Printable DSC target?

[lksopener1]

Hi All,

does anyone have access to a printable version of the DSC1 deer target?

many thanks in advance.

 

[Eric the Red]

Here you go

 

[lksopener1]

Thanks Eric was hoping for the deer one

 

[jcampbellsmith]

Hi All,

does anyone have access to a printable version of the DSC1 deer target?

many thanks in advance.

It's copyrighted. You need to buy it -

Inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved -

Two inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – BODY1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – HEAD

www.bds.org.uk

Regards
JCS

 

[lksopener1]

It's copyrighted. You need to buy it -

Inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved -

Two inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – BODY1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – HEAD

www.bds.org.uk

Regards
JCS

Ah I didn’t know thank you JCS

 

[Sharpie]

Ah I didn’t know thank you JCS

You will need these, the actual target. Pack of two, for £6.60. They are a metre long and black, so hardly something to print out on your average home printer, plus ink/toner costs.

Single Target Roe Black Silhouette DMQ approved - The British Deer Society

The new 2021 official DMQ roe black silhouette target. Deer Target Size 1000 x 700.

www.bds.org.uk

Then the inserts, 80p, per pair. Hardly expensive when you'll be putting six bullets into them. Get several pairs.

Inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved -

Two inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – BODY1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – HEAD

www.bds.org.uk

And target patches for if you make holes in the main target. Or want to patch up the inserts.

£6.60 for a thousand. Useful also for making improv. targets e.g. sticking on paper plates.

Self adhesive target patches - The British Deer Society

Self-adhesive target patches 20 mm (approx 3/4") in diameter, 1,000 patches per role. Save time and trouble, and re-use targets.

www.bds.org.uk

Seriously, just buy the proper things and don't try to cheap out. You will also need a backer, unless you have some freebie stuff, if you have to buy e.g. a bit of thin plywood at retail will also cost. I suppose you could get by with a large cardboard box.

And support the BDS by doing so.

There is no longer an opportunity to check zero and if necessary fiddle about. You are expected to turn up already prepared. So make sure you do so, with whatever method you use to check zero. The longest range is now 100m (not yards).

This is not target shooting at a precise target, it is shooting into an undelineated spot on a black silhouette, approximately four inches in diameter. Not at all challenging if prepared, and your rifle doesn't spray bullets about seemingly randomly.

When practicing the head shot at 10 to 25 metres, please do wear good eye protection.

You are allowed two goes at it on the day. Fail both then you will have to re-sit on another day.

 

[Brno2e]

I bought the proper target and then made a ply wood copy from it that I use as a template to draw on to cardboard sheets we use on pallets at work.

 

[lksopener1]

You will need these, the actual target. Pack of two, for £6.60. They are a metre long and black, so hardly something to print out on your average home printer, plus ink/toner costs.

Single Target Roe Black Silhouette DMQ approved - The British Deer Society

The new 2021 official DMQ roe black silhouette target. Deer Target Size 1000 x 700.

www.bds.org.uk

Then the inserts, 80p, per pair. Hardly expensive when you'll be putting six bullets into them. Get several pairs.

Inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved -

Two inserts for Roe Target A4 Head and Body DMQ approved1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – BODY1 x Size A4 297 x 210mm replacement – HEAD

www.bds.org.uk

And target patches for if you make holes in the main target. Or want to patch up the inserts.

£6.60 for a thousand. Useful also for making improv. targets e.g. sticking on paper plates.

Self adhesive target patches - The British Deer Society

Self-adhesive target patches 20 mm (approx 3/4") in diameter, 1,000 patches per role. Save time and trouble, and re-use targets.

www.bds.org.uk

Seriously, just buy the proper things and don't try to cheap out. You will also need a backer, unless you have some freebie stuff, if you have to buy e.g. a bit of thin plywood at retail will also cost. I suppose you could get by with a large cardboard box.

And support the BDS by doing so.

There is no longer an opportunity to check zero and if necessary fiddle about. You are expected to turn up already prepared. So make sure you do so, with whatever method you use to check zero. The longest range is now 100m (not yards).

This is not target shooting at a precise target, it is shooting into an undelineated spot on a black silhouette, approximately four inches in diameter. Not at all challenging if prepared, and your rifle doesn't spray bullets about seemingly randomly.

When practicing the head shot at 10 to 25 metres, please do wear good eye protection.

You are allowed two goes at it on the day. Fail both then you will have to re-sit on another day.

Thank you I am not trying to cheap out. I found some threads from a few years back where the original poster put up a link to a printable version.

I have a friend who has a large commercial scale printer hence the original enquiry.
I have since ordered from the BDS.
thanks all

 

[Sharpie]

I think what could be useful for e.g. air rifle practice, would be say a 1/4 or 1/3 scale target, printable at home on A4.

I think that could be done quite easily, and would not compete with BDS sales of the official copyright target, which, to be fair, do cost money to print, stock, take orders, package, ship, etc. They are also printed on suitable material. I consider the price very reasonable, and possibly a little of that will be returned to the BDS, which is a worthy cause.

 

[8x57]

I have copies of targets that you mention Sharpie. They were given to me by some friends who attended a DSC1 course a few years ago at Sparsholt college where Charles Smith-Jones was lecturing. Charles Smith-Jones produced the targets and had given them copies and they in turn photocopied them with his permission and they gave some to me.
I will dig them out later and see if it is possible to scan them, I wouldn't want to infringe any copyright or cause offence to Mr. Smith-Jones by reproducing them without his permission. Some are definitely A4 but I think some are A3 size.

Incidentally by way of thanks for helping them prior to the course they gave me a signed copy of Mr. Smith-Jones book on Muntjac deer. The book was very much appreciated and sits on my bookshelf.

 

[8x57]

Found it- here is a photo of the reduced size old DSC1 target that I have.



The larger target when shot at 25 Metres is proportionate of the 70 M stage and though not marked the smaller target would be proportionate to the 100 M target.
They are printed on A3 so its not possible to scan them, also the centreline runs straight through the H/L target area.

 

[Sharpie]

I'm not sure that those are quite correct, in proportion, from what I remember when I took mine, many years ago.

The target zone seems rather large to me, nor is it precisely circular. Whatever, I think it is too large, and too high, to delineate the actual heart/lung area of a roe.

I.e. notionally the full target is 1m from one end to the other. The primary target zone is still a 4" circle, call that 10cm. One tenth of the length. those "circles" look much larger than that.

So the proportions seem a little wrong to me, if these are supposed to be proportionally reduced in all dimensions, for use at shorter ranges per my thoughts on back-garden practice with an air rifle at say 25 or 30 metres.. The new (I think) 2" 5cm headshot zone also needs to be added.

But I could be completely wrong of course, not having seen one for about 15 years.

I'd like to see a photo of the current target without the black inserts in place, but instead with white paper. If that could be done by someone, with the camera perpendicular to the target, centred on the main body zone, and a few measurements with a tape measure of key dimensions, I could have a have a go at making a .pdf file or two, that could be printed precisely 1:1, or even scaled by the user when printing, to match their exact range available. These would not be straight copies, but my interpretation, in the spirit of the original.

Here is how https://www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk/uploads/guides/161.pdf show the proper positions for a roe, rather different. But in DSC1 you are shooting to the test which TBH is not necessarily a good example of where to actually shoot a deer. The best practice guide is I think rather more informative, about variance between species, and real life shots, not just broadside on. But the subtleties of actually culling real deer were not ISTR taught on my DSC1, perhaps that has been improved nowadays ? :

 

[Charles S-J]

Just to clarify - these targets were produced for Sparsholt students to shoot a simulated DSC1 in the indoor range with .22 rimfires, using a fixed 25m firing point, and to get them used to the correct POA. On another version the kill zone was not visible. It is not the same as that on the new targetry effective from 1 Apr 21 in any case.