Airgun Night Target

When you have a sub 500 fps rifle, you can shoot any darn time you like, I say.

I had some accuracy issues, initially, as you can see in this photo:


But now I have that sorted out, I rebuilt my target holder with new and smaller holes. Here are a couple of night pics with crappy exposure, including the first 5-shot group:



The actual brightness is something between those two pics. It gives a great sight picture, especially with red illuminated crosshairs.

There are just a few LED's glued to the back of the target holder with a switch and a rechargeable battery. The light reflects off the backstop, which is a roll of toilet paper wrapped up in plastic film, with a lead ingot for a base. The whole thing sits in a cardboard box to collect the pellets. Slap on a laser printer label, and you have 4 bullseyes.

I discovered it's even more fun setting a little pebble in the bottom of each window.

Yeah, that would be cool, too.

After my first target became oversized and oblong from all the bad hits, I started printing up some cartoony line art squirrels on the labels. You could see it backlit, clearly, with a scope. I'd try to shoot the acorn out of his hands, then his head, then his big cartoon feet. But the smaller holes make for a pretty decent bullseye without having to line anything up.

Eventually, I will have to rebuild it from stray hits. Especially since I am lazy and often play the game of trying to shoot out all the remaining paper from the circle. But I have a bandsaw and a drill press. It is only a matter of a few minutes to build a new holder.