For iron sight shooting, all that is required is a black aiming circle of the correct diameter, since that’s all that the shooter can see anyhow. For scope shooting, an actual target face is needed, in order to give the shooter a high quality aiming point with rings to assist holding off etc. Repair is not a big deal, in fact it is no worse than what we presently already do with manually operated targets – when the target is too shot-up visually, a new target centre is pasted on (actually since each hole is not being patched over, which can obscure the lines near the shot hole, replacement of the centre should be a bit less frequent)

While target face changes during a match are required, that can be a ten-second job if for each aiming mark you make up a piece of cardboard or corplast, and velcro it in place on your target board. No calibration will be needed if each board is centred up (which is easy to do with great accuracy with just a few small witness marks). We have the same “problem” today, which we solve quite practically – when installing a wear centre on the target, we need to put it reasonably close to the middle of the target. It’s pretty straightforward for anybody to align a wear centre very closely to exactly where it should go (alignment lines etc).

This system is actually very close to a design I’ve been envisioning: a rigid metallic beam on which all sensors are mounted, modularizing the system and reducing the cost.

Some problems are still not addressed though. For F-Class and any-sight matches, the targets will need to be pasted up regularly, and if the center is damaged enough they would have to be refaced, necessitating another calibration. The problem is even bigger for XTC matches, as yard-line and target changes cannot be performed quickly–the need to change the target face twice during the match means that you’d have to recalibrate the target twice in the middle of the match.

For XTC matches, at least, this system is not yet practical.

Go to ASCHERA Espot target systems at wwww.aschera.com to view the web page.

The unit can be set up in less than 15 minutes and is very user friendly.

I have shot on a Sius Ascor wireless system at 600y. The system was about $15,000 ….or the user told me.

I have just returned from Canada where I was at a demonstration for the new ASCHERRIA (sp)system that was developed in Germany specifically for long range full bore shooting where portability and ease in set up were critical in the design of the wireless unit. A VERY HIGH TECH unit and very robust to withstand the rigors of high power shooting.See their website…cool stuff

Roy

But with a 60x March I can see bullet holes way back now, and we destroy the centre of the target at the closer ranges which means the Butts are always replacing the centre.

How does an electronic system cope with this level of abuse?

i had the pleasure of shooting with a reserve National Guard shooter at Winnequah Gun Club last year. He had a Very Cool and QUITE PORTABLE electronic scoring device – courtesy of your and my tax dollars – that he was using for unaccompanied 600 yard practice that day.

He brought it with him, he took it home when he was done.

He’d kindly invited me to put some rounds on his target, which I declined to do once he’d told me the quoted price for one of these systems was in the neighborhood of $35,000.

Each.

They are pricey ( a lot of the money is in the monitor, but you can use a pc instead), but if you remove the cost of all the spotting scopes…