Ideas for holding home printed targets?

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Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#1 Post by Twiggy »

I have gotten into the habit of just printing "Free targets" from online. It saves me money and the hassle of going to a physical store, or time waiting over night even with amazon prime.

For my pellet rifles and pistols, I can just easily tape them onto my densely packed box, and all is good, as they puncture the paper and the cardboard fully.

However, with my Daisy 499B, it is a bb rifle, and it shoots low, claimed 240fps, some say theirs shoot higher like 260, but I guess it can be a +/- 240.

Sometimes bbs bounce right back at me, and most often they do bounce off of the box and then end up in my storage bin that I have the box in (which is good, as the point of it is to catch any bbs or other ball ammo that I shoot for purposes of reuse).

As a result of this though, the impact on the paper itself is light, and often times it is not until after I finish shooting, where I can take the paper off, and run the tip of my pencil through where I think I see the impact, that I can actually know where each shot hit.

I assume that if it was just paper suspended with no cardboard backing, the bbs would puncture fully, and it wouldn't be an issue.

I bought a picture frame from the dollar store, removed the top, and tried sliding in a piece of paper, but the paper curls inside and doesn't stay in very well.

I tried looking on amazon for 8 1/2 x 11 target holders and I had no luck.

I could just tape the top and the bottom of the paper to the front of my storage bin, and suspended the paper that way, but that would consume quite a lot of tape, seeing how wide the bin is, per each target.

Anyone know of a target holder that can suit my needs, or have any other ideas?
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#2 Post by Daryl »

This printed target (off the internet) is clamped with a clip, which is screwed to the top of my shooting box. The cardboard is also stapled to the front edge of the box's plywood sides and bottom.
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#3 Post by Twiggy »

yeah,

I think clips would be a good idea.

I just need to think about how I would want to attach them, there's nothing stopping me from screwing a clip in to the front of the storage bin, it's just plastic after all.

I'd need to figure out spacing, because I'd like a clip both on the top and bottom, that way the paper will be more vulnerable to a low velocity bb, and it won't move as much as well, not that there's any wind in my basement.
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#4 Post by jckstrthmghty »

I've been using the clip portion of a clipboard mounted to the top of my target box with foamcore as the backer. Works well and not expensive. Stops a lot of mess from excaping the target box. I've seen version where they cut out the middle of the clipboard. Easy to clip your target and cardboard backing. I used masking tape on carboard for the longest of time.
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#5 Post by Daryl »

The "mess" coming back out the front is why I have cardboard behind the "standing" target.
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#6 Post by Normk »

It may be over-kill for your use, but my home target stand has to withstand full power .22 PCP so it has a 26" x 24" x 3/8" hot rolled steel plate, carried by a 2" x 4" wood frame, mounted to a steel sawhorse with casters.

In front of the plate is a layer of 1" planks, faced by double layer of foam floor matting, faced by a plastic shower mat (keeps the floor mats from going to pieces so soon), with a double layer of corrugated cardboard.

The cardboard makes target mounting easy, and traps pellets that may drop out of the front.

980 fps, 14.3 gr pellets penetrate into the planks at the outset and chew the planks to bits in a few months. I have to redo the layers 2 or 3 times per year, despite that I don't shoot more than 50 pellets per week.

Most of the shooting is 480 fps 14.3 gr from my PP750.

Over-kill, for sure, but it would stop .22 long rifle without any problem and the alternative of having an accident if something left the indoors makes me cautious.

A surprising number of PP750 pellets can be recovered until the foam mats get chewed up too much.
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#7 Post by Rob27 »

My pellet catcher is a cardboard box filled with rubber mulch. I use pushpins to pin the target paper to the front.
When the front cardboard gets chewed up, I just tape another square of cardboard over the old one. I do this for 3 or 4 layers, then tip the box on its back, cut off all the extra layers and add a fresh first layer then repeat.
I move the targets around a bit to spread the holes around.
When I am being picky about seeing exactly where I usually put a fresh layer of cereal box board behind the target to give nice crisp holes.
When I am shooting lower velocity (and bb's) I usually skip the cereal box and put a fresh layer of softer cardboard behind the target. When I receive a box that it softer cardboard I keep it for this purpose and it seems to reduce bounce-backs.
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#8 Post by Rob27 »

Also Twiggy, I saw your posting on the UBC competition site - glad that you joined!
I will have to break out one of my bb pistols for next month to give you some competition in the bb category.

For everyone else - you can join in at any time - jump in and join the fun. The more the merrier!
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#9 Post by Twiggy »

Rob27 wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 12:06 pm Also Twiggy, I saw your posting on the UBC competition site - glad that you joined!
I will have to break out one of my bb pistols for next month to give you some competition in the bb category.

For everyone else - you can join in at any time - jump in and join the fun. The more the merrier!
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I just got in a 1050 count box of the Daisy Precision Ground Shot Match Grade BB's, they seem to be tied with Hornady Black Diamond BBs in terms of the best/most accurate BBs to use with the 499B, now I will have lots of chance to practice before January, and hopefully score even better. My best target score this time around was a 7, I think with the proper BBs and practice, I should improve even more. Practice makes perfect as they say, and BBs are relatively cheap, even compared to pellets, let alone firearm ammo, so I can afford lots and lots of practice.
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#10 Post by Rob27 »

I just noticed that you are shooting in the spring gun category.
Maybe I will pick up a spring powered pistol... another excuse to go gun shopping.

AGS has a Browning Buck Mark URX .177 Cal for $72....hmmmm.
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#11 Post by Rob27 »

Definitely hijacking this thread - sorry guys!
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#12 Post by Daryl »

Normk wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:04 pm It may be over-kill for your use, but my home target stand has to withstand full power .22 PCP so it has a 26" x 24" x 3/8" hot rolled steel plate, carried by a 2" x 4" wood frame, mounted to a steel sawhorse with casters.

In front of the plate is a layer of 1" planks, faced by double layer of foam floor matting, faced by a plastic shower mat (keeps the floor mats from going to pieces so soon), with a double layer of corrugated cardboard.

The cardboard makes target mounting easy, and traps pellets that may drop out of the front.

980 fps, 14.3 gr pellets penetrate into the planks at the outset and chew the planks to bits in a few months. I have to redo the layers 2 or 3 times per year, despite that I don't shoot more than 50 pellets per week.

Most of the shooting is 480 fps 14.3 gr from my PP750.

Over-kill, for sure, but it would stop .22 long rifle without any problem and the alternative of having an accident if something left the indoors makes me cautious.

A surprising number of PP750 pellets can be recovered until the foam mats get chewed up too much.
I'm using all of my air rifles (except the .50 Hammer) on mine and none can damage it. That includes all my .25's. The most powerful of those runs 26.54gr. Hades at 1,034fps.
3/16" steel plate on about a 45 degree angle. There is a piece of 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" angle steel the vertical plate sits into for pellets that bounce down.
I have also shot the .45 cal. Sam Yang with 185gr. bullets, no damage whatsoever. I would try the Hammer, but don't want to push things that far.
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Re: Ideas for holding home printed targets?

#13 Post by abslayer »

I just use a cardboard box stuffed with 4x4 at back with a old blanked in front staple target on front and blast away
When from of box gets shot up I just replace front with a new piece of carboard Work great and it cuts down on impact sounds the blanket does I should say :wink:
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#14 Post by daks »

I use an old plastic utility box, with two bags of rubber mulch tossed in it (left inside the original bags) so it fills up the bin, couple sheets of cardboard between the lid and the rubber mulch just to keep a small gap so the rubber much does not fly out.
Then I put 1/8" Neoprene over the hole in the lid of the container I shoot into.
Pellets and slugs go right through the neoprene and break it down, but slow bbs don't bounce off fast like they do on cardboard sometimes.

For bbs as though why not try using clips at the top and bottom from a frame,
but have the bottom clips attached to a weight that will keep the paper target flat and tight. Or just pull tight and clamp to the frame.
BB's should punch through cleanly then.

Then behind that you have fabric "curtains" hanging behind the target. Only attach them at the top.
Do a couple layers of curtains behind the target just to be safe as depending what material you use it will wear over time.
Old towels will work fine, just have to change out the front one more often, but something like Kevlar that you can get off amazon will last longer.

When the bb hits the curtain the curtain, it flexes in and absorbs the kinetic energy and the bb does not pass through, just falls to the bottom to be recycled.
Growing up my air pistol backstop was just a sheet of canvas with some silk on the front.
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