Targets

[TDB9901]

I have the luxury of having my own 150 yd. range in my pasture, but we use steel railroad tie plates with a base welded on, and sat on top of posts, at 100 and 150 yds. for reactive targets. Durable, and cheap.

Don't try this too close though, a couple of years ago, I had a large fragment of a .40 splatter back and knock a really big hole in my ear muff from 15 or so. That gets your attention in a hurry.

Someone was watching out for this old fool that day!!!!!!!!

Tom

[BudRow]

I am with "eveready" - I buy the cheapest 9" paper plates, the kind that are not grease resistant. Then with Kiwi black liquid shoe polish, I center a dot. The applicator is a circular foam rubber arrangment that if wetted just right, leaves a nice bullseye with just a dab. Kinda like a Bingo dabber. I have reduced the diameter of the applicator to 3/4" for my purposes. It serves me well for my informal plinking & testing and I have a filing cabinet full of experiemental loadings both good & bad. I can review my notes that I have made on the target and go from there. Paper plates are cheap and easily filed.
Best Wishes, Bud

[Wayne Smith]

Only one other point. I print computer targets on old company letterhead. It's a touch heavier than normal paper, holds up better, and doesn't tear.

Thanks for the Palma site, Felix.

[RayinNH]

Generally it's not cost effective to print targets with an inkjet printer. However when the color cartridge no longer produces true colors, I usually let it print pistol targets in whatever color ink is left...Ray

[BruceB]

(Ahem)

That "Wheel of Woe" posted by 45nut, is, believe it or not, one of the very few elusive and VERY rare RIGHT-HANDED TARGETS!!! Discrimination against Leftys reaches new heights (or is it "lows"???)

Actually, if one uses the 'proper' (left) hand for his steenking peestolas, just reverse everything on the circle. Jerks go low right, etc etc. The errors demonstrated are most obvious when using the pure Bullseye technique, with only one hand on the gun, but even though the errors may be less obvious with two-hand shooting, the direction of the errors still apply as illustrated by the Wheel.

[Dale53]

I don't really like to shoot paper other than "real" target paper (common paper often tears badly, etc). I have long used the oven "trick" to make the paper behave better when shooting. I live in town and shoot my air rifle in the back yard (large, suitable backstop). I can buy 10 meter targets that work quite well. However, 10 meter silhouette targets are not readily available to me. So, I took regular 50' .22 rimfire silhouette targets and downsized on a local copier. If you go to an Office Supply (shop for price) and buy a quantity at once, you can get them done quite reasonably.

Our local gun club has "target backers" of proper material. For those who don't shoot competitively, they are plain, target paper sheets that are hung behind tagets to check for crossfires during tournaments. At any rate, using one of these sheets, you can put "price stickers" in bright orange (available in bulk from your local office supply store [Office Depot, Staples, etc). The self stick Stickers are available in a variety of shapes and sizes for modest amounts of ready cash. You can put LOTS on a big backer and shoot off the bench to your hearts content.

The stickers are also quite nice to place on conventional pistol targets to change the point of impact for a fixed sighted handgun (if it shoots 4" high, just put a sticker on the target 4" low). The same works for windage. I know, I know, it's tacky, BUT FELLERS, IT WORKS!!

Dale53

[Gunload Master]

Yea I can add that one Ken.

[RayinNH]

Dale, I also use the little stickers as target hole patches. The're less expensive than target pasters. I use the 3/4" round, in white, black and orange. The orange for the occasional orange bullseye, and as a highlight for the center of the black bull...Ray

[buck1]

old file folders, india ink, and a shoe polish dobber will quickly and cheeply mass produce quality targets.

[hydraulic]

I had to go look at my targets and found out they are the TQ-4 that Buckshot uses. I bought a bale of them back in the 70's and still have half of them left. There must have been 500. I use 3/4 " masking tape for stickers, and stick them on the back of the target. I get so much masking tape on them, over several shooting seasons, the wife yells at me to quit being so cheap and get a new target. I usually shoot 20 rds and then count the score and figure my percentage. The DCM used to rate marksman at 70 %, sharpshooter at 80%, and expert at 85%. I usually score in the mid 70's.

[Frank46]

Iuse the tq-4 target at 100yds for general shooting or sighting in. Sometimes I also use the repair centers for the hi-power targets. Got a deal on them ten years ago and still have a bunch. For pistol or revolver shooting pie plates with the stick em on orange centers works for me. A buddy also used newspaper print end rolls
that he gets from the local newspaper for about a buck a roll. He uses the shoe polish that comes in the applicator bottles for his bullseye.

[Dale53]

There is another real possibility for cheap, er-r-r, I mean INEXPENSIVE targets. Sinclair International sells a rubber stamp in various sizes that reproduces the bench rest target. I use the two hundred yard one at 100 with lower powered scopes and it works just fine for the purpose. Get a roller ball of red ink (you can see the shots in the black easier) and a stamp pad to go along with the rubber stamp and you're in business for an unlimited number of targets. They also have a number of targets that you will find quite useful.

http://www.sinclairintl.com/cgi-bin/...TTA&type=store

I might mention here, that the people at Sinclair are very nice to deal with and each and every one of the people that work there are shooters.

Dale53

[waksupi]

I take my favorite targets to the print shop. Around 8 cents each. $8.00/100 ain't too bad for targets.

[btr-cj]

About 10 years ago I stopped at a local rubber stamp company to see about getting a rubber stamp of a target made.

After explaining to the guy behind the counter what I wanted he went to the back and returned with a rubber stamp of a “10 ring”. He asked if this was close to what I wanted.

He let me have it for about $5. I am still on my first bottle of ink.

I usually stamp 5 rings per 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.

I use it for pistol and short range rifle.

One day I need to get a bigger one made.

C.J.

[STP]

12 inch paper plates work well out at 100/200yds. Two staples at 12 and 6 o`clock pretty much eliminates the chance of shooting them off the backer. Besides, I like to see if the boolits show signs of tipping out yonder. The thicker paper plates (as compared to "standard" target paper) tends to show a good imprint, be it with or without traces of remaining boolit lube.

[fatnhappy]

I print my own, pdf's are available all over the internet, and I have a fleet of these at my disposal.

http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/igen/iGen.jsp

[longhorn]

It's cost effective to use someone else's inkjet printer, and more fun than stealing paperclips. Longhorn, while whistling tunelessley and glancing skyward......

[DeanoBeanCounter]

Hi

Here is some sights I have found on the internet. Or just do a search on Google, type in free targets or targets and you'll have more than you know what to do with.

http://www.koniaris.com/archery/targets/
http://www.6mmbr.com/targets.html
http://www.targetz.com/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...ler/page3.html
http://www.tnoutdoorsmen.com/targets.htm
http://www.protargets.com/targets/index2.htm
http://www.glockfaq.com/targets.htm
http://www.mytargets.com/
http://www.fortliberty.org/military-...-targets.shtml
http://www.varmintal.com/atarg.htm
http://www.gamecalls.net/free_stuff/...e_targets.html

However, I do like the idea of just buying a bunch at a good price and then not worry about printing any for a while.

[trk]

Here is my target frame. I hang 18x18 squares of cardborad on it (with handi-wire 2 at the top, one at the bottom to control it moving in the wind).

The stainless disk is hung with two wires. 0.100" thick it gets dented with .22's and torn up with .30 cal. If hit with .375 or .444 it flips the whole frame over.

On the cardboards I simply stick a 1-1/2" white label (rejects from work: free). That works well at 25 and 50 yards with iron sights and well with scopes at 100 yards.

Swinging target or paper plates at 100 yards are good for standing position.

Target Frame:

(made from scrap reinforcements that came free around pallets of materials at work).

[rigmarol]

I know a guy that takes a large fender washer and a thick black magic marker and just traces the outside and colors in the inside and he's all set. I keep meaning to try it but always forget.