Which target do you practice with

[troglodyte]

I used to buy targets ... Usually one of the deacons I shoot with brings 100 paper plates to the outdoor range up here ... we're country folks, nuttin' fancy. Paper plates held on chicken wire with clothes pins

Same here. With an X drawn on with a Sharpie.

Occassionally I take out one of my class B-27s but I'm too cheap to do that often.

[Excaliber]

I like paper plates, but some ranges I go to won't allow them.

I use a target with one large center bull and 4 smaller bullseyes in the corners, IDPA, and FBI qualification targets.

I've seen one that has a scoring area in the size and shape of a bowling pin that I'm looking at for my next purchase because it is a pretty fair outline of the area you have to hit on an assailant to have any hope of stopping him in time to do you any good.

[gigag04]

When I go home, I use actual bowling pins. As long as you don't kapow them with a rifle, they are fine for pistol hits.

Those three dot targets that were posted earlier give me fits, so they are regular in the rotation. If I go to the local range, they have a target hanging that is a 25 yd pistol circle. I just bring a thick red sharpie and make 3" diamonds and squares on the free space

[texjames]

I like paper plates, but some ranges I go to won't allow them.

I use a target with one large center bull and 4 smaller bullseyes in the corners, IDPA, and FBI qualification targets.

I've seen one that has a scoring area in the size and shape of a bowling pin that I'm looking at for my next purchase because it is a pretty fair outline of the area you have to hit on an assailant to have any hope of stopping him in time to do you any good.

Our range allows paper plates but no cans, bottles etc.They recently posted a new rule to please take down your targets and throw in trash
drums when done shoot'n which helps keep the place clean.Some week days no range marshall is not present so some get missed.
I will clean them all up when i go down range to help out.Our range is a gun club with dues and is pretty nice really but only go's to 200 yards.
I did really enjoy my times in New Mexico and Arizona being able to go out on Open range and shoot...anything.But around here all there is ..
is private lands, farming, ranching etc.Unless ya know someone with land.

[The Annoyed Man]

Rifles, or pistols?

If I'm shooting pistols at a commercial range, I generally just use whatever the range offers with the range fee. But I do most of my pistol shooting at DPC, and I'm shooting at steel plates.

For rifle shooting, I generally bring along some kind of either bright orange "pasties" or some small Birchwood Casey "shoot 'n see" type stick-ons and I don't worry too much about the target they are stuck to. Most rifle type targets work fine for me. I like the ones that have the 1" squares on them that give you some kind of a reference point of your scope adjustments are in 1/4 MOA, but they don't matter much when your scope adjustments are in .1 Mil.

And texjames, I'll see your .223 group at 100 yards, and raise you this 4 round .308 group at the same distance:

[texjames]

Rifles, or pistols?

If I'm shooting pistols at a commercial range, I generally just use whatever the range offers with the range fee. But I do most of my pistol shooting at DPC, and I'm shooting at steel plates.

For rifle shooting, I generally bring along some kind of either bright orange "pasties" or some small Birchwood Casey "shoot 'n see" type stick-ons and I don't worry too much about the target they are stuck to. Most rifle type targets work fine for me. I like the ones that have the 1" squares on them that give you some kind of a reference point of your scope adjustments are in 1/4 MOA, but they don't matter much when your scope adjustments are in .1 Mil.

And texjames, I'll see your .223 group at 100 yards, and raise you this 4 round .308 group at the same distance:

Wow thats awesome...I have only had my AR10 .308 a liitle while and can't get it tight yet.I am still experimenting with various reloads but
Black Hills 175 HPBT match is best yet....

[dtalley]

I print several different kinds off the internet for free.

[texjames]

I print several different kinds off the internet for free.

This is my favorite place....http://www.superiorbarrels.com/Free%20T ... argets.htm

[The Annoyed Man]

Wow thats awesome...I have only had my AR10 .308 a liitle while and can't get it tight yet.I am still experimenting with various reloads but Black Hills 175 HPBT match is best yet....

Thank you. That group measured 3/8" center to center with my trusty wooden ruler. The rifle was a Remington 700 VSF bolt rifle with a 26" heavy fluted 1:10 barrel, and the ammo was my favorite handload with a 175 Matchking HPBT over 42.6 grains of Varget. I don't know if you can get an AR10 down to that kind of accuracy or not, but it might be possible. My son's AR15 varmint rifle is the most accurate gun in our household, and will put 5 rounds into 1/4" at 100 yards with great repeatability. But it is Rock River Arms varminter with a 24" stainless Wilson air-gauged bull barrel.