TargetTalk

I'm sure this is in the ISSF rules someplace but I must be missing it.
What is the target height supposed to be for 10 meter air rifle?

~Phil

You can access the rules on the USAS website. Target heights are discussed in the "General Technical Rules."

For air rifle you're looking at 1.40 m to the center of the target with a plus/minus of 0.05m.

Note, too, that if you are setting up a range for multiple shooters, each firing point needs to be within plus/minus of 1 cm of the others.

1.40 M is correct but it has to be measured at the firing point not at the target. This is incase the floor of the range is not perfectly 'flat'.

Thanks to peepsight for pointing out the measuring should be done at the firing point, and giving me an "Ah ha!" moment. I can set an inexpensive laser level on the rifle rest I use for offhand, measure the distance from the floor, and project a line all around the range. Make a few marks, shift to the next firing point and repeat. Slick!

Damn.....no wonder I had a hard time shooting!
I simply put together a box with ballistic putty back in '79 and there it remained. I noticed a few pieces of shrapnel bounce off of some of the embedded pellets and come flying my way the other day! That was it! I ordered a heavy duty pellet trap and decided that when I place it up I might as well try and get the right height (of which I had no idea until now). My old one was about 5'10"!! lol

I'm not too concerned about exactness as I'll be using some 5 and 10 target bulls so that takes care of the 1.40M for most of the bulls. Aside from that I can only achieve a distance of about 29' to the target but, that's quite good for what I'm doing considering I have it all set up in my basement.

~Phil