Does anyone have a source for these elusive items. I have a couple knocking around from the TA/ACF which I use but there are only a couple of panels and not really enough to get the full effect. If the originals are not longer available through the system, parent station armoury looked very blank when I mentioned to the, are the image files available to arrange local printing?
Principally for use during rifle lesson 7 which does include the use of basic fire control orders.
If you don’t mind me asking are you ACF? I have got stock numbers for them (Mr Black PM me if you want them). I’ll try parent station stores but as I said the armory didn’t think I would have much luck. I’ll report back in about 6 months if nothing is received…
There are relatively expensive and are available in either black & white or colour - alternatively speak to your wing shooting officer who may have spares from teams who entered but didn’t shoot the competition. The SDT may also be able to help as they support the competition side so might be able to advise as well.
Point to note, you don’t have to punch holes in these expensive targets once you’ve acquired them. If you’re shooting No.8s with the service backsight and the rifle is correctly zeroed (i.e. setting the sight to 25yds means a bullseye at 25yds), setting the sight to “H” (right at the top of the elevation scale) will raise the MPI by exactly 27". You mount an extra piece of paper above the landscape target so the fall of shot can be seen and use a measured plumb line (a 27" length of string with a metal nut tied to the end works fine) to go from the fall of shot to the aiming mark.
This doesn’t work if you have the 8/53 windage adaptor fitted to your No.8s, or a non-service target sight. You might be able to do it with the latter but I don’t think there’s enough adjustment on the Parker Hale sights to get a 27" rise at 25yds. My Saturday morning maths makes it 108 minutes to come up 27" (1 minute of angle subtends about 1" at 100yds, thus 0.25" at 25yds, giving 4 minutes per inch at 25yds; 27" x 4 = 108, therefore you need to move 108 MOA), which is well beyond what most target rearsights are built for.
Regarding landscape targets for dry training: The photogs at RAF Cranwell Graphics photographed a set of them for us and stitched them together in photoshop. I’m sure they’d be happy to send over a hi-res PDF to anyone that needed them.