Mark K Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Long as I have been looking at the rule book, this never struck me. Appendix B5 - I had always looked at it and thought it said there are 8" round plates, and 12" round plates....... When what it says is 8" minimum and 12" maximum. I read that to mean any dimension in between is also legal. Right? I bought twenty 10" steel rounds from a machine shop as scrap, and thought I would either cut them down to the 8" size for pistol (thinking that was what was legal), or would just use them as is for Multi-gun shotgun targets. Mark k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skydiver Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Leave them at 10" . I think you are reading it correctly: minimum and maximum. So values in between should be legal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I read it as 8 or bigger ..up to 12 or smaller. So, 10 is good, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Some time ago the only legal plates were 6" square, and 8" round. They loosened up the rule a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splashdown Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 10" Plates? Shooting at your club might give me an ego boost, but a disadvantage at a major match using 8" plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztecdriver Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 10" Plates? Shooting at your club might give me an ego boost, but a disadvantage at a major match using 8" plates. Really depends on distance, no? I'm sure you can setup a very deceptive scenario with 10" plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark K Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Thanks all. Yeah we have plates of all sizes from 4" to 12", used mostly for shotgun matches (a bunch of 4" as replacements for clays - trying to save the cost and mess - leaving real clays for really close shots), but have been using just the 8" and 12" for Pistol and Rifle. Now another option. Thanks Mark K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagi Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 One of the stages last year in the National were using our local 6" square.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OUshooter Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I didn't want to start a new thread, but I'm wondering whats the call here on plates? It seems pretty clear cut in the rules, but I don't remember that last local club match I shot where we used plates of the Appendix B5 size, stars and racks excluded. Is it pretty typical for ranges to use free standing plates smaller than the specs in B5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Not around here -- our plates are rulebook compliant. Then again we bought them from USPSA shooter Karl McKeever of GT Targets, so he'd make sure they were legit..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a matt Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Rules are rules? Well maybe, sometimes ? I didn't know ? What he said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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