DIY targets for sighting in?

[mealiejimmy]

Start with one of these Folding Chair Cover Storage Bag Camping Chair Carrying Bag Outdoor Backpacking | eBay
Remove all the canvas covering, then get a piece of 3mm plywood 600x600mm, drill holes in the plywood in line with the uprights in the frame of the chair and use 4 electrical tyraps to form loops that will hold the plywood onto the up rights
Attach targets of your choice to the plywood and you're good to go
When you have finished, remove the plywood and fold up the frame

Cheers

Bruce

 

[Klenchblaize]

Wallpaper off cut and a black or red large felt tip pen for creating a 5” filled circle on the reverse of said paper.

Alternatively, save those hi-viz NRA markers and staple 4 together to create a similar sized aiming mark on a blank target board.

K

 

[Roylance]

Thanks for these ideas - lots to give a go

 

[potshotpat]

An apple on our Walters head, at a hundred paces. While humming a tune.Taught by Mr Gessler.

 

[wanderer]

 

[Bigcal]

I use a Small roadworks sign and a bit of paper taped on

 

[Trickyd66]

For checking zero, I use the nock end of an arrow (or 2) cut to about 6". Piece of corrugated card (of suitable size) aiming circle on card. Just push the part arrow/s into the ground with a decent back stop behind, and slip the cardboard into the nocks to hold it.

 

[Tazz]

Any advice on diy target stands? What do people tend to use? Plywood with two stakes drilled in, then staple a target on?
Pictures, instructions, or ruminations on your own experience very much appreciated. This is for sighting in, not regular target practice.

Good tip, whatever wood you use as the target holder will over a short time get shot away. Buy a gardening kneeling pad bade from thought foam, the rounds “ squeeze” through it withou reducing its structural integrity plu you can easily pin targets to it

 

[Len the dog]

The end wall of the farmer’s barn.

 

[Mungo]

Cardboard box, post it note, black marker, cello tape and a rock to keep it from blowing over.

 

[VanGogh76]

Correx sheet held up by 2 road pins stick a couple of shoot n see targets and done

 

[Roebuck9]

2 sticks about 2x1ins (if cut on the diagonal they are already pointed)
then a big piece of carboard size up to you,
then stick a piece of paper with your target on it a piece of aluminium foil on it for thermal sighting in.
Hammer into ground to stand upright.

 

[kieran222]

I use a cardboard box lid, draw a few dots on it and push a bamboo stick down through the sides of the box to hold it upright. Always bore sight and then zero at 50 yards even for 308. As long as you know your trajectory zeroing at 50 yards is fine. Only ever check zero if I have a misplaced shot that I can't account for.

 

[GWP]

I use a piece of ply 1/2 inch or more cut to the shape of the marker on google earth with a hole in the center large enough to cover the bull push pins to hold a piece of card and target on top this saves having to make a new holder every time targets can be found on here

 

[fallowfellow]

One more vote for cardboard box. Bigger ones get multiple crosses drawn on and a dot for desired point of impact. Piece of wood in bottom to stabilise. No splinters or damaged supports. No steel falling over ( although I do like my steel target too)

 

[Tikkat1x]

local authority / councils up here leave road traffic signs triangular fold out ones when finished road works and never recover half of them
one of them & paint it then once holed thru plywood insert bolted on reuse

nice to see im not the only one clearing up the verges , iv several road signs iv rescued, metal fold out ones and the newer plastic ones are perfect

 

[pendle]

Our T.a center had rubber conveyor belts hanging down on the rifle range same idea .
I use a plywood box lid and glue fresh targets on as required.

That's what I use with a rubber conveyor belt with a hardox gong hanging by heavy duty cable ties . The hardox gong does not twist causing ricoshay like it does on chains

 

[Puds]

Cardboard fruit/veg box, pinned to the floor via the handle flap bit with the bottom bit of an electric fence stake (that I definitely didn’t accidentally shoot in half).
I got a roll of these target stickers off Amazon to put on there & they do the job fine for zeroing.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Misread this thread. Thought the Op was looking for bore sighting target suggestions. As in get your first shot on paper without firing a shot. Hence reference to a 5” aiming mark!

K