What do you use for targets at indoor ranges?

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45Gunner

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For years I had been buying assorted targets at whatever range I happen to be shooting at.

I have a relatively new shooting buddy that is a retired SWAT Officer and he takes a paper target and mounts it so the plain side faces the shooter. He then proceeds to dissect the paper until he has two pieces. He remounts one of the pieces and then dissects it again, doing the same thing over and over until it is too small to hang.

I tried his method last time out and found it required a lot more concentration than shooting at a standard target. Anyone else do this or have a more inventive way of target practice at indoor ranges?
 
I use different paper targets. Standard silhouette, Bad Guy, small bulleyes and black circles. Also, I see people use paper plates and the Shoot NC targets alot.

Your friend's method sounds "extremely frugal" and more for show than useful training. Plus, it would annoy me if somebody was leaving pieces of targets down range. People do have to clean that stuff up at the end of the day.

Another good source of cheap targets is the dollar store decoration ailse. Those cut-outs that teachers put on the wall and stuff for Halloween are usually 3 for a buck.

My range would probably not allow him to do it either because of the possiblity of shooting across to the next lane.
 
Perhaps my favorite target is Caldwell's 5.5" Orange Peel. They come in a 50 pack for about $15.

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I also use standard sillouette targets, but I place 1" green dots on them to refine my rapid fire shots.

When I target shoot I usually use a standard 25 yard rapid fire target, but I shoot more at 12 yards than I do 25.

Sometimes I use something from here;
http://www.gun-shots.net/free-printable-targets.shtml

or here;
http://www.targetz.com/targets01.htm
 
It varies. I have a large supply of NRA 25 yard pistol targets and replacement targets (center same as the 25 yard target but overall target much smaller) and I generally use them, either with or without Shoot 'n See stickers pasted over the bullseyes. Sometime I'll take a plain sheet of copy paper and draw a 1" black dot in the center with a marker, then shoot at that. That's a real challenge at distances beginning with 10 yards and going on out from there. It becomes even more of a challenge if you fold the paper in half and draw in a dot in the center of the half sheet. Trying to keep all shots on paper and close to the center at 25 yards requires supreme concentration and a steady hand.
 
I buy a 150 pack of cheap paper plates and a BIG magic marker. Then I just draw a big sold circle in the middle of the plate. I use these out to 100M with open sights for rifles and 25 M for pistols.


When I bring youngsters to the range I have them draw the targets ahead of time.
 
I use silhouettes and NRA style targets.

I love BG silhouettes, Ill never get tired of emptying a mag into a ski-masked robber holding a Tec9.
 
Targets Indoor Range

All my shooting is at an outdoor range --- but when I shoot at 10 yards with a Center fire, I use a sheet of regular typing paper.
I've even been know to use a scrap sales brochure/report as long as the back is blank.
As long as the holes are grouped toward the middle, and at least a bunch of them overlap into a ragged hole, I'm satisfied.

At 25 yards I mostly use an NRA bullseye, but occassionaly I use two overlapping sheets of typing paper to make an 11x17 size, center-of-mass, target.

I shoot a range that uses Green cardboard Torso Shaped cut-outs in a wooden frame. Since the cut-outs are reused until they are shot to pieces - I have to put staple a target of some type on top of the cut-out to keep track of my shots.
What I'd like to find is some green paper in the same shade as the cut-outs, but I can't find anything that blends in well, so I settle for white.

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Almost exclusively, I use plain white paper plates 6" in diameter. That target is perfect for my purposes (personal defense and local IDPA matches), because it represents the approximate size of the head or chest vital area. And they are seriously cheap when purchased in quantity.

Boarhunter
 
I use a regular bullseye-usually a 50 foot 22 target, I use a lot of the 8 1/2x11 scrap generated at work, print on the clear side. Sometimes I buy a ream of off white/ light tan copy paper. I often find the lights at indoor ranges too harsh, too much glare off pure white paper.
 
I use various silhouettes, or whatever happens to be at a good price. The local indoor range requires you buy and use their targets.


For the outdoor range where I am member, I have a stockpile of bullseye targets, but usually just save scrap printer paper from (8.5x11) work and stamp/draw/scribble a center mark to aim for and staple up on the pistol boards. Cheap, and I get to "recycle" the wasted paper. That's how I stay environmentally friendly! :)
 
It depends on the range. One range requires you buy their targets, so I get the cheapest batch of targets they have, basically a bullseye. At the other ranges, I use a silhouette type target I've downloaded from targetz.com.
 
Reduced size human silhouettes (black w/faint scoring marks) or plain 8 1/2 x 11 paper with a 5' square dead center for speed work between kissing distance and 25 meters.

For detail work I like the little 50' .22 caliber rifle slow fire rifle targets that come several to a page. They do tend to focus the mind.

B27s are designed for administrators and encourage sloppyness.

Aim big, miss big. Aim small, miss small
 
I use mostly photo silhouettes, but most ranges are to politically correct to allow them. Luckily, thats not an issue where I shoot. :)
 
targets?

What do I use for targets?
Targets. Bullseye targets sized for whatever distance and type of gun I am using. Indoors it's pretty much the NRA B2 and B3 targets.
Outdoors, prior to hunting season, I will hang full sized deer targets at 100 yards and shoot at them from various field positions.
I shoot a number of "postal" type muzzleloader contests in which the target is a sheet of standard printer paper with an X drawn through the middle. Clay pigeons for shotgun shooting.

Pete
 
I shoot mostly at a 50 ft range so I use a B3(RC) (10½" x 12" (T) 50 Foot, Timed and Rapid Fire Pistol, Red Center). I started out printing my own targets but decided it was only slightly more expensive to buy targets. I bulk order from http://www.pistoleer.com/ 100 targets on stiff paper is only a little over 15 cents each with shipping, one round of .40S&W is twice that.
 
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