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Recommended Color for Wall
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:51 pm
by jamdon
We are in the process of remodeling our 10m air gun/meeting room. The walls are going to be repainted and I would like to know if there is a recommended color for the wall behind the target? Thanks in advance.
Re: Recommended Color for Wall
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:49 pm
by Spencer
jamdon wrote:We are in the process of remodeling our 10m air gun/meeting room. The walls are going to be repainted and I would like to know if there is a recommended color for the wall behind the target? Thanks in advance.
6.3.17.1 All indoor ranges...The background area behind the targets must be a non-reflecting, light even neutral color.
Ah, the fighting, screaming and scratching that went on over this for the 10M range for the Sydney Olympics! The engineer considered that the dark timber boards were the required 'light even neutral color' and took a lot of convincing otherwise.
Flat, off-white is the way to go - my preference is for a very light beige.
Thanks!
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:56 am
by jamdon
This is the info I was looking for.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:45 am
by william
Try to match a photographer's 17% gray card. I believe our host is a photographer and may be able to direct you.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:32 am
by Rover
That's an 18 percent gray card. You can buy them at good photography stores. (I'm also a photographer.)
You needn't get that fussy; it's kind of a battleship gray.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:06 am
by Jacko
My club's air pistol range is outdoors and the backdrop is random vegetation on the backstop with the odd snake slithering around.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:33 pm
by Rover
We get rattlers at our range.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:15 am
by John Marchant
Our indoor 10 metre air weapons range is painted in old fashioned "Magnolia" or the new version which is "Gardenia" vinyl silk emulsion. This gives plenty of reflected light to help to keep the light levels even.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:25 am
by Misny
I'm sure that if you are going to shoot according to ISSF rules, they probably have detailed rules as to what color is acceptable and what tone. They probably even specify what level of reflection is allowed. If you shoot by NRA rules, you probably will have much more latitude.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:44 am
by David Levene
Misny wrote:I'm sure that if you are going to shoot according to ISSF rules, they probably have detailed rules as to what color is acceptable and what tone. They probably even specify what level of reflection is allowed.
Not at all. See the second post on this thread.