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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: David R. Pennington on December 31, 2023, 07:45:39 AM

Title: Targets
Post by: David R. Pennington on December 31, 2023, 07:45:39 AM

Anyone ever see targets like these. Found in antique store.


(https://i.ibb.co/K9swKnX/AE987-F98-08-B4-4760-BE5-E-740-F42-FDC7-E7.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qRg5J6d)

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: Clark Badgett on December 31, 2023, 09:00:45 AM

The left has the standard military upper silhouette. Could they be old .22 trainer targets?

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: Eric Laird on December 31, 2023, 05:15:12 PM

Clark's right. Those are 50ft targets for marksmanship training with 22s. In the early '80s I was a young E-5 assigned to an Army ROTC instructor group. We had a 50ft indoor range and had a couple of boxes of these stacked in a corner. I expect ours were leftovers from the '50s - we didn't use them; we were using modern guns to train the cadets and used the reduced range qual targets.

Happy New Year, all!

Eric

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: Eric Laird on December 31, 2023, 05:18:53 PM

Uhoh! I just realized I mentioned unmentionables. Moderators, If I need to do so let me know and I'll go in and edit the post.

Eric

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: Pukka Bundook on December 31, 2023, 06:42:02 PM

Eric,
We can't learn by sweeping stuff under the carpet, so to my mind no sweat!

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: Bob Roller on January 01, 2024, 09:28:50 PM

Quote from: Pukka Bundook on December 31, 2023, 06:42:02 PM

Eric,
We can't learn by sweeping stuff under the carpet, so to my mind no sweat!

WHAT!!! You must have taken too many deep breaths of Canadian air to post such an opinion. ;D ;D ;D.
Bob Roller

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: OLUT on January 02, 2024, 12:17:04 AM

The left target looks like the one we fired at 25 meters with our M-14 in 1965 ...I haven't seen them since

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: recurve on January 02, 2024, 12:57:07 AM

US Army zeroing targets

Title: Re: Targets
Post by: Pukka Bundook on January 02, 2024, 07:29:29 AM

I think Bob, that you misunderstand me.