Plastic target marker

[Steve]

It would be entertaining though.

[bobbob]

I suspect the marker could be some kind of promotional gift for Ivor Macleod Training Systems, not actually made by them.

[ovenpaa]

It would be entertaining though.

A good turning exercise as well. Actually the original erm, ended up in my range bag a stint in the butts at BR and has lasted many time as long as the normal paper things. it is the only one I have ever seen though.

[1066]

Hmmm! I feel a bit of "fabricationitus" coming on - A golf Tee, a hot glue gun, some plastic sheet..................

[ovenpaa]

It is known as 'Shedification' in our house. I also need to do something now as our marker came apart today and is currently held together with sticky patches.

[Mike357]

OK, here is an idea.

Get hold of some vinyl sheet such as the kind of stuff that a craft shop would supply. Cut the appropriate size circles from the sheet.

Overlay the vinyl on to very thin corrugated backing board, the type of stuff target boards are often made of. Ranges may even give you it for nothing as the middles will all be shot out. Fix with glue and overlay new vinyl as the disc starts looking tatty.

Hot glue the disc to some tapered plastic rod, (no ideas on that front) which would need to be pretty calibre specific to keep it tight in the bullet hole.

[Scotsgun]

OK, here is an idea.

Get hold of some vinyl sheet such as the kind of stuff that a craft shop would supply. Cut the appropriate size circles from the sheet.

Overlay the vinyl on to very thin corrugated backing board, the type of stuff target boards are often made of. Ranges may even give you it for nothing as the middles will all be shot out. Fix with glue and overlay new vinyl as the disc starts looking tatty.

Hot glue the disc to some tapered plastic rod, (no ideas on that front) which would need to be pretty calibre specific to keep it tight in the bullet hole.

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Good god, a circle of floppy plastic scewered by a tapered dowel would suffice. Pass me some sizes and i'll have a class of kids rattle some up.

[DaveB]

I just happened upon this post, and while I know it is an old one I thought I might bring you up to speed.

These target markers were a stock item (not a promotional giveaway as was suggested earlier in this thread), used widely by the Ontario Rifle Association and other shooting associations in Canada - along with some very durable Corflute targets.

Ivor MacLeod Training Systems was a small (basically one-man) operation owned and operated by a friend of mine. Ivor had a long and distinguished military career - initially as a sniper with the British Army in Greece and Palestine during the late 1940s, and then subsequently in the Canadian Forces, where among other things, he lead the Small Arms Replacement Project which brought the C7 (M16) rifles to the Canadian Forces.

Sadly Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Ivor MacLeod MM, CD is no longer with us. I am unaware of anybody taking over the manufacture and distribution of these products.

[Gaz]

The Canadians still use them as far as I know. Much better than the issued hairpins/bits of card over here.