I shared this on another forum, thought I'd see what folks here thought.
Over the last few months as I played around with hand loads, I've come to realize that the targets I'm shooting at, seem to be able to impact how well I shoot. I've just found some standard targets suck when it comes to shooting consistently.
For my old man eyes, I need something with a prominent aim point and sufficient contrast against the backdrop. I've actually found I shoot best when I'm using the 2" or 3" fluorescent orange target stickers. My groups open up when I'm using either a pinpoint target (A bunch of small 1/2" dots on a page) or one of those store bought factory sight in targets. (All black with a central target surrounded by 4 smaller targets in the corners) Even a standard NRA 100 yard rifle target with the black central target isn't optimal.
So... after a bunch of iterations, I made my own. Thought I'd share, in case someone else suffers from geezer eyes.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4183/targetcs.jpg
- The 1" diamond center helps make sure your reticle is centered up.
- The black bars on the side help keep you from canting your reticle
- The two small circles above, are for hunting rifle site in. 1.5" circles at 1.5" and 2.0" above POA @ 100. (I site most my hunting rifles in for 200, so it works well.)
- The 2" and 3" light circles are for lining up a birchwood casey 2" or 3" orange sticker if you want
I hate to admit just how many iterations of this I've gone through, but it's proven to work pretty well for me. I think the only bit left may be to put on a section to document conditions/location of the shoot, but for my copy at least, this usually doesn't change. (I do 99.9% of all my load work up at the same range on calm days.)
Over the last few months as I played around with hand loads, I've come to realize that the targets I'm shooting at, seem to be able to impact how well I shoot. I've just found some standard targets suck when it comes to shooting consistently.
For my old man eyes, I need something with a prominent aim point and sufficient contrast against the backdrop. I've actually found I shoot best when I'm using the 2" or 3" fluorescent orange target stickers. My groups open up when I'm using either a pinpoint target (A bunch of small 1/2" dots on a page) or one of those store bought factory sight in targets. (All black with a central target surrounded by 4 smaller targets in the corners) Even a standard NRA 100 yard rifle target with the black central target isn't optimal.
So... after a bunch of iterations, I made my own. Thought I'd share, in case someone else suffers from geezer eyes.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4183/targetcs.jpg
- The 1" diamond center helps make sure your reticle is centered up.
- The black bars on the side help keep you from canting your reticle
- The two small circles above, are for hunting rifle site in. 1.5" circles at 1.5" and 2.0" above POA @ 100. (I site most my hunting rifles in for 200, so it works well.)
- The 2" and 3" light circles are for lining up a birchwood casey 2" or 3" orange sticker if you want
I hate to admit just how many iterations of this I've gone through, but it's proven to work pretty well for me. I think the only bit left may be to put on a section to document conditions/location of the shoot, but for my copy at least, this usually doesn't change. (I do 99.9% of all my load work up at the same range on calm days.)
