Paper Plates as Targets

[SweetMK]

Get one of these,, don't stop until they are gone,,
you either come home with no bullets, or no teeth,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Mike0251]

I too use paper plates with BC shoot n c stick on bullseyes. I buy them 240 per pack from Amz. They are the 3 inch variety.

 

[Maddog 521]

Old decks of playing cards work great also.

 

[Farmer17]

There's nothing magical about a round Bullseye when practicing for hunting or self-defense. The sheet of copy paper works great and you can also print about any kind of target or animal form you want. I would think about every house would have a computer and a printer nowadays and I see printers on sale at Walmart for $40 that work great and I use one for a back up. I have an HP laser printer I use for my construction business and it's over 10 years old and has made thousands and thousands of copies and I only have to change the ink cartridges every couple years.

 

[tops]

"case quarter" not heard that in years. Larry

 

[mtgianni]

I remember a couple of decades ago Handloader tested and found that iron sights worked best on a medium blue background over black. They included a sample in the magazine. They worked great.

 

[crows]

I have been shooting at store brand versions of OREO, Ritz, and Saltines stuck with peanut butter to a white back found for years. The white background is usually $ store gift wrap paper. Some of the papers even have lines pre-printed for cutting which work well for sight adjustment.

Wow, that takes me back to the '70s, reading in Guns &Ammo were some of my favorite writers would talk about plinking with .22LRs using Neco wafers for targets.
On the topic of target material, I am terminally cheap. I raid the trash cans for cardboard silhouettes that only have a few holes in them. Tape some holes up, pull out some staples, and your in business. It never ceases to amaze me how many people will only put a dozen or so holes in these targets and then throw them away.

 

[SAFireman]

Yeah, dot or not, they all work out pretty well in the end.

 

[Erich]

Old decks of playing cards work great also.

I use my old business cards as points of aim all the time.

 

[Rule3]

Do you have a printer?

Printable Targets - Print your own bullseye shooting targets

You don't have to print them in color.

In my house paper plates are considered fine china.

That's only good if you can print them at work. Ink and paper at home are expensive. I use to take what target I liked and photocopy it at work.
It's OK, we wasted more paper then you would believe!

 

[Kevin J.]

Why not just use a sheet of plain white copy paper instead of a paper plate? Much cheaper.

The cheap paper plates have a ridged edge around them which make them more ridged on the backer.

 

[WardenRoss]

The cheap paper plates have a ridged edge around them which make them more ridged on the backer.

Plus they come in an assortment of colors.

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[Rustyt1953]

I used to use Ruthie's biscuits but the other shooters complained about ricochets.

 

[Onomea]

I use this. Print out about six of 'em for a range session. Drawing and shooting.



Tape 'em with painters tape to one of these:



Need to work on my trigger control...

 

[sjmjax]

At 7 & 15 yards, I use the "shoot-n-see" target plasters that most people throw away on a sheet of white paper.

Small target really focuses your aim.

 

[1sailor]

Just a few years ago I was able to buy several hundred "Official NRA" targets for a penny a piece. They were seconds and (I'm guessing) not official because of the misspelling of one of the words. Instead of Fire it said Fir. Oddly, the misspelling doesn't seem to have affected them at all.

 

[Yendor357]

Whoa, Kev. You're using the fancy paper plates. lol.

I get the cheapest ones at china mart, and cut a square piece of black duct tape for the aiming point.

Paper plates don't shatter like typing paper

 

[Harrison]

I have long found paper plates to be useful and inexpensive targets.

 

[Zayde]

Here's one that can be printed at home.

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[Nevada Ed]

I found out this Holiday, that not all paper plates are of high quality.

The ones we picked out at Safeway for the Tahoe cabin, stuck to the wood table with
a hot helping of Lasgana and in the morning, a hot cheese omlet also made the bottom of the plate stick to the table.

First time that I have ever seen this happen.

They went into the "Target" bag.