What is your recommended routine for the backyard shooter to better develop these skills? It helps me to get immediate feedback in the form of plate targets but their not always available at the ranges. I use color changing targets when I shoot paper and it's obvious even at longer ranges where your hitting the target. They do get kind of pricey but far cheaper than the ammo I'm shooting.
Any help would be apprieciated.
I posted this on another thread, but it may fit in this case also, with regards to not being able to shoot steel due to location:
I was a member of a range twenty or so years ago that had a 'no speed shooting' rule as well as no 'pins' or 'steel'.
They were real old-school die-hard Bullseye guys.
We talked it out and compromised and they finally allowed the faster shooting as long as it was on paper targets.
So, a couple of us went to a local pizza joint and bought a few stacks of those round cardboard liners that go under the pizza in the pizza boxes. Cost just a few bucks for a stack of fifty. We bought the 8" and 10" sizes. We then cut a saw kerf down the length of an 8' 2x4 and the targets would stand up on their edges in the 2x4. We used saw horses to hold the 2x4 and put several a various distances.
Worked like a charm for 'simulated steel' (I know it ain't the same as the real thing) and they were already white and could be repaired with tape during a session.
We also cut down the sides of some of them to make the resemble mini tombstone targets or mini poppers.
I still use the round pizza tray targets to plink on to this day....it works for me.
PegLeg
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