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In a non return target match, what is the most common means of spotting?

Folks at the matches my club hosts use a spotting scope.

At only 10 meters, a cheap low power hand held monocular will do fine.

I bought a cheap spotting scope (~$60 with table top tripod) at WalMart when I started shooting AP a while ago. It is marginal at best for .22 at 25 yards, but works just fine for AP at 10 m.

Roger

I cut an old pair of 10 x 50 binoculars in half (they weren't aligned well and too cheap to bother repairing), drilled and tapped the remaining frame ends for a couple of small bolts, and mounted a short aluminum plate to that. Drilled and tapped the plate middle to 1/4“ x 20tpi for my tripod and presto, pretty easy 10m AP spotting scope. I gave the other half with the focusing wheel to my kid for a telescope. Set focus on my half with some hot glue once focus was established by sliding the eyepiece.

At the club we have a hand retrieval thing and wheeling the targets back one turn is enough to see roughly where I shot so no real need for a scope.

According to issf rules a spotting scope is forbidden for ap matches
spotting scopes are only allowed from a distance of 25 meters

otherwise i would buy the cheapest one you can find

madmull wrote:According to issf rules a spotting scope is forbidden for ap matches spotting scopes are only allowed from a distance of 25 meters

otherwise i would buy the cheapest one you can find

You are correct. The matches at my club are sanctioned by the National Rifle Association of America, and their rules permit spotting scopes.

madmull wrote:According to issf rules a spotting scope is forbidden for ap matches
spotting scopes are only allowed from a distance of 25 meters

otherwise i would buy the cheapest one you can find

That's correct but under ISSF rules you'd be shooting on returners or electronics. I'd suggest a cheap scope rather than monocular personally as the scope can be tripod mounted for convenience and left 'on target', but both will do.

Rob.

Thanks. I have lots of spotting scopes but most of them are overkill for 10M. Maybe I will buy a small one or thy the monocular approach.