what size of steel targets do some of ya'all like ?

just fooling around and fun shooting say 600 to 1000 ?

I like 8" plates for almost everything out to about 800 yards. My standard 1000 target was 12" high by 24" wide. The trick was that it was hung as 3 separate 8" wide pieces. If I could not see a paint splatter I could see what section was swinging to help with windage errors.

8" out to 600, 12" from their on out.

I enjoy ringing the gongs but, the purpose, for me, is to practice those shots I might take on game - hence the smaller targets.

A friend that has a 1500 yard range uses 24" out past 1000 yards.

12"

12x12 works for me out to 1200 yds.

I use a 10" round plate. I only have access to about 600. About the size of the vital area on a deer.

I like a 12-16" plate out to 1000 yards. I paint a smaller target in the center, but at least when I miss that painted target, I can spot my misses on steel. Easier than spotting misses behind the target in the ground when using smaller plates.

At 1000 yds, it is nice to have a pretty big gong. I think ours is 12x18". With fresh paint you can see your hits pretty good. I can still measure a group if I need to.

I use 8" out to 400, 10" out to 600 which is as far as I have to shoot.

12x12 for me

Tell me....how many FIRST ROUND hits on those at 1000 and beyond!

Man this is the Campfire! Nobody misses


Mike

im sure not near as many as your shooting Rick

...does that mean I shouldn't try ?

The 1k is dead meat on a known range,in most any conditions.

Mine are all 1/2 MOA.

They'll last forever.



Travis

I use a 12" circle all the way out to and beyond 1K

12" out to 5-600, bigger past that. It's easy to miss at 700+ in the wind.

^^^ we use a 22" square for work beyond 600. True you don't need it all the time but it's good when verifying dope without a spotter and trying to learn to shoot in the wind

5" and 10" 1/2" thick AR-500 steel out to 900. I think 1000, 1100 and 1200 are 12" or 14". 1350 on out to 2000 yards are man size. We also have some bigger targets at 500 and 750, beside the 5 & 10 inch ones.

I like them about 1.5-2MOA for general practice. Also add in several smaller ones throughout.

I use mostly 12" round plates out to 500 yards, but theres a few 6" at 300 meters.(since its a home range based around natural back-stops there's some odd ball distances involved and a mixture of yards and meters.) At 500 and out to 800 I use IPSC silhouettes, but there is also a 18" by 36" plate at 500 that is very popular because its hard to miss completely due to wind. If a guy is feeling good he can always take the headshots. For the most part we're aiming at painted marks on the plates and can see the hits on the paint, so really the bigger the better for the actual plate. Its frustrating to not be able to tell where a miss went. I welded 4 square plates together to make one oversized one for 800 but if 4 x 8 sheets of AR500 weren't so crazy in price I would have done that.

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