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Targets from your printer
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I have used some of these links in the past, but thank you for posting a much larger list than I have found on my own. I reload and cast to save money to enjoy shooting and paying for targets just goes against that!
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Thanks for the list! I also have used some of the links above but there are quite a few different ones here I'd like to try! I'm definitely subbing to this thread!
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Yeah...Thanks a heap....these are great links. I only had 3 of them before
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WOW never seen a Koala that ugly before,
Butt you never know whats out in the bush.
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These targets are hosted here at Cast Boolits on the server.
Notes:
1. All are setup to print on 11" x 17" USA Ledger Paper. The file is a zip file that contains over 20 targets. Click the link to download the zip file.
2. All are gridded to 1" or less squares
3. Some are pistol, some are rifle. Rifle targets size at MOA out to 600 yards (6")
4. There are targets for open sights, scopes, or designs that favor V notch or peep sights.
Link:
11 x 17 Pdf targets
(broken link fixed 04/25/2018)
A really good cheap way to store a large batch of these is to use a medium FedEx box and put a piece of velcro on the end flap to keep it closed. Cheap, cheap, cheap. More money for ammo.:-D
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this list is way more bigger than the ones i have used ,tanks
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Pretty neat!! But I'm too cheap with my printer ink. Outdoors I shoot at Ritz crackers, you can eat em too, and there's nothing to pick up, the birds get it.
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wallenba
Pretty neat!! But I'm too cheap with my printer ink. Outdoors I shoot at Ritz crackers, you can eat em too, and there's nothing to pick up, the birds get it.
Can you think of anything cheap that I can use with a shotgun? I thought about rice cakes, but they cost too much. Stale beer is fun, butt costs too much also. I thought about baggies of flour.
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Use your empty cans... If you drink Pop or Beer in cans, fill them with water, then hang them from the pull tab on a string from a nail on on your target back stop...
Don't forget to return them after your done for your $.05 deposit...
Word of advice? DON'T SHOOT GLASS CONTAINERS! Unless you intend to clean the broken glass... I can think of no better way to tick off a land owner than to leave a shot up mess behind.
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Marlin Hunter
Can you think of anything cheap that I can use with a shotgun? I thought about rice cakes, but they cost too much. Stale beer is fun, butt costs too much also. I thought about baggies of flour.
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http://gunloads.com/
List of targets on the LH column !
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I found another site with some good targets
http://www.6mmbr.com/targets.html
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Let's see. I take my $500.00 -$2,000 revolver to the range with my $40.00 a box ammo (scratch that, we are bullet casters here) and often pay more to print targets in ink costs than buying them from the range at a nickle to a dime a piece? I just wanted to get the economics straight in my mind. Oh, and the print paper we use makes a TERRIBLE target, not nearly so good as real Tagboard that they make targets from to make nice holes.
I DO like some of the novelty targets but for my normal shooting I prefer tagboard targets. My local club keeps a large supply of targets for the various shooting disciplines on hand for members and their guests.
However, there is a way to economize that I have used in the past. Our small bore target frames for registered matches require target backers (to eliminate crossfires and make sure the correct number of shots are fired). These are blank paper but made of the same tagboard that targets are made from. I have taken them, and using a rubber stamp put a large number of bench rest targets on that one sheet. It allows LOTS of shots from a bench gun and it's great to practice with. Not only is it inexpensive, you can have a lot of targets on one sheet and don't have to change targets near as much. Now, THAT, I'll go along with.
These comments are NOT meant to "Poo-Poo" the idea of printing your own but you do need to factor actual costs (printer ink is not free and targets typcially use a LOT) and the paper is not very good for the purpose.
FWIW
Dale53 (heading for the bomb shelter:mrgreen:)
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+1 on what Dale53 said! Ink cost more than the printer!
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when everyone was talking about the high price of gasoline I saw something that compared the cost of other liquids to gasoline. Printers ink was out of sight on cost.
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...and everyone makes fun of my paper and marker pen targets. [smilie=1:
Joe
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Starmetal---One advantage of the paper and marker method is you can add the marks after you shoot the target. Keeps your group centered better.
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i dont see what the big deal is about target everone i seen posted had a bullseye and a nice group off to the side nothing in the center. I go to the range and shoot the targets outhers have left behind most dont have holes in the center or they us a smaller cal. Heck yea iam a cheap skate thats why I reload. But a warning to all turning a condom inside out to use it again dont work now I got two boys that were not planned lol.
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Interesting... I print my targets on my black and white laser printer...
When I print targets... I'll print no more than five.
However when I know I'm going to want a lot of them, for example the good old bull's eye targets, I print one, then take it to work and run off 50 of them. for free, (to me anyway!) :redneck:
If I had to go to Kinko's...? I'd run off 100 at a time...
Just my $.02 worth, fwiw...
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I must be really cheap.
I'll take the junk mail letters, use a 3/4" washer. Fill in the center with a red marker and trace around the outside. Since we can have only 1 target (paper) on the backer. I can have 6 targets to shoot at. Save a few trips down range to change out targets.
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Reloaders Reference software has an add-in set of targets in PDF that can be printed off. If memory serves there are nearly 100 of them.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/reloadersrfrnce/
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I've used a strip of exam table paper with colored dots from Wal-Mart's office supply section as aiming points. Hard to see those with open sights, though. Paper plates with a dot in the middle work.
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targets
10 years a go I had to stay at the training range for 3 hours and watch my instructors guns and targets.For 3 hours no one came,so I shot . Ammo was $5 for 50 rounds and targets were .40.I shot $20 of 357 and $30 of 45acp. targets were to much to pay so I started to shoot flies. just put some ketchup on the backstop and wait,a very fun way to kill time.
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I shoot at 50 pound feed sacks. Built a stand that they slide down over. Most already have something printed or a picture to aim at. Roy
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hee hee!
Time and flies... ugh!
Lamer alert ----> Holy Nastiness Batman! Killing flies has got to be the best target practice ever! :groner:
Hee Hee! I just couldn't resist! :killingpc [smilie=b:
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batman
10 years a go I had to stay at the training range for 3 hours and watch my instructors guns and targets.For 3 hours no one came,so I shot . Ammo was $5 for 50 rounds and targets were .40.I shot $20 of 357 and $30 of 45acp. targets were to much to pay so I started to shoot flies. just put some ketchup on the backstop and wait,a very fun way to kill time.
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Here are some more ideas for cheap targets. I bought some colored paper and post-it-notes at Walmart. The flouresent paper has 5 different colors and the black is ...just black. The paper packs were $3.50 each. 50 pieces for black (heavy paper) and 100 (20 each color) pieces for the colored. I can't remember what the post-it-notes cost. The black pens cost $1.50 for 2 and they are for making bullseyes on the colored paper.
http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL237.../380047002.jpg
Here is some different targets. The one on the left is just plain white paper. My friends liked shooting at the black targets with their handguns. black works goo for close shots, and the flouresent colors work good for longer shots. Neither works good for sighting in. For sighting-in, some of the printer targets listed in the first post works better, especially the ones with the 1 inch square grids. The cardboard piece with a hole in the center is for drawing the bullseye. I used glue sticks to help hold the post-it-notes to the paper.
http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL237.../380047003.jpg
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I don't know what all the fuss is about printing costs...
I print mine at the office after 5 on Friday after every one else has gone for the weekend. We use 11x17 for the engineering drawings...
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I print mine on heavy computer paper that i obtained when the hospitial i worked for changed printers. The paper is thicker than greeting card paper. I obtained it(was trashed) in 1993 Still have alot left( ok i tend to hoard stuff) I use my printer .I refill the ink with refill kits( much cheaper than buying manufactors ink) There are many great sites for free targets. The variety is endless Rick
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As a court reporter, I buy cartridges for my laser printer in railroad car lots. I can print 3,000 to 3,500 pages for $70 (lawyers use up a LOT of ink). I find the black and white targets most useful. With a good piece of cardboard for backing, they serve me well.
I would not want to print the color ones, as I only have a small inkjet for color. Nothing needed in color in my job. (A good reporter has need of neither color nor imagination).
BTW, at one time someone made a rubber stamp that would print a standard 25' slow fire bullseye. Is that still available?
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Cheap white paper plates with a round price sticker in the center.
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I think I just entered targets in the search window and picked a site from there. Chose 2 targets we liked and hit print. Copied a few hundred of each. Since the range will allow 1 piece of paper on the target backer, and we have to share a lane sometimes. I taped 2 onto an 8 1/2 X 14 leger sheet and copied a few hundred of them too. But we add a bit more. We add 6 of the Birchwood Casey Shoot-N-C 3" stick-ons. That saves us a few trips down range to change targets.
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I buy those red plastic throw away plates.I take a plastic cup & cut the bottom out.
Center it on the bottom of the plate & spray white paint in the center of the
cut out cup for a bulls eye.Cheap easy & the bullets make clean holes.:redneck:
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That is a great list of souces for targets. My other half got me that CD, "Click and Shoot" for my B Day. So I been using that to make targets.
I am looking for the Ground Hog Flipping the Bird target, it is probably some where out there.
Jerry
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I usually get my targets done on 8.5x11 paper at a COSTCO business center, seems like last ones were just a couple cents each. I use them on target frames that have a backing so they hold up well until they get wet. Shamefully (somewhat) I shoot my cast bullet loads at 25 yards so most loads stay on the paper. Sometimes I'll use a newspaper page as bigger backer to then use if to adjust rear sight to put it on the 8x11 target,
Six years ago I bought a refurbished Samsung 1710 BXW laser printer for about $90 delivered as well as four refill bottlers of toner for anoither $60, a couple months ago I got a new toner cartridge good for 3000 pages for $31 delivered. I could use that to print out targets for a couple cents each total...haven't done in yet.
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Printed tasrgets
I use the printer at work.Tee He-He
shssssss!
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HI,
Used the links, printed off over a dozen I did not have. loved the dino one!
THANKS FOR THE LINKS.
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Here's a variation of a target that I got, first from this thread, I think...
I altered it slightly... I think that with the cross hairs and the wee bullseye it'll make it a bit easier to 'level' your scope, and center the reticle at 100 yds plus...
JIMinPHX didn't you post this target, first...?
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0-E...ODNmNzQ5&hl=en