Target profile in WW1 and WW2

[11mm]

I like to shoot my 03's I have two shooters, one high number "collector" (also a shooter) and a low number "collector" I do not shoot. I would like to know what the targets used at the 100 yd (meter) and 200 yard (meter) ranges looked like in WW1 and WW2. I currently use the SR-1 center at 100 meters and the sr42c center at 200.
I am not ready to enlist in the Army for either war, but it would be interesting to know what they used at the time. Maybe 100 and 200 yards were not in the curriculum...
Betcha somebody here knows..Thanks

[Allen Humphrey]

current 100yd target is the SR-1. Current 200yd target is SR. The 5V target preceeded the SR target from about 1922 to 1967.

Some of that is from memory, so hopefully someone else can confirm.

[PhillipM]

Here is a paper by Major Culver on various targets used back in the day.

http://www.bobrohrer.com/sea_stories...re_to_1917.pdf

http://www.bobrohrer.com/sea_stories...on_courses.pdf

[bd1]

I wouldn't know how to compare the old V target with a current bullseye that tells anybody anything about a firearm's performance.

[11mm]

Here is a paper by Major Culver on various targets used back in the day.

http://www.bobrohrer.com/sea_stories...re_to_1917.pdf

http://www.bobrohrer.com/sea_stories...on_courses.pdf

Thanks. Those articles show a lot of what I wanted to know.

[Randy A]

They had a 10 inch black center, all you would want to know about them is in each rifles respective FM.

[Randy A]

* 41. TARGETS.-The specifications for marksmanship targets,
together with the value of hits in their divisions, are as
follows:
a. Target A, the short-range target, used for 200 and 300
yards, is a rectangle 6 feet high, 4 feet wide, black circular
bull's-eye, 10 inches in diameter, value of hit, 5; center ring,
26 inches in diameter, value of hit, 4; inner ring, 46 inches
in diameter, value of hit, 3; outer, remainder of target,
value of hit, 2.
b. Target B, the midrange target, used for 500 yards,
is a square 6 feet on a side, black circular bull's-eye, 20
inches in diameter; center ring, 37 inches in diameter; inner
ring, 53 inches in diameter; outer, remainder of target.
Value of hits, same as on target A.
c. Target D, the rapid-fire target, is a square 6 feet on
a side and has in its middle a black silhouette representing
a soldier in the prone position. Value of hits in the figure,
5; in the space immediately outside the figure, 4; in the
space immediately outside the 4 space, 3; remainder of the
target, 2.
d. Target A (rifle) 1,000-inch range and target D (rifle)
1,000-inch range are a reduction of targets A and D, respectively,
from 200 yards to 1,000 inches. Values of the
hits on the reduced targets are the same as for targets A
and D.