i’m about to get my first rifle and it is a 7.62X39 caliber rifle. i’m planning on going to an outdoor range for my rifle but i’m not sure what targets i should bring. i know they sell targets at the range but i’m not sure if those will be overpriced or not. and paper targets seem quite ridiculous for an outdoor range. what would be good targets for an outdoor range considering my rifle and its caliber? what can i bring?
Is there a place to hang targets? I always like the Shoot-N-C targets that allow you to see where you’ve hit – you can then make a circle around the hole that’s already there with a knife when you go downrange to check your target.
If you can’t hang targets, "for sale" signs work pretty well as a way to hang up paper targets (which are, by the way, perfectly fine for an outdoor range). If not, paper plates are also good targets.
Another good target for further out (75 to 100 yards) is taking empty plastic water bottles, filling them with water, adding a drop of red dye to each (so that you can see the color downrange) and capping them. This way, you can tell if you hit it without having to check your target (if it’s red, the bottle’s intact, if it’s clear, you’ve made a hole in the bottle).
I advise against using anyone’s mother as a target, as that is generally frowned upon at most ranges.
tin cans
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kittens
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my mum
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if you dont want to use paper targets then there are other targets and you can still tell where you hit it (unlike cans) and you can probably get them from an outdoor store and well kittens would get too costly unless they were strays and you could work on your running targets practice.
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Is there a place to hang targets? I always like the Shoot-N-C targets that allow you to see where you’ve hit – you can then make a circle around the hole that’s already there with a knife when you go downrange to check your target.
If you can’t hang targets, "for sale" signs work pretty well as a way to hang up paper targets (which are, by the way, perfectly fine for an outdoor range). If not, paper plates are also good targets.
Another good target for further out (75 to 100 yards) is taking empty plastic water bottles, filling them with water, adding a drop of red dye to each (so that you can see the color downrange) and capping them. This way, you can tell if you hit it without having to check your target (if it’s red, the bottle’s intact, if it’s clear, you’ve made a hole in the bottle).
I advise against using anyone’s mother as a target, as that is generally frowned upon at most ranges.
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