Printable shooting targets
Every target below is drawn to exact physical dimensions and free to download — no email, no account. Where a target belongs to a shooting organisation or a company that sells it, we link you straight to them rather than reproducing their work.
⚠ Print at 100% — or the target is worthless
Angular targets only mean anything at true scale. In your print dialog choose Actual Size or 100%, and turn off “Fit to Page” and “Shrink oversized pages” — those silently shrink the sheet by 5–10%. Every Apex sheet carries a 1 inch and 100 mm calibration bar: measure it before you shoot. Download the PDF and print from a PDF reader, not from the browser preview.
Zero, tracking and scope verification
These validate the numbers your ballistic solver produces. A scope that tracks 4% short, dialled to 10 mils at 1000 yards, puts you roughly 14 inches low — and a 2% error hides inside group dispersion forever unless you test for it. Do this work before you true a ballistic solution, or a turret fault gets absorbed into a physics variable and reappears at every other distance.
Every sheet carries both MOA and mil values. Angular units are ratios, so what a printed target is worth depends entirely on how far away it hangs — 10 mils moves your reticle 3 inches at 25 feet and 36 inches at 100 yards. Rather than make you do that in your head at the bench, each target states its design distance and prints the adjustment in both units.
Tall Target Test — MIL
Measures how accurately your scope actually tracks and converts it into a correction factor. Tiles across four letter pages with registration marks, hashes to 10 mils, plus a fill-in worksheet.
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Tall Target Test — MOA
The same procedure in true MOA (1.047 in at 100 yd, not IPHY), hashed and labelled to 30 MOA with the true linear value printed at every mark.
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Box Test — MIL
Verifies turret squareness and return to zero. Five shots, reticle never leaves the centre diamond. Firing sequence printed on the face.
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Box Test — MOA
Same five-shot box in MOA with click counts printed for quarter-MOA turrets.
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Reticle Cant Protractor
In almost every riflescope the reticle is not perfectly plumb to the turrets. Aim at the vertex, dial up, and watch whether the reticle climbs the line or drifts off it. Works at any hang distance — the sheet tells you exactly how much to dial in both MOA and mils, from 25 feet out to 100 yards. Plus a table of what each degree of cant costs you at 300, 500 and 1000 yards.
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MIL Grid — 100 yd
0.1 mil minor grid (one click on a 0.1 mil turret), heavier every half mil, bold at full mils. Diamond aim point so the crosshair indexes on both axes.
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MOA Grid — 100 yd
Quarter-MOA minor grid in true MOA, bold every full MOA, axes labelled up/down and left/right so the correction reads straight off the sheet.
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Group Analysis
Four bulls with half-MOA rings and data blocks, a caliber subtraction table and the MOA/MIL conversion formulas. The calibration bar doubles as the scale reference for photo measurement.
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Skill drills
Dot Drill — 1 inch
Twenty dots, one box of ammunition, four rows with descending par times. Every dot is a separate shot problem — the drill exists to break shooters of shooting groups at 100 yards. Popularised by Frank Galli of Sniper’s Hide.
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Dot Drill — 3/4 inch
The same twenty-dot layout tightened to three-quarter-inch dots for when the one-inch sheet stops being a challenge.
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Dot Drill — 1/2 inch
Half-inch dots — roughly half MOA at 100 yards. Rifle, load and shooter all have to be honest.
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Dot Torture
Fifty rounds, ten two-inch dots, no time limit. Clean it at three yards before you move back to five, then seven. Printed landscape so the dots are their true two inches with real space between them. Drill created by David Blinder and popularised by the late Todd Louis Green.
PDF · pistol · landscapeDownload
26662 Drill
A two-inch circle, a six-inch circle and a two-inch circle. From the holster: one round up top, three in the middle, one at the bottom — the name is the shot sequence by target size. It trains changing gears, because most shooters run the whole string at one tempo and drop rounds on the small circles. Drill by the late Todd Louis Green.
PDF · pistol · 3–7 ydDownload
Pistol Diagnosis Target
Aim at the centre bull and the wheel around it names the grip or trigger fault that usually sends a group that direction — heeling, thumbing, too little trigger finger, breaking the wrist. Sized for 7 to 10 yards, laid out for a right-handed shooter (mirror left and right if you shoot southpaw).
PDF · pistol · 7–10 ydDownload
Load development
The OCW sheet prints landscape — on portrait paper the ten targets sat close enough that their reference rings overlapped, and that point-of-impact shift between charges is the method, so the sheet gets the room it needs.
The ladder test and OCW are different methods at different distances, and they get conflated constantly. A ladder is one target, single shots, 300 yards minimum — it depends on vertical resolution and simply fails at 100. OCW is separate co-aligned targets, three shots each, fired round robin at 100 yards, and you read the movement of the group centre rather than group size.
Ladder Test (Audette)
Single aim point low on the sheet with a tall open field above, a vertical MOA ruler up the side and a charge log. Method developed by Creighton Audette.
PDF · 300 yd+Download
OCW — Optimal Charge Weight
Ten three-quarter-inch squares precisely co-aligned on a shared baseline, with offset rings and charge-weight blanks. Method developed by Dan Newberry.
PDF · 100 ydDownload
Why some targets aren’t here
Competition target faces belong to the organisations that run those sports, and several are registered trademarks or products that companies sell to fund their work. We’re not going to reproduce them and undercut the people who created them.
So we do the next most useful thing: we send you straight to the source. Buying official targets from the governing body is also the only way to be certain the scoring zones are correct for a match.
Competition targets — get them from the source
USPSA — Metric & Classic
Appendix B1 of the USPSA rulebook carries the official target dimensions and the target policy. Official targets must be licensed and carry the embossed marking, so buy from a USPSA-licensed manufacturer.
Official rulebookOpen official spec
IPSC
The international body. IPSC targets are registered trademarks and their rulebooks carry the full dimensional specifications for every target type.
Governing bodyOpen ipsc.org
IDPA
IDPA’s own list of approved target suppliers for officially licensed targets — 18 by 30 inches with the −0/−1/−3 zones and the six-inch head box.
Approved suppliersOpen supplier list
VTAC 1-5
Viking Tactics designed and sells the VTAC 1-5 target. It’s their product and their artwork — buy it from them.
Buy directOpen Viking Tactics
NRA official targets — B-8, B-16, B-2
National Target Company holds NRA target licence number 1. If you need genuine official NRA targets for a registered match, this is where they come from.
NRA licensedOpen National Target
NRA Competitive Shooting
Rulebooks and course-of-fire documents for NRA disciplines, including the target specifications each one calls for.
RulebooksOpen NRA competitions
Other free target libraries worth knowing
Good work by other people. These are their downloads, hosted by them — if you find them useful, support them.
Storm Tactical — 299 free targets
The de-facto standard free target library, built with Sniper’s Hide input. Four packs covering MOA/yards, MIL/yards, MIL/metres and rimfire.
Free · 4 packsOpen Storm Tactical
Storm Tactical — MIL / yards pack
174 targets in mils at yard distances. Large file — roughly 96 MB, so download it on wifi rather than at the range.
Direct PDFOpen PDF
Storm Tactical — MOA / yards pack
62 targets in MOA at yard distances, about 28 MB.
Direct PDFOpen PDF
AccurateShooter load development target
Half-inch diamonds so the crosshair indexes on the lines, with a separate impact circle offset below so the aiming point never gets shot out. A genuinely good idea.
Direct PDFOpen PDF
Impact Data Books
Over 1,100 free printable target pages designed to pair with their data books.
Free libraryOpen Impact Data Books
Max Ordinate Academy
Free training aids including a rifleman performance and training log, alternate position development targets and fundamentals development sheets.
Free training aidsOpen Max Ordinate
Shot Diagnostic — target generator
Free browser generator with grid, challenge, tuning, know-your-limits and tracking modes.
GeneratorOpen generator
Double D Hunting — generator
Free, no email required. Targets for 25, 50 and 100 yards with a one-inch verification bar built in.
GeneratorOpen generator
The procedures behind these targets
Applied Ballistics — Tall Target worksheet
Bryan Litz’s own worksheet and the canonical correction-factor maths. The authority on this procedure.
Direct PDFOpen PDF
Applied Ballistics — Ballistic Calibration
How to true a ballistic solution properly, and why calibrating at too short a distance does more harm than not calibrating at all.
Direct PDFOpen PDF
Box to Bench — scope tracking instructions
A clear written walkthrough of the box test and tall target procedures.
GuideOpen instructions
NRL22 — rules and monthly course of fire
NRL22 publishes an official five-stage course of fire every month, plus a fully specified target and barricade list. One of the best free practice resources in the sport.
Free monthlyOpen NRL22
Put the results somewhere they count
A tracking correction factor, a confirmed zero and a charge-weight node are only worth the paper until they’re attached to the rifle that produced them. Apex Ballistics keeps your firearms, loads, chronograph history and confirmed DOPE together, and feeds them straight into a G7 solver that works with no signal at the range.