Home made Shoot and See targets

[11B3XCIB]

I saw this on Youtube and decided to try it out for myself. The Shoot and See targets are kind of expensive, and doing it yourself gives you infinite options as far as shape, size, etc.

You need: Neon colored paper (green/yellow/orange), clear packing tape, black spray paint.

Cover the neon paper evenly with the clear tape:

Spray paint the taped paper. I used matte black.

Let it dry, then shoot it!

9mm and .22lr

 

[04ctd]

question:

given your time/effort/gas was it worth it?

that worked great, we bought one set, and I did not think they were worth the cost,

once we had ~a dozen rounds in them, it has hard to tell, anyways.

 

[PCShogun]

Neat idea. I don't shoot a lot of rounds, I'm more of a distance guy, so this may work for me.

 

[11B3XCIB]

The 50-pack of 8.5x11 neon paper was $2.50, the clear tape was 100 feet for $1, and the single can of spray paint was 97 cents. I was at Wal-Mart anyhow, so I wasn't making a special trip.

I used 6 feet of tape at 1 cent a foot, 6 cents. 5 cents per page, and I figure I can do 15 pages with that can of spray paint (probably more, but I'm guessing), so 7 cents. I'll even round up, so that one 8.5x11 home made shoot and see target probably cost 20 cents. Granted, there is no "X" ring or whatever, for how I shoot, I don't have the need for the markings, I know where the center is. And a real target (bad guy, deer, etc) won't have rings and a bulls-eye, so I like practicing on a point of impact I choose.

I found real Shoot-N-C targets online, 12 for $11. That's 91 cents a target. Mine aren't as pretty, but they do the trick for something I'm going to shoot holes in and throw away.

 

[C_Carson]

Cool idea!

 

[Rosea Carpa]

The 50-pack of 8.5x11 neon paper was $2.50, the clear tape was 100 feet for $1, and the single can of spray paint was 97 cents. I was at Wal-Mart anyhow, so I wasn't making a special trip.

I used 6 feet of tape at 1 cent a foot, 6 cents. 5 cents per page, and I figure I can do 15 pages with that can of spray paint (probably more, but I'm guessing), so 7 cents. I'll even round up, so that one 8.5x11 home made shoot and see target probably cost 20 cents. Granted, there is no "X" ring or whatever, for how I shoot, I don't have the need for the markings, I know where the center is. And a real target (bad guy, deer, etc) won't have rings and a bulls-eye, so I like practicing on a point of impact I choose.

I found real Shoot-N-C targets online, 12 for $11. That's 91 cents a target. Mine aren't as pretty, but they do the trick for something I'm going to shoot holes in and throw away.

When you break it down like that...... Thank you for the good/ cool/ and cost effective idea!

 

[P-1]

And, of course, you forgot the....the satisfaction of doing it yourself...Priceless!!!


Good job.

 

[Nerdwithguns]

Cool Idea. I think if you found something round and flat with a hole in it. You could place it on the target before you painted it and make a center ring. For those of us who might want or need one.

 

[rotarymike]

Just get one of those paper a$$holes - I forget the real name - little ring of sticky white paper. Comes by the hundred or so on a roll.

Neat idea, BTW. The nice thing is you could make a silhouette target entirely shoot-n-see for not much more.