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I could not find a great place for this. I figured if you reload you shot, so what type target do you shoot at? Round targets are carry over from iron peep rear with a round front aperture. Your eye is round so it all works great. What about hunting optics with a cross reticule? Have a friend that shoots with us that is color blind. The Walmart day glow orange or green circles really bother his eyes! I started carrying large tipped black markers for him. If you are going to roll your own what shape? Sitting in a pig tower with time on my hands I came up with this. Really easy to adapt to any size reticle or distance. Simple to align light color on all sides. Makes you eye focus on the reticle not the target. It has really improved my group sizes, I am not a target shooter. Thoughts?  | ||
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I fashion a backward “L” with black marker on sheets of cardboard or file folders, 2” tall and 2” wide, each leg 3/4” wide, works really well for me. Karl Evans | |||
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backside of a 50ft bullseye target. had some left over blue dots  | |||
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Always liked the Walther test targets:  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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I print my targets from here; https://mytargets.com/ Take a look at them and see if you can use any of them, good luck | |||
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Do a search for printable targets. You will everything you need. I printed everything off the net. | |||
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DITTO ! and for paper I use the blank side of junk mail due to being cheap and also to partially get back at the senders! Hip | |||
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I've tried a ton of different targets over the years and lately I've headed a really different direction for scoped rifles. I've decided I like most of my rifles sighted 1.5" high at 100 yards, and have based my drop tables off of that, so I've worked up a target for that purpose. In general, I like clean white paper with very little printing (using thin lines) so holes are super easy to spot even with low power scopes. As I recall I designed it on Word with a 1/2" diameter circle for aiming and a 1" diameter circle centered 1.5" above the center of the 1/2" circle. My concept is that I aim at the 1/2" circle and need a 3 shot group inside the 1" circle to consider that the rifle is correctly sighted. I'm sure it's not for everyone (or maybe not for anyone else), but I really like it. The goal is only acheived with my most accurate rifles, but the concept is the same for most of my big game rifles. I like the idea of splitting a circle into quarters with the cross-hairs. That seems quick and easy to center for me. The magnification and power doesn't seem as critical as when using square lines on a target. I'm printing four of those two cirle arrangements with black ink on 11"x17" blank white sheets so even 17 caliber holes are super easy to spot at 100 yards. No logos, lines, or other unnecessary printing that make holes tough to find and they're really cheap to print in quantity. | |||
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I make several black dots 1” in diameter on a sheet of paper and run 100s of copies NRA Patron member | |||
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I use this  Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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print targets on heavy - 300 gr - art paper. This created a problem for me, as new printers cannot handle paper this heavy as it makes a U turn inside it. Had to buy a professional A3 photo printer, which has a straight paper path. But we use a lot of targets, so it is all worth it. | |||
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It's hard to beat the standard benchrest square as an aiming point. You simply divide the white into four equal segments with the crosshair. You can print various sizes of squares for different distances or scope magnifications. I like a 2" black square with a 1" white middle for low/medium powered scopes at 100 yards; or a 1" black with a 1/2" white middle for higher powered scopes. Proportionally larger squares work well for 200 and 300 yards. | |||
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Ross Seyfried came up with a great iron sight target. D’Arcy Echols sells it. I’d link to it, but can’t seem to do it on my phone. It looks like an inverted T, with a truncated stem, and a circle at the intersection, which is the aiming point. I have used it, and like it. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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I have two targets I typically use for groups. For iron-sighted rifles, I use a simple inverted T, about 20mm thick black lines. For scoped rifles, I have a 4-inch black disc with a half-inch thick white + in the middle, of which the legs are about 2" long. In the very center there is a 1/2" diameter black dot. The whole thing is covered with a 1" grid of thin lines to simplify sight adjustment. I have found that this works very well for scopes with a wide range of magnification. The white + basically only just disappears under the crosshairs of a 4-power scope (so if you see any white at all, you need to move a little), whereas the center black dot works well for scopes in the 9-12 power range. Larger scopes can choose the previous bullet hole as an aiming mark if they so wish. | |||
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+1, correct sir, IMHO. Zeke | |||
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