Target Paper

[Tyler Durden]

pardon the triple tap, buttttt....

I picked up a roll of heavy brown craft paper at Home Depot.  I will put that up as a backer first and then staple my day glow cardstock on top of that.  This is at a special members only range where they put up that black homasote board or that cor-a-plast board as a backer. 

The brown craft paper also makes a good wide target for patterning shotguns.

Also, at Home Depot and/or Lowe's they should also sell a heavy rosin paper that comes on  a roll .  It is what is supposed to go down first before you put down a traditional wood floor.

[alfsauve]

...........I use cardstock paper from the office supply aisle at Wally World.
................I like the cardstock from wally world because it is a suitable heavy paper that also three hole punches rather well.

Cool idea Tyler, about using standard sized card stock and 3-hole punching it to put in notebook.

[bjtraz]

I have access to an abundance of used building plans, free. I use those for a canvass to draw aiming points on. They work well for patterning shotguns, initial zero of rifles/pistols. As mentioned above, they are too thin to support round holes, but when it is important, I attach Shoot-N-See targets to it, and get very visual, round holes.

Brian

[Tyler Durden]

I was at Lowe's again today and walked right by the brown craft paper.  It was 35 inches wide by 140 feet long and it was just $9.98  .  That is 58,800 square inches of paper.  the equivalent of 628 sheets of 8.5X11 paper.

I will put my still to be chrono'ed ammo in those blue plastic flip lip ammo boxes.  I have some special size label made by Avery that I printed out using MS word.  When I get to the range I will stick the same label on the target I just shot...all the important info....

powder type
powder weight
bullet type and weight
primer
caliber
average velocity

standard deviation
and average power factor.

[Tyler Durden]

the 3 ring binder also has those plastic divider tabbed dealey-oh's.  there is a label on the tabs, one tab/section for 9mm, one for .40, one for .45, and .223.

it makes it so much quicker to locate stuff like that.

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

craft/masketing paper.  almost always has 2 sides.  make sure you use the non shiny side.

[cookie62]

craft/masketing paper.  almost always has 2 sides.  make sure you use the non shiny side.

I thought all paper had two sides??

[alfsauve]

craft/masketing paper.  almost always has 2 sides.  make sure you use the non shiny side.

My bullets pass all the way through, so I end up using both sides.   Boy that would save money though.

[alfsauve]

I thought all paper had two sides??

Except for a Mobius strip.  Only one side, but it makes a lousy target.

[usmcdadx2]

OK, I'm a cheap...um, fellow. Since I have to break down cardboard boxes for recycling anyway I break them down to 12x12 or 18x18 pieces and “recycle” them as targets. If I'm feeling real fancy I'll add small pieces of tape as aiming points, but most of the time I just use the plain brown square. I figure outside of a range nothing I'm likely to shoot has a convenient little “aim here dummy” symbol so why should I do my practice with one. I do use “store bought” targets for sighting in or testing new guns