Target Heights

[cvh]

When shooting 3 position smallbore on electronic targets, do the heights vary between positions? I found the NRA rules for paper targets, and have tried looking at the USA Shooting rules but it is still unclear. Specifically wondering how it is done at the OTC. Thanks for the help.

[jhmartin]

Target heights stay the same.
From my notes from a few years ago, so they may be different:

OTC 50m Target heights 75cm
Ft Benning (Poole Range) 50m targets are 28cm

There was an article years ago in the CMP "On The Mark" that had a list of table and an equation so that you could hang targets at 5m, 10m & 50 ft and have the same down angle in each position that depended on the height of your eye in each position.


I have it in a spreadsheet somewhere.....
Here is a page from the tables
http://www.odcmp.com/Training/CR/TargetHeightTables.pdf

Found the article by Dan Durben (Olympian, another geek coach & great guy)
- Dec 07 On The Mark issue (Page 12)
http://www.odcmp.com/Comm/OTM/07/Dec07.pdf

[PCU]

The OTC has 50m small bore range.
Target heights stay the same for 50m competition. Required height is 0.75m +/-0.50m (USAS 6.4.6.1).

However, if 50 ft. competition, USAS requires the height be adjustable (USAS 6.4.6B).

[cvh]

Thank you for your replies. This will help greatly with training.