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Offline Sharps-Nut

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« on: January 31, 2003, 07:49:05 AM »
Help I was just getting ready to make some 1/2 plate animals and was not sure of sizes.  I the 14.25 x 22.25 pig the same one used for bpcr?  Help  me if you can
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2003, 03:49:04 PM »
S-N  There are four or five different sizes of silhouette targets.  It all depends on what type of rifle you are going to play the game with.
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2003, 05:20:09 PM »
High Power Rifle, BPCR and Cowboy Lever Action use full size targets, half inch thick chickens and pigs, three-eighth inch thick turkeys and rams.

Pistol Cartridge Cowboy uses half size targets, three-eighth inch thick.

Smallbore Cowboy uses half size targets, three-sixteenth inch thick rams, quarter inch thick turkeys and pigs, and three-eighth thick chickens.

Smallbore Rifle uses one-fifth size targets, quarter inch thick pigs, turkeys and rams, one quarter to one half inch thick chickens.

Air Rifle targets are one-tenth size, one eight inch thick.

Full size chicken feet are 3 inches by 4.  Pig feet are 2 x 4.  Turkey feet are 3 x 8.  Ram feet are 4 x 5.

All half size targets have feet 2 inches x 4 inches.  All one-fifth scale target's feet are 1 inch wide by 2 inches long.

High Power Rifle targets have to be made of a specific type of tempered steel.

Shooting Paul has NRA Official Target Size drawings on his web site: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/proszak/

- Jim
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