What kind of targets does your range sell?

[.45Ruger]

I was just curious what other ranges out there have as far as a target selection. Of the two ranges I frequent Ben Avery is an out doors range that is run by the State Game and Fish Department and sell bullseye and targets with small animals but no silouettes. Shooter's World is an indoor range I frequent during the hot summer months in Phoenix and they sell everything from generic bullseyes to targets with pictures of real people in them. The bests of these are the picture of Bin Laden holding what looks like an AK-74 and one of Sadam holding what looks like a Hi-Power. I have several of these shot up hanging in my garage.

 

[GigaBuist]

My outdoor range will give you bullseye targets to shoot up. You can take whatever you want but no HUMAN silhouettes are allowed. Kinda bugs me -- they teach CCW classes there. So, they certainly realize there's a practical reason for shooting people sometimes -- just don't want you training that way. 1 second delay between shots too, so you can't really practice defensive shooting drills.

The indoor range -- silhouettes are allowed and sold. I love engaging a little half-man sized targets out to 7 yards. If I'm ever attacked by a midget at that range -- watch out!

I want to find a target of a zombified bear doing ninja. I gotta get some "hands on" training dealing with these things.

 

[DMK]

I shoot at an outdoor Forestry Service range. No targets are sold so a lot of folks just shoot at whatever they can... the target posts, the brass bucket, garbage cans, the dustpan and broom. :banghead:

I just download targets off the web and print them on my cheap university surplus Laserjet. On the plus side, nobody cares what kind of targets you use as long as they are paper and they aren't directly in front of the target posts. I use all kinds of silhouettes and enemies of state.

 

[Beetle Bailey]

My local outdoor range only has bullseye targets but you are allowed to use your own silhouette targets. But the silhouettes must not have distinct
faces or eyes. They can't look like real people, either. I heard they made an exception for OBL after 9/11, however.

The indoor range I sometimes go to sells bullseye and silhouette targets but I can't remember if they let you use those multi-colored, more "realistic" silhouettes. I usually just shoot bullseyes or a bald faceless guy with a gun and a pink spot in the center of his torso .

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[garrettwc]

Outdoor range (Knob Creek) has all the usual items. Bullseyes for pistol and rifle, IPSC cutouts, FBI Q targets, guy w/weapon cartoon targets, etc.

Indoor range has bullseye, silhouettes of various sizes, and those god awful exploding bullseyes.

 

[boofus]

The local range I go to here in Houston has small bulls-eyes and two types of silhouettes. The skinny one they call the Mail Man and the fat one is the Michael Moore.

The mail man got his name 'cause the old CHL test silhouettes were black but a bunch of NAACP idiots complained because since the ink on the paper was black we were obviously training to shoot black people. :banghead:
So what they got now instead was a skinny silhouette dressed in blue. Hence the mail man.

The michael moore is big, smells funny, and you have to try hard to miss hitting that sucker.

 

[tc300mag1]

ours sells just about everything

 

[AR180]

Political Correctness - Alive and Well at Ben Avery

Went to Ben Avery Shooting Range and was told by Range Safety Officer, "No way could I shoot the target". I told the RSO he was probably correct, but I was going to give my best ability on sight alignment and trigger squeeze. It appears the RSO was not referring to my shooting ability but my non-PC targets; I had targets of Sadam Huessin and Usama Bin Laden. I informed the RSO these two creeps are murderers and known enemies to the USA as determined by President George Bush, Vice-Pres. Dick Cheney, many members of Congress and to informed American citizens.
I was told by the RSO, the range is run by the Arizona Game & Fish and they want more women to visit and use the shooting facilities. It was determined by a committee, using silhouettes of human beings would make women uncomfortable and get a feeling of being unsafe if they saw human forms on paper getting shot.
I wrote a letter to Governor Janet Napolitano and received a PC response about how Ben Avery wants to place emphasis on the safety of the ranges and shooting at human paper targets is dehumanizing to individuals at the range. Yes, I knew I was wasting my time and it is a sad state of affairs at the taxpayer supported range in Phoenix.

 

[Ala Dan]

My local PD range doesn't sell target's; but they will very
gladly furnish civilians with NRA B-27 targets, or the old
bowling pin targets; courtesy of the city! Along with all
staples and staple gun.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[swingset]

I have my own range, and I shoot whatever I want.

Sorry, had to gloat.

 

[Steve in PA]

Tell them silhouette means outline, that the target is that of a yellow, white or even polka-dot person.

 

[Black Majik]

ours carry all of em... from sillhouettes, to bullseye targets, to bottles on a fence targets, to hostage situation targets, to grouping targets etc etc...

Fun and assorted varieties of targets to shoot.

 

[Turkish]

I'm in the same boat as swingset, I do all my shooting out in the desert and bring any targets I want, as long as they are easy for me to clean up after I'm done.