with a thousand staples in it, it'll never happen. We had some short-lived fiber-board you could put tacks into that did this, but it didn't stand up to use.

GsT

[Thecyberguy]

Cool!
That is not a 01....it is a 10....shooting upside down in a mirror.....!
That is cool marking though.
Have a good 'un, thecyberguy

[chboats]

NO you guy have got it all wrong!! There is no trick shooting involved. montana charlie has it right. I post my targets this way when my wife goes with me. Since I shoot rings around her (I shoot the rings and she shoots the center) I always get a higher score than she does. It's the only I can beat her.

Carl

[montana_charlie]

Charlie; thats because you are on the front range, if you were on the west side, it would merely be upside down!!!!!!!!
Sounds like something a Californian would tell me. Do you get a lot of them sneaking in over the Canadian line?
CM

[Guesser]

Nah!! they bleed across on Hiway 2 from Kalispell and Hiway 200 from Missoula and a few make it this far north from Bozeman if the govmint pays their way.

[wistlepig1]

Swaging paper? Did I miss that post and where do you buy it??:bigsmyl2:

[Bob Krack]

If'n ya had used some of Waksupi's loob grooves, it woulda smoothed those ragged edges right out!

[jsizemore]

I think those are targets for the southern hemisphere shot with wallaby balls.

[hammerhead357]

Owwww poor wallaby!!!!!!

[EOD3]

Maybe you should put a sheet of aluminum up there for a backer and make gas checks as you shoot.