Where to get targets and the right paper?

[Bill50]

Just one problem about joining a club: I am in the Azores Islands and the nearest air pistol club is about 1000 miles away in Lisbon!
I have problems just finding heavy gauge copier paper. No shortage of wine though...

Buy light card and surf the net for free targets,loads of sites offering free targets.

[RobinC]

Its not worth the hassle printing your own, they will be rubbish compared to the official ones, they will not be eligable for postal competitions, and you will only save pennies, just buy from Kruger they are under 30 Euro's for a 1000.
Good shooting
Robin

[AlsoFishes]

Thing is that I made myself some steel pellet traps into which slides a piece of A4.
I take potshots at these 2/3 times a day on the way past. They are at 5m and 8m in my workshop and in the house, so I have printed myself 6-bull scaled-down targets (5 shots each) to save me having to change them so often and wasting paper.

"Official" 10m targets are a pointlessly stupid size. Virtually nobody can print 15x15cm or guilliotine to that size in any quantity. Everybody can print A4 paper, so WTF they are made in a non-rational size nobody can print I do not understand. Even A5 would make much more sense. I am not going to make stupid size steel traps specially just to fit the "official"ISSF targets Kruger supplies.
I will email them and ask them to start selling the paper in A4 so everyybody can buy that and print their own customised targets.

[TomCat80]

The best targets I've used are the NSRA ones. For example: http://www.nsrashop.co.uk/acatalog/Airgun.html

[Fierynick]

The problem with printing your own is the paper. It's a heavy gauge paper but with short strands to allow for a crisper hole. Why not make some rails so that an ISSF target will slide into an A4 backing card? I agree that ISSF targets are a strange size but I can't see them being changed any time soon! Kruger targets (and others) are so cheap that it's not worth messing about trying to print your own (I speak as someone who shoots pretty seriously and has a Dad who is a printer). You can get targets from between 3p and 5p each, unless you're buying tonnes of paper then the paper alone will cost you more than that. The alternative is to cut down 20yd targets....but that will cost you more in targets in the first place.....