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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 01 May 2014, 8:53 pm

I think that'll keep me busy enough for a while guys. For now I'll do...

garden gnomes
playing cards
space invaders
battle ships - done
sighting in target
swiss cheese
dart board

anyone wanting life size barn targets should PM on_one_wheel ;)

Will update when done, open to more ideas in the future too.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by aekpani » 09 May 2014, 12:42 pm

Pacman :)
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 11 May 2014, 8:10 am

I like it.

Added to the list, aekpani.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by chilliman » 11 May 2014, 10:11 am

I like the idea of playing cards and pacman! maybe a chessboard or a simplified dartboard.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Chronos » 11 May 2014, 10:27 am

chilliman wrote:I like the idea of playing cards and pacman! maybe a chessboard or a simplified dartboard.


Lol. I read that as Cheese board. Suppose you could have a block of Swiss cheese and shoot the holes, smaller hole, more points. Hit the cheese, loose points. Even put a mouse in there for bonus points :)

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 12 May 2014, 11:29 am

I actually really like the cheese idea Chronos.

Swiss cheese and dart board added to the to-do list.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Rippah » 12 May 2014, 11:30 am

You could always use progressive dots :P
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 12 May 2014, 11:31 am

Yeah, but then there would be no cheese...
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Chronos » 18 May 2014, 1:13 pm

just had a thought guys, how about a target, either A4 or A3, landscape with a series of say 4-6 vertical columns of 1" grid squares with aim points in the center

the point of such a target would be that you could take your target to the farm and set it up then walk back with your rifle and shoot one or three shots the on the first column at say 20m for a rimfire, then 40m, 60m, 80m and 100m for the next 4 columns ( could be 50m, 100m, 150m, 200m and 250m for a centerfire)

this would allow you to sit down and plot your point of impact for the usable hunting ranges for your gun and see what it's really doing. is it zero'd correctly for the ballistics of your cartridge? does the point of impact drift left or right as you get further out?

if you find the point of impact on your .22 hits 1" above your point of aim at 20m, 2" high at 40m and is bang on at 60m you might consider making an adjustment to bring it down so it shoots just half an inch an inch low at 20m, an inch high at 40m and an inch low at 60m (just pulled some numbers from thin air, not actual figures)

i'd like to test this on my .22 but also my new .308 where i plan on leaving the scope set for a good point blank range for hunting, while ballistic software is good, i'd still like to see holes in paper



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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 18 May 2014, 6:52 pm

Happy to do that.

Only thing with providing in A3 is that the majority of people don't have an A3 printer which limits its usefulness a bit.

A4 though no problems. You can always pin up 2-3 targets as required obviously.

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Chronos » 18 May 2014, 7:07 pm

Aster wrote:Happy to do that.

Only thing with providing in A3 is that the majority of people don't have an A3 printer which limits its usefulness a bit.

A4 though no problems. You can always pin up 2-3 targets as required obviously.

Added to the to-do list.


Yeah I understand that. I usually email A3 stuff to my wife to print at work. :lol:

A4 is fine and 1" squares make 1/4 minute clicks pretty easy.

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 19 May 2014, 7:12 pm

Chronos wrote:...how about a target, either A4 or A3, landscape with a series of say 4-6 vertical columns of 1" grid squares with aim points in the center


What do you reckon Chronos.

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Chronos » 19 May 2014, 7:19 pm

Looks pretty good to me. Exactly what I imagined. Good aim point and plenty of white making shooting holes easy.

Looking at it on paper I wonder if each column should be 2 x 1" squares wide for the centerfire one?

What do others think?

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 19 May 2014, 8:18 pm

I had a quick dabble with the centrefire one but it needs a little thought to do well in an A4 target where there isn't much room.

With an accurate rimfire at 100m groups will still be pretty tight. If you're shooting 2.5" groups by then it will still be easy to separate your largest group from the neighbouring 75m group.

Centrefire is a bit trickier though given the potential group sizes at 200, 300m etc.

I suspect an A4 target may be limited to 50, 100, 200m... Maybe 300 to be practical for most people.

A3 will be needed for 300+

I'll figure it out anyway and upload in the next day or two.

In the meantime, the rimfire target is ready to download at the usual page. Bottom of the list.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Chronos » 19 May 2014, 8:44 pm

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Thanks mate, downloaded for testing next time out.

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by petemacsydney » 23 Jul 2014, 7:53 pm

Aster wrote:I definitely like the Battle Ship style target idea.

That's getting done for sure.


Hey Aster, how'd you go with the Battleship?
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 24 Jul 2014, 12:13 pm

Hey mate,

I've done a bunch of the requests and just not gotten around to uploading them.

I've been distracted with other things lately. I'll try get them up soon for everyone.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by petemacsydney » 24 Jul 2014, 6:05 pm

cool, thx mate
i'll be printing off some A3's for Mudgee ;-)
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Westy » 24 Jul 2014, 8:01 pm

Hey Astor can you make me something with a clown on it??? Man I hate clowns they freak me out :lol: :D :lol:
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by petemacsydney » 24 Jul 2014, 11:36 pm

yeah...clowns suck!
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Hilux2003 » 24 Jul 2014, 11:54 pm

petemacsydney wrote:cool, thx mate
i'll be printing off some A3's for Mudgee ;-)


You deviate, are you comming back again ? For more punishment ?

On a lighter note - Velcome back Peter.

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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 25 Jul 2014, 9:51 am

I'll try and get a few finished this weekend for everyone.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by petemacsydney » 25 Jul 2014, 11:38 am

Hilux2003 wrote:
petemacsydney wrote:cool, thx mate
i'll be printing off some A3's for Mudgee ;-)


You deviate, are you comming back again ? For more punishment ?

On a lighter note - Velcome back Peter.

See you in August on range 2.


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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by 1290 » 26 Jul 2014, 12:13 pm

The high detail colourful targets are good for closer range shooting and high mag longer but I find they start to blur (maybe its my eyes),

I'm looking at printing off a bunch of basic colour longer range stuff A4/A3/A2, for both open sight and scope use... I'd like opinions as to effectiveness...bold colours directing to the centre of target etc... or maybe just stick with a one-colour big dot??

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Oh, if you refer to a design numbers 1 to 9, left to right from the top row
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Aster » 26 Jul 2014, 5:28 pm

petemacsydney wrote:Hey Aster, how'd you go with the Battleship?


Just added to the download shooting targets page, at the bottom.
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Re: Tell us what shooting targets you want us to make you

Post by Prios » 26 Jul 2014, 5:32 pm

1290 wrote:I'd like opinions as to effectiveness...bold colours directing to the centre of target etc... or maybe just stick with a one-colour big dot??

Oh, if you refer to a design numbers 1 to 9, left to right from the top row


Top left (1) and top right (3) look good to me.

The others just look far too busy. Way to much junk that does nothing on there.
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