What paper for the patterning board?

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Another thread got me wondering what everybody uses for paper at the patterning board. Didn't want to hijack that thread, so here goes:

I use flip chart paper from the local office supply store - either one or two sheets, depending on distance from the board.

It occurred to me that somebody out there might have a cheaper/better source of paper. What you you guys/hot chicks use?

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I got 100 feet of brown artists paper from Opus on Granville Island for $20.00.

48 inches wides so I cut 4-foot squares.

Used it up already too and have to go get more.
 
better yet if you want to pattern your shot, have your club put up a scrap 1/4 steel plate with a slight angle down, then have a paint roller with grease in a can. shoot the grease makes a mark, roll on a new target. cheap and easy!
 
"...from the local office supply store..." Paying 'retail' is expensive. Look in the Yellow Pages for a wholesale paper supplier. Call a few and ask if they'll sell to you. Some will, some won't. Butcher paper or manila paper(brown wrapping paper) is your friend.
 
I drop buy a local refrigerator store, and they are more then happy to let me take away a few of the the large cardboard fridge boxes...then I cut up the different sides as to what I need, and mount it in a pistol stand at our range.

I really like the grease, and steel plate idea. :)
 
I went to a party supply store and bought a roll of paper that was being sold as a bulk "cut to your own size" paper tablecloth. The roll was somewhere around 40inx100ft. Pretty cheap and easy to carry around and store. I actually store it in an old soft gun case and carry it that way.
 
I went to Rona and bought the thick paper that you lay down for flooring and roofing applications. I forget what the actual name of the stuff is. If I recall, its $12 for 36" x 140 feet of the stuff.
 
beergut said:
better yet if you want to pattern your shot, have your club put up a scrap 1/4 steel plate with a slight angle down, then have a paint roller with grease in a can. shoot the grease makes a mark, roll on a new target. cheap and easy!
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That is what our Club has. Makes patterning really easy.
 
Fall Guy said:
That is what our Club has. Makes patterning really easy.
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I always regarded these as more useful for determining point of impact than patterning. I find it difficult to count 300-400 marks. Maybe OK for patterning larger birdshot and buck.
 
BabySeal said:
see my cougar attack thread. Garbage bags work pretty nice.
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Actually I LOVED THAT the moment I saw it.


I have been racking my brain trying to figure out a method that is replacable.

At EESA every Turkey Season our target backer boards are SHOT TO CRAP by shotgunners using the rifle back boards to sight in. I really cannot blame them because we do not have anything else. Ok I guess I can blame them for not replacing them after they blow them away.

Now with your idea we can use a steel frame and leave a box or two of bags ( or they can bring their own).

Great idea!
 
It absolutely is a good idea. Wish I could take credit for it.

Its something we switched to a while back for just that reason.

Plywood can get expensive!
 
CanAm said:
Contact your local newspaper printing dept. They will sell you web roll ends for cheap.
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Mike Oxbig said:
What's a web roll end? How big and how much? Sounds interesting.
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Newspapers get their paper in huge rolls. Whatever width they are using (30 to 34 inches is common) by tens of thousands of feet long. When the roll runs out they change the roll but there is often some left over. Hence the name "web roll end". A roll end with a couple inches of paper left on the core has A LOT of target area.
Ask for the widest size they have.
 
I spent $15.00 for 30 yards of brown artists paper 36-inches wide on the weekend.

50 cents a yard, so I guess I'll make 36-inch squares.

I have two chokes (IC and Modified) and I want to try several different brands of #1,#2,#3 and BB shot in 2 3/4-inch and 3-inch shells at different yardages.


I like to write on each one what the load, shell and distance is.

I should try to check out Pacific press and find out what they do with their web-ends.
 
MD said:
I like to write on each one what the load, shell and distance is.
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I do that, too. That's the main reason why the grease method has limitations for me - I often go back afterward to review some of my results from previous sessions, when a question arises that wasn't necessarily part of the original evaluation.

I also record which barrel (in the case of double guns) and which choke were used.

SS
 
straightshooter said:
I do that, too. That's the main reason why the grease method has limitations for me - I often go back afterward to review some of my results from previous sessions, when a question arises that wasn't necessarily part of the original evaluation.

I also record which barrel (in the case of double guns) and which choke were used.

SS
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x3 - gun, bbl/choke, ammo, distance
 
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