So this past weekend I attended my 2nd IDPA classifier. I don't think I did as well as I did my first time, but my first time I didn't have an IDPA number yet so my scores never got reported. I'm not too woried about it.
In any case, two weeks before I wanted to get a chance to re-familiarize myself with the course of fire for the thee stages and was trying to figure out what do for targets. Looking on Amazon I found some regular cardboard IDPA targets for sale at 80$ for a package of 100 (Ouch!). I couldn't justify spending that much on a bunch of cardboard.
Looking further on Amazon I then found some paper versions of the IDPA targets for 37$. Much more reasonable. However, I wasn't sure if they would get here in time for me to practice with.
Being frugal and clever I decided to see if I could make my own and thought about grabbing a used target after the classifier that I could use as a template to make my own.
But, if I did that I wouldn't have any targets to practice with before hand. I'll keep that one on the back burner. So I then did a search and found the specs on the IDPA targets. The head is a 6-inch box, while the center Down Zero area is an 8-inch circle, with a 3-inch gap between them.
The two Down Zero areas are really all I needed to practice with and once I realized this I opened up Microsoft Word and got to work.
On the first page I created a 6-inch box set 1.5 inches from the bottom edge of the page. On the second page I created an 8-inch circle set at 1.5 inches from the top edge of the page. I could then print these out and set them one on top of the other and have my own printable Down Zero targets that I could then photo-copy to my hearts content.
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