Where to get targets?

[Sandhills Writer]

:confused: Does anyone know where to buy the cardboard targets, that have the humanoid square shape that they use for compititions?

[Hawkmoon]

Try www.pistoleer.com

If Pistol Pete doesn't have it, it can't be got. He has the broadest assortment of targets I've seen anywhere.

From his home page, go to targets, then competition and law enforcement targets.

[wichaka]

Buy one, then go to appliance stores and get their cardboad and use the one you bought for a template.......and cut away.

[NYCMedic]

You might want to look at http://www.letargets.com/html/home.html.

[wichaka]

Movie posters make good targets as well.

[zztoplc]

I use pizza boxes.

[jac714]

I believe you are talking about the IDPA/USPSA pattern target, if so you can get them from the IDPA pro shop at

www.idpa.com

Good Luck

[PursuitFRC]

Movie posters make good targets as well.

Especially Sean Penn movies

[Gunner777]

They can be ordered direct from www.idpa.com also. There are also steel targets available. I don't have the link but a google search will bring them right up.

[Gunner777]

IDPA Headquarters
2232 CR 719
Berryville, AR 72616
870-545-3886
Fax: 870-545-3894 Fort Harmar Rifle Club
Carl Heinrich
Box 305
Reno, Ohio 45773
740-373-5302
National Target Co.
3958-D Dartmouth Ct.
Frederick, MD 21703-7805
800-827-7060
Fax: 301-874-4764 Speedwell Division of Rockwood Corp.
136 Lincoln Blvd.
Middlesex, NJ 08846
800-243-8274
sales@speedwelltargets.com

P.O. Box 352454
Toledo, OH 43635-2454
Phone: 419-829-2242
Fax: 419-829-2107
Email
Alco Target Company

2048 Central Avenue

Duarte, CA 91010

888-258-4814

These links came from the IDPA website.

[dickmartin]

My training team and I order ours from Target Barn in Toledo, OH, www.targetbarn.com.

[JohnMcD348]

Here's an idea that I've used for a number of years for general target practice. Goto Sam's Club or local discount retailer and buy you a bag of disposable paper plates. You can get thme in various sizes to suit your needs. Go with the white paper plates and they are usually the cheapest. At the range, they only need 1 staple to hold them up and if you shoot a bullseye, chances are, the target will drop and give you an instant read on your point of aim.
When I was in the Navy assigned to the Marines, we used to (aquire) disposable paper trays from the local galley and use those on the range for "structured" traget practice with our weapons systems. At walking ranges we would shoot Meat, peas, potatoes and desert in that order. When I got out and took the wife shooting at our local outdoor range, I used the little 5" plates and stapled multiple target up on the board. From the comments I got from the others on the range, you would have thought I'd discovered the next greatest thing. If you're real intent, you can get a simple compass and draw your own rings on the paper plates.

[Bear45]

Thanks guys for all of the places to get targets, These will come in handy. Bear

[garrettwc]

Buy one, then go to appliance stores and get their cardboad and use the one you bought for a template.......and cut away.
The guys I shoot with did something similar. Bought a couple of pallets of flat cardboard the right length and width.

Take standard IPSC target and cut stencil holes in it for "A" head section and high in chest for body "A" section (sort of like FBI-TQ19). Lay flat piece on range bench with template on top. Couple of quick sprays with flat black krylon and instant targets.

[Gunner777]

Years ago I had a friend who worked for a printing company. He took a B27 target to work and came back with a roll that took two people to carry. It took us a couple of years to go through them. He went to another job----to bad.

The prices at many of the vendors is pretty cheap. I'd like to get a steel target. That ting--ting--ting sound is great when you hit it with a 45!

[garrettwc]

The prices at many of the vendors is pretty cheap. I'd like to get a steel target. That ting--ting--ting sound is great when you hit it with a 45!
Find an old truck that has been wrecked or stripped. Get out the torches and cut the straight sections of the frame rails into 8-10" sections. Be sure to cut large 1/2-3/4" holes in the sides of the frame. For singles, set a 4x4 post in the ground and run a big lag bolt through the frame rails and post. If you want a plate rack run a section of galvanized pipe through the frame rails and attach to large posts at either end.

[kingairpilot]

Go to your local grocery store, and when they start bagging, astonish them by saying "Paper please". Grocery bags make the perfect "poor man's" target.

They are also "self storing"

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