Range Practice....

[geekWithA.45]

It strikes me that practice in an indoor range is somewhat limited, in that you're basically shooting at a target that's either static, moving away from you, or moving towards you, which is still essentially a zero value target.

Considering that few/no ranges have the equipment for it, how can we best emulate shooting at a laterally moving target? In an outdoor range, I can envision some possibilities, such as a swinging target, balloons, and the like, but if that's not available (often) , what's the next best thing?

The closest I can figure is to set out 4 targets (6 inch circles), and rapidly rotate among them to change my aim point, but I'm thinking there might be other/better ideas out there.

 

[sigman4rt]

Range practice

The thing that worked for me, it might for you, is shooting skeet or sporting clays with a shotgun. Distances and velocities ar about the same as most handgun calibers. what you're really trying to determine I presume is lead on the target. Nothing is better for determining lead than stations 3,4 and 5 in skeet and sporing clays covers all angles and options. It helped me tremendously, plus it's aheck of a lot of fun.

 

[Tierhog]

Buy a cheap remote controled car and rig up a dowel or somrthing and hang a balloon on it. Then have your buddy do his best to make you miss. Be carefull not to drive off the range.

 

[DragonRider]

Take that one step further, use a He balloon, that way you can just use a string and have multiple targets, shoot and no shoot balloons, etc.

John

 

[geekWithA.45]

These are all great ideas, but I should clarify that the question pertained to your basic, garden variety, laned indoor range.

Sorry that wasn't clear.

 

[Nate_m]

Found this out by accident......

At an indoor range where your clip on your target is usually a wedge shaped piece of steel to protect the clip. Shoot one side of that wedge and it will send that target swinging left to right depending on how well you hit it.
And there you go, a latterally moving target.

 

[Telperion]

Um, shooting the target clips is very frowned upon, at least at every indoor range here.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Tierhog has the right idea. Do a search on Glocktalk for 'Deaf Smith' and 'hummer' or 'mover' and you will see my remote controlled mover!