By: Rob Orgel, Emergency Response Tactical
What can a steel target bring to the table in firearms training?
What steel targets offer in training is immediate confirmation of impact. This allows us to do lots more advanced and fast-paced training as compared to paper targets.
Let’s first understand the pros and cons of paper targets. One of the major pros is that we get a precise understanding of where our bullet has been placed. It also comes with no distance minimum requirements. This allows us to do extreme close quarters drills as well as gain a really effective zero and group size. Once these things are established moving back to a steel target can be very beneficial. This brings the major con to paper targets, we do not get immediate knowledge of hit or miss. We also have to walk up and down range after every engagement.