What do you prefer for paper targets for open sights?

[Chris]

I'm partial to receiver sights and Patridge front on lever actions. I do my load development with them and hunt with them.

My eyes are aging but still good enough to use this system, but I'm wondering of there is a better option than a bull with a six o'clock hold? I saw a target somewhere that seemed good: a bold horizontal bar with a broad "V" that intercepted it in the center... so keep the bar touching the horizontal of the front sight and use the "V" to center your post. Anybody seen that or have any better ideas?

I'm working with an 1894 that has a Patridge that subtends about 8" at 100 yards. I'm able to use a 3" bull at 50 but am having more trouble at 100. Any ideas?

 

[Minute Of Berm]

Hundred dollar bills, every time I go grocery shopping I shoot the heck out of at least one........,

 

[Brad]

Try a bull that is the width the front sight subtends at the range fired. Lets you center the bull very well.
Highpower shooters shoot some amazing groups prone at 600 using a 36" black.

 

[Chris]

I've shot NRA bulls for many years and am comfortable with them, I know. Sort of hoping there might be a novel target to help aging eyes. If there isn't then I need to invent one. Hoping someone has experience here... but most guys shoot scopes anymore or shoot inside 50 yards.

 

[Cliff]

Sounds like your looking for the victory target.......http://www.precisionplustargets.com/hv_vr_target_desc_8.htm

 

[Josh]

Sounds like your looking for the victory target.......http://www.precisionplustargets.com/hv_vr_target_desc_8.htm

I make a V just like that, I didn't know that it came in paper form, just a heavy V made from sharpie on a contrasting background.

 

[Chris]

Cliff, that is the one I saw somewhere. Thanks.

There has to be something better than a bull when you have a coarse front sight and 62 year old eyes. Also shooting light levr actions off the bags... is it your hold, the bedding, or your eyes when you turn in a poor group?

Anybody have other ideas, for instance dose color matter? Somebody must be working hard to overcome a similar problem...

 

[Chris]

Be interesting to try a few groups on these vs. standard bull @ 100yards or more.

http://www.precisionplustargets.com/hv_vr_target_desc_8.htm

http://www.precisionplustargets.com/Pricing.pdf

 

[358156 hp]

I have some blue targets as well, I think mine were from Wolfe Publishing. I may have a touch of red/orange color blindness, but blue stands out for me pretty clearly. Red/orange hazes pretty badly for me in bright sunlight.

 

[gman]

That looks like it would be worth a try.

 

[fiver]

I see blue okay too, but bright orange and neon colors tends flip flop around like it's coming off the target.
green isn't too bad.

I tend to do best when the target is the same size or slightly smaller than the front sight.

 

[waco]

I like an upside down "T" made of blue painters tape for handguns.

 

[Cliff]

If I remember correctly, the front sight on the M1 / M1A needed to be .050'' to be equal in width to a 6'' bull at 100 yards, 12'' at 200 ect, ect. At least that's how we did it in the 80's /90's
when I shot D.C.M.

 

[oscarflytyer]

6" black round bull on a vanilla (dirty off-white) background that I can use the 6 o'clock Navy hold on. Nothing better for iron/peep sights imo.

and funny, AFTER I wrote this/before posting, read other responses. And Cliff's above is about where I learned it!

 

[Pistolero]

Two to try. for open sights, work great for me.

1.5" wide stripe on white paper, inverted T.

30-45 degree black V with point down.

Bill

 

[Bret4207]

Anymore I tend to try a 9" white paper plate as a target first. With a 6:00 hold with most blade and bead sights against a darker backboard I'm going to do as well as these eyes allow. The other target that works is an inverted triangle of printer paper against a contrasting background. But making the triangles sides even is important. Works better somedays, others not so much. The neon targets are wasted on me and the black bulls are getting too fuzzy to work with. Most of my recreational shooting, what there is of it anymore, is at a gong about 10" round. It's a skid of a highway snowplow and is painted yellow. Works okay for informal practice.

 

[Chris]

Bret, I have found the paper plates to work ok too. The inverted V from printer paper seems worth trying. I have a paper cutter that would make a bunch in a hurry and do a good job of it.

I will try what Bill said above, nice and simple.

 

[Bret4207]

Chris, for me not making the triangle too "pointy" works better. You just need something you can see the sight in relation to, not a pin point.

 

[Missionary]

Greetings
I use the up side down "T" for all my iron site shooting. Mine get fatter lines as ranges increase to be seen clearly without eye strain.
Wit scopes the same "T" . Once well sighted you can make smaller "T's" at the ends of the original T lines.
Black electrician tape is my 1st choice. May have to try that Blue painters tape. (Thanks Waco)