50 Yard Targets?

[Smokey Plainsman]

When benching the rifle for load development, what’r yall using for a target at 50 yard?

The bright orange pasties warsh out in my experience. Anybody can recommend a mite better seein target for shootin’ out yonder?

-Smokey

[alacran]

NRA slow fire pistol repair center. NMLRA  8 ring black 100 yd. target.

[oldtravler61]

  I like the Shoot an see targets. Very clear to see where you hit to 50 + yards. But not H.C.  correct.

Oldtravler

[smylee grouch]

I use anything that I can see well, they hold for 6 o,clock. I can see and concentrate on that black white intersection better.

[Bob McBride]

  I like the Shoot an see targets. Very clear to see where you hit to 50 + yards. But not H.C.  correct.

Oldtravler

I’m with you on the shoot and sees. Wally has 10 packs of peel off 10” or so that can be stuck to most anything. Highly visible impacts at 50y. I use homemade 2x4 target frames and rolls of 36” brown paper from Lowe’s along with cheap plastic pincher clamps to attach the paper to the frame. Then I stick 4 shoot and sees on it and don’t need to go down range for 20 shots or so.

[MuskratMike]

Ditto for me with what (the now famous) Bob McBride does. It has worked for me and makes sighting in just a wee easier. I still bring a pair of binoculars along to confirm with my old eyes that I am seeing the hole correctly.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

My targets are home-made.  I cut a disc out of black poster board:  2", 3", etc. and glue them to a piece of white paper.  Then I take them to the print shop and have 100 of each printed on 60 pound white paper.  It is remarkably inexpensive.
Commercial targets are printed on a sand coloured paper that takes away from the brightness of the bull, to me anyway, so the black and white contrast works better for me.

[Daryl]

There are 10 pages of standard-type targets here, that you can print off
along with 100's of other types.

http://www.targetz.com/targets01.htm

I like the 4" black circle on page 7 as a 50 yard target. It seems to work for me.

Target No: 10098

http://www.targetz.com/targets07.htm

[smokinbuck]

Anything you can see is a target. Put a big "X" on a piece of card board, a dot or any other aiming point.

[hanshi]

I also shoot any target I can see well - considering my serious eye problem - at 50 yards.  At 100 yds I'm satisfied shooting at the 10" gong.

[MuskratMike]

So true Hanshi! If I can consistently hit a "gong" or "swinger" at anything past 75 yards I am having a good day. You gotta be tough to get old it ain't for sissies.

[Molly]

Cheap white paper plates sprayed with your favorite hi viz paint.  It's too expensived to download and print those colored targets.  Small plate for 50 yards (6 or 7 inch dia.)  Big plate for 100 yards (11- 12 inches)

[Semisane]

I use this three-inch bullseye target which I built in MSWord and saved as a jpeg file. It prints on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. I print a master copy on my PC and take it to a copy store and get 100 copies at six cents each (saves my printer ink).



For scoped guns, I use this one.

[alacran]

Always like to practice on targets that I shoot at in competition.

[Standing Bear]

NMLRA 6 bull 7 ring black.