For the last year or so, we have been putting small bits of tape on many of our dry fire targets and some of our live fire practice targets to encourage "looking at a spot." As part of discussion around a number of Stoeger's recent videos on target focus, YVK commented that putting your red dot on a small piece of tape would seem to encourage dot focus since you only see your dot when it covers the tape.
That led to discussion where my wife related Max Michel's technique for shooting steel, where you look at the steel and when your dot is surrounded by a sufficient amount of white, you fire the shot. We then thought that might be a good technique on paper, where you visualize a target area.
After a trip to Staples, we found 3.5x5 mailing labels. Just had a great range session with labels on some targets to denote a target area, and in separate use for zeroing, draws and practical accuracy drills. Our belief is if you can hit a 3.5x5 target on demand, at speed, you have a reasonable handle on accuracy for games and defense. These targets also work well at promoting target focus.
Here are the labels we bought.
And, what they look like on a dry fire target compared to tape.