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Why do folks use the phrase, "shot a card." Is this phrase used as it seems to me, when someone has shot a target that is scored? Obviously they didn't shoot a "card". Were targets made from card stock?

Why "shot a card?"

BB

In this shooting discipline, a card usually refers to one target with several scoring bulls on it. In muzzleloading we do shoot real playing cards (one shot closest to center, or edge on in order to split the card).

So a multi-bull target is referred to as a card? Every formal
match I have ever participated in has used multi-bull targets (indoor prone, 4P, and 3P: outdoor smallbore prone). No one at these matches say they shot a card when they were finished. Maybe I haven't been around enough.

I am aware of attempting to split a playing card at muzzleloader matches, but my question was not referring to this competition. Unless the term originated there?

Brian,

Here in the UK, card is both the normal word for a paper target, and the official word in the rule book. The paper is stiffer than normal cartridge paper, and yes it is more like card.

50/100 Matches can still be described as following the "three card system", originally meaning the sighters and Match targets were on three separate card strips, even though a single larger sheet is now the norm.

Thanks for the comment, Tim. Maybe we adopted it from GB.

Tim S wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:29 am Here in the UK, card is both the normal word for a paper target ....

Queen's versus American English

CARD TARGET
BRACES SUSPENDERS
etc

:-)

“Shot my card” = My score was at least the minimum of my current classification. Of course I have spent the last decade in Highpower where you sometimes hear this phrase with a sigh of relief.

rimfire benchrest shooters call it a card

jhmartin wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:01 am
Queen's versus American English

CARD TARGET
BRACES SUSPENDERS
etc

:-)

SPANNER - WRENCH
PODGER - AWL
SWARF - SHAVINGS
OFFER UP - INSTALL

Thanks to everyone for their comments!

BB