Target Ideas needed for 50 yard shooting

[healey55]

I have to agree with 44 man on the 3D thing. I never shot at ranges much until lately and am not thrilled with my groups. I find it is hard to hit a 3" bull at 25 yard but if I see a stick on the berm that is an inch or so I can break it into splinters with a shot or two.

I don't know why that is but it just is.

[35remington]

I will third the idea of the inverted T.

The horizontal crossbar gives a positive index of elevation, and the vertical crossbar allows you to center the slghts correctly. Since front/rear sight alignment is so critical with iron sights this configuration gives you the best confirmation that things are as they should be before you pull the trigger.

[bbailey7821]

Upside down T, with 3 inch wide lines. Works well on my 10 inch bbl SBH.

[markinalpine]

Print your own

Here are a few websites with PDF files for downloading, or with links to more target sites, or both:
http://www.targetz.com/
http://www.varmintal.com/atarg.htm
http://www.protargets.com/targets/index2.htm
http://www.mytargets.com/
http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/max357/targets.html

Mark

[BD]

As I get older the thing I find that helps with any iron sights at ranges over 25 yards is to take a roller and some white paint and put a fresh coat of white primer on the backer board, then staple up black targets, whether they are dots, circles or t's. I paint right over whatever is there. I spent a lot of time shooting at large black dots over the years. And, I can generally still hit them if I can see them. Unfortunately with my eyes these days an 8" black circle @ 200 yards can easily get lost in the background clutter and shade if it's not on a fresh white background.

The other thing I do is bring a can of safety orange spray paint for the gongs at 200 and 300.

BD

[Mk42gunner]

I like to use black target pasters on a sheet of typing paper. One works well at 25 yards for iron sights, or at 100 yards for scope use. At 50 yards I put two side by side.

Whatever you shoot at, you need to be able to clearly define a spot to put your front sight, then focus on the front sight.

Robert