Air Pistol Targets Card Stock

I haven't competed since 2013 when my shoulder gave out, ironically due to some excessive weight training towards better AP results. I stopped after three competitions with 553/600 results, so not awful but not quite excellent either. A big part of getting to that level came from lots of hours of training at home, at distances between 5 and 7 metres, on reduced targets I ran off on an inkjet printer. I didn't bother with card stock as I was sticking the paper to a layer of duct seal, so the pellets cut very neat holes.

This ZIP file I've kept on my web server contains a number of PDF files and a PNG image for 6 metre, the group ranging from 5m to 10m but skipping 9m as I never used that distance. They should print to proper scale if your printer is set for normal scaling, but I'd suggest printing one first and checking before running off dozens. The scoring lines are scaled according to a formula provided by some other shooter, can't remember who, but they're calculated carefully to replicate quite closely the sorts of results one would score at 10 metres.

scaled_10m_AP_targets.zip
 
AMA range in Dartmouth has a airgun night on Monday. You could ask them. Also I believe the owner of Freedom Venture, also the president at AMA. His father used to own Speedy Print. So he might have an idea.

Staples from my EXP will not copy anything that maybe copyrighted. They wouldn't copy the 25Y NRA target, I had to do it myself.
 
I use pre-printed scaled-down targets, $10 for 100. They fit in the Gehman target trap. You can use that standard size pistol target as well.

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Whichever targets you choose to print or buy, the important thing is that the paper should be made with very short fibres. Normally papers cost more for their strength, using long fibres to achieve that. But for cleanly cut pellet holes, we need short fibre card stock, very fragile. You can recognise it by folding a corner. If it years a lot on folding, it's probably good for shooting. Papers intended for most uses tend to fold back and forth many times before they'll tear. Even the Gehmann 'practice' targets are too strong, tearing badly with a sub-500fps pellet, so always get the more expensive competition type of buying them.

Something I did for a while was to scrape off the loose bits of my 10 metre, 17cm x 17cm targets, then print 4 small scaled targets in the corners for home use at shorter ranges using an inkjet printer. So I got to shoot a total of 50 shots on every card, 10 at the club and 40 at home.
 
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