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Sorry -my attempt at saying that there a lot of ways to put up a paper plate as target obviously fell short of its goal.

We shot our Personal Protection in the Home qualifications (which matched the Basic Pistol Instructor's qualification IIRC) at the Arms Room in Houston, which used clips attached to a metal arm that moved downrange and back toward the shooter by remote control. It would have been impossible to mark a paper plate with rounds that missed the target by as little as a half inch. That's what I was trying to illustrate.

sjfcontrol wrote: Is that a half inch border INSIDE the plate, or OUTSIDE the plate?

Explain to me how you'd measure a shot that was 1/2 inch outside the plate with a plate hung by a clip or some other device that doesn't provide a backing to the plate?

As has been said, it's a 1/2inch border inside the outer edge of the plate.

No, the qualifications for the basic pistol qualification is nothing to laugh about.

kg5ie wrote:I used my Ruger Mark II Target and I was very glad I did. Holding 18 out of 20 inside 6" at 45' is not a gimme.

Nope - that is definitely true!

My Basic Pistol Instructor course was in Gatesville - had a couple of folks from Fort Hood, a couple of current LEO's, and a couple of guys who had done private military gigs in the past, and a couple of us clearly civilian types.

One guy had trouble qualifying with his .45. I lent him my Berreta .22 for the second try, and he did much better.