I adopted those last year on JCS's recommendation for a tight target and I like them a great deal for this purpose.
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I adopted those last year on JCS's recommendation for a tight target and I like them a great deal for this purpose.
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One great thing about the 3"×5"-ish sized paper is that it's almost exactly proportional to the USPSA A zone (6"×11", IIRC). So, the 3×5-ish card at 10 yards would be roughly equivalent to the 6×11 A zone at 20 yards.
Lots of options. The mailing labels stick great. Post-Its are a bit less sticky (and I'veonly seen adhesive on the long side), but are available in colors.
Was at a course with Ernest Langdon once, and he used the 3M adhesive spray to cover the cardboard target backers. Any size paper target could be stuck anywhere on the backer. Targets were removable, more or less. And the backers needed a fresh shot of adhesive. But no contrary stapler was needed.
With all that, @GJM's idea might be the simplest, cheapest, and easiest.
I've been shooting 3x5 and 4x6 cards for years.
We did a quick practice today -- two eight inch steel targets and two 3.5x5 mailing labels slapped on a range target. When we pulled off a target to stick our labels on, someone had left us a target for testing red dot vs target focus. Here is when we finished and no government officials were injured.
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I've used 3x5 note cards for years. A year or two ago, I found roles of 3x5 stickers on Amazon, after reading a comment by Tom Givens about stickers. Stickers are the way to go. I put green 2" circle stickers on my rectangle stickers because I obsess over 2" dots.
Me too. I read Macinko's book, along with Shooting at the Speed of Life right about the time I became an instructor in '07. A package of multicolored 3x5 index cards last a long, long time.
Different colors and different shapes are a quick and easy means for target discrimination drills. I also read one of Paul Howe's books around that time.
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