Off-hand practice -- which target?

[HomeSlice]

Thanks in advance for looking.

I've been trying to improve my offhand, practicing with a 22 @50yd on an A-23 target. I think this is the wrong target -- or, I suck at this a lot worse than I thought.

The aiming black looks close enough (3.9" ~= 8MOA, vs the SR black is 13" ~= 6.5 MOA), but the 5 ring on the A-23 is only 5.9" (12ish MOA), vs the SR is much larger, somewhere about 18-19MOA.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to get 5s & 6s, but it's hard to track my improvement when essentially anything less than a generous 8 is a miss.

Is there a better target to use that more closely mimics what the SR would be reduced to 50 yds?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

get one of @AlloyTargets gongs custom made to scale.

 

[kzin]

http://www.ray-vin.com/tech/targets/targetlist.htm

How about actual reduced SRs for 50yd , 25yd and 50feet?


Other options for off the shelf targets:

A31 light rifle target. Generous rings but only goes down to 6-ring.

A33 which is a very difficult 100yd target that goes down to a 1 ring. Not crazy easy for 50yd offhand. Inner scoring rings are almost identical sizes to A31

CMP rimfire targets. VERY easy used for offhand at 25. Even at 50 they go out to a big 1 ring.

 

[DR_2297]

Honestly just get the properly scaled black and don’t worry about the white. Concentrate on not putting them in the white as your first step. Once you can do that 20 shots in a row work on tightening things up to 10 / X ring. Don’t worry about score.

 

[squint-n-squeeze]

This might be a little off topic, but a fun way to get offhand practice is to shoot smallbore silhouette. The animals are irregularly shaped and at different distances, but the size of each comes out to around 4MOA. This is just a shade bigger than XTC's offhand 10-ring.

 

[marty dabney]

Are you practicing to shoot offhand in XTC matches or just in general? If it is for XTC then I would take KZINs advice and train on the target you will be competing on resuced down to whatever yardage You're practicing on

 

[HomeSlice]

Yes, it’s for xtc practice. I downloaded a few of those targets and ordered some cheap card stock from amazon.

Thank you for the help from everyone.

 

[6fatrat]

Indoors at 50 feet I use the A 17, a 9 or better is a 10 ring at 200 yards.
Don't worry about your score, work on your hold a smooth trigger pull.
Steve Bair

 

[fayettefatts]

For xtc dry fire practice with your service rifle, use a hole punch and a black target paster. Use the punched out piece as your target. Paste it to a white wall and move back far enough that the target is the same width as your front sight. Dry fire for 20 or so minutes every day. Concentrate on trigger, sight picture, and follow through. Live fire will show great improvement after a couple of weeks.

 

[Twdmar]

The Ray vin website has downloadable 50 foot targets scaled from xtc targets

 

[jpretle]

A quality air gun, w/ appropriate targets will get you down the road quicker, I think. A good way to learn 'follow through', which leads to being able to 'call your shots'.

 

[DR_2297]

My belief has always been to practice with the platform you plan to compete with. You don’t fire a wood stocked rifle offhand the same way you fire the AR and a match rifle is different still.

 

[HomeSlice]

I’ve got a 22 upper for my spacegun lower. Same barrel length, balance and weight within reason. I ended up ordering a Rem of think paper from amazon and printed thos reduced SR target above on it.