Targets:   At a distance of 50 metres, paper targets are set up, on a white backing board. There are three styles of targets - competition, the older style (easier)  competition target and small animal images.

Competition target:

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Older Competition target: called "Scout" target.

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Third target style:

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There are five target centres on all targets. The middle one is used first for "sighters".  


Stages: A stage takes about half an hour. 

Stage 1: Shooting only starts when the Range Officer announces "commence fire."

The first 5 bullets are fired into the middle target centre, to check that the rifle sights are correctly set. These do not count towards the final score. Your coach may be watching this group develop, through a telescope, and might possibly adjust the rifle sights at this time to centre the group.

Then five shots are fired  into the Top Left target centre. The innermost circle is called the "centre".  The next circle is the "bulls eye". Any shot inside the bullseye, or even outside but still touching the line of the bullseye is worth 10 points.   Five shots x 10 points = 50 points maximum for this target centre.

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Five shots are then fired into the other three target centres.  This gives a maximum score for Stage 1 of  50 + 50 + 50 + 50 = 200 points. 

The Range Officer then calls a cease fire, and checks that all rifles are unloaded and rendered safe. The target is then replaced with a new paper target, ready for Stage 2.

Write your name on the Stage 1 target and leave it with the Scorer, inside the clubhouse. After scoring and recording it is yours to take home. 


Stage 2: Shooting only starts when the Range Officer announces "commence fire."

Again, the first 5 bullets are fired into the middle target centre, to check that the rifle sights are correctly set. The maximum score for Stage 2 is  50 + 50 + 50 + 50 = 200 points. Again, leave the target to be scored. Hopefully your score is better than before! 

The first few targets are actually the best ones to keep, tucked away in the bottom of a draw somewhere ....... looking back at them in a few years time will tell you how good you were at the start.


Scoring group size:  The Scout target has larger diameter scoring rings. 

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Sometimes it is not possible to perfectly zero all rifles for members of large groups. Also different people aim to slightly different places because of their eyesight. To solve this problem we measure the size of their 5 shot group - if the 5 shots fall inside a 30mm circle, then the score is taken to be "30".  In this system the lowest number wins!

A plastic overlay is used to measure the group size:

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North Sydney Small Bore & Air Rifle Club, Hornsby Rifle Range, Sydney, Australia 2077,   50 metres,  .22  prone Target Shooting Club.   Jul09 - Jul2011
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