The target hoarder.

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

I make my own paper targets, although I haven't ever had a chance to use them. I stick a sticker dot in the middle of a printing paper, and draw circles around this.
Also once make full body targets once, lemme find one of those. This was years ago. Made some copies of this but they've never put to proper use.

 

[trackskippy]

I buy them in bulk two or three times a year, and go through them pretty quick. Most of what I shoot these days are photo silhouettes, but lately, Ive been shooting a one or two bullseye type as well each outing, and a bunch of clays on the berm at the end until they are too small to bother.

These are from the past month or so in the back of the car and outside, waiting to go on the burn pile...

 

[jmorris]

The quality corrugated plastic really held our targets well even in the 30mph gusts we had on shoot day!

We have a 4x8 sheet of Coroplast we use with my adjustable target stands and obviously longer 1x2’s. It does make a good backer.

 

[starnbar]

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)
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Hey around here I don't even have to leave the block to get the signs I got 30 just for the local election and the neighbors will even leave by the garage for me what a country//////////////////

 

[Armored farmer]

We have a 4x8 sheet of Coroplast we use with my adjustable target stands and obviously longer 2x2’s. It does make a good backer.

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Oh wow, that's cool.
I like the armor you have protecting it.
It reminds me that I have a similar wooden stand that I use at the ALVIN YORK MEMORIAL shoot in Pall Mall TN. It is a BP shoot that I have attended several times.
You have to bring your own target stands.

 

[jmorris]

Yeah, that keeps from having to drill out a bullet impact that has locked a 1x2 in the tubing. Generally doesn’t happen with a bad shot but placement for use during run and gun games. A distant target locates a stand behind a near target (bad stage lay out).

My stands for those games don’t have the protection because they need to nest for the dolly’s I make for them.



Makes it easier to get people to volunteer as match director when you can roll everything you need from the shed to the bays in one trip.


A dent in one is best handled with a one inch hole saw.

That modular one above is for my own use and I’m glad to say the angles have never been “tested”.

 

[Armored farmer]

One of my favorite targets is a regular playing card. I have a few with a 70 yard deer slug hole in them. We use them for targets in our pre-season sight-in tradition. If you can hit a playing card, you're in pretty good condition for hunting.

This card in my fedora has special meaning: I shot this card in two EDGEWISE, OFFHAND with a patched round ball from my .45 flintlock in a club match. I'm pretty proud of that one.
Most people have no idea what that card represents when they see it in my hatband.

 

[jmorris]

Someone gave me a bunch of old driving range golf balls, if the grass is short, they make great targets to see who can make them go out the furthest.

 

[FL-NC]

For the most part, I make my own paper targets out of re-purposed items, since the supply I left the mil with is nearly depleted. The only exception is the "shoot & see" types, that I like to use for zeroing rifles. I buy those things but I cut them down into 2" squares to make as many zero tagets as possible.

 

[Chuck R.]

I only use 3 diffrent paper TGTs and they're for load development and zeroing. I do have a box of IDPA cardborad for practicing. The majority of my tgts are AR500 plate, about 30 pieces total. Then there's the barrels, barricades, swingers etc. :

















Even a man powered "mover" for practicing the "Teuller Drill". It also has T-Posts with pulley's to move it laterally across the range:

 

[jmorris]

I am a fan of steel too. I should probably shoot this one more, just for the exercise.



but I am lazy.

 

[lightman]

Does anyone else have a target fetish, or am I alone in that?
Tell us if you have a favorite target, or an overgrown target stash.

I probably have about as many as you do. I worked at a place that allowed me to use the copy machine. Every month I printed off more than I used. My favorites are the 25 and 50 yard Bullseye targets for handguns and the standard 100 and 200 yard Benchrest targets for rifle. I also have a few rolls of dots in various sizes that I put on 81/2X11 copy paper. A State Trooper buddy also gave me a big stack of Q targets.

 

[DMW1116]

Since I just found a pack of targets I forgot I had, I guess I'm in on the hoarding. I don't have that many, but I have certain targets for certain purposes. I like the 12" shootnsee for testing loads from my 20" AR with aperture sights. I like the 3" stickers for testing pistol loads, and I chew through a fair number of 25-yard slow fire and timed/rapid fire pistol targets. I also found the 3/4" dots match the diameter of the red smear in my sights (astigmatism). I use these for sighting in my red dot sights now.

 

[Chuck R.]

I make my own paper targets, although I haven't ever had a chance to use them. I stick a sticker dot in the middle of a printing paper, and draw circles around this.
Also once make full body targets once, lemme find one of those. This was years ago. Made some copies of this but they've never put to proper use.

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That's a lot of work!

The closest I ever came to "artrestry" is the face of "Bob":



That covers a triangular steel plate for his ocular cavity to practive failure to stop drills. Fail to hit the plate, and he remains standing. Depending on how he's set up, he's got 3 potential TGT hits that will knock him down, Occular cavity, COM, or both. It also can be calibrated to taking multiple hits to "drive" him down. An unmarked COM is usefull, since they're rarly marked in real life. First time I saw this type of tgt was during a defensive shooting class in the shoot house. it gave a lot of the students trouble. Really cool tgt for practicing defensive drills.

I did make a stencil for doing IDPA no shoots, but we haven't quite got the jist of it yet:

 

[thirty-eight]

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

Yes, no. Mine come with 52 per box.

 

[codytrucker]

I get little colored dots from the dollar store , then stick them on 3x5 note cards so I can write load info on them and save data that way . Then I lose them .

 

[entropy]

That's a lot of work!

The closest I ever came to "artrestry" is the face of "Bob":

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That covers a triangular steel plate for his ocular cavity to practive failure to stop drills. Fail to hit the plate, and he remains standing. Depending on how he's set up, he's got 3 potential TGT hits that will knock him down, Occular cavity, COM, or both. It also can be calibrated to taking multiple hits to "drive" him down. An unmarked COM is usefull, since they're rarly marked in real life. First time I saw this type of tgt was during a defensive shooting class in the shoot house. it gave a lot of the students trouble. Really cool tgt for practicing defensive drills.

I did make a stencil for doing IDPA no shoots, but we haven't quite got the jist of it yet:

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Maybe flip the hands down, looks like someone getting "frisky" with your target....

 

[earlthegoat2]

I like half or quarter scale targets so you can practice “long” range shooting at 100 yds.

 

[trackskippy]

Not to be an enabler or anything.

https://www.pistoleer.com/

 

[DustyGmt]

I too, hoard targets. Lately I've been more focused on acquiring steel and configuring stands and stuff but have a pretty massive supply of paper targets.

I used to work in a shipping warehouse and had stacks and stacks of cardboard and would spend an occasional afternoon hour or lunch break tracing a torso/head onto a piece of cardboard and use it as a stencil and just go a lil crazy with a box cutter and cut out 100+ cardboard silhouettes..... I made hostage targets too. It was a cheap and effective alway to have a never ending supply of targets.

 

[jmorris]

The cardboard gun game target reminded me of some other stuff I made years ago to create different challenges.

The IR sensor bounces off a reflector (under yellow paint can caps) and triggers adjustable time delays on the others.

 

[Riomouse911]

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...

I see that all the time, a few of them had more holes than a chunk of lava rock by the time they were done. I guess the range I use charges $2 each for them, so folks shoot them into confetti rather than buy a few and getting some genuine feedback.

I use probably 10-15 targets every range session, more if I am shooting single bullseye targets and bringing a batch of guns to shoot. I bring them rolled up in a blueprint carrying tube that I bought off Amazon. Rolled B-27 fit easily, just pull them out, roll the opposite way to straighten them for hanging and shoot away.



Stay safe.

 

[jmorris]

A roll of targets.

 

[DMW1116]

One thing I do is try to minimize my number of trips down range. It’s not for lack of targets but it’s rare I’m the only one and can just call a cold range whenever I want. It’s not a problem with a scoped rifle, but with an iron sighted one, you can tell when I’m testing loads because my rifle is never zeroed. I walk the sights all over to hit different places with the same POA so I can tell the groups apart.

 

[Necessary_Nutrient]

I always thought this one was funny. the "Using scoped mini-14" one always makes me smile