When do you paint resettables?

[15turkeys]

We're testing resettables for air rifle silhouette. They promise to make matches go quite a bit faster. On the other hand, hits are not as entertaining; the chickens just flop back instead of taking to the air.

But when to paint the animals? If we do it after every relay, we lose much of the time savings. If we paint only at the start of the match, the first relay sees clean targets and the second relay sees dirty ones. Is this unfair?

Maybe we should never paint.

Glad to hear from people with experience using resettables.

[nomad]

We generally run two relays. (We can put up to 16 people on a relay.)

Repainting at the mid-point of the match seems to work well for us.

[shootingpaul]

the best is to paint them when you need it
 :lol:

[K2]

We had the same issue in Air pistol silhouette.  Having gone to the string pull resetables we will never go back.  Yes those interesting things don't happen but the match runs so much better.  We paint after 20 shots.  Painting takes approximately 2 minutes when you use a large piece of cardbaod to deal with the overspray.  

We're testing resettables for air rifle silhouette. They promise to make matches go quite a bit faster. On the other hand, hits are not as entertaining; the chickens just flop back instead of taking to the air.

But when to paint the animals? If we do it after every relay, we lose much of the time savings. If we paint only at the start of the match, the first relay sees clean targets and the second relay sees dirty ones. Is this unfair?

Maybe we should never paint.

Glad to hear from people with experience using resettables.

[Accurateone]

I'm using resettables for smallbore and we paint them blaze pink over white and do this once per match at the beginning.  The only folks who are even slightly disadvantaged are those who shoot chickens near the end of the night as they get shot up the worst.

Arizona Jake could probably add his thoughts too since he shot with us when he was dislocated in Wisconsin.