Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
Target card is deliberately made with short strand fibres so that a clean hole is punched. Most other card has long strand fibres as the objective is to provide strength.

Lots of targets and target holders are 17cm x 17cm which means you can only get one out of a single A4 sheet, and by the time you've paid for the wastage it's often just as economic to buy ready-made targets.

For example, you can get competition quality 17 x 17 targets with one large roundel, the type as used for 10 metre Pistol, for about £30 a thousand, three pence each.

On a certain auction site you can buy a roll of self adhesive spots of various sizes and colours, if you wish to stick some on the back of these pistol targets, and they cost something like £3 for a thousand or more spots. It's as cheap to do that as it is to use a marker pen.

With the price of inkjet cartridges, don't even think about printing your own.
I've scaling down 'practical' targets to 25 yd and printing on A4 size so I do need to print from my laser/ink printers and it is indeed the short strand fibre paper/card that I'm after. There are no commercially available targets that are suitable (as I've scaled a number of them down to a fraction of their 100/200/300/400/500/600 yd size etc but I suppose I could buy larger NSRA targets and cut them to A4 size which is what my targets are scaled to. ( eg triple Fig 11s at 500 yd are only 2.6 inches or so in width at 25 yds and I print 4 or 5 on one A4 sheet - I guess it's not possible then to buy the short strand fibre card in A4 size. I'll search for that in a minute.

Short strand fibre card is the key 'name' that I was looking for. Thanks.

Thanks for all the responses.