Target faces for practise

[ThePinkOne]

I use faces scaled for my 6m down the upstairs passageway, printed out then glues onto waste card so they last a bit longer...

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[komtox]

I just use an ordinary paper plate...

I use yellow plastic rawl plugs pushed between the layers at 4M

[Greyghost]

When I first started archery, just for a bit of fun, I bought some coloured card from the stationary aisle at Asdas. I cut them into two circles the size of the Portsmouth gold and pasted them onto a piece of white card, so I'd have at flourescent pink 10 and a green 9 etc. It was fun, but even better, I ended with multi coloured platinums because of the dye in the card.
Best wishes,
Steve

[gwynn]

Originally Posted by english_archer

......... so i was wondering what faces everyone else choose for practise ?

Animal faces, everything from Javelinas down to Stoats.
The difficult thing about animal faces is that if I'm shooting at a traditional target and I land an arrow 3" below the gold, I still score, if however, I put an arrow 3" under the kill on a boar, I've missed altogether - makes it more intertesting

[pHz]

just measured my back garden this evening and can just get 18m / 20yd so i guess once i get a boss and stand of some kind ill be getting a supply of indoor round faces to play with

side question - how useful do people find scaled down faces using that texas program ? i can see the value in getting used to the 'real' sized gold you would be aiming at but surely the physics of the shots are nowhere near accurate so a hit on a scaled gold at 18m doesnt equate to a hit on a full size gold at 70m ?

slainte : rob

[ThePinkOne]

Originally Posted by pHz

just measured my back garden this evening and can just get 18m / 20yd so i guess once i get a boss and stand of some kind ill be getting a supply of indoor round faces to play with

side question - how useful do people find scaled down faces using that texas program ? i can see the value in getting used to the 'real' sized gold you would be aiming at but surely the physics of the shots are nowhere near accurate so a hit on a scaled gold at 18m doesnt equate to a hit on a full size gold at 70m ?

slainte : rob

Depends what you want them for.

I like scaled faces to purely get used to the relative sight picture in my scope- but I know they are not equivalent scoring. However, the sight pic is important to me so I can work on my aiming methods and see how different scope inserts work and so on. Although I have to say I tend to do far more work blank-bail than I do with targets up- it all depends what I am working on that day. My home shooting is about trying to develop/reinforce consistency in shot, for me I feel the shot and aiming is secondary so always having a spot to look at is less of an issue. Success of the session I judge not by score but by a factor that depends on what I am working on- e.g. if I am working on bow hand position to minimise hand torque, shooting bare shafts with no/minimal stabilizers on the bow at 6m the ideal impact should be clean and perfect, I can judge success by amount of arrow tail wagging on impact- an so on. When using spots to trial scope inserts, the timing of the shot and degree of effortlessness of the pull-through to release as compared to a blank-bail is my measurement of outcome- not scores.

I guess the issue of usefulness of short-range shooting and scaled faces comes down to what you use it for, what your "training aims" for the sessions on your home target are....

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