i have been printing my own paper targets on plain old copy paper. been hard to read the groups because it tends to tear particularly with round nose pellets but even tears with wadcutters.

i discovered something that solves the problem. just turn the target over and
put a strip of duck tape on the back side of the bullseys. now i get the cleanest holes i have ever seen even with round nose pellets. cleaner even than
the holes in real quality target paper. a little more work but its really a
piece of cake. duck tape is cheap and so is copy paper.

you don't even have to pay me for this one.

A recycled heavyweight paper also works fairly well.

What would we men do without it? You aren't Canadian are you? Ever watch the show Red/Green? Lots and lots of uses for duct tape.

can't live without it. i tape my feet with it when i hike. never get a blister. i used it to get an extra year out of my bicycle shoes. great stuff.

Duck tape, what is its consistency like, is it clear plastic like electricians use, fibrous as in re-enforced, is it paper cellulose based?
Just trying to figure out what its replacement on this side of the world, would be.
Any chance of a picture perhaps?
Thanks,
David

is a very strong tape made on a vinyl base with a very sticky adhesive. it is usually silver and about 2" wide. you find it in home centers and hardware stores. i think 3M is one of hte makers. i just found another duck tape type product called "gorilla tape". its black. on a heavier base than duck tape and it is more sticky. the roles are generally about 6"-8" across and 2" thick.
i would be very surprised if you don't have it over there.

Duct tape is, as said, a silvery vinyl reinforced tape used for duct work (and a thousand other things.) "Duck" tape is what everyone calls it. There's even a brand under that name.

but "duck" tape has become the common identification of it. and yes, it is used to seal duct work. it can also be used on the leading edge of wings on low performance aircraft.

And it seems to be called "duct tape" because it is used for just about everything in the world except duct work.

I just mount my targets on the side of a cardboard box. In the box I have other cardboard (usually wine bottle dividers), and right now, two or three layers of wooden shingles. This stops the pellets of my RWS 350M .177 cal. rifle. I get nice visible holes with my rounded Beemans.

I also put my targets on a paper box, but I stuff it with mail order catalogs. I find that after I build up 20 or so, I get a little of target tearing, but mostly clean holes even with rounded nose pellets. (and I have a lifetime supply of target backing! - Particularly around this time of year).

I also put my targets on a paper box, but I stuff it with mail order catalogs. I find that after I build up 20 or so, I get a little of target tearing, but mostly clean holes even with rounded nose pellets. (and I have a lifetime supply of target backing! - Particularly around this time of year).

That is what we called it on the sub I was on back in the early 70's. I don't think they called it duct or duck tape in those days. They told us you could tow a car with two or three wraps of it into a rope. We had sleeping racks (bunks) in our compartment that were about six feet long by two feet high. One time on watch we taped a sleeping guy into one. TJust kept running it back and forth along the length of the rack until we had a wall of duct tape. Then we yelled for him to get up! You're late for watch! He went to roll out, as usual, hit the tape, bounced off, rolled again, bounced off, again. Then through the tape comes the blade of his pocket knife and out he popped like an ugly butterfly. Yep, all kinds of uses.

is kind of like the ones archer airguns sells except i made it out of an old woooden box i had laying around. it is filled with two layers of duct seal (or is it "duck" seal). anyway it has a small clip board attached to the front to which i clip my targets. works great. it is set up in my office and i basically shoot very small dots at 15 feet. my "dot" targets are just rows of
little dots printed on white paper. or, i use 5 yard bb gun targets for offhand shooting if i want to practice 10 meter offhand type shooting (these are about half a 10 meter size). i print these on white paper as well. i can
print out as many as i want on my lazer printer and don't have to mess ordering and shipping, etc. as i said, the problem i had was with tearing so i needed to find a way to fix that and the "duck" tape worked very well. i don't want to mess with cardboard boxes and such or glueing targets to cardboard. takes too much time. the whole pellet trap is small. only 8x10" total and the
targets are printed on 5X7. it fits on a shelf in a bookcase at the end of my private office.

i will finally be able to shoot a field target match tomorrow at Prado shooting complex in chino, california. will arive early and sight in at
30 yards and shoot my first match using iron sights (williams peep and globe set up). my rifle is currentl adjust to shoot about an inch and a half low at the short range in my office.

Yes we call it duct (as opposed to duck)tape. It is silver on one side and quite commonly used in the airconditioning field to seal and hold insulation in place.
I'll get some of it and see how pellets cut it.
Currently I use targets printed on A4 paper stuck with PVA glue on empty cereal packets.
They are fine if using wad cutters, but not so good for accurate marking if using roundheads.

Wow, shooting a rifle at fifteen feet? Seems so close to me.
I use large office style spring metal paper clips to hold my targets to the box and it takes all of five seconds to mount one. I don't glue or tape.

Remember kids..silence is golden, but duct tape is silver

but it allows me to practice offhand shooting on a daily basis. also, my targets are small so still helps hone my skills somewhat. i use real small
dots to aim at.