Creedmoor Sports stocks official NRA and CMP target faces and repair centres, scoring gauges and overlays, wind flags and mirage bands, shot spotters and pasters, and the chronographs that tell you what your ammunition is actually doing. For a day on the range, we stock a hugely comprehensive supply of almost anything you could need.
Most people spend most of their budget on the rifle and cheap out on the range supplies. Range supplies also decide much of your score, and without them, you will be at a disadvantage. We would recommend that you have at least the following if you're planning to spend a day on the range:
A repair centre is the part of the target that actually gets shot: the aiming black and the scoring rings, printed on a smaller sheet that pastes onto a full face. Everything outside the scoring rings is backing, and it does not wear out.
That is why competitive shooters buy one full face and a stack of repair centres rather than a new target every relay. The economics are obvious after a few hundred rounds - your frame setup stays put while the centre changes.
We stock the official faces and the matching centres: SR-1, SR-3C, SR-21C, SR-42C, MR-31 and MR-52, full face SR-1 and SR-42, plus 50 yard sighting targets for the M1. For smallbore and air there are Orion 12 bull air rifle and 50ft smallbore targets, 10 metre air rifle targets, the 50ft A-17 conventional and USA-50 faces, and the 50 yard A23/5 five bull.
Seventeen of the products here are targets, supplied by American Target Company and National Target Company, which print the official faces rather than reproductions of them. If you are rehearsing for a registered match, the sight picture on your practice target should be identical to the one you will see on the day, down to the ring dimensions.
Pasters cover shot holes so a face can take another string. Shot spotters go in the hole so you can see where it went from the firing point, and they come in 1.5, 3 and 5 inch black and white. Pick the size by your distance: 1.5 inch works at smallbore ranges, 3 and 5 inch for longer yardages where the spotter has to carry back to you through a scope.
A scoring gauge of the correct calibre plugs the hole and shows the true edge of the bullet hole rather than the torn paper around it. We stock eight scoring devices: Gehmann gauges in magnified and non-magnified versions for both .177 and .22, Gehmann air rifle outward scoring gauges, our own Creedmoor scoring gauge, and rifle and pistol scoring overlays.
For air rifle and .177 work use a magnified gauge. The rings and the differences between them are small enough that unaided eyes will not resolve them reliably. For .22 and centrefire, non-magnified is usually enough.
Flags, tape and mirage each tell you something different, and experienced shooters read all three.
We stock the NRA regulation wind flag and range flag, our own wind flag and indicator with a vinyl sticker pack, the MTM wind reader, fluorescent wind tape and a mirage band. The point of all of them is legibility from the firing point. A flag you cannot read at 600 yards is decoration.
The Garmin Xero C1 Pro and C2 Pro are here because doppler radar changed what a chronograph is to own. No sky screens, no aligning the rifle to a frame, no readings lost to cloud. The unit sits beside you on the bench or the mat and reads every shot.
What that gets you is extreme spread and standard deviation on real strings rather than on the ten rounds you were prepared to set up for. If you are annealing, uniforming primer pockets or sorting brass, the chronograph is the instrument that tells you whether any of it worked.
Not always. For zeroing, load development and general practice, any consistent aiming mark will do, and a repair centre at a fraction of the cost of a full face is the sensible answer. What you cannot do is practise position and hold against a different sized aiming black and expect the sight picture to transfer, because the point of a properly sized black is that it fills a specific amount of your front ring at a specific distance.
Use repair centres for volume practice. Use the correct official face when you are rehearsing the match itself.
