Introduction

We’ve all heard the adage Aim small, miss small, it’s become more and more common as precision shooting has grown. It’s a simple idea, the smaller the target you shoot at, the smaller your margin of error. Getting the most out of your target practice can be done by using smaller and more precise aiming points.

For example, shooting paper plates to check your rifle before a hunt has long been the practice of American hunters. But if you ask me, it’s a bit sloppy and I’ll explain why. If you aim for a paper plate, you either hit it or you don’t. But if you aim for a small dot in the center of the plate, you might miss the dot but you won’t likely miss the whole plate.

Practice Makes Perfect

Most of the shooting we do could be summed up as practice, the amount of shots that “count for points” are far fewer. If you are a competition shooter, you probably fire thousands of rounds a year so that in any given competition the two hundred or so rounds all go where you want them to.

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One of the reasons I love steel targets so much is that it’s so easy to tell if you hit or miss.

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