What paper target to you use at the range?

[Sylvain]

What kind of target do you use at the range to practice with your defensive handgun (EDC gun/home defense gun)?

Bullseye types?

IPSC type?

Silhouette type?

Picture or drawing of a bad guy type?

Internal organs type?

Other?

If you can post a picture of the target you are using.
It can be a homemade target too.

 

[DarkRose]

I use a Bullseye type, or a square grid "other" type for pretty much any shooting, except soda can or steel spinner plinking with .22s...

I like the Shoot N C style targets, in Bullseye or Grid for easy visibility of hits.

 

[pinshooter45]

For rifle shooting at 200yrds I use standard NRA bullseye. For 50 yrds I like the sillohettes or the free targets I can print, and shoot and see's when I have them.

 

[Sylvain]

It may depends where you shoot too, many ranges only allow bullseyes targets.

 

[canav844]

Last time I went I used paper plates, some I drew a circle on tracing a soda can others I just put a dot for a reference point. Makes it really convenient for getting practice with hit one target avoid the other, as well as move from one target to the next. Also they run about 100-200 targets for $2-3

When it comes to SD practice, hitting the paper plate means being able to hit center of mass. When it comes to practice for competition hitting the smooth part is about equivalent to a steel plate, and not to far off from the "X" plus the "9" ring on the silhouette targets.

I like them for good cheap and pretty effective targets, I'll pick up whatever special is on sale in Gander or Walmart if I want something bigger or to serve a scorable purpose.

 

[David Rose]

If I can’t use steel I use IPSC targets for general practice, and blank paper or cardboard with 1/2 inch sticker dots for accuracy intensive drills.

 

[clt46910]

For my defensive handgun, I sometimes plain paper plates for a target. Put in your first shot and try to follow it.

Most times I use braced cardboard cutouts (in a upper body shape) dressed in old clothes. No visible aiming point, take your shot at the person.

If I am feeling creative, I draw lungs/heart on the cardboard shape before covering with clothes.

 

[7urtle]

zombie

 

[melensdad]

The kind that make children cry!

 

[GhostofWinter]

Is that the 'new' detonics that you just got the other day?

 

[melensdad]

Is that the 'new' detonics that you just got the other day?

No. This one is the newest one Detonics CombatMaster.

 

[eldirector]

Another paper plate shooter here. Plates are roughly the size of "center of mass", so a hit is a hit. They are super cheap, too.

My wife likes the shoot-n-sees. Pretty colors. I like them more for rifles, since you can see a hit a bit easier without a scope.

 

[jayhawk]

I generally use paper plates. I keep a sharpie in my range bag, so I can draw x's or smiley faces or something on them.

Occasionally I'll use a Shoot n' See sight-in type target (the kind with 5 bulls) when I'm trying to be somewhat serious.

I do like the idea of a gnome target though.

 

[dice dealer]

I only use the Tacticool paper targets .
They are around 12 inches in diameter and the ones you miss (If any)
can be used to hold whatever you brought with you to Munch on durring breaks

 

[shooter1054]

Caldwell Orange Peel targets. I get the "factory seconds" from Midway when they have them. But most of the time I shoot steel.

 

[rhino]

An IPSC metric target with with a 3x5-inch index card glued just below the neck (when I have both).

 

[obijohn]

An IPSC metric target with with a 3x5-inch index card glued just below the neck (when I have both).

this, or SEB targets.

 

[Bummer]

Awhile back someone posted some addresses for printable targets. I visited those sites and downloaded a couple of hundred different target patterns. I sorted through them and found the ones I liked the best and put them in a separate directory. After that a silhouette was posted. I downloaded it, cut it into nine page sized pieces. I even downloaded the organ silhouette from the original post in this thread, which I've also cut into nine pieces to print full sized.

Seems the age of computers has generated more scrap paper than I ever had before computers. I just let the scrap stuff collect on a shelf under the printer then when I need targets I print a few on the backs of the scrap.

When I go to Wally-World to get ammo I also pick up three or four tri-fold school project boards. I cut the folding parts off, tape 'em together and wind up with twice as many target backers as project boards I started with. When I print up targets I tape them to the project boards.

Right now I have two soon-to-be-dead terrorist/bad guys waiting for a range visit.

 

[yotewacker]

I use any target that has 1" squares marked on it for sighting in the weapon. Makes it quicker to do.

 

[Sylvain]

I like the Opsgear targets, they are one of the best designs I have seen for defensive shooting.