Credit goes to Monsterbishi for what I thought was a cracking idea, from another thread I started recently.

Wondered about creating one (or more) standard targets (with the FishnHunt logo on of course) that forum members can download and use. It would be good for us to have a standard target to use and upload scans/photos of to compare.

I am quite capable with a scanner and photoshop and would be happy to draw some up.

I was thinking at first of a 100m one for centrefire and a 50m one for rimfire. Actually we could just increase the size of the 50m one I guess.

Do you reckon that would be a good thing to have?

Also we could put some lines underneath for notes, maybe something like
- Shots Fired
- Shots on Target
- Ammunition
- Distance
- Date
- Shooter
- Witness (maybe, for competitions?)
etc

Here are some quick scans I did of some targets I have lying around for a bit of inspiration. I just use target shooting to practice for hunting, maybe needs are different for competition.

Personally I like a dark centre few rings. I find the horizontal/vertical lines help hold the gun steady, but I guess that's 'cheating' as not many animals have handy lines painted all over them.

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If the 100m one could incorporate some of the 50m sized rings in the center of it, there would be a comparable standard?

Having scale blocks on them, even a small 2" 'L' shape in one of the corners allows for the person printing it to know it's the right size too.

Im with the squares too, I like to align the cross hairs onto a cnr, I have 1" black squares towards each corner for rimfire and a 3" black square in the centre with a 1" white square in the centre of that, seems to give my old eyes a better aiming point and plenty of targets on the one paper.

Thanks for all the replies everyone.

It sounds like, as MeatHunta pointed out, there's different requirements for paper-punching and for sighting in. Personally I like a square grid like the ones posted for sighting in and a round, traditional target for practicing on.

I'll get a couple of each type drafted up, it's raining heavy up here so I won't be doing a lot else today.

I like your idea about keeping the inner circles the same size on the 50 & 100m ones Monsterbishi. Will do.

As for printing the same size, I'll do them as A4 PDFs which should be the same no matter what equipment you print them on.

The things I thought of putting on there were as follows - Meathunta can you tell me what handloaders would want to make a note of, I don't know much about it? Cheers.

- Shots Fired
- Shots on Target
- Ammunition
- Distance
- Date
- Shooter
- Witness (maybe, for competitions?)

Unless I've just missed it when reading you should probably have which rifle was used.......... scope maybe?
What would be important for me would be (with factory ammo) handloader will need more:
Shooter
Rifle
Calibre
Ammunition
Distance
Shots fired
Group size

I normally use:


I use some of the other targets for .22 plinking with more bulleyes on them and some of the 1/2" dot ones

cheers bruce, some good ideas on there.

to avoid copyright issues I was gonna draw up a few for the fishnhunt forum anyway but this site has given me some ideas.

this came about because i have several targets with features i like but none that are perfect for me so i thought i would get the magic markers out and make some of my own. should be coming shortly

Save them as a .pdf file and get munster to host them on his file-sharing watchamajig