Right target?

[menacingsquirrel]

When you guys shoot, do you use the right target for what your shooting? For example, if you're shooting at 50 yards, do you use a 50 yard target? When I was a kid and went shooting with my dad, we used whatever target for the most part. I remember using 100 yard targets quite a bit for pistol. Since I moved away after college and started shooting on my own, I try to use the right target. I use the IBS targets for rifle quite a bit. Just curious.

 

[M2 Carbine]

I use these three targets for 90% of my pistol and most rifle shooting, at any distance .
I made the targets up some years ago to have most everything I wanted on one target.
A 1 inch bullseye for target shooting.
A 4x6 inch elliptical center for a small COM.
The, about 7 inch center for a large COM.
The heads for head shots.
And the silhouette is 1/4 scale of a full size silhouette target.

Using cheap printer ink and setting the printer at draft quality I print them up by the hundreds/thousands.

 

[M2 Carbine]

For example, if you're shooting at 50 yards, do you use a 50 yard target?

For 50 yard handgun shooting my favorite targets are a 1 foot and 2 foot square steel plates.
The girl is shooting at the 1 foot (white) steel plate. 52 yards.



Kimber Covert, with the 2 foot square target (52 yards).

 

[rodensouth]

Nice shooting! Sweet range.

 

[bigfatdave]

I use hand-drawn targets or shoot&see type ones most often, or the nice ones from the CMP, I don't worry too much about the exact right target/range match except when I'm focused on getting sights tweaked or trying to determine if the problem is me or the gun (more often than not ... me)

For a cheap home-made silhouette, take a paper grocery bag, cut it from top to bottom, trim out the bottom fold and spread it out, you get a silhouette-shaped target you can draw on with a marker however you like, and the grocery store clerk will hand you a dozen of them for free with a smile if you ask nicely.

Other than that, I prefer reactive targets, paper gets boring and I don't have any asinine range rules about what I hang up so long as it isn't explodey or shattery.

 

[MinnMooney]

I've got a 420 yard range in my back yard. The 100 yd and 300 yd stands are almost always in direct sunlight so I get to use the cheap 14"x 17" targets that I buy in bulk. My 200 yd and 420 yd target stands seem to be in deep shade every time that I shoot so I have some bright white paper with 5 very brilliant blue circles that are extremely easy to see.... even at dusk. This are 20" sq.
Nothing fancy or "regulation" - just fun.

 

[russ69]

What's the right target for 100 yard rifle? NRA? International? Benchrest? It's up to you. If you are practicing for competition then you need to use the correct target but otherwise no.

Thanx, Russ