Who needs a Bullseye?

[s2harry]

So your shooting your favorite toy and you can't hit the bulls'eye cause you cant see your sights... So? Was looking into some Big Dot sights and this guy was lamenting about not seeing his sights on black targets. I thought about how I just shoot at 6 o'clock in that case and group on the hole. Why do you need to shoot that black thing? You want a good group but you don't need to shoot the middle of the thing. Sometimes I just shoot the corners, try to get as close to the corner as I can. There are lots of targets on that paper if you look for them. Shoot at 3 o'clock 6 or 9 just at the edge of the black. Shoot the corners shoot the scoring numbers. Sometimes I just turn the target around and shoot at the center then try to group on my shot. Why buy targets you can just shoot copy paper.

Just had an Idea! Here's some random target oh why not try to shoot around the rings.. who needs a bulls'eye.

 

[Rule3]

Just turn the target over and use the other side. It's all white.

 

[URIT]

I use a lot of different things as targets, e.g., old Christmas cards, Post-its, packaging from my recycle bin ...

I'm more concerned about tightening my shot group than punching out the X ring.

 

[steelslaver]

Cheap paper plates and a black sharpie works for me

 

[Eddietruett]

Go to targetz.com and you can print 100’s of different designs from bullseyes to grids to comical. I print mine there

 

[walkinghorse]

We have a member here who does pretty darn good on playing cards!
Don't know if he is the sights, but my guess is he has practiced a lot!

 

[Whitwabit]

10 inch paper plates with them divided into 6ths with a magic marker ..

Pick the pie wedge you want to shoot ..

Think there's 250 in a package at the dollar store ..

Another good buy at the Dollar store are Urinary incontinence Pads ..
20 for a buck .. great for cleaning guns on and then throwing away ..
they have a leak proof lining and are large enough to do even an AR ..

 

[g-dad]

Cheap paper plates and a black sharpie works for me

Yep, this and copy paper.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Some nimrod who shoots at my club range has us beat. Brown paper bag from Ace Hardware as target proudly left up and apparently was trying to hit the red Ace logo. When I think of all the money spent on targets, jeez! Come to think of it at least he had a target rather than shooting the target stand to pieces.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Cheeze-it crackers, are slightly lass than an inch square. M&M's are less than 3/8". We used to compete with 25 aspirins hot glued to dark construction paper at 25 & 50 yards and Neco wafers at 100 and 200 yards. The various pills make a cloud of dust when hit. One of the most difficult is a piece of electric conduit drove in the ground, the used like a golf tee for a 69 caliber paint ball @ 100 yards There is nothing to tell you where a miss went!

Ivan

 

[Nevada Ed]

Don't tell anyone but you cheated...........
that target has a small white center.

At 72, I know about not being able to see my iron sights, plus the target !!
Had a bad eye job lens done by a "Doctor". Can't be fixed, now.

I will settle for a 2" w/rest or a 9" free hand at 15 yards.

 

[vytoland]

bullseyes....have some on me.....

 

[Abbynormal]

Teach yourself to point shoot!

 

[walkin jack]

I once put a Bushnell 1X red dot scope on my Ruger 10/22 carbine. It had a + and large red dot and a small red dot. The small red dot was the most accurate (From Mel Gibson's The Patriot, "aim small, miss small) but I wound up taking it off because I wasn't really shooting any better that I was with my regular scope or even open sights for that matter.

The reason I took it off was because on a bright sunny day the red dots, especially the small one was hard if not impossible to see. I rarely go to the range at night....

 

[ky wonder]

I just start roofing nails in a plank and then drive them in with by bullets at 100yds, of course I am looking thru a 6x24x44 ffp milrad scope, makes then nail heads a lot easier to see and even my 223 will drive them nails home through a pine board

my favorite pistol target is spent shotgun rounds start at 7 yds and keep them hopping out past 20yd fairley easy

I set all my guns for a 6ocolk hold so I can see what I am shooting at

 

[richardw]

I have a friend who is a pro photographer and he has an inkjet printer that will print 16 x 20 inch prints. He is going to make up some prints of that size for me of the picture below. The photo defines center mass. No black on black there.

 

[zeke]

With indoor range lighting, my eyes are long past focusing on a small target, at any distance. I just buy a humanoid target and concentrate on where I would want the bullets to hit, rapidly. Like the top t, or the head. This is helped by modifying sights so there is good side gap between front and rear sight, along with very bright side bars. This allows me not to tilt my head back to "focus" better, or to get special glasses just to shoot at little dots.

At close ranges, like 7-15 yards, am more into a modified form of point shooting. If getting bored, just switch hands and practice with your weak hand.

 

[phonejack]

Previous poster said what I use. Paper plates and post it notes. I have a supply of obsolete tractor fed mailing labels I use to "paste" the misses in the white.

 

[Tom S.]

I still like using standard targets, but stopped buying black ones years ago. Orange ones stand out just as well and seeing bullet holes is so much easier.

Side story: Long, long ago, a king was riding through his kingdom and kept seeing a number of targets painted on trees with arrows stuck dead center of every one. He marveled at the accuracy of the unknown archer and gave word to the captain of his guard to find the incredible person responsible. After a few days, the captain brought forth a 12 year old boy and told the king this was his mystery archer. The king was amazed and asked for a demonstration. They boy quickly shot an arrow into a nearby tree, then walked over and painted a target around the arrow.

Works for me!

 

[steelslaver]

For setting up a rifle I use the targets with a orange diamond in the center and the 1" grid marks. Mostly because from a long range using a spotting scope I can tell just how much I need to adjust the scope to get centered and the elevation I want. The orange diamond makes it easy to see cross hairs are centered. Sometimes these get multiple uses, small bore, then a big bore. I have used them for 100 yd revolver targets too, a S&W 500 hole shows up real well. You can run a stack of them off from a printer. But, use 20# rather than 16# as it doesn't rip as bad.

Most of my open sight hand gun stuff is done with the simple cheap paper plates and sharpie deal. Might be cheaper to run copies, never thought about it, the plates I get are real cheap and don't tear up from being hit with big SWC type bullets.