Anyone here find shooting at paper targets boring?

[45Gunner]

Shooting paper targets are, well, just paper targets. The good news is that they don't shoot back at me. I always try to challenge myself by improving my speed and accuracy. Never seems to get boring that way.

A buddy of mine and myself challenge each other with just a plain sheet of paper. The idea is to cut the paper in half horizontally. Once we do that, we cut it in half vertically. So now you get the idea. The one that ends up with the smallest piece of paper with an equal amount of rounds fired is the winner for the day. Lots of fun and it really challenges your accuracy instead of punching holes thru the center of the target all the time. BTW, just cutting the paper off across the top is not the deal. It must be centerline at each new direction.

 

[SgtLumpy]

A buddy of mine and myself challenge each other with just a plain sheet of paper. The idea is to cut the paper in half horizontally. Once we do that, we cut it in half vertically.

I like that idea..

I sometimes use a large paper or cardboard square, like 18" or more, with no markings, not pasters, no bull's etc. I like to use something like that at a pretty good distance, 25 yds or more. Forces me to aim at the PERCEIVED center of a big square instead of aiming at a little dot. See how many rapid fire shots I can get into a small group. Rapid fire so that I don't tend to take time to aim at the previous bullet holes.

On the first day of the week at my range (Wednesday) there's a lot of target holders with brand new, non shot up cardboard. When they have those I shoot at the imagined center of that 3' x 3' square.


Sgt Lumpy