The target hoarder.

[Armored farmer]

Does anyone else have a target fetish, or am I alone in that?



I probably have around 300 paper targets on hand.
I have bears, Buffalo, Squirrels, turkey, groundhog, fox, novelty, crow, bullseye, 5-bull, 6-bull, 50yd Buffalo, 100yd buffalo, poker targets, nightmare targets......
I have a box of 1100 assorted adhesive bullseye targets.
I probably have 300 clay pigeons.
I built and donated probably 10 gongs to my BP club. I have a 22" gong. I'm building a 20" gong..
There is a 24' target board set on steel posts that I use for my annual BP event that we host.
We save our old oil filters from the farm to be used as knock down targets for pistol combat training.

My favorite paper target is the poker target
I like the white background so I can see my bullet holes. I like the bull size. I like the space for my info. I like to fold them in half and file them in my filing cabinet in the mancave for future references. Some day I may try to play a hand of poker on them.....but I'm about out. I had better order more, don't you think?


Tell us if you have a favorite target, or an overgrown target stash.

 

[ms6852]

Wow, that is a lot of Targets, seems like it could be part of your retirement portfolio. I normally buy a spool of "Dots" and a 100 pk of cheap paper plates that fold under the weight of potato chips.

 

[jmorris]

I had a friend that owned a printing business next door to our shop 97-02’. Walking through his shop one day, I noticed he printed the targets for a local gun ranges too. I asked him what he would charge me for some and I haven’t purchased any targets since and it didn’t cost me a nickle.

I have printed off a few though for “postal” and “how does it shoot” threads.

 

[Big_Al]

I have quite a few, mostly because I forget what I have up at our property/shooting range. So every time I go I buy more just in case.

 

[Jim Watson]

I keep IDPA and USPSA targets, and two or three diameters of plain back bullseyes because I cannot count on the indoor range selling targets I want to shoot at.
Lots of zombie cartoons, barn doors, pink B27s, etc.
They have lately sold FBI Q and the D1s left over when GSSF started printing their own design.

One outdoor range supplies bullseyes, the club range nothing.

 

[Armored farmer]

Most of these were accumulated from hosting a club BP shoot every year.

I like to shoot targets according to what hunting season is open. Squirrel, turkey, groundhog ,...etc.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I still have a bunch of the old B-27 targets from when I taught the concealed carry course down in Oklahoma. That was 25 years ago...
I've also got an assorted stack of targets that I salvaged after a club shoot years back.
Got a stack of cardboard to put them on too. That's my main weakness, I can't pass up the big pieces of the heavy duty cardboard for target backs.

 

[epags]

This one I like, do you have it?

 

[Armored farmer]

Got a stack of cardboard to put them on too. That's my main weakness, I can't pass up the big pieces of the heavy duty cardboard for target backs.

Being a vip donor for a failed gubernatorial candidate definitely has its perks. I used my candidate signs as backer boards for our targets.
The quality corrugated plastic really held our targets well even in the 30mph gusts we had on shoot day!
My candidate did support the second amendment, just like he promised.!
(He also carried 98 of Illinois 102 Counties and still lost [] the election)

 

[Armored farmer]

This one I like, do you have it?
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Haha
I truly laughed out loud on that one!
Must have!

 

[Riomouse911]

Like you, I have a pretty good stash of papers. They are stacked on top of my reloading shelf:



I got 500 thick-paper silhouettes on close out from somewhere in Canada (Writing is half English and half French), these and sets of 100 yd bullseyes are stacked on top of the wedding dress box.



Also lots of B-27 in black, white, green, orange (They’re bad with colored sights!) and in navy and bright blue; a 5-print of B-27 10 and X rings; shooting training targets; big, small and 2” air gun bullseyes; stickers, scope sighting grids, etc. They are in boxes in the far corner of the garage.



Steel plates? Gots 4 milk crates of those, too. IPSC torsos, 6-8-10-12 inch circles, rimfire silhouettes, two dueling trees, etc.

All I need is some space like you have to set up and shoot at them all .

Stay safe.

 

[.38 Special]

I buy targets in bulk, usually in packs of 100, and normally have a few boxes on hand. I really don't understand trying to economize on targets, especially considering the price of ammo/components. I regularly see people shooting $1/round ammo into a twenty five cent target so full of holes that no one has any idea where the shots are landing.

Personally, I put ten shots into a target and then toss it - or would, if the guys in the adjacent lanes didn't immediately take them, and look at me like I'm John D. Rockefeller.

 

[tws3b2]

That reminds me. I need some targets.

 

[Old Dog]

Does anyone else have a target fetish, or am I alone in that?

I'll go out on a limb here and say that you're not alone.

I just found a couple boxes of IPSC targets in my garage and several rolls of LE qualification targets in a closet that I'd totally forgotten about. I won't need any paper or cardboard targets until around 2043...

 

[230RN]

I used to keep all my full-sized man targets, I think they were B-29s. I'd use various parts of it as aiming points (head, groin, chest,left shoulder, right shoulder) on the theory that in a <ahem> "practical" situation you wouldn't have nice clean bullseye-type aiming points.

With the sheer size of those targets and the fragility of the paper used, that got to be pretty awkward over time. When electronic cameras came along, I started to take nice cheap electronic pictures of them (as opposed to the expense of having chemical pix developed and printed at the drug store) and stored them on the computer.

But as time and technology advanced and "newer, better" computers and newer and better storage devices came along, those files got left behind at some point and although I still have them somewhere, I'm not really motivated to dig out those old .jpgs and .bmps.

I discarded my collection of all the old paper targets one day in a "cleaning frenzy" and wondered what the trash folks thought at finding all those bloodthirsty man-sized targets full of bullet holes. Nowadays that would probably be reported to the authorities.

I content myself with the notion that when I was shooting high-power competitively, I always came up in the middle of the match scores. But keeping in mind that these competitive shooters were a selected set of the best shots around, being in the middle made me a pretty good shot anyway.

I rest contentedly in that knowledge nowadays.

Terry, 230RN

 

[entropy]

Does anyone else have a target fetish, or am I alone in that?

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I probably have around 300 paper targets on hand.
I have bears, Buffalo, Squirrels, turkey, groundhog, fox, novelty, crow, bullseye, 5-bull, 6-bull, 50yd Buffalo, 100yd buffalo, poker targets, nightmare targets......
I have a box of 1100 assorted adhesive bullseye targets.
I probably have 300 clay pigeons.
I built and donated probably 10 gongs to my BP club. I have a 22" gong. I'm building a 20" gong..
There is a 24' target board set on steel posts that I use for my annual BP event that we host.
We save our old oil filters from the farm to be used as knock down targets for pistol combat training.

My favorite paper target is the poker target View attachment 1141474
I like the white background so I can see my bullet holes. I like the bull size. I like the space for my info. I like to fold them in half and file them in my filing cabinet in the mancave for future references. Some day I may try to play a hand of poker on them.....but I'm about out. I had better order more, don't you think?


Tell us if you have a favorite target, or an overgrown target stash.

Nice straight!

I didn't intend to have a stash of targets, but it started out with 100 M16A1 25m zeroing targets from SG for a song, then I downloaded a bunch till SWMBO started making me pay for ink cartridges. Then someone on another forum sent me some collectible WWII training targets, then the guy I bought my 870TB from gave me piles of targets.
On top of that, I would buy a pack of the Redfield sight in targets (one of which is my avatar) at work whenever I bought ammo.
I don't need to buy another target in my life. Except clay pigeons, I buy them at the club, 25 at a time.

 

[Zygodactyl]

When I bought my property 12 years ago, the original owner was into the shooting sports and built a range. The range originally had an 80-foot covered shelter for the shooting positions, so he was serious about it. He left thousands of targets in a shed on the property. Various bullseye and torso targets. I've been going through them but haven't made a dent in the pile yet.

 

[Doug444]

I have 500+ NRA T1/5 and A-17's, but I have an excuse - I teach the Rifle MB for local scout units. And I have a bunch of metal swingers, a couple of dueling trees, again, because I use them for scout "fun" shoots. I'm an RSO and part of my responsibility is to remove targets left by lazy shooters from the backers when I close the range, and often there's only 1 or 2 holes on a decent shoot-n-see target (most of the time left behind out of embarrassment I think ) and those I save for my own sighting-in work. Other than the scout targets I don't think I've bought any targets in well over 5 years!

 

[JohnKSa]

What I frequently see at the range appears to be the exact opposite of the target hoarder. I've often seen multiple shooters sharing a gun and shooting at the same target for the entire range session. I can't see how they are getting any feedback from a target that has a couple hundred holes in it...

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I don't save mine anymore, but I frame a lot of the kids' zombie heads.

 

[buck460XVR]

Last week I was in Covid jail for 5 days. At the end of it I got bored and cleaned out the gun room. Found more targets than I will probably be able to use before I die. Guess I am a hoarder without even knowing it! Used to print my own using card stock and online templates. Would print a dozen or so every time I went to the range. Ones I didn't use got stuck up on the shelf and next time out I printed a dozen more. Nowadays, I rarely use paper anymore unless I'm sighting in. Have steel gongs set up at three different distances at my home range(2 sizes at each distance), so paper just doesn't get used.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I use scrap paper from work, church bulletins, etc. Have my master targets in sheet protectors, at shooting distances any print or pictures are invisible. I shoot only at indoor ranges, sometimes the light is a little too harsh, I found a light tan paper is better then.
At 2 of the ranges I go to a target backer is required, an old silhouttte target works fine, usually get a discarded one from the trash.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Wow, that is a lot of Targets, seems like it could be part of your retirement portfolio. I normally buy a spool of "Dots" and a 100 pk of cheap paper plates that fold under the weight of potato chips.

I'll go you one better. I buy the spool(s) of dot(s), then stick them to paperboard cereal boxes.
I cut the boxes open, and stick the dots on the neutral-colored inside.

Cap'n Crunch on the back, black dot on the front.

 

[johnjohn]

I'm one of the cheap paper plate guys.

 

[Valkman]

The last couple of times I went shooting it was on BLM land and I used paper plates and stuck dots on them. At an indoor range I just buy a couple of targets. I usually only save them until I take pics - I think the last one I saved was circa 1990 when I shot 90 in Bullseye with my S&W 41.