Paper or steel ?

[Roundball 54]

Excluding sighting in or developing a load , what kind of targets do you like to shoot best , paper targets , steel targets or other types ?

 

[ohio ramrod]

I shoot paper for sighting in, But prefer moving or "exploding" targets for enjoyable shooting. water ballons, flour filled ballons, charcol bickets, oppsicle sticks, cards,etc.

 

[Eutycus]

I like a gong. Love that sound!

 

[Woody Morgan]

Oh, steel fer sure!

wm

 

[Flintlock]

I hang cans in front of my cordwood backstops for fun. As logs get shot up I split them apart and recover my lead. I have over 90 pounds in buckets now.

 

[new2bp]

Depends on what I am shooting.

BP pistol has been paper only but then Ive only had enough powder to get hooked. Imagine it wont end up any different from the centerfire pistols.

Rimfire rifle I like small visible hit things like tylenols or tums at 50 yards. Dum Dum suckers are good too . Golf balls get interesting at 50-200 yards and 1/5 scale sillywets from a bench at 100-200 yards is a challenge

Rimfire pistol is always paper. Centerfire rifle is fairly split between paper and steel as is cf pistol.

The machine guns (good friend is a stamp collector) are almost always paper but occasionally steel.

 

[Ivery Keys]

Steel silhouettes are my favorite, have a set of 1/2 scale we shoot out to 100 yards!

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Steel Zoo Critters.
Never paper...too boring.

 

[necchi]

Paper. It's all about the "X". You get the X all the time ,, everything else is easy.
That's about knowing when you can "call the shot".

 

[andy52]

Paper for sighting in, but I shoot a lot of trap so always have several cases of clay birds and they are fun to shot hanging from a rod.

 

[Daveboone]

Steel is fun for our organized shoot, but the paper is what tells me how I am doing. A near miss on steel doesnt tell me much. I believe in making every shot count.

 

[Bearkiller]

I like a good trail walk with a variety of targets. Everything from steel plates of all sizes and shapes to eggs hanging on a string to lollipops and of course the old split the ball on an axe shot!

 

[Versanaut]

We typically run our matches 5 shots on paper, 1 shot on steel (Bonus DING!) for 2 strings. Third string is 5 on paper, 3 on steel for a 20 ball match.

 

[Sidney Smith]

Paper, steel, and old bowling pins.

I sight in using paper targets, but for fun I shoot steel targets that I made. I bought the clangers from Walmart, and made a frame from old rebar and some chains I had in my tool shed.

Our club always has old bowling pins hanging on strings. They're a lot of fun to make dance.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

I like the loud sound of Steel!

 

[ILoveMuzzleloading]

I mix it up, but steel is my go too. Many farm stores have these bouncing rubber targets, those are cool too. The rubber reseals so you get a few shots out of them. Small bore only, usually

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Excluding sighting in or developing a load , what kind of targets do you like to shoot best , paper targets , steel targets or other types ?

SO..., I heard all the pro's from my son about steel. But they weren't cheap, plus I'd have to get a length of chain for each and two C-clamps for each chain so we could clamp the ends of the chain to the target posts, and thus hang them between the paper target holders at the range.

Fine so we got some, and they would save a lot of down time as we would not be going back and forth taping up old paper targets or putting up new paper targets.

My son had a grand time, and then I tried them....

..., I have to admit I really under estimated the fun of making them ring and swing...,

And there's really no way with soft lead or even lead alloy that I'm ever going to wear these out...

LD

 

[toot]

I shoot paper for sighting in, But prefer moving or "exploding" targets for enjoyable shooting. water ballons, flour filled ballons, charcol bickets, oppsicle sticks, cards,etc.

my range outlawed EXPLODING TARGETS, be cause the paper targets on the back stop caught fire and started a brush fire!.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

my range outlawed EXPLODING TARGETS, be cause the paper targets on the back stop caught fire and started a brush fire!.

The knuckleheads that "govern" my local range swapped out a range rule that now outlaws steel because somebody forgot to lock up the Cowboy Steel and a dunderhead found it, used it, and shot holes through it..., but they didn't update the date on the rules (lucky I checked). They tried to pretend "Steel has never been approved except for special matches." I then showed them my photo (love cell phones) of the original range rules.

So now I have steel to help out folks that occasionally set up BP matches and woods walks...., and private target shoots

LD

 

[Art Caputo]

For load work and sighting in paper. For practice steel of varying sizes/ranges.