I found the following online somewhere and cannot remember where. It is NOT my idea, and it does work quite well. There are pictures withthe article, If you want to see them, send me an email. Last week I have made my own IPDA cardboard targets as I had lots of nice cardboard. I'll shoot at those.
But my favorite pastime targets is the logo for a company I worked for years ago...
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"Do you want targets or plastic?"
Thanks to a keen-eyed contributing editor, we gleaned a nice money-saving tip from the IDPA mailing list. It turns out that a normal paper grocery bag will make two nearly perfect standard silhouette targets. Giving credit where it's due, the original post was by Chuck Strelecky.
One of our informed readers tells us that this idea is originally from Louis Awerbuck who described this trick probably 10 years ago in class and also published it in his book "Hit or Myth".
Take a standard grocery bag. This one from HomeGrocer.com is a little shorter than normal, but will suffice for the example. Cut it in half on the wide side. (top to bottom)
Now you have two bag halves.
Open up one of the halves so that you can cut along the bottom seams. Cut both bottom seams just to the corner. (The bottom becomes the head cut only to the side leaving the bottom attached)
Unfold the bag and there's your cheap-as-can-be silhouette target. It's even close to the right color. It doesn't have all of the scoring zones, but you'll know if your hits are in the right place.
If you've really got a few extra seconds, you can trim off the shoulders to make it even closer to a real target. Here's a picture of the brown bag target on top of an official IDPA target. Yeah, it's a little short, but it was free (and you shouldn't be shooting that low anyway). A full height grocery bag would probably cover the secondary scoring zone.
And just think of the good you are doing the environment -- reusing something is always better then just recycling it!
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