What do you use as targets? (PICS)

[andrewdl007]

When I go shooting I tend to go simple either shooting paper plates or i sometimes buy the targets that change color where the bullet hits. Do you all uses paper targets? Anything interesting like the life size pictures of terrorists etc. Do you print targets? What about non traditional targets. I'd love to see pictures of what you all shoot at. Thanks.

 

[highorder]

We shoot handguns at the blue men, with the COM and head covered by full and half 8.5x11 plain paper.
The old sheets just get torn off or stapled over; you can also see where baloons have been stapled to the edges

We also have some iron hangers for milk jugs filled with colored water.

 

[M2 Carbine]

For paper targets I mainly use two that I print up on 8.5x11 inch paper by the hundreds.




I also use some steel targets, including a 2 foot square and 1 foot square steel I use for small pistol shooting at 50 yards.



The backyard targets are a mixture of paper and steel targets.


Tin cans and clay birds are also fair game.

 

[captain awesome]

here are some of my favorites;

metal spinning targets,
water bottles and jugs
oranges
gourds
images I print out
used shotgun shells

anything with liquid is most fun with hollow points

 

[Buzzard]

For the home-printing crowd, here's a trick that will save you some ink.

Bring up the Print box (Ctrl-P), then click on the Properties box. What happens next depends on your printer, but you're looking for a Quick Print or Low Quality option. It uses significantly less ink than a regular print and lets your printer run at max speed.

Some All-In-One printers have a Copy Quality option right on the printer if you copy existing targets or make targets by putting coins or items on the copier bed. Set the quality on Low, even if you need 'em in color, and run off a test sheet.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Bring up the Print box (Ctrl-P), then click on the Properties box. What happens next depends on your printer, but you're looking for a Quick Print or Low Quality option. It uses significantly less ink than a regular print and lets your printer run at max speed.

Yes, you want to set the printer at the worst quality. It uses a lot less ink.

I buy the cheapest ink I can find online and use the worst "draft" print quality.

I also design the targets to have the least printed area, as you can see by the above targets.
For instance targets like this get the job done but require little ink.
I never counted but I get a lot of targets from one ink cartridge.


I also print on the back of any used paper I come by.

 

[Packman]

I like those Shoot-n-See's, but I'm too cheap to pay for 'em.

So what do I do?

I shoot at paper plates and printer paper, and watch the folks with the Shoot-n-See's. When they inevitably throw them out with all the little pasters still on them, I grab them outta the can and cut the little round stickies off and use those!

 

[Packman]

Hey M2, that's a pretty neat target!

Do you happen to have a link to a bigger version of it that would actually be printable?

 

[Sauer Grapes]

What do I use as targets? Ahh, targets! I have been known to use paper plates though.
Sometimes I throw an old tennis ball in the sand of the backstop and flip that around for awhile.

 

[GLOOB]

100% biodegradable targets: fruits and vegetables!

When shooting paper, I use the stick on targets. There's nothing faster than slapping a new sticker over the old one.

Hey M2, in your post #6, I think your target is too big. I would consider every one of those headshots to be a miss. I think you need a dot on those targets, like in post #3.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Hey M2, in your post #6, I think your target is too big. I would consider every one of those headshots to be a miss. Well, there are maybe 2 that are borderline.

The heads are actually a little less than 2 inches long. Fun target.

Do you happen to have a link to a bigger version of it that would actually be printable?

No not really. They are just small.jpg files I made years ago on Paint Shop Pro. I don't know how they would look printed larger.

 

[CZ-100]

My targets with a fresh coat of paint

 

[Chopdoktor]

I love to shoot hot water heaters. At about 5 feet tall, they're a good 'body sized' target, and they hold up for thousands of rounds. I sometimes set an empty propane tank up top for the 'head'. The metal is good for targets to be taped to, as well as the fact that it produces a helluva spark show when shooting at night. Filing cabinets aren't bad, either.

 

[Hardtarget]

I just use cardboard with a 2" square of masking tape. After all...I'm just shooting holes in it!

If my grand son is with me we use "shoot'n see" targets or clays or balloons or walnuts. It's all fun!

Mark

 

[rscalzo]

I have printed targets on my pc printer using the heavier card stock available in Sam's for one. But the cost of printer ink makes them not as cheap as one would think. For the most part, I use the cheapest paper plates available. Their small size makes it easy to set up multiple targets in as small area.

 

[1KPerDay]

I love to shoot hot water heaters. At about 5 feet tall, they're a good 'body sized' target, and they hold up for thousands of rounds. I sometimes set an empty propane tank up top for the 'head'. The metal is good for targets to be taped to, as well as the fact that it produces a helluva spark show when shooting at night. Filing cabinets aren't bad, either.

On your private range, I assume?

 

[Al Thompson]

Courtesy of Daniel Watters:

I remember one writer discussing a way to make two mini-IPSC targets out of a paper grocery bag. You cut the bag all the way down the center of the widest sides, and through the bottom. Then cut along the folds at the bottom, except where it meets the skinny side of the bag. When you unfold it, the bottom becomes the head, and the rest is the torso. He jokingly called it the "A&P target".

 

[brandon_mcg]

i take any cardboard box i can find and cut in the shape of a silhouette and put it against my target stands. i really like using the silver duct tape as a bullseye

 

[marko12]

If you have a private range or your range will allow it, a gallon jug, Gatorade, filled with water and red food dye then frozen will last all day. It's cheap, durable, reactive and really fun.

 

[Chopdoktor]

1KPerDay, yeah, I'm in Central-ish South Western Ohio, with a few hundred acres at my disposal. I like to get creative with my targets and range scenarios I've never felt the itch to initiate any long(er) range shooting, but I could set targets out to about 1300 yards, if I wanted to. That's about the longest stretch of pasture out back of my house that I could feasibly use. I am blessed to be able to walk outside any time I get the urge to unleash some lead.

 

[1KPerDay]

Jealous here...

 

[happygeek]

This was an earlier version of a target I've been using to work on the fundamentals with 22LR. Someone else posted something similar way back when that a search of mine turned up. Their distances and scoring system was a bit more ambitious so I re-worked the distances to something I could hope to hit and made up a scoring system. I've since tweaked it a bit, my current version has me shooting a total of 45 rounds at simulated 100m out to 500m.

 

[4thPointOfContact]

I usually ask the local grocery store to stick in a few extra paper bags. Cut them properly and you wind up with two targets with nice scoring lines already on them.

 

[kwelz]

I use Vickers targets for most shooting. Steel plates ranging from 2x4 to 6x6 other times.

 

[rondog]

I noticed the other day that the plastic shopping bags from Target have...little targets all over one side! So I'm going to take a couple of them, cut out the side with the targets, and glue it onto a piece of cardboard. Might make a dandy bunch of targets for our .22 rifles.