"Shoot to Live"

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If we were faced with reproducing something such as those targets in a print shop back in "the old days" (5 or 10 years ago) we would measure it up and put the measurement we have and the measurement we want into the cameraman's proportional scale, shoot the biggest PMT we could for the first step, clean it up with knife-tip and marker, then shoot the negative likewise.

Your proportions multiply, of course. Need the target at 450% of what you have? Shoot twice, 300 on the PMT, then 150 on the negative, burn your plate and away.

There is a special type of paper used for printing targets. For some unknown reason, it is called "target paper" and it is used for nothing else. It is specially designed and made to give you nice, clean bullet holes. The biggest problem with the stuff is that, although a mill generally will make it as required, they want a minimum order of AT LEAST a ton. That's a lot of targets.

If you are doing 4-foot targets, though, it would not be all that many. Couple of thousand at most. I don't know, being that I have never weighed one. Here, your biggest headache would be shipping costs. For such a small run, likely you would be better with screen-printing or even stencilling; an offset press capable of handling a 4-foot piece of paper is going to be priced in the millions and will costs hundreds per hour to rent. Smaller targets, up to 34 or 38 inches wide and up to 22 inches deep, can be done on cheap-grade newsprint on a newspaper press and it can be done very fast once you have the art work. When we started the Lewisporte club, a ticked-off pressman 'accidentally' wound the Rockwell Goss up most of the way and discovered that it didn't want to shut off. Our Club ended up with 8500 sets of targets...... enough for years..... for nothing!

If you just wanted a couple, you could get a couple of refrigerator boxes from an appliances store and paint them with Blackboard Slating (doesn't reflect).

But that's targets.

As to "SHOOT TO LIVE!", I don't think there is another book as PRACTICAL in the English language, nor another as easy to comprehend. It just can not be praised highly enough..... even though the humourless politically-correct Socialists of our time would decry the "racist' cartoons.... which my Indian friends find quite funny.

I would (and do) recommend the book as highly as possible to new shooters as well as to experienced shooters who are having trouble.
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