Best Steel Aiming Spot Color?

Fluorescent green over white base.

Contrary to "thinking green," it stands out like a neon sign in the faintest of light conditions,
and dramatically shows contrasting hits/splashes.

We had a steel plate at 600 yards and tried several colors of spray paint on it to make it easier to see. It was on the side of a mountain with some scrub, grass, and rocks around it. White worked the best, red the worst but maybe that was due to the cataract I had developing. Haven't been back out since getting the cataract fixed. Hopefully our snow will melt before Christmas and I can find out if my shooting has improved after getting the screen door removed from my eyeball.

I've tried about everything:

Pretty much just settled on a black aimpoint/bull on a white background.

Chuck R. said:

Pretty much just settled on a black aimpoint/bull on a white background.

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That's my thought. I stupidly painted mine red... which is completely lost at distance.


See the steel plate out there? Yaa, neither can I...

When I was shooting F class and practicing on my friend's 600 yard gong, we settled on a 3" black spot on white steel. That is the size of the F class X ring.

We tried all sorts of gimmicks to try to resolve bullet holes in paper at midrange. Nothing reliably showed up in a 25 - 27X spotting scope. Those scopes were meant to see spotting disks on bullseye targets, ok for bullet splash on steel, but not much use on paper. I read all the time about 40-60X scopes picking .22s out of the black but do not have the eyepiece for it. If I were to get back into rifle shooting, I would get an electronic target or a target camera.

White reflects the most light so it is the most visible.

To see .22 LR splashes on a 165 yard swinger, I painted it plain white.

Anything not a natural color helps a lot. Bright pink, neon yellow, orange or green, etc. painted over white (on a black plate) seems to help me spot hits.

Stay safe.

Dayum @Walkalong ,,, if I were your neighbor with some adjoining land, I'd let you extend your range onto my property so we BOTH could practice PRS out to longer distances!

I use whatever darker paints I have to use as a base coat and lighter colors for the over coat. I think the contrasting colors helps. We shoot out to 600yrds when we set everything up and use a spotting scope.

Up close pistol shooting I use black because it kills the glare from our bright sunshine. Long range I prefer white because it is much easier for me to see and glare is not a problem